Posted on 10/25/2024 2:57:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A heroic 13-year-old girl 'made every effort possible' to save a one-year-old boy from a pit bull but tragically was unable prevent his death.
Jiryiah Johnson was supposed to be in the care of his babysitter, Heather Rodriguez, 36, when her pit bulls mauled him inside her Converse, Texas home on Monday.
Rodriguez had left the child alone with her teenage daughter and the three violent dogs.
When the dogs started to attack the baby, the teenager desperately tried to protect him but ended up in a 'tug-of-war for the baby' with one of the dogs, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said.
'She made every effort possible, even lifting that baby over her head, but my understanding is the dog climbed onto something and was able to get the baby out of her hands,' he told KSAT.
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The owners of the pit bulls should be summarily executed...
But, remember the two toddlers killed by the family's pit bulls two years ago. Those dogs were never violent, either, until that one day...
A late friend of mine was a renowned dog handler and he told me his first rule of handling dogs is never trust a pit bull. He said that they would be fine until something, known only to them, triggers aggressiveness and they go all psychotic without warning.
Trash people owning Trash dogs to look badass.
I hate both..
By every legal and moral standard, a 13-year-old is OK for babysitting. Keeping those Pitbulls is what made them unfit parents.
The dog owner needs to go down for murder. And forget about banning guns. Ban Pitts.
Ban Pit Bull bump stocks?
Someone find me a story where any other dog breed behaved like that. Chewing through doors and grabbing babies out of the hands of family members.
Do you think only this breed is dangerous? Dogs happen to be animals, sometimes vicious, no matter how victims of anthropomorphism tell us about how nice they are. Small dogs can’t hurt humans because of their size, but they can be as vicious as beasts who killed the little boy. Most dog owners have no clue or make no effort to train and control their pets. Your lovely pitbull who sleeps in the same bed with you may suddenly decide (for reasons only he knows of) that another dog or a human represents a threat to him or to you, his master, and rip this threat to pieces.
And yes, this is from a dog owner of 16 years.
“Outstanding kid!”
Yes, way more so than the mother.
Dogs are like people, there are good ones and bad one. Raise it and train it to be mean and it will be. If I had to guess, Daddy was involved in some kind of dog fighting, or training that made the dogs what they are. You can train a Retriever, or St. Bernard to be mean also, German Shepards are a prime example. That is why they are trained for military and police work. The difference is the people who train those dogs know what they are doing, most people don’t, so both the people who are attacked, and the dogs get to pay with their lives, and the idiot that trained it to be that way gets a couple years in jail.
Dreadful. That poor little boy, and his poor parents!
She had no right to leave the two kids alone, she needs to do some very hard time for this deadly negligence.
“Small dogs can’t hurt humans because of their size...”
Generally this is true, but there was a story, years ago before the internet, about a woman in NYC. Someone tried to mug her, or do a “push in” robbery in the lobby of her apartment building. Her chihuahua, whom she had been walking, leapt up and went for the guy’s throat and did not let go. Doggy 1 Mugger 0.
I agree. The cute, little dogs can bite, too, but the larger ones can kill you. I agree, any animal is just that - an animal - and it can turn on you and your family and friends. But, some dogs are built to be killers.
Prayers for this teenager, that’s such an awful thing to have to have gone through and witnessed and live with the memories of.
Prayers also for the family of the 1year old.
After the baby and parent’s grief, must come that of a 13 year old traumatized by a tug of war with a pit bull in which she was unable to save the baby. I can’t imagine the gory sight she beheld, the screams of pain. Then the trauma of the first responders who tried to save baby’s life. Horrible.
chihuahua bark means. - I’ll cut you Man!
No, dogs are not like people. Dog breeds have been selectively bred over centuries to display certain traits.
You don’t have to teach a collie to herd, a pointer to point, a heeler to heel, certain terriers to dig or chase squirrels, a retriever to retrieve, etc.
Pit bulls were selectively bred for bloodsport. First, it was bull baiting. When they was outlawed, they switched to dogfighting and added the now-extinct white terrier to the mix to increase prey drive.
There is a reason why 6% of the dog population is responsible for 66% of human fatalities resulting from dog attracks. They were bred to attack and kill, and with little to no warning.
There are many, many cases of pit bulls raised as beloved pets, never taught to be agressive, and yet, one day out of the blue attacked and mauled or killed a human being.
They are also responsible for an overwhelming percent of pet and livestock deaths caused by dogs.
There’s a well funded pit bull lobby out there claiming it’s the owner, not the dog. There’s a lot of money in the pit bull biz. But they are objectively wrong.
Ok honest question. Is “pit” a breed. Or is it a catch-all for a different ones. Ex, we had an Amstaff mix (maybe) but it didn’t resemble a lot of the ones called “pit”
Mixed breeds can look more or less like whatever breeds are in the mix (and behave more or less like them, too).. There is confusion about Staffies and pitties, but they are actually the same breed. The name difference is down to the registering organization:
“The American Kennel Club was formed in 1884 and began to register various dog breeds in its organization, but explicitly elected to not include the American Pit Bull Terrier because of its use in dogfighting. In response, Chauncey Z. Bennett formed the United Kennel Club in 1898 to get formal recognition for the American Pitbull Terrier. In addition to being a kennel club registry, this club also set up formal rules around dog fighting.
In 1936, after over 30 years of official breeding of the APBT, the AKC decided to allow registration of the American Pitbull Terrier. However, they elected to change the name to Staffordshire Terrier (later American Staffordshire Terrier) to distance the breed from its ongoing use in dogfighting. From this point onward, the American pitbull line began to be registered under two breed names: American Pitbull Terrier and the American Staffordshire Terrier. The first dogs registered in the AKC as American Staffordshire Terriers included famous dogfighting lines, such as the Colby American Pitbull Terriers. To emphasize, these breeds are actually the same dog breed, and cross registration continues to today. The AKC did officially close the studbook on the American Staffordshire Terrier in the 1970s, but the AST is still continually registered with the UKC as the APBT, because they are the same dog breed.”
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