I don’t even have to go to the link, or scroll down, to know it wasn’t Yorkies.
My guess is that she’s one of those that would defend how sweet her pit bulls were.
Sad she got killed but she made the decision to own them. I would have rather it been this way than some innocent children or elderly person being mauled to death by her dogs.
It sounds like these ex-pets are not candidates for rescue. The owner doesn’t appear to be a likely abuser, either.
I knew she had several dogs, one a yappy little mutt and her son’s two malamute-husky mixes that she and her husband took in when their 35-something year old son decided to give up his job and sell his house and go to into a seminary. The little yappy dog was annoying but the other two, well every time I came to her house, they were either in the back yard or in the basement or with her son, as she told me, “they aren’t very friendly”.
Later we one day went out for an early dinner.
When we came back to her house, her son had come home and the malamute-husky dogs were loose in the house.
I had just sat down on the couch when the biggest of the dogs walked up to me, his ears laid back, back slunk down low, his fur standing straight up and all his teeth baring and growling a low guttural sound, I could feel his hot breath on me. He was inches away from me and I really thought he was going to attack me.
I knew enough not to panic, not to make any sudden moves and not to make direct eye contact, I just sat motionless.
My friend pulled him back at the last second as he started lunging toward me and screamed for her son for help, at which point he came in and drug him away with the dog now really going berserk, it was all he could do to get him back under control.
I’ve been around dogs, big dogs – Boxers, GSD, Dobermans, but all my life but was never so scared.
My friend apologized and tried to tell me that she saw he was wagging his tail and that he acts that way toward anyone he doesn’t know, so he wasn’t really going to bite me. I didn’t see him wagging his tail but even if he had been, that isn’t a predictor of whether a dog will bite or not.
I politely told my friend that I wasn’t coming back to into her house as long as she had that dog around – either the dog would have to be safely contained or we’d have to meet at my house.
That dog IMO is a ticking time bomb. Being protective is one thing, being viscous and barely controllable is another.
He suspected that the dogs had been bred for fighting.
Damned moderate pit bulls.
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Did she testify about one of the Clintons?
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"Thats not a pit! Thats a ..."
Those other things being named are all molossers and "bulls" are a branch of molosser. All of the molossers, even the entlebucher, require consistent and present masters who have made it clear that there is no question as to the alpha role during their training. None of the molossers, nor any of the working spitz for that matter, are suitable as part time pets and certainly not for beginner dog owners.
My crystal ball is on the fritz so I dont know what happened here. I do know that in any situation where an inexperienced dog owner with a light touch sporadically interacts with the molosser they think they own, somebody is bound to find out differently in an unpleasant way.
If you killed all the Pit Bulls and Pit Bull mixes in New Mexico you’d probably be taking out 60% of all the dogs.
Go to any local shelter and all they have are Pit Bull mixes and Chihuahua mixes.
We have two rescue dogs. Diesel is an intimidating looking dog, but the vet says he has no pit bull. Daisy is a Louisiana Catahoola Leopard Dog/Great Dane mix. She is very timid and makes a great shop dog. Loves everyone but the FedEx guy.