Posted on 05/22/2011 6:05:50 PM PDT by george76
A leisurely Saturday afternoon in the park quickly mutated into a real-life horror scene when three pit bulls attacked a man and his German shepherd without warning, police said.
During the unprovoked attack, the man pulled out his concealed weapon and opened fire, hitting one of the pit bulls and scaring off the others.
"If I didn't have my gun - I'd be dead right now," he later told KOMO News.
"It was an instant decision. It's not something I wanted to do. I love animals."
Kirkland police Sgt. Rob Saloum said the violent drama unfolded Saturday as a local man was playing catch with his 3-year-old German shepherd across from Juanita Bay Park, in the 9700 block of NE Juanita Drive.
At the same time, another man was there with his three unleashed pit bulls.
(Excerpt) Read more at komonews.com ...
But I thought nothing could withstand a pit bull attack. I thought they were endowed with super powers.
The golden I have now gets along with every dog she meets. I attribute a great deal of that to having spent her puppyhood with my co-owner and friend who runs a boarding kennel. Pauli met many strange dogs during that time and she knows how to make friends and get along with all kinds of dogs. In essence, she’s never met a stranger. Of course, she has a very stable temperament, but she also just knows exactly how to get along. I never have to worry when I take her anywhere because she was super socialized.
Chows and cockers. Only two breeds I was really leery of when I worked at the vets. Untrustworthy.
Why do you only worry about pit bulls? Lots of large breeds could harm your dog if they were aggressive.
I don’t feel comfortable characterizing a breed as ‘untrustworthy’, but they are certainly unpredictable!
I have met a couple very nice, gentle chows, and one very aggressive one (who lives down the street and chases my car) but they have all been stand-offish. I guess it’s the nature of the breed. It almost seems unfair to give them that aloof nature, side by side with that fluffy, ruffly neck and adorable teddy bear face! One’s first instinct is always to wrap your arms around them and bury your face in their mane, when all they want is to be left alone.
Cocker’s are a whole ‘nother ball game. Bitey little monsters.
I should have said "large aggressive dogs".
Irritating to say the least!
Proper socialization is *everything*.
You done -good-...:)
From the time Odin was 6 weeks old, he went into stores, riding happily in the cart.
[he wasn’t allowed to be on the floor until his entire course of immunizations were over]
He met everyone and everything with great gladness.
Still haven’t figured out where is “mad love” for kids came from, though...:))
Only twice has he reacted negatively to dogs and both were “only dogs” of the smaller variety who, as I mentioned, simply didn’t “speak dog” any more.
He was clearly bewildered by their absolute lack of *any* response to the usual dog-greeting body language attempts he made and with both of them, he finally growled and backed away from them.
He knew there was ‘something wrong’ with them.
They were both visibly unhappy dogs, trapped in a world between worlds, neither quite ‘human’ or quite ‘dog’..both lost in a social limbo, somewhere between.
Blank eyes with thousand-yard stares.
I privately think of them as The Zombie Dogs, poor things.
Very sad.
I imagine so.
Are you serious?
I hate gators.
For years, hubby kept bugging me to move to FL because he’d lived there for a long time.
Whenever a story came along about people’s dogs being eaten by those infernal lizards, [and the giant snakes] I’d email it to him.
He’s stopped asking.
I hear gators taste like chicken.
“Cocker’s are a whole ‘nother ball game. Bitey little monsters.”
Breeder’s fault.
They ‘modified’ the American Cocker’s heads for ‘looks’ to the point where they have mental aberrations.
They [and Chows] are on the top ten breeds most likely to bite list.
The English Cocker, by comparison, with its longer, ‘normal’ head is a wonderful, stable and soft mouthed beast.
Only the flying ones with locking jaws.
The rest are merely mortal dogs.
My grandmother’s brother had two little mongrels smaller than Beagles.
Those dogs were the -only- dogs I kept my “man stopper” trained Dobe away from.
The bitch would prance in front of him, distracting him and the male would sneak in from behind and try to hamstring him.
As soon as the male had a leg in his mouth, the female would stop prancing and go for the throat.
“Large” doesn’t count for jack-squat, sometimes.
FWIW, my 100 lb Euro Dobe runs like hell from the 30 pound Portuguese Podengo Medio when they’re in the back yard.
She goes for the hamstrings to -force- him into playing whether he wants to or not.
She’s 18” tall, he’s 30” tall.
It ain’t the size of the dog in the fight.
It’s the size of the fight in the dog.
He may be T Rex but she’s a Velociraptor.
I once took my dog to PetSmart and some guy had a little yapper that was doing the same thing: they strain at their leashes to the point that they are only walking on their hind legs. Look at the list of THE INTELLIGENCE OF DOGS. Those little yappy POS dogs are usually not very bright. They yap and disobey because they are not smart enough to learn what they should do.
Here's my little guy:
Our male Pyr.is not only big but very strong. He has chased down several Coyotes and two fox this spring. He’s very friendly/protective of his family but has no mercy on intruders. He is one of 6 here on the farm and has 486 fenced acres to roam, with nearly 300 Sheep and calves to watch. I believe they are the strongest of breeds and darn near impervious to pain. My wife tried to walk him on a leash last week, I was in the Sheep barn, he drug her nearly 100ft. before she could free herself lose of the leash. When he looks at you with his big yellow eyes, ya can’t help but be in awe of his size.
;)
I’m sorry, I forgot my sarcasm tag. :)
Actually, the gators do REALLY taste like chicken .. all you eat is the tail. Amazing that in terms of “rights” gators attack you and you have to “negotiate with them” (can’t shoot them in SC) ... but if a neighbor attacks you, you can shoot him. Hmmm ... and people wonder why others look confused!
Can you club, set fire to, hack with a sword or run over them with a Lawn Boy or Roto-Tiller?
[GatorBurger!]
We don’t have gators in the mountains but we do have bears, mountain lions and ‘sacred chicken hawks’, aka Red Tail Hawks.
The locals are not allowed to harm any of them.
[snicker]
And this past October, we got the right to shoot anybody who “alarms us” if they come onto our property with _utterly no repercussions from them (as if) or their survivors_.
[I alarm really easily. I love this new law]
;D
Same with females with Long Elegant Legs. ;^)
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