Posted on 02/01/2005 1:31:28 PM PST by GSWarrior
DELTA — A 4-year-old Grand Junction boy who was visiting his father’s relatives near Delta on Sunday evening was attacked by a pack of at least nine dogs, resulting in bites and puncture wounds covering 90 percent of his body.
The boy is being treated at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, where he was airlifted after being transported by private vehicle to Delta County Memorial Hospital, Undersheriff Mark Taylor said.
The multi-dog attack occurred about 6 p.m. Sunday on the Peach Valley property of Duane and Nancy Bloom, relatives of the boy’s father, Taylor said.
“There are several — 20 to 30 dogs — the majority of them strays, kind of running in packs out in the Peach Valley area,” the undersheriff said. “Several people on the residence are going to be charged with harboring vicious dogs.”
The Delta County Sheriff’s Department is conferring with the Seventh Judicial District Attorney’s Office on how to proceed considering “the sheer number of dogs,” Taylor said.
Poor kid. Reminds me of a time when I was taking a walk around a cabin development in the Sierras and found myself facing three vicious, snarling dogs. They barked, bayed and howled like the world was coming to an end, and not a soul bothered to peep out a window to see what was up. I kept my cool and stared the pack down until they finally decided it wasn't worth it and backed off. I picked up a rock and then they took off. I wasn't going to throw it at them, but I would have bashed the brains out of any of them that came at me. After that, I don't take walks in those parts without my M1911.
is there a law there preventing shooting of stray dogs?? more then 2 dogs is a pack.
In Winston Salem NC, a jogger was attacked and killed by two Rottweilers. He was wearing headphones and didn't hear them until they struck.
Yup, bad neighborhood.
It got my adrenaline flowing!
When neighborhood dogs form a pack they are no different then wolves. The alpha will lead the pack. Pets can be vicious under these circumstances. I have seen the same thing happen with livestock near towns in rural Nebraska and Colorado. Your dog packs up and chases livestock out here he is dead meat. No sheriff will question dead dogs in a pasture around livestock. Imagine they can be just as mean to kids although wolves and coyotes are not know to do this.
When I was 8, I hopped a fence going after a baseball & met a doberman at the end of his chain. He knocked me down & proceeded to chew me from my gonads to my big toe. He was bigger than I was & tryed like hell to drag me in for a kill, but I managed to turn over crawl out of range. I didn't walk again for 2 weeks & had about 80 stiches...
Just don't talk about it and there isn't. Here in Indiana you can shoot stray animals if there is even a hint that they may be dangerous to you or your livestock, a pack of dogs definatly falls into that catagory.
"...how to proceed..."
Class III AR-15s. Personally, my Class III AR-10 (.308cal) could do the job *quickly* and *quietly*. I volunteer.
Dog laws vary state to state, Pennsylvania allows ANYONE to kill any dog that is chasing or attacking any people, livestock or other pets, and specifically states that the owner of the attacking dog can't collect anything no matter what the dead dog was worth.
Personally I like my Belgium Mauser custom 25-06 for tasks like this. Hollow points
Are you from Delta? I went to 5th, 6th and 7th grades there. Lived on Silver, Columbia, Garnet Mesa and near Austin. Went back about 10 years ago and none of the houses we lived in were still standing, but still it was a walk down memory lane.
Dogs don't kill people. People kill . . . oh, wait.
Nevermind.
My oldest brother was very nearly killed by 3 dogs when he and his wife were out walking. Turned out that the same dogs had attacked people more than once before, but the trailer trash owners had weasled out of it. Had someone not driven down that road just in time to let them jump into their car to escape it would have been curtains for him and likely his wife when they finished him off.
This time they were put to sleep, but it left my brother with severe trauma and a pile of medical bills. I always wondered if the Good Samaritan who had come along ever got all of the blood cleaned out of their car.
I say it's time for Atticus Finch.
Uh... what coyotes are *you* talking about?
they may have to be a little sneakier about it because they're smaller, but an attack is an attack.
No way! How do *you* rate!? I'm jealous.
I have never known of a coyote attacking a child. I may be wrong.
Yes --- I don't trust coyotes much --- they've become quite aggressive in some areas. I certainly would not trust a coyote not to attack a small child.
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