5 year old savaged in dog attack

Daily Mail ^ | June 7 2018 | staff

[Norski]

A little girl torn apart by savage dogs lay on her hospital bed as nurses pumped her full of painkillers and pleaded, "Mummy, please don't let them put me down,".

Five-year-old Leah Preston heard the vicious animals who mauled her in Low Hill, Wolverhampton, had been destroyed and was worried she might be put to sleep, her family said.

Doctors said the youngster was in a stable condition in Birmingham Children's Hospital after undergoing surgery for bite wounds to her leg, groin and arm on Friday.

Onlookers watched in horror on Thursday afternoon as schoolgirl Leah was tossed around like a rag doll being viciously savaged by the two animals.

She was playing in her front garden in Hawksford Crescent when the two dogs, named Gina and Kaiser, escaped from a metal cage behind the next door house and attacked her.

The Bull Mastiff cross-breeds tugged her between each other, tearing chunks out of her flesh before turning on their owner and her two young children, witnesses said.

The owner of two dogs, Jean Harvey, today broke down in tears, shaking and unable to speak, as she tried to relive the horrific incident.

With bloodied teeth marks covering her arms, Ms Harvey wept as she vividly recalled the two dogs attacking her, her two children, Liam, five, and Lauren, three.

Friends said she had used her body as a shield to protect her five-year-old neighbour, who was being torn apart by the two fighting dogs. (excerpt) (continued at site)

[kanawa]

Thanks for the snapshot of conditions there.
I try to keep in mind that others’ situations might be radically different from what I’m used to seeing.

I recall when I first got my dog, I was doing delivery work and my dog always came with me.
I had stopped at one place and a young fellow came out, saw my dog, and asked me if I had ‘rolled’ him yet.
I didn’t have a clue what he meant.
I found out later it was a term for using him in a dogfight.
I was very tempted later to go back and infiltrate the dog fighting group with the intent of turning them all in
but I was afraid to have my dog anywhere near them and gave up on the idea.

How is TN law-enforcement responding to the problems? Are there many busts of the cookers and the dog-fighters?
My understanding is that dog-fighters are a closely knit secretive bunch where snitches risk their lives.

[wardaddy]

snowflake much?

[wardaddy]

Ancient Molassia

A place of biblical times where most big dogs today originated

Molasser type dogs

From Alsatian to Mastiff but not terriers most notably

You can definitely see a mastiff mug in a Rottweiler when they are at alert

Otherwise Rotts look like steroid addled Labs with some brown trim when relaxed or grinning

Bulldogs also have a degree of Molasser DNA

[wardaddy]

Any snout nosed muscular terrier with short hair over 15 inches tall at whithers is today considered a pit bull type dog and I think anyhow may be our most common dog.....at least most common that folks think are identifiable

Pit bulls that fit the so called standard are actually either really Staffordshires or pit bull defined by markings like blue nose or red nose of spanky eye patch etc

It’s arguably America’s classic dog along with the old southern white whip tailed bulldog today called the Scott bulldog.....the sort of dog found in Currier and Ives

Besides Spanky, Nipper was a pitbull too and so forth

As a result of their numbers they are everywhere and do end up disproportionately with thugs and wiggers...no question and they have been fought historically but not just them...other breeds too

I’ve had a lot of experience with them and have owned some in the past and my daughters in laws breed them and Malnois professionally

What freepers don’t realize is counter intuitively dog aggressive dogs are not de facto human aggressive

No question an uncut male Pit like an uncut male Rott is likely to be willing to hit another male pretty quick

But that doesn’t mean it’ll bite people

I’ve had dogs freepers hate all my 60 years and never bitten though my brother was bitten by our giant schnauzer and my middle boy bitten by our ifirst bulldog

I’ve seen kids but growing up before leash laws in the 60s

Freepers just don’t like DDBs as a rule period.

