Posted on 02/14/2012 10:44:38 PM PST by george76
CHEYENNE - Linda Clark was devastated Saturday afternoon when she and her husband returned from the grocery store to find two pit bulls attacking their Shetland pony, Spirit.
The couple was putting away their things when a neighbor came knocking at the door to report that Spirit was down and the dogs were tearing away at her.
Linda’s daughter-in-law, Teresa Clark, said Jeff Clark immediately ran outside with the first thing he could find, a pellet gun. He fired toward the dogs and they ran off, but Spirit was already dead.
Linda Clark, an avid horse rescuer, took Spirit in when she was just a year old as a rescue animal.
"These are her babies. She saves horses that are going to go to slaughter," Teresa Clark said. "She’s had this pony forever."
She added that the entire family is beside themselves over the incident because Spirit was locked in a pen and couldn't defend herself.
“That could have been my son,” Teresa Clark said. “That could have been someone else’s son or daughter.”
Laramie County Sheriff’s Department Capt. Rich Hillegas ... said the pony had several bite and tear marks on her body and that the dogs the deputies captured had blood on them. He said deputies also spoke with a person who said her two pit bulls had jumped a 6-foot fence and escaped from her yard.
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Just a hint, I think golux is joking......
I have seen it done, albeit he had a hump of ground a few feet back to run and launch himself from, but you would be surprised how high them guys can go.
“Ha ha. Laugh now, my friends. Laugh away.”
I think you mean: “Laugh-a while-a you can-a monkey boy!”
(John Lithgow/John Bigboote)
I hate these dogs with a passion. I’ve told the story before how 2 pit bulls came onto our farm and attacked our sheep, tore 3 up bad enough I had to destroy them. Our ultra-huge male Great Pyrenees dog came on scene and quickly killed one pit bull and nearly tore the rear leg off the other. The owner of the pit bulls and raises them about 2mi. down the road,could care less. I won’t hesitate to shoot them on sight. My 8yr old granddaughter often walks among the sheep, and I shudder as to what would happen to her, or my wife. We now have 6 Pyrenees and maybe 300 sheep, cattle n horses.
Don’t quit your day job.
I saw those videos too but they've been removed from the internet because they were too gruesome......They were just horrible.
I saw those videos too but they've been removed from the internet because they were too gruesome......They were just horrible.
Kidding aside you are right. It is one thing to be raised a certain way, but these variants - it is hard to identify the “breed” - often carry a mental illness which makes them prone to astonishing violence.
What is more they switch to extreme violence at the drop of a hat and without many, or ANY of the tell-tale cues, and are strong enough to do massive damage VERY quickly.
As a former trainer I have many stories to tell, and the reason I tend to gravitate to these threads (will someone please tell me why folks get zotted for participating in them?) is I want to warn Freepers about this wild breed / variant. They can and DO kill pets, livestock, kids, and adults.
Some “pits” are nice, but MANY are not, and they switch from “nice” to “deadly” faster than you can imagine. I suppose it’s like guns: treat ‘em all as if LOADED, moreover, treat ‘em all as if LOADED and PRONE TO MALFUNCTION.
Decades ago my sister had a mother and son pitbulls. Together they killed piglets and ponies for sport. Yet would lie near the baby in protective mode. Canines are pack animals and are much more aggressive and dangerous whenever there are two or more. Thank the gods for not making cats feel this way in groups. Dogs also have a natural kill instinct that cats don’t have. Cats have to think about it first.
By the way, fellows, I’m not really a total newbie, but I haven’t quite figured out why there’s a cloud of Zot around pit bull threads. Could you tell me? I do not want to upset Jim, mods, veterans, etc.
That is DEFINITELY the look that we observe in house cats sometimes, thank God they are tiny compared to us.
“They don’t react the same as what we would see in our homes a lot of time.”
He said it can be normal for animals that have packed together to want to take down another animal, adding that is usually unneutered male dogs that behave that way.
Had a beagle back in '71 that killed every one of my farm mates chickens.
I raced around the countryside to get replacements before the fellow's wife returned.
Blew the engine on my Deux Chevaux in the process.
The bitch lady wouldn't accept the restitution...
"if you think that makes up for what your dog did you got another... blah blah blah"
It was the end of our partnership.
The beagle didn't even need to be in a pack to trigger his behavior.
Had the happiest look on his blood smeared face when I got home and discovered him amidst the feather strewn carnage.
You have described terriers.
Excellent. I always believed beagles were perhaps the smartest - or at least most pensive - breed.
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