Dog Attack Leaves Man Mauled and Two Pets Dead (and that's not all)

WJLA 7 DC ^ | Sept 17, 2007 | WJLA 7

[RDTF]

A Prince George's County man says he feels lucky to be alive after he was attacked by two large dogs while walking his own dogs Monday morning in Fort Washington. The incident left two dogs dead, a third in the animal hospital and a fourth at the pound.

Richard Kenner was walking his dogs, a shih tzu and a shepherd-husky mix, about 7:30 a.m. in the 12,900 block of Asbury Drive when two Cane Corsos attacked him.

Kenner described what happened during an ordeal he says lasted as long as twenty minutes.

"He went around behind me, before I could turn around he attacked me from behind. One latched onto my buttocks area and was just... I could feel my flesh tearing, actually.

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Kenner was bitten on the arms, the legs and in the groin area. He was treated at the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

Kenner says he feels luck to be alive and credits an off-duty federal officer who happened by and intervened. The man, who was not identified by police, fatally shot one of the attacking dogs, but also, in the confusion, fatally shot Kenner's sheperd-husky mix.

Despite the accidental killing of his own dog, Kenner says he's thankful the officer was there.

"I'm very grateful, very grateful," said Kenner. "When I told him, while I was laying on the ground, waiting for the ambulance, I let him know how grateful I was to him for freeing me from that attack."

But that wasn't the end of it.

Somehow, in the confusion, the shih tzu's leash was snagged by a car, which dragged it down the road. The dog was taken to an animal hospital and is expected to recover.

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[Doomonyou]

I wouldn't want that mad at me.

[mamelukesabre]

No, that was a french mastiff. AKA dogue de bordeaux.

[vpintheak]

GUNS ARE WHAT SAVED THIS MANS LIFE!!!!! GUNS!!!! EVIL GUNS!!!!!! If only there were enough people out there with common sense to realize that a well armed society never has to be the victim.

[Jack Black]

Well there are lots of mastiff variations. But all mastiffs are descended from the dogs of war. All of them are capable of killing humans, and usually when you hear of a human killed by a dog it is one of the mastiff variations that have done it. (Children are killed by a wider variety of dogs.)

[Paperdoll]

>Is this the dog in the movie “Hootch” with Tom Hanks? Great movie, btw.<

Oh! I believe you are right! Yes it was a good movie. I thought the dog was a very large pit bull.

[FReepapalooza]

Nope, Hooch was a French Mastiff. I looked it up cuz I thought the same thing.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Dogs don’t discern like people."

Based on the number of replies blaming this incident on "pit bulls," I'd say you've overestimated the level of discernment you attribute to people...

[Dysart]

Just so you know, you aren’t being cute.

And what of seen of you, you're not very bright and have way too much time on your hands.

[dawn53]

I actually wouldn’t want any good sized dog mad at me.

We have a couple of Weims and my husband was taking them for a walk the other day, and a neighbor’s Australian Cattle Dog got out of their house somehow, and tore across the street and started attacking our female Weim. He did some damage to her hind quarters, and my husband had to literally beat the dog off.

Then he started after our male Weim, but my husband just let go of the leash, and the male Weim is big and fast, and outran him (luckily they were walking in a big open area so there was plenty of grass and space for our dog to get away.)

Neither of our dogs tried to defend themselves, our female usually can hold her own and chase an agressive dog off but this dog came out so fast and so suddenly, she was dazed by the attack, and the dog wouldn’t let go of her hindquarters.

So any dog, except maybe the toys, can inflict damage if they want to.

[RDTF]

“And what of seen of you, you’re not very bright and have way too much time on your hands.”

Nice personal attack that says a lot about you. Consider yourself unwelcomed, always.

[paul51]

The owner of the Cane Corsos says they were family dogs and that he trusts them in the house with his one-year-old child.

The usual stupid comment

[RepoGirl]

Yeesh, what a story.

Cane Corso -- Italian mastiffs can be tough dogs. It still amazes me to read through the comments to see the knee jerk pitt bull comments. Then the inevitable cries to "Ban them all!"

[paul51]

If you have dangerous animals in the neighborhood it’s a good idea to carry a firearm with you and to shoot the animal the moment it makes an aggressive move. Do all your neighbors a favor also.

[Fatuncle]

Not quite. He didn’t stop a bullet himself.

[Tribune7]

Frankly, it's a pit.

Calling a Cane Corso a pit is like calling a German Shepard a pit.

[lilycicero]

We need to keep the cat who predicts death away from the lil dog.

[Cecily]

I think “The Omen” dogs were Rottweilers. This thing looks like a cross between a pit bull and a Rottweiler.

[GAB-1955]

Considering this is Fort Washington, the Cane Corsos are probably owned by some thug who deals in herb on the side.

[Brucifer]

I got chewed up by a dog when I was a kid. Years later I had a neighbor who was raising a big ugly mean dog in his back yard. He was proud of the dog’s attitude and the fact that it was so dangerous.

I told him that if the dog ever got loose I would immediately kill it. He began to howl that if he could prove it that I did it I would be in trouble because he was a very dangerous man. I told him that he would not have any problem figuring out who did it because I would be hunting him next, and at that point we would find out exactly how dangerous he was.

You should have seen the look on his face. He knew that I wasn’t joking.

When dogs attack people the dogs should die and the dog’s owners should face jail time and substantial financial consequences.

[misanthrope]

The only reason pit bulls havn’t taken over the planet is because Chuck Norris gave ‘em all a roundhouse kick to the face..................