Posted on 05/20/2010 2:50:46 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
LAKE FOREST -- A woman in Lake Forest shot her neighbor's dog after the animal attacked her 6-year-old daughter, authorities said.
The attack happened just after 10:30 a.m. Wednesday ...
A 14-year-old boy heard screams and saw a brown and white boxer grab his 6-year-old sister's shoulder while she was playing on the driveway with her 3-year-old sister.
The boy ran to the driveway and tried to pull his sister away from the animal, but the dog then bit the girl seven times on the leg, head, shoulder and face, authorities said.
The girl's mother, Jennifer Cooper, was on the porch with her 1-year-old child and saw the dog bite her daughter. She said she tried to get the children in the house and scare the dog away.
She told police the dog tried to lunge at the youngest child, and she then went inside the home, got a Glock pistol and shot the dog in the throat.
"It could have been much worse," Cooper told KTLA. "I could be at the E.R. right now with a child that's been severely mauled or even dead."
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
I loved the interview with the neighbor. I LOL’d.
How cool that you know him....
You didn’t read comment #1, and/or you don’t watch local news.
I live in the western burbs of Chicago. We're beginning to have a problem with coyotes picking off housepets right out of backyards.
While that's just coyotes doing what coyotes do what I'm concerned about is the 'yotes interbreeding with the feral dog population. Coydogs are some truly scary creatures. They have zero fear of man and the coyote prediliction for hunting.
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LOL...I had the discussion with a group of people last night...sometimes I think of all the things I did as a kid, it is amazing that I (actually, amazing many of us) make it through to adulthood!
I do feel blessed, indeed...
I have heard that there are packs of feral dogs cruising around dilapidated areas of Detroit.
That wouldn't surprise me at all.
There have been a few sightings around here of what the local Animal Control types are calling 'unusually large coyotes'. I'm sure they're coydogs. Imagine 60 pound coyotes that hunt in packs and aren't afraid of people.
That'll send a chill up your spine.
Surprised it was a boxer
my wife/kids have a boxer (I don’t claim the dog). Completely harmless, as are most other boxers I have known(my wife grew up with them).
In the article - 7 bites...treated by paramedics at the scene...not much of a dog attack...but I would much rather have the kid ok then second guess from here...
I read a pretty good book once called “Lost in my own back yard: A walk through Yellowstone”.
In it, the guy talked about walking some trail, and on the left side of the trail going up perhaps 100 feet at a 70 degree incline was a grassy area with the edge of a forest at the top.
As he approached, he saw a large pack of coyotes come flying out of the forest, and they ran down this hill, tumbling, stumbling, rolling and falling. As he looked up, he saw a very large gray wolf walk over to the edge and look down at the fleeing coyotes.
Apparently, when the wolves were gone for all that time, the coyote population exploded and they became larger and more agressive.
When the wolves were reintroduced, the completely cleaned the clocks of the coyotes. The biggest ones who tried to stand and fight (because it was what they were used to doing, being the “top dogs” of Yellowstone) had no chance against the wolves who were far bigger, more muscular, smarter, more aggressive, and were wiped out leaving a lot of weaker coyotes that ran off and avoided them.
That is true. I can remember that in 1954 a neighbor kid and I, living in a small city, went camping on a nearby mountain which was supposed to have packs of wild dogs roaming it. Not a good idea.
Near midnight we were awakened by the howls of a pack not far away. We left the tent and everything and hauled butt down that mountain.
“She only wounded the dog.” “
But the owner is facing either large Vet bills or at least the cost of putting him down and burying the mutt.
Actually last evening, he was teaching a shooting class and I was asked to email him links to all the news coverage. It’s really weird to see someone you know on the TV screen.
I am so proud of that mom’s actions and her interview. She gave a great interview.
7 bites on the child, and the mom says she wasn’t ‘severely mauled’???
Whiskey tango foxtrot!
Which begs the question—is this a problem in Korean communities?
(Just wondering!)
Ah, Korean dog. Chicken of the Kimchi.
You’re too wise to be on this thread.
[now stop that!]
:)
I have 4 Ibizan Hounds and *tons* of “prey animals” running around.
“Selective hearing” and “insane running speed” are their specialty which is why they have a separate fenced “dog yard” which is enclosed *within* the rest of the normally fenced yard, much like a Supermax prison and they have *no* idea what it feels like to walk outside The Fortress “naked”.
When I only had Dobermanns, I had no fence at all.
How they knew where the property line was, I’ll never know but you’d see them run full speed right up to it and come to sliding halt well within it.
Awwwww!
“Most boxers are people lovers to the extent that the best punishment is to temporarily ignore them.”
That is the *ultimate* “punishment” for a Dobe.
Highly effective for correcting annoying behavior.
They can take anything but the [perceived] “withdrawal of your love”...even if it’s only for a few minutes.
The window vs in-person behavior you’re seeing is a form of “fence fighting”.
With a barrier between them, the dog acts like it’s the biggest, baddest thing ever born...barrier goes, so does the “courage”.
My Portuguese Podengo Medio does this to my much bigger Ibizan bitch so one day, it got really annoying and I opened the gate and dropped her into the same yard as the other bitch.
The look on her face was “Oh s**t!!!”, especially when Phoebe put up her hackles and went into her “total dominant/aggressive pose”.
I picked up Gypsy [the PPM] and carried her back into the other yard.
She was really ‘subdued’ the rest of the day.
;D
My old boxer only hated cats. lol The neighbors here have a lab mix and a white boxer (possible mix) that are fence aggressive. I've been griping at my husband to have the fence repaired before the dogs eat through the fence.
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