I can’t imagine the horror of these people being ripped apart by dogs. No one jogging down the street or picking weeds in their yard should be subject to this. The natural liberal reaction is to call for bans, restrictions, etc. which I disagree with but the person responsible for this should face life in prison or even the death penalty if he knowingly trained them to kill.
The next question is who let the owner have that many big, violent dogs? I thought everyone had to register dogs at the town hall. Didn’t the Animal Control Officer think “hmm 10 pitbulls, maybe I should check that out”?
Just another news story that reminds me to pack heat more often just in case.
ALL dogs should be chained or leashed so that they do not even inconvenience or annoy, let alone attack, people who are not their owners. People are more important than animals.
Here’s another story with more details — sounds like a pack of stray dogs was roaming the area.
Second dog attack leaves two
Dog pack mauls jogger, 56, man, 91, in Livingston, day after Rottweiler kills baby.
George Hunter and Valerie Olander / The Detroit News
Vicious dogs attacked and killed two more people Thursday afternoon, even as police were continuing to probe the of a 4-month-old child who died the previous day when a Rottweiler pounced on her during a party at a private home in Warren.
In the Thursday incident in rural Iosco Township in Livingston County, police said a 91-year-old man and a woman, 56, who was apparently a passing jogger, were set upon by a marauding pack of at least 10 dogs on Crofoot Road.
Alex Gierlach, who also lives on Crofoot, said Thursday night that it was his brother Ed Gierlach who died in the attack.
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Police have not confirmed the breed of dogs involved in the attack.
A relative of Gierlach’s on the scene said the jogger’s body was found about 100 feet from the house where Gierlach lived.
State Trooper Jeff Frasier said the dogs were rounded up after the attack and taken to the Livingston County Animal Shelter. Police said the dogs were found at a residence in the area.
Kelly King, a neighbor on nearby Elliot, said she had seen two stray dogs, a Doberman and a pit bull, on her street several days ago, and was concerned for the safety of her own pets.
Thursday’s attack comes a day after the of Kylie Cox in Warren. The baby was attacked Wednesday in a private home by a Rottweiler.
The dog was put to Thursday afternoon while relatives grieved for the infant.
The baby’s 17-year-old mother, Alexis Cox, left the child in the living room about 5:45 p.m. Wednesday to go into the kitchen to prepare the baby’s formula, “and the dog came out of nowhere,” said Kimberly Sundman, Alexis Cox’s aunt.
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Dog was aggressive before
Chopper, the 120-pound Rottweiler who mauled Kylie, was euthanized by lethal injection at the Macomb County Animal Shelter, Chief Animal Control Officer Susan Jeroue said.
After the attack, the dog’s owner told police Chopper had been aggressive with children on at least one other occasion. Sundman said Alexis Cox was only a casual acquaintance of the dog’s owner.
Police are considering whether to bring charges against Alexis Cox, or the dog’s owner. Detectives Thursday were re-interviewing people who were at the party, Warren Police Sgt. Louis Galasso said.
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“What presents somewhat of a problem is, we don’t know exactly who knew what. We know there was a party at the house, but the mother of the baby didn’t live there, and neither did the owner of the dog. So we don’t know if the mother even knew there was a dog at the house.”
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According to Galasso, Kylie’s mother, who was not identified by police, brought the baby to the party still strapped to her car seat. When the woman left the living room to make formula for the baby, the 2-year-old dog suddenly attacked the child, Galasso said.
The dog pulled Kylie from the car seat and began violently shaking her, Galasso said. The 15 guests in the home began kicking the dog in an effort to get it to release the baby. The owner of the dog was finally able to free Kylie from its jaws, and the was taken to St. John Oakland Hospital, where she was pronounced of massive head trauma.
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If someone hasn't said so already, I don't think pit bulls are very big. That said, in this case they preyed on people unable to fight them off, so they can be bad.
All I can say is, if any of those critters comes at me to take my life, they will be hurtin' units by the time I am gone. Whatever means is at hand to maim and kill those dogs I will use without mercy.