You have to use caution with any DDB especially with children

[READINABLUESTATE]

“With respect to dog-bite related fatalities, when the rates are computed by breed (fatalities per 100,000 dogs), no less than eight dog breeds had a higher rate of fatalities than the dreaded pit bull.

In order, starting with the worst:

Malamute (6.79)
Chow Chow (2.32)
Saint Bernard (2.05)
Husky Type (1.73)
Great Dane (1.18)
Rottweiler (1.17)
Doberman Pinscher (1.16)
Mastiff (1.15)
Pit Bull Type (0.92)
Akita (0.80)
German Shephard (0.72)
Bulldog (0.44)
How about them apples...”

Liers, damned liers, and Statisticians! :)

[Tennessee Conservative]

The state of TN has a state leash law that counties are supposed to enforce but they don’t. Our county has a leash law but it’s not enforced. Meth is the new moonshine but it’s worse than moonshine ever was. The cookers use Pits to guard the property to keep anybody from getting close enough to smell it.

Dog fighters IMO are even worse. There is a local family that pays lowlifes to steal pets right out of people’s yards. If I knew exactly who they were I would turn them in. They aren’t the only group either. They even break into houses to take house dogs and take them right out of fenced yards. They use them as bait to teach the fighting dogs to kill. Law enforcement in the County is useless. If we call and say somebody is trying to break in they just tell us to shoot them. There is no money in enforcing leash laws. They occasionally bust a Meth cooker and that’s usually when other things are found like stolen property, pets, etc. but it’s rare that they are even caught.

My area is a great place to live even with the occasional Meth house but the law lets us know we are on our own. We stay locked and loaded all the time. I know it sounds like we are overrun with criminals but we’re not. It only takes one or two Meth cookers or dog fighters in a large community to make everybody watchful. I never fear for my personal safety. The people that do these things are cowards and never bother people directly. They sneak around in the dark. Most people here have large dogs on the farms to alert at night and we have video cams and game cams on the property. I will always feel safer in the country than I do in town though.

[Norski]

When I first began to consider the problem of pit bull attacks and deaths in the enormous numbers in which the exist, and the escalation of same, I was immediately attacked by pit bull apologists.

I was told that I was wrong, that I was stupid, and ill-informed and told to “educate myself”.

I have now done so.

Now that I (and more and more other people) have educated myself more completely about the problem, I (and others, most particularly the victims of such horrendous mauling and deaths by pit bull) continue to be attacked by pit bull apologists, enthusiasts, owners, and those who either make money in some way from these dogs or whom just enjoy bloodlust and intimidation.

More show up every time there is a new post on another death or mauling.

[ransomnote]

Pit bull apologists hate the fact that there is a reliable website investigating and documenting victims, victim accounts, medical costs and the nefarious ways of the pit bull lobby, so they say it’s horrible and fake.

[Norski]

Yes. And I hope, for the sake of you, your daughter, her cats, and everyone else around this dog, that her dog never goes “game”.

Please research the breed type and statistics, and then act accordingly.

This eight page paper may prove of interest to all:
The science of how behavior is inherited in aggressive dogs

Here is the address: https://www.scribd.com/doc/14810086/Heritability-of-Behavior-in-the-Abnormally-Aggressive-Dog-by-A-Semyonova

Thank you, Norski

[Norski]

This data was derived from a graphic at https://www.pitbullinfo.org, a pitbull apologist site.

It has already been discussed, as the previous poster of this graphic earlier in the thread refused, after three requests by different persons, to divulge the source. It was found and exposed later in the thread. See post 9 and forward.

In addition, the Doberman numbers claimed by the original poster were exposed as false.

Please read the entire thread in order to see the scope.

[Norski]

I apologise - I missed your comment earlier.

[kanawa]

If it truly were, I’d be happy. I actually at one time thought it was interested in compiling accurate information.
BUT I have first-hand experience of dbo falsifying their reports, so no, they are not a reliable source.
They are an agenda driven, money making, propaganda outfit that doesn’t care
about compiling accurate statistics nor about preventing ALL dog attacks by ALL dogs.

