Dog attack leaves family grieving (NC)

starnewsonline ^ | Apr 14, 2005 | Kristen Gelineau

[Skooz]

Oh, geeeeesh.

Here we go.............

[martin_fierro]

Yo ho.

[Sender]

Uh oh, now you done gone and stirred up the pit bull folks.

[dmz]

again

[Phantom Lord]

Let me know when there is a story of people being mauled to death by a golden retreiver or black lab.

[DManA]

We can't go killing wild animals. That puts us on the slippery slope and the nect thing you know people are breaking in killing your canary. At least that's what Rush taught me.

[T.Smith]

Mr. Owens grabbed his pistol and shot the dog dead.

Damn right. Let a pit bull even walk into my yard and it'll be dead. I don't give a damn what the pit bull owners and lovers say, I'd kill it in a heart beat.

[Skooz]

Yep.

I would like to just combine all the Pit Bull, War on Drugs, Creation/Evolution, Abe Lincoln, and South Shall Rise Again threads into one monster huge mega-thread.

Now, that would be cool. It would also probably cull FR's membership by at least 1/10th.

[ambrose]

[Irontank]

Shane Owens, who sports a large tattoo of his Rottweiler Leila on his left arm and lives a few houses away from Ms. Sullivan’s, said his nine months’ pregnant girlfriend was walking up their driveway four years ago when a pit bull charged at her, backing her up against their car. Mr. Owens grabbed his pistol and shot the dog dead. He, too, said he repeatedly called authorities to complain about the problem

Why did this fellow have a gun? Is he part of that Minuteman group? Doesn't he know that he should have cowered in his home (while his girlfriend fended off the dog attack) and called the police?

[Skooz]

Most people would not know a "Pit Bull" if they tripped over one.

I have a Boxer and am asked "Is that a Pit Bull?" almost every time I walk him around the neighborhood.

Morons.

[Dog]

LOL!

[Trust but Verify]

Any dog is capable of doing anything –

BS. I've never heard of a yorkie killing a human being. Why do people defend these breeds that have the capacity and the temperament to kill or maim people?

[truthkeeper]

If convicted on all counts, she faces up to 13 years in prison.

Not enough.

[Dog]

I have a daschund who thinks she is a pit bull.

[Sterco]

Shoot, Shovel and Shut-up.

[GoLightly]

Smoking...

[RegulatorCountry]

I've known people who had pit bulls as pets, prior to all this uproar, and they're actually decent dogs. Careful playing tug with them, though. Powerful jaws, which is what makes them more lethal than virtually all other breeds when trained to attack, or when abused.