Anthony Riggs had adopted the dog Photo: Jackson Madison County Rabies Control
Posted on 11/19/2015 8:36:55 AM PST by Perseverando
Dog lover Anthony Riggs was killed by a Rottweiler he had adopted from an animal control centre
Anthony Riggs had adopted the dog Photo: Jackson Madison County Rabies Control
Tributes have been paid to a Tennessee man who was 'mauled to death' by a stray dog he had adopted on the day he died.
Anthony Riggs was attacked by a five-year-old male Rottweiler that had been taken in by a county-run animal control facility.
"He never hesitated to be with dogs. Sometimes I thought he related to dogs better than to people," his ex-wife Adrienne Riggs told the Jackson Sun.
"Tony was a good man and a loving man and a good person with animals and he didn't deserve to die the way that he did."
Man killed by Rottweiler the same day he adopted it: https://t.co/PVz4oqkz7T pic.twitter.com/VUZqmCAcNm — David Nelson (@DavidNelsonNews) November 17, 2015
She added: "A docile dog does not turn in three hours and kill somebody. Something was wrong.
"You just can't put a dog that may be dangerous out with an unsuspecting family. That's just wrong."
His wife Kathy Riggs told police she found him dead on the floor after returning home with colleague Teresa Sanchez.
The canine bit both of the women before running out of the house explained Ms Sanchez. Police then arrived and shot the animal.
"He wasn't growling or showing teeth - he just bit us like he did it all the time or something," she wrote on Facebook.
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All the dogs we’ve had were adopted. All have had problems that were not disclosed to us, even though the dog was supposedly vetted by the SPCA and/or County Animal Control Services.
The only exception would be the 2 day old pup we took and raised on a bottle...she never figured out she was a dog and had no problems with people...other than to think she wasn’t a dog :).
As to the others we’ve adopted, one dog had severe food aggression, something you think would have been easily tested for...took us about 3 months to rehab him from that but not being prepared for it made the first couple feedings quite harrowing. Another we brought home and he bit 3 people in the first couple days we were home..this dog too responded quite quickly and was a great dog. Our latest guy we have is great dog...but he was so afraid, he would not go outside without us accompanying him...he was the quickest to come around and the skiddishness (not sure that’s a word) quite quickly began to dissipate.
As far as “trusting” our dogs who’ve been adopted as adult dogs...I never fully trust them with kids. We’re always near, when the opportunity arises and we have children in our home, especially toddlers. Their faces are right at dog level.
Read the Bell Curve a controversial book published a few years ago. One can get it from Amazon. In addition, I studied the fact I stated in college.
It's been awhile!
we tried out a Labrador Retriever from a shelter. He was okay with my docile female pitbull mix and all went well until that evening when he refused to get off our bed. I pulled his collar and he bit me. once. He went back the next day. I explained what happened and only then I was told that he had “issues”. We don’t use that shelter anymore.
I agree with your not wanting a put bull or rottie, but chihuahuas are at the other end of the killer scale. LOL.
Had one as a kid. They are lots of fun if you can put up with the yapping. When guests entered the home, we had to put him in a different room. If we didn’t, after his yapping session, he’d casually walk over to the person, hike it’s leg on the guests leg, and pee.
“Animal shelters are kidding themselves if they think they can adequately test and certify such dogs as safe.”
Animal shelters are needed, but they are run mostly by lefties that simply do not believe animals should be put down for any reason and all are as innocent as a bomb toting muzzie terrorist.
The best pets, the ones we get, are puppies or kittens of mixed breeds that are given away. Their temperaments are so mild and wind up being whatever you train them to be.
I have an idiot like that in my office. She has stated several times she will do anything to save a cat or dog over a person.
“That is a Pit Bull/Rottweiler mix.”
Yes.
Not a Rottweiler.
I am surprised it took to post 49 for someone to point out the obvious.
Before getting too close to a dog make DAMN SURE he sees YOU as top dog.
Good point. Isn’t it liberals who want to ban pit bulls?
From the rottie families I’ve talked to it could be they are one family dogs. The most memorable was a woman who when she was 3, would spend the day out in the woods but the rottie was with her and protected her. When the time came for school he would walk her to the bus stop and be at the stop where she was dropped off at the end of the day.
Is that blood on his feet?
HORSE FEATHERS!! NOT true.
Sweeping generalizations like yours are hurtful and counterproductive.
Not true horse feathers? Or not true that aggressive breeds of dogs (Pits, Rots, Chows, German Shepard’s, Husky’s, etc) snap and cause injuries and death.
It reminds me of Timothy Treadwell, AKA Snackwell.
My 4 year old child is not a tail puller, but we’ve all here occasionally stepped on paws and tails accidentally.
My white dog is a big fluffy Pyrenees mix who would never hurt a fly; the look on his face says “sorry I put my tail there. It’s all my fault”.
He is the best dog ever. I would trust him alone with a newborn baby wrapped in bacon.
He exists simply to gaze lovingly at us from 20 feet away. That is his driving instinct, and that is all he wants to do. It is the thing, besides rubs, that makes him the most happy.
I love him and wish I could clone him. It makes me sad that as a big dog his life expectancy is not long.
Yes, not all dogs are alike, nor are all kids. Sounds like your dog is a big sweetheart. Reminds me of my oldest brother’s large dog. I forget what breed he is, but he looks something like a white St Bernard.
We also have a rescue Chihuahua. Best dog in the world.
Some drug dealer’s guard dog.
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