Posted on 06/11/2005 10:00:52 PM PDT by SmithL
Hours before being mauled to death by the family pit bull, 12-year-old Nicholas Faibish had been told to stay in the basement separated from the dogs, said his distraught mother, Maureen Faibish, who called The Chronicle on Saturday, trying to make sense of what she called a "freak accident.''
"I put him down there, with a shovel on the door,'' said Faibish, who had left the boy alone with the dogs on June 3 to run some errands. "He had a bunch of food. And I told him, 'Stay down there until I come back.' Typical Nicky, he wouldn't listen to me.''
Faibish said she was concerned that the male pit bull, Rex, was acting possessive because the female, Ella, was in heat. Apparently, Nicholas found a way to get the door open and come upstairs. At that point Faibish believes he walked in while the dogs were mating and was attacked by Rex.
"It was Rex, I know it in my heart,'' Faibish said. "My younger dog (Ella) was in heat and anyone who came near her, Rex saw as a threat. He may have been trying to mate. It was a freak accident. It was just the heat of the moment.''
Faibish felt compelled to call The Chronicle, she said, because she was upset by comments in a Saturday column that disparaged family members who own pit bulls.
In the column an Oakland surgeon who often treats bites by pit bulls said, "when you have an animal like that in your house you are recklessly endangering your family.''
"They made it sound like we put our kids in a war zone,"
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Ok. That's it. This woman needs to be sterilized. i can't believe I said that, but this is just f'ng unbelievable.
This woman is out of her freaking mind. You lock your child in a basement to protect him from your dog? Shoot the freaking dog and idiot Mom could use some jail time to ponder the value of human life.
arf
Pit bull ping.
Is this a joke? If I was too scared to leave a child around the dog, I wouldn't be handing him the shovel for protection. I'd use the shovel myself and beat the dog on the head until it was dead.
I am a dog lover, but this story is just deranged.
Oops, I see that you beat me to a ping to Ambrose. I'll bet the mother took her trip to the store in an SUV, as well.
Oh never mind. I can't say what I was going to. And this just leaves me speechless to say anything else.
What I want to know is why this stupid witch didn't put the dogs in the basement and let her son stay in the house? They need to throw her down in the basement with a couple of mountain lions. Maybe as they tore her apart she could understand what she did to her son!!!
I had to look and see if this was a joke.
Pitt bulls should only exist on farms or hunting preserves and the like where they're used to go afer boars and similar duties which shephards and dobermans are too intelligent to do.
"12-year-old was killed by family dog; owner sees loss as tragic accident but defends breed as making good pets. "
Tragic doggie ping.
Mrs. Faibish is clearly deranged; her platitudes about her son are beyond pathetic as is her defense of the dogs. Why are children born to such women?
"I put him down there, with a shovel on the door,'' said Faibish, who had left the boy alone with the dogs on June 3 to run some errands. "He had a bunch of food. And I told him, 'Stay down there until I come back.' Typical Nicky, he wouldn't listen to me.'' <<
She did not take her child on her "errands", and left him with dogs SHE was afraid of...
If I were to guess, the "errands" were illegal. Having a kid on the errands is bad...and the dogs were being used as enforcers on the house. Drug dealers can't call the cops and dogs are great as house enforcers. Pit bulls are mindless enforcers. With bad training, they can be great and no one will steal from the house, and they won't report it.
Pit bulls can be great pets too, I've heard but I doubt it. My neighbor had a pit bull, dumb as a pile of rocks. It used to bark at me whenever I would get into my truck. I started feeding him a dog bone or four when I came out and then he started to complain if I did not give him four.
It's an old runner's trick. Don't spray the pups, give'em treats. They'll like you. You don't have to shoot'em top dead center when they attack then. 'Cuz they don't attack you.
Poor kid. Send the mom to jail forever. Her son did not deserve her.
DK
I AM SORRY FOR JUMPING IN HERE,HOWEVER IT IS TOO HOT TOO SLEEP.
i have been raising german shepherds for 40+ years.
any one around dogs knows temperment from the first look.
my eldest is next to my bride as allways,he is fully schutzhound trained and would not do anything to a child.
when we gather for prayer and bible study here he enjoys rolling on the floor and playfully barking at the pastor.
there has GOT too be some criminal charges against this woman.
i did not say mother because she is not.
i have raised many a guard dog and any good owner knows where they should be used.
LASTLY WHAT IS THE FAMILY INTO THAT THEY HAVE PITS AROUND?
GODSPEED!
This is weird. She left her 12 year old in the basement, but sent her 9-year old to the store to buy soda for the 12-year old???
also someone please post a picture of this person.
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