Posted on 10/10/2017 12:33:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The incident happened just over a week ago at the Regional Transit Station at 16th and Q streets in midtown Sacramento. Kelly said just as they got on the light rail a pit bull lunged toward Kie and locked it’s jaw onto Kie's snout.
"There was a pit bull on his face just latched on,” Kelly explained. "My dog started screaming."
Kelly said the pit bull's owner later claimed the dog was a service animal.
When Sacramento police reminded the pit bull's owner that they were monitoring footage from surveillance cameras, the man admitted his dog was a pet...
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Pitbulls are the ferals friends.
This is maddening. They should fine the guy and take his dog and put it down. I can’t stand they can’t do anything with these idiot pitbull owners who won’t at least muzzle their damn dog out in public.
I’m glad the blind man’s service dog was okay.
The ADA has been so abused that it needs to be modified. Any person with a “service animal” should be ready to show proof more than “I need Fifi to make me feel secure”.
This “service dog” scam has gone on long enough. A blind guy needs a service dog. Otherwise, don’t give me your sob story.
This is why I have a Killer Whale for a service animal.
I have pernicious dandruff and he brushes the flakes off.
Or he eats them.
The least they could do is put a toddler in the pit bull’s mouth to keep it from biting anyone.
The regulations on service animals need to be a lot more restrictive. A lot of bozos bring pets onto planes and trains, claiming they’re needed to calm them or for some other bogus psychological reason. These untrained animals can and do cause problems for other passengers and the few real service animals that have a legitimate reason to be there. The owner of this pit bull should be jailed.
Jail for the idiot human.
OOoo boy, 2 problems I have in this story.
PBTs, and the service-dog nonsense.
Most of these “service dogs” obviously have 0 obedience training, much less special work they do. Any dog that has no basic obedience manners (i.e., personal restraint) obviously cannot possibly be a service dog.
Sometime soon there is going to be a crackdown on this “fake” service animal scam. There are too many people doing it and having an animal that isn’t trained enough to control itself is going to hurt someone.
More “gentle” pit bulls. What bull.
Pitbulls have no place in public.
A beautiful German Shepherd. Glad to see, and glad not really hurt.
A friend of mine had his small dog crippled by a pit bull. He was walking his dog on a leash in the park and an unleased pit bull ran up and latched onto the small dog’s hind quarters and almost killed the poor thing.
The police said there was nothing they can do... a fact that infuriates me beyond words.
If I regularly walked a dog I would carry bear spray. I’m not talking about plain old pepper spray, I’m talking about $60-a-can bear spray. And if a pit bull attacked my dog I wouldn’t stop spraying the SOB until the can was empty.
You don’t hear much anymore about that poor woman in SF that was basically torn limb-from-limb by two monstrous presa canario with weirdo owners who had nefarious connections to violent felons in pelican bay.
I have personal experience with this type of criminal behavior. A blind friend and her service dog (lab) was attacked by a couple of free-roaming pit bulls while she waited for a bus. It was horrific, but both she and her dog survived. The dog was never the same, though. Permanent anxiety was a part of his existence from then on.
“makes it illegal for anyone to require special identification for a service anima or ask for the service animal to demonstrate the tasks it’s trained to do.”
ILLEGAL.
Oh, heavens we should make anyone prove anything.
“So many people lie about it that it ruins it for those of us that have a legitimate need,”
BINGO.
Require real certification for ALL so-called service dogs, especially those with esoteric “jobs” which CANNOT BE SEEN.
I recall a few years ago there was a veterinarian bragging about how she faked her way through the process of getting her pet pit bull declared a service animal. Real proud of herself. That way she wouldn’t be bound by rules that otherwise prevented her from taking her pet wherever she wanted.
Fake “service dogs” are a nightmare. I work in a tourist venue (actually, it’s a church) where we have to deal with them.
They’re usually brought in by neurotic older ladies who have gotten some kind of internet certificate or bought a “service dog vest” off the internet. The dogs stink, they attack other dogs, they bark, and they piddle on the floor. One of the ladies lifted her “service dog” up so it could drink out of the baptismal font.
A real service dog is carefully trained and does none of the things I described above. But we’re all told not to challenge them now because then they will invoke ADA. This is even though there’s no legitimate reason, and if they sued us, they’d lose (since they’re not handicapped and the dog is NOT a service dog). But the threat alone is enough to mean that we can’t do anything.
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