Posted on 02/06/2025 5:26:07 AM PST by Red Badger
PANAMA CITY BEACH — A man was taken to the hospital after being attacked by a neighbor's dog Tuesday, according to the Bay County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies responded to a life-threatening medical call at 8115 Laird St. about 5 p.m. When they arrived, they found Michael Fabjon Jr., 49, lying on the ground covered in blood. Pamela Dennis, 56, was performing CPR on him. A deputy assessed Fabjon and began providing life-saving measures including CPR.
Emergency medical services arrived and Fabjon was taken to the hospital for his injuries.
According to the Sheriff's Office, Dennis told deputies that Fabjon's dog got into a fight with the neighbor's dog, a pit bull named Gunner. Dennis and Fabjon were able to break up the fight, but Gunner ran away.
Shortly after, Gunner returned and began to attack Fabjon, Dennis said. Gunner took Fabjon to the ground and then began biting Fabjon's neck while violently shaking his head.
A neighbor, Carrie Swisher, 44, went outside and called Gunner back into her house.
The Sheriff's Office said that when a deputy went with Animal Control to retrieve the dog, Brendan Murphy, 28, Gunner's owner, barricaded himself inside and wouldn't allow them to take the dog.
Murphy was placed under arrest on charges of resisting without violence and obstruction. He was taken to the Bay County Jail without incident.
According to a deputy's report, Murphy claimed that after the fight, Gunner returned home and didn't go back. Murphy claimed that Fabjon's own dog attacked him and that the dogs have a history of fighting.
The blood on Gunner was more consistent with the attack than the blood that was on the other dog, and witnesses also said it was Gunner, according to BCSO.
In a phone interview with the News Herald, the BCSO clarified that Murphy and Fabjon live in separate structures on the same property with their dogs. As to why Gunner might have attacked Fabjon, the Sheriff's Office said the man was in the process of putting his dog up when Gunner returned after the fight.
BCSO said that Fabjon was in the intensive care unit on Wednesday with injuries to his throat and the back of his neck from the attack.
Ha!
Fear Strike Syndrome is very common in many breeds.
Q: How do I know this?
A: My dad was an obedience trial judge for 30 years.
A dog with ANY symptoms of FSS is immediate ejection.
One of the reasons a judge does a pat down of the dog before starting is checking for FSS.
I’ve had close calls 4 times in my life just walking down the road.
A Rottweiler, a Great Dane and two mop terriers.
One of the terriers ran across a street to attack me.
I told the owner of the Rottweiler if I was packing, their dog would be dead.
So far I’ve never seen a Golden Retriever w FSS
I have a neighbor with pit bulls with heads the size of beachballs. Whenever he walks them, they’re pulling him along as he has no control. I keep an eye out for them when walking my yellow lab, plus I carry a .380 just in case.
That breed of canine should be eliminated, and breeding, owning or selling of the animal a felony. They serve no useful purpose except for criminals...................A couple of other breeds also fall into that category...............
Police found pitbulls 'eating' owner, 22, after savage attack ...
Although I know nothing about the author, ol’ Dylan appears to have had a rough time with the English language with this article ... unless it’s merely a product of DEI.
Pit bulls should be banned - these dogs have a kill switch in their heads that are just random and only the best owners can SOMEWHAT manage it
Tenants LOVE them and call them “mixed breed” on apartment applications, then state they are “Emotional Support Animals” in which the landlord can’t discriminate.
End this ESA nonsense and you’ll get rid of 90% of the problem.
And when they are attacking, they are always wagging their tail - indicating that they are very happy.
I currently have 2 Goldens. One is pretty high strung with a light body frame. She hates noisy equipment, trash trucks, concrete trucks, dump trucks ect. She really tries to run from them. She never even threatens a bite however.
The other one is kind of an eggshell, extremely obedient, and may growl at another dog on occasion when they invade her space, but never a human.
Why do tenants love them?
Just tax the breed into extinction. Like the Canadian communists did in the 70s to Canada’s iconic St. John’s water dog.
One Pit Bull, one 9mm
Problem solved
Nope. There’s another one on FR now.
DEI and AI.
Who writes these headlines? Do they read them? How about the editor? I pictured a dog dragging someone into the ER and then leaving without giving his name.
😁.................
Oh my, you need to "up gun".
Never use one bullet when five or six will do the same job.
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