Posted on 06/03/2011 7:47:48 PM PDT by Jim 726
Pet pit bull mauls and kills 15-day-old baby
Pit bulls and other large dogs continue to maim and kill people. Is it because these dogs are aggressive and dangerous or are they owned by irresponsible and careless people?
Buster didn't have a history of being aggressive. He was a family pet, a year old and hyper like many young dogs. Buster's owner, 25-year-old Mallory Wildig had been staying at her mother's house following the birth of Darius on February 4 along with her 2-year-old son, Keylin Tillman. She would return home to feed Buster and let him outside. The times she couldn't get home a friend of her father would stop by to feed the dog. Wildig and her two children returned home on February 19. She had Keylin feed the dog, he was then let outside and given a bath afterward.
After reading to the children in Keylin's room she turned a movie on for Keylin and took the infant to her room for a nap. After closing the door she returned to Keylin's room and laid down with him for his nap. The dog was on the floor near them. Her cell phone woke her up about 10 minutes later. She went to check on Darius and found him on the floor dead.
The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety report said she, “discovered that Darius was dead and had been mauled and partially consumed by Buster."
The report said she sobbed throughout her initial interview with Detective Sheila Goodell. According to Mlive.com Wildig told the detective when she found her son his bassinet was tipped over and Darius was on the floor.
According to the police report Wildig said, “When I walked into the room, there was blood on the bassinet and he just looked like a little doll on the floor. It felt like all of this was a nightmare.”
Charges of involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to animals were sought against Wildig, but the Kalamazoo County Prosecutor’s Office declined to authorize charges. lamazoo County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Carrie Klein said, “This was her baby. She loved her baby. She was traumatized by what happened.”
Klein said to charge Klein there there would have be gross negligence showed.
Klein said, “Nobody ever saw any aggressive or violent tendencies from the pet at all. There was no way for the mother to know it was going to attack and kill someone. It was not gross negligence on her part to have the dog running loose in the house with the baby in the bassinet. She had no way of knowing the dog was going to do what it did.”
Buster was euthanized and an autopsy showed the dog's stomach was full of food.
Last month, Saquina Jubeark, a mother of three little boys, ages 2, 4 and 5 said she left the room they were in to get something out of the stroller. When she returned to the room where the boys were she saw her Cane Corso tearing at the 4-year-old. The little boy died from being bitten in the head and neck.
According to neighbors the home was like a zoo with the Cane Corso, a pit bull, a German Shepherd, a parrot and a snake.
Neighbors said it took 10 firefighters to remove the dogs from the home.
Nydailynews.com reports Kenny Riser the superintendent of the building said "People were scared of those dogs. The dogs belong to the husband, who is seldom here. This was a tragedy waiting to happen."
Shelbra Freeman, 72-years-old saw her neighbors pit bull loose and was trying to let them know when the dog turned on her.
Another neighbor heard the dog barking and when she went outside she saw Freeman near her yard. wyff4.com reports her neighbor Erica Sykes said, "(Freeman) was just laying here screaming for help and she had blood running everywhere. So, I just wrapped her arm up with a towel and squeezed it real tight and just tried to help her breathe and calm down because she was still screaming .All I was worried about was just helping her. I mean, it was shocking."
Another neighbor said, "I ran over there. She was sitting up with her ear lobe chewed off and blood all over her arms and, I mean, it was just horrible." Freeman is recovering in a hospital.
Chad McBride from the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office said the dog is being quarantined for 10 days and the owner, David Milner, has been cited for no proof of rabies and dog running at large.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/307542#ixzz1OGr13zrS
It always seems to come down to this with the anti-pit types...”Your post has too many words, therefore you are wrong.”
I make a point of reading everything the opposing viewpoint offers, because I want to know that I’ve addressed their every last objection!
I would bet she does!...LOL
My neighbor had a Beagle/Bassett mix who was the wildest looking dog you ever saw.
She was low and long like a Bassett but had a head and ears like a Fox Terrier, of all improbable things.
Never could figure out the recessive genetic mystery of that little gal....:))
Heh heh heh.
I bet you have a pack of hot dogs in the fridge right now, you stone-cold killer, you. ;-)
Want to know why I have a pit bull?
Whoa..!! Ban pizza. Ban bonbons. Ban peas.
Ban liquor.
Ban popcorn.
Next thing you know...we are governed by the Tali ban.
You forgot Crunchberries.
I came thisclose to choking to death on one when I was 5.
“Maybe we should ban everything but very thin, sugar-free oatmeal.”
You mean like -gruel-?
That’s a bit “Oliver Twist”, isn’t it?
:)
For a second there I thought you said ‘ban bourbon’ and I was about to have a heart attack.
But hey, banning certain foods that I personally dislike could never have any unexpected repercussions, right? The government loves me and wants me to be happy!
Making you look like a ‘fact’ cherry-picking bigot was pretty effective.
IMO, she did better than her best...and infinitely better than *your* “best”.
It’s for the children. You can’t argue with that logic.
Bull.
You just can’t handle the truth.
Running away from the facts with eyes and ears covered won’t change a thing.
Illusions/delusions hurt when they’re destroyed, don’t they?
To eat the hot dogs you’re too conscientious to feed your kid?
:)
For the love of God...spare dark chocolate!!!
You post some really odd stuff, and it’s funny that you made that whole post about me. Is this thread about me? How strange, because I didn’t think it was. I’m not a pit bull. In fact, I don’t even have one.
I asked you a question. I’m pretty sure I already asked you before. Do you have the answer? Can you answer it? Do you know? Why are you NOT interested in the answer? I’m not interested in hippos btw. I didn’t ask about the sky or anything else. But you appear to be an expert on pit bulls, so I thought at the very least you would have that number on your finger tips.
How many pit bulls are there? How many out of this number are actually biting and killing people? From this number we should be able to know how many are NOT killing/maiming/biting people. From this we should be able to know if these animals really are so horribly dangerous and scary that they should be banned. If you can’t tell me that information, how can you have any sort of enlightened opinion?
Hey, my kids may be pasty white piles of oatmeal chugging, bubble-wrapped, diaper-wearing limp flesh, but AT LEAST THEY ARE IN NO DANGER OF DYING. Or living, for that matter.
Shoot, where I live you already have to have permission from the county to breed a litter of ANY BREED. And a $75 license to have an intact dog. The government gets to tell you what to do with your own dog.
What “logic”?
Somehow, despite apparently insurmountable odds, untold billions of us survived these “deadly hazards”.
I even survived riding in dad’s Ford Fairlane with top down and no seat belt on [or even a kiddy seat contraption] as he ‘hill hopped’ on the back country mountain roads.
I must be one of The Immortals.
;]
LOL Your post has too many words, therefore you are wrong. I have to remember that.
Because it consumes the killer hot dogs for you??
“A ship in a harbor is SAFE but that’s not what ships are built for.”
I -lived- my wild-thing childhood, scrapes, bruises, cuts, concussions, contusions, ticks, mosquitoes, tears and all, thank God.
Wouldn’t trade a single scar for the adventurous memory it holds.
:)
[and that was one wickedly pointed and funny jab, L.E.G.]
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