[kanawa]

ALL DOG ATTACKS MATTER

Dog attacks and kills seven sheep

A dog belonging to the owner of a holiday cabin at Nordseter, in the mountains above Lillehammer,
hunted down and killed six lambs and a sow that had been released for free grazing this summer.
Wildlife officials from Statens Naturoppsyn are calling on all dog owners to respect leash laws that are in force from April 1 through August 20.

“This is terrible,” sheep owner Johan R Holand of Lillehammer told state broadcaster NRK as he examined the cadavers of his flock.
“It’s not the first time we experience an attack on our sheep from loose dogs.”

Holand found his lambs bloody and lifeless, with the head of one of them bitten off.
State inspectors could determine that the wounds were not from a wolf or other wild predators, and they tracked down the owner of the dog.

“The dog had run off from a hytte,” Holand told NRK. “We’ve had good contact with the dog’s owner and see no reason to call police.”
He expects the dog will be destroyed.

Lars Bendik Austmo of Statens Naturoppsyn said the wildlife agency isn’t always contacted when a dog is responsible for attacking livestock.
He said dogs were responsible for killing at least 84 sheep and reindeer last year, but the actual numbers are probably much higher.
“Dog owners must not be naive about their dogs,” he said, adding their hunting instincts can be awakened when they’re in the wild.

[kanawa]

ALL DOG ATTACKS MATTER

New London Attorney Gets $320,000 Settlement for Pawcatuck Man After Dog Attack

Attorneys for a 46-year-old Pawcatuck man who was bitten repeatedly by a yellow Labrador retriever and suffered injuries to his right forearm and right upper thigh have settled the case for $320,000.

Michael Berk, an emergency room nurse at a Providence, Rhode Island, hospital, was attacked by the 2-year-old dog after he went to a neighbor’s house to pick up his young son from a play date in June 2016, according to Kara Burgarella, one of his attorneys. A lawsuit was filed in New London Superior Court in November 2016.

Berk had petted the dog without incident when he dropped off his son earlier at Lori Ann Rose’s home. He saw the dog with owner Stephen Freitas in the backyard when he went to pick up his son, said Burgarella, a partner with New London’s Faulkner & Graves. Rose is Freitas’ girlfriend.

The dog, named Buddy, was being held on a leash by Freitas, but Burgarella said that did not prevent the ensuing attack.

“My client went to pet the dog and, out of nowhere, the dog grabbed on to my client’s arms. There was blood all over the place and then the dog attacked again while my client took his hand and held onto his forearm to control the blood,” Burgarella told the Connecticut Law Tribune Wednesday.
The dog, Burgarella said, then started biting Berk’s right leg.

“The attacks were in quick order, as it all happened in a matter of seconds,” Burgarella said. “Mr. Freitas was trying to control the dog the whole time.”

Berk ended up having 24 stitches on his forearm, his attorney said.

Attorneys for Rose and Freitas did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday, but in court papers they blamed Berk for the attack.

In court filings in April 2017, defense lawyers said there should be no liability on the part of Rose or Freitas. They wrote: “The plaintiff’s dog bite injuries and damages were the direct and proximate result of his own conduct in the following way:
He was teasing, tormenting or abusing such dog.” The filings did not elaborate on how Berk was allegedly taunting the dog.

Burgarella countered that the basis for the defense claim was that Berk “came back to get his son wearing sunglasses and a hat. They were saying that was something the dog did not like. That was their claim. Mr. Freitas never told my client to not approach. The claim really had no merit to it.”

Burgarella said her biggest challenge in representing Berk “was that he was this tough guy.”

“He was in the medical field and retired from the Air Force. He had all of these issues with his arm and I really had to prepare him to articulate what he was feeling,” she said. “He wanted to downplay what had happened and was always saying that things were OK.”

