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1 posted on 12/19/2017 10:56:48 AM PST by familyop
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They saw THAT and still took an hour to round up the dogs? Why were they not shot immediately? There isn’t the slightest chance they wouldn’t be put down anyway.


2 posted on 12/19/2017 11:00:13 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ... we.)
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I feel so badly that her father is the one who found her.

3 posted on 12/19/2017 11:00:15 AM PST by BlessedBeGod (To restore all things in Christ~~Appeasing evil is cowardice~~Francis is temporary. Hell is forever.)
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“Other people also said the dogs were social, passive and had a “significant bond” with Stephens.”

I would definitely call gnawing on your rib cage a significant bond. Those pit bull are just so filled with love that they express it in odd ways.

Wonder how many people were terrified when they encountered her on walks with two dangerous animals she couldn’t control. This is a fine reason to carry CCW on walks.


4 posted on 12/19/2017 11:03:44 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ... we.)
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It’s still unclear what led to the deadly mauling....

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It’s unclear to everyone who has an IQ under 40.

“It’s unclear”. Like when a muzzie shouts “Ollie Ackbar!” and then kills 10 people - Officials search for a motive.


5 posted on 12/19/2017 11:05:13 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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It’s still unclear what led to the deadly mauling, but a man who used to work with the Stephens said the pet owner loved the canines and was very experienced working with animals, according to WTVR. Other people also said the dogs were social, passive and had a “significant bond” with Stephens...Agnew confirmed the medical examiner said Stephens was on her “menstrual period,” but added: “But I don’t think there’s any way we can definitively say what caused the attack.”

They are pit bulls. They attack. As this situation shows, there is no pit bull that can be raised not to be a ticking attack bomb. And once they attack, you can't get them off the victim.

7 posted on 12/19/2017 11:05:44 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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SOMETHING is not adding up with this story. In the middle of a walk in the woods when NO ONE can see THAT’S when the dogs go nuts and kill and eat her. How CONVENIENT.

Not at the beginning of the walk. Not at the end of the walk. NO walk before. Just this ONE time when no one can see. Middle of the woods.

Not buying it.


8 posted on 12/19/2017 11:06:26 AM PST by LeonardFMason (426)
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The “she had her period” argument was used by Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller after their Presa Canario dogs killed Diane Whipple outside her apartment in San Francisco, back in January of 2001.


12 posted on 12/19/2017 11:07:55 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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Dogs of piece.....................


13 posted on 12/19/2017 11:08:30 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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The victim’s photo is of a young lady with crazy eyes.


14 posted on 12/19/2017 11:09:28 AM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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From the article: “But in the time leading up to the attack, the dogs were a “little bit neglected,” Sgt. Mike Blackwood said.”

American terriers (Pit bulls) are highly intelligent animals, prone to jealousy and aloofness, to the point of becoming enraged and combative. It appears these dogs felt neglected and took it out on the owner. I’ve dealt with these dogs throughout my life and have seen it first hand, although not to this extent.


17 posted on 12/19/2017 11:09:47 AM PST by semaj (Audentes fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold. Be Bold FRiends.)
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Infant dies after German shepherd bites her
Associated Press
November 5, 2017
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/05/infant-dies-after-german-shepherd-bites-her.html
“Police say a 2-week-old girl in Ohio has died after the family’s German shepherd got loose from a kitchen area where it had been penned in and bit her.”

Dog fatally shot after attacking deputy, pizza delivery man
Associated Press
Information from: Northwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, Fla.), http://www.nwfdailynews.com
December 12, 2017
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/12/dog-fatally-shot-after-attacking-deputy-pizza-delivery-man.html
MARY ESTHER, Fla. – “A dog was fatally shot after attacking a Florida sheriff’s deputy and a pizza delivery man. According to a Northwest Florida Daily News report , both men needed surgery after encountering the dog named Cujo on Sunday.”


20 posted on 12/19/2017 11:12:08 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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SOMETHING is not adding up with this story. In the middle of a walk in the woods when NO ONE can see THAT’S when the dogs go nuts and kill and eat her. How CONVENIENT.

Not at the beginning of the walk. Not at the end of the walk. NO walk before. Just this ONE time when no one can see. Middle of the woods.

Not buying it.


21 posted on 12/19/2017 11:12:15 AM PST by LeonardFMason (426)
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A few years ago, an older woman I knew had her two Boxer dogs attack without warning and almost kill her in her basement while she was washing clothes. They were family dogs with no prior problems.


26 posted on 12/19/2017 11:18:03 AM PST by myerson
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My ex husbands family raised pit bulls and fought them. I never understood the reason for pit bulls and would never trust one because of the insanity that is bred into them..

I will stick to my cocker spaniels. Not man eaters.


27 posted on 12/19/2017 11:18:34 AM PST by submarinerswife (Allahu FUBAR)
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Massachusetts boy, 7, mauled by pit bulls, cops say
Fox News
October 22, 2017
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/22/massachusetts-boy-7-mauled-by-pit-bulls-cops-say.html
http://www.fox25boston.com/news/7-year-old-mauled-to-death-by-dog-in-lowell/628096221
“A 7-year-old boy was attacked and killed by two pit bulls in Massachusetts after apparently entering an enclosed area Saturday, officials said...Lowell is located about 30 miles north of Boston.”


28 posted on 12/19/2017 11:19:06 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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She could have made the mistake of getting in the middle of these dogs snipping at each other. Simple as that and they could turn on her.


31 posted on 12/19/2017 11:20:39 AM PST by submarinerswife (Allahu FUBAR)
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“It’s sad that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs.”

Jack Handey


39 posted on 12/19/2017 11:30:12 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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1. The owner had stopped taking care of the pups.
2. They were left at her dads in a cramped cage.
3. According to the article the dad did not take care of the dogs ie not feed, water, exercise because he did not view them as his responsibility.
4. The owner did not take care of them either, although the article stated that she visited them, apparently not on a regular basis.
5. The father did not contact the authorities until his daughter was missing for 2 days. There is something wrong with the man.
6. If the owner was so badly torn it was impossible to identify bites, how could they know what actually killed her?
7. Dogs eat deceased owners when they are hungry. A policeman friend told us that when a person dies in the home and their dogs do not have access to food, they eventually start eating the deceased. He said he has seen dogs like pomeranians and chis munching on their deceased senior owner as avidly as medium to large dogs.
8. Though the authorities claim they were raised for fighting, the article did not state why the authorities believed this to be true.
9. Though the article stated that the owner weighed 125 lbs and was 5ft3in and the dogs each weighed the same as she, I am willing to be that to be an erroneous statement. She looked like a lightweight in the pictures.

My assessment is that those dogs were in a neglected and abusive situation, and that the owner probably loved them but she had personal problems.

Whatever happened we will never know for certain. The article does not give enough information,ie whether they were altered dogs, leaving the field open for speculation for folks with anti pit bull bias.

Under the circumstances, I am not surprised that they were euthanized.

However, I do believe that there is more to the story. Just as there is more to the anti-Trump articles sensationalized in the media.


42 posted on 12/19/2017 11:33:51 AM PST by Tarasaramozart
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Goochland.

NOT “Goodland”


43 posted on 12/19/2017 11:35:33 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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My sympathy card is just about used up for pit bull owners.

My guess is that she used to tell people about how good and gentle her dogs were. That it’s all about how you raise them .. yada, yada, ......


50 posted on 12/19/2017 11:37:59 AM PST by boycott
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