"It's time to show who I am now": Dog sitter recovering after losing face in horrific dog attack

CBS ^ | 3/16/22

[EBH]

Police video cameras captured the moments they were trying to contain the dogs who attacked Jacqueline Durand, who was pinned down and mauled on her first day dog sitting. Jacqueline lost her face and received more than 800 bites and still faces years of reconstructive surgeries. David Begnaud reports.

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[EBH]

I have done professional pet sitting for over 12 years. I have heard of bad things happening and colleagues in the profession often talk in private circles about the 'red flag' pets.

In my time, I have never had a dog attack me. Although there was one close call in which a neighbor met me outside the house and said, "you made it out alive?" The dog was sketchy, but managable.

I have been attacked by more cats than dogs in my time. LOL. And I have learned to read those crazy cats that feel their job is to protect the house, instead of hiding under the bed.

Many here on FR when this story first broke looked for reasons to blame this young lady. Look at her. Look at what these dogs did to her.

[dinodino]

Of COURSE one of the dogs was a Pit Bull.

[DAC21]

So sad. The owners should be sued into oblivion. There’s no way they could not have known that their dogs were capable of this.

[Deaf Smith]

Safety First for the cops. 37 minutes before they “felt” comfortable to enter the home.

My reaction would be to enter and end the threat to human life with the firearms available to me to use.

[Michael.SF.]

She is bleeding to death, and it took the cops 27 minutes to "gain entry" after they arrived?

SHOOT THE DAMNED DOGS!!!

W/o reading I assumed a pit bull was involved. I was right.

[Michael.SF.]

They are and they did, according to the video.

[EBH]

I know many professional pet sitters concealed carry. Not so much for the dangerous pets, golly you never here of one shooting a dog, but because we realize the security risk walking into a vacant home. But...the older sitters in that situation just might shoot the dog.

[EBH]

I know. I was thinking the same thing. Just shoot them.

[4Runner]

The massive population reset that has been going on for the past 50 years in America is to blame for this. Prior to that, no one ever heard of “pit bulls”. They are a cultural perversion for males of a certain level of intelligence who hail from south of the previously-existing border.

[Deaf Smith]

37 minutes to entry.

[dragnet2]

I agree. I don’t trust them, based on experience. It’s too bad because there are some nice civil pits. But when I see a pit, I start thinking of defensive strategies. Being chewed to death is not a good way to go.

[gundog]

Pit bull/boxer mix. Both were large and grossly unsocialized, I’ll wager. Utterly untrainable, which was why they ended up in a rescue situation. People that give away or sell pups at 5-6 weeks are setting the dogs up for this kind of crap. Doesn’t matter with ankle-biters, so much, but a 60 pound dog can be formidable, and multiple dogs can be a nightmare.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Designed to keep the “re-po” and the “po-po” away.

[EBH]

I took and still take a lot of flak from colleagues because I won’t work with ‘pits.’

[Michael.SF.]

You are correct. That was a typo on my part. Thanks for pointing it out.

[21twelve]

“But when I see a pit, I start thinking of defensive strategies.”

Yep. Although the two pit bulls I have known were very friendly and all they wanted to do was cuddle. Still, even a well-behaved dog might “nip” if touched the wrong way. It is one thing to get a “nip” from a normal dog compared to a pit with the massive jaw and muscles they have.

A friend takes in rescue pits. He says they were/are also called “nanny dogs” as they can be trained to be well behaved around children, but are also protective.

I put the blame on the owners rather than the dogs.

[Rdct29]

It's the people who ruin the dog breeds. It happens to every breed that becomes too popular. I bought my first Cane Corso mastiff in 1995. They were very rear, especially in the US. The dog was the best dog I ever owned by far and I've owned many different breeds. I was looking to buy another one a few years ago. I was disgusted by what I saw. Irresponsible breeders galore. These are big, powerful and loyal dogs. You don't have to breed them to be mean and aggressive. It goes against their nature. People are breeding dangerous dogs and selling them to people who don't know how to handle that type of dog.

[READINABLUESTATE]

It’s a terrible thing that happened to her.

Any animal can be dangerous under certain conditions. Personally I have had more blood drawn by cats and parrots and the occasional squirrel than dogs, but I respect dogs more.

[dragnet2]

I took and still take a lot of flak from colleagues

Colleagues who've never had a pit attack them or even charge them, I bet.

[imabadboy99]

breed of peace strikes again