Despite Berk’s reticence, Burgarella said the medical reports bolstered his case. For instance, they showed diminished grip strength, permanent pain, and discoloration of his injury sites after activities such as lifting or working in the yard.

At first, the two sides were far apart on the value of the case when they met May 24 for mediation in front of New London Superior Court Judge Robert Martin. The defense had offered $290,000, while Burgarella had filed an initial demand for $750,000. In the end, they settled on $320,000 on June 1.

“We were satisfied with the amount. It was the definition of the word fair.” Burgarella said. Berk will receive payment within a month, she said.

Of the agreed-on settlement, about $260,000 was paid by Pacific Specialty Insurance, which is Freitas’ home insurance policy carrier. And about $60,000 was paid by Integon National Insurance Co., the carrier for Rose.

[kanawa]

ALL DOG ATTACKS MATTER

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA — A young girl was attacked by a dog at her grandfather's Riverside County property this week, suffering "several" bite wounds to her face as she played, officials said Wednesday.
The tot was hospitalized and released following the attack — and the dog was surrendered for humane euthanasia.

It happened around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday on Corson Avenue in the unincorporated area of Mead Valley, south of March Air Reserve Base, according to John Welsh with the Riverside County Department of Animal Services.

"Reportedly, the grandfather allowed one of his dogs out of a kennel run, or the dog managed to escape," Welsh said in a news release. "It's unclear at this point exactly what happened."

Welsh said the 5-year-old male hound mix "charged the girl" as she was playing at or near a porch or patio at the property. It's believed that the attack was "unprovoked," he said.

"Riverside County Animal Services' officers are familiar with the owner and the property," Welsh said. "Dating to 2015, officers cited the property for a kennel violation because the owner had more than four dogs on site.
Property owners in Riverside County are required to obtain a proper kennel license when they are caring for more than four dogs."

Welsh said the man may have been breeding dogs at the location.

"We're still looking into what caused this incident, but we believe this sad case illustrates yet again that dog owners need to be extra vigilant with their pets when children are present,"
Animal Services Director Robert Miller said. "We are always especially troubled when toddlers are seriously injured."

— Image courtesy Riverside County Department of Animal Services

[kanawa]

ALL DOG ATTACKS MATTER

Agriculture students at Utah charter school devastated after dogs kill livestock

WEST VALLEY CITY — Agriculture students attending the Roots Charter High School are devastated by the loss of several of their animals.

They say the animals were attacked on two separate occasions by a pair of dogs. They say the most recent occurred on Wednesday morning.

“I just cried,” said Sarah Sherwin, a student at the school. “There wasn’t anything we could do.”

Two goats, two sheep and several chickens were killed in the attacks. Other animals suffered serious wounds.

“There’s just a hole missing in the back of one of the sheep,” Sherwin described. “The other one, her leg is like, you can just put your hand through her leg.”

The incident is taking an emotional and financial toll on the students.

They are given rural youth loans to fund the purchase, feeding and raising of the animals. Eventually, they sell them at shows like the county fair to pay off the debt and make a small profit.

Now, they'll use their own money to pay the bank.

“We can’t make money off the animals anymore,” Sherwin said.

After months of caring for the livestock, the students formed an emotional bond with the animals. They were horrified to see them in pain.

“It’s really difficult to know I can’t keep them safe,” said Lana Powers, a junior at the school.

The animals that died are valued at around $1,000. There is no way to quantify all of the work and devotion the students invested in each of them.

“Its really difficult to see that investment killed,” said Bill Carpenter, an agriculture instructor at the school.

Until they are captured, the students worry about the possibility of another attack.

“I don’t think I’m going to go home tonight, I think I am going to stay here and wait,” said junior Baylie Johnson.

West Valley Animal Services is searching for the dogs. It is believed they are somebody’s pets.

“This is why we have to keep control of our dogs because even good dogs can do bad things,” said Nathan Beckstead, a field supervisor with Animal Services.

If caught, the dogs could be euthanized and their owner could be forced to pay restitution to the students.

“We may ask the courts to determine what the outcome of the animals should be,” Bekstead said.

The students have a GoFundMe page to offset the financial losses due to the attack.

[ransomnote]

You can fill the thread with a laughable litany of “ALL DOGS MATTER” (did you know, “Black Lives Matter” is considered silly so mimicking doesn’t impress?) and it doesn’t reduce the unacceptably high number of people who die or have limbs ripped off by unprovoked pit bull attacks. 14 stitches from a yellow lab bite? That would be a dream come true for people mauled by pit bulls who have their faces ripped off, lower jaw detached, limbs ripped off, “all muscle removed” from bones etc.

[kanawa]

ALL DOG ATTACKS MATTER

Pit Bull Attacks Dog After Driver Lets It Loose on New Jersey Street

A family dog is recovering after a terrifying ordeal in his New Jersey neighborhood, and so are his owners.

On Monday afternoon, someone pulled over in a dark sedan and let out a pit bull that started roaming around the area in Carlstadt, right where many children and other dogs play, according to Doreen Curreri.

At first the pit bull didn't bother anyone; then it raced across Broad and 7th and went on the attack.

"We turned to walk, and all of a sudden the dog rushed over and attacked," said Curreri.

The Curreris' 4-year-old mixed-breed dog named Gavin thought the pit bull wanted to play. Instead, the strange dog ripped into Gavin's hindquarters as his owners tried to separate the two.

"It seemed like forever, but luckily we got the dogs apart, the cops came and took the dog," said Curreri.

Police took the pit bull into custody and have been trying to track down the driver of the car that let out the pit bull.

Gavin is still shaken up, and is stuck with a cone and a few stitches, according to his owners. But they're thankful that it wasn't worse.

"I just hope they catch these people. Whoever it is, it's a very inhumane thing to do," said Brian Curreri.

Anyone catch anything unusal about the reporting?

[kanawa]

ALL DOG FIGHTERS BELONG IN JAIL

Dog Covered With More Bite Wounds Than Rescuers Had Ever Seen Is Now Cuddling With Stuffed Animals and Blankets

Meet Freddie, an adorable boy who is absolutely going to steal your heart!
This beautiful Pit-Mastiff mix was rescued by the Detroit Pit Crew Dog Rescue after he was found on a patch of grass on Detroit’s west side with serious injuries.
When they got to him, his injuries were so bad, and Freddie was in so much pain, that he couldn’t move by himself.

Even Detroit Pit Crew Rescue, who are experts in rescuing homeless dogs, have never seen injuries to the extent of Freddie’s.
Detroit Pit Crew Rescue’s Theresa Sumpter said, “I have never, ever, ever rescued a live animal that had that many maggots on him.
We couldn’t visually see him, but we could smell him before we found him.”

Here is Freddie when he was first picked up.

Freddie was so savagely attacked that his neck resembled a hamburger!

There were gaping wounds and countless gashes all over his body from goodness knows how many bite wounds.

Even Freddie’s poor face, neck, and chest were badly bruised from whatever attacks he had endured.

Freddie had every reason to look sorry for himself!
He was treated by staff at the Center Line Veterinary Hospital where he underwent emergency surgery.
This poor little boy also had tests that revealed he had heartworm;
he so badly needs to be loved and looked after so he can get back to full health.

Freddie is on the mend and looking a little better, but he has an incredibly long road to recovery.
Here he is cuddling with some stuffed toys for company.
Don’t you want to climb in and give Freddie some cuddles in their place?

The Worldwide Health Organization says there are more than 200 million animals around the world without homes.

Organizations like Detroit Pit Crew Dog Rescue specialize in rescuing Pit Bull breeds,
and they and others continue to help homeless animals big and small, no matter how badly they are injured.