Posted on 04/03/2008 1:15:05 AM PDT by kingattax
Spare the (wo)man-bites-dog jokes, Amy Rice says.
After futile attempts to pull a pit bull's jaws off her Labrador retriever's throat after it jumped a neighbor's fence Friday, Rice was forced to turn to animal instinct.
"I ended up biting the pit bull on the nose," said Rice, 38, whose dog, Ella, was attacked in her northeast Minneapolis yard. "I didn't plan it, that's what happened.
"I broke the skin and had pit bull blood in my mouth. I knew what happened, and I knew that it wasn't good."
Injuries to the pit bull were minor, but now Rice is dealing with a potential rabies scare as well as her 12-year-old dog's physical and emotional wounds.
The pit bull was quarantined Wednesday by Minneapolis Animal Control after Rice's doctor told her of a possible rabies threat.
She's unhappy the pit bull, named Frances, wasn't immediately corralled by animal control officers, who told her animals that attack other animals generally are not taken away.
"I was sure that my dog was dying in my arms; it was horrible," Rice said of the 7:30 p.m. attack in the 1100 block of Washington Street NE.
"I feel lucky that nothing that horrible has ever happened to me before," she said. "[The victim] could have been a child. It just could have been so much worse. I really question the policy of not removing the animal."
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.357 so they can do a brain biopsy to ensure her and the lab didn’t contract rabies.
Huh?
Day before yesterday as I pulled into my driveway where I live in rural Alaska there was 3 dogs tearing up bags of garbage in my burn pit, I have 4 kids ages 2-14, I have at least 5 cats of which I seem to lose at least that amount every year from dog attacks and these dogs belong to my neighbors, they think just because they live away from town and in Alaska they can let their dogs run at large, for the last 12 years I have put down quite a few that harass me on my property which is 8 acres and of the times when my neighbors hear the particular firearm I use they get all in a uproar and call me a dangerous lunatic. So anyway one of the three dogs come trotting over to my truck as I am getting out, its a pit/shepard mix, no collar and I do not recognize it, so I pull out my carry piece thats always in the truck a 10mm Glock and one round in the chest at less than 8 feet its down, huge blood pool in the snow a humane heart shot. I dispose of the animal at Animal Control because I can’t bury it the ground is still frozen. The new neighbor that just moved in recently had just gotten this dog and he is royally ticked off, his fat heifer girlfriend actually attacks my wife after work by throwing hot coffee on her at the nearby bar where she stops off at after work, plus at least three of these neighbors call my work harassing my employer. The Alaska State Troopers say I did nothing wrong and the neighbors are abusing the ordnance of the “running at large” of the borough.
This is all currently ongoing and they are digging a deeper pit every time they say or act, I’m hoping this goes to court, I said I would make amends but no they keep pushing.
So instead of declaring WW3 on all canines with my huge armory which I can say covers taking down big game plus several semi-auto rifles and various handguns I am approaching this on a different track, plus this should be fun too. I am going out today and buy myself a decent paintgun outfit that has a high rate of fire and accurate out to 100’ and a lot of markers, since I cannot cause grievous injury and I cannot find out who the owners are of these other dogs maybe at least I can mark them with bright paint so the owners gets the hint.
I like the idea...I love dogs..just not other people’s...I wonder if a little chili peper injected in the paint ball would make the paint taste so bad the dog would remember to give your property wide berth next time??
Either that or what I used when I was working as a termite fumigator when I was much younger was chloropictin an odorous agent used to let people know the house was being fumigated. Either that or I can get some wild animal musk scent, would be interesting to see what effect that has.
When I lived in Ann Arbor (years before paint guns), I had a friend who let his dog roam. One day it returned spraypainted pink. Not a lot, just a few streaks. He got the hint.
From Texas to Alaska...I applaud you sir!
I bet Ella doesn’t want to go out into her back yard again.
A friend of mine does that to racoons he relocates. That way can determine if he is relocating same ones constantly.
I've said the same thing about kids. = D
I have been told, repeatedly, that attacks like this are rare.
Carolyn
Carolyn
Dude, don't be surprised if those new neighbors snipe your pets in return. And that's in addition to treating you and your family like crap and bad-mouthing you to whomever will listen. And the legal defense is lame. Legally, the town could seize your property via Emminent Domain, wouldn't be very considerate though.
As a neat experiment imaginge if someone just like you had moved in next door to you. Would events pass the civility test?
I think the paintball solution is a good solution which will achieve the desired results without harming the neighborhood. You've got some serious remediation to do with your neighbors though. I'm sure you'd agree good relations with neighbors are worth a lot more than the value of killing a dog to protect a pile of trash.
I am curious - the article is not written well - and I cannot tell if her 12 year-old lab jumped the fence, or the pit bull jumped the fence...
“Either that or I can get some wild animal musk scent, would be interesting to see what effect that has.”
Something that would attract all the horny mooses for miles around.
You don’t believe animals, dogs in this case, have emotions?
Dogs can be very emotional. My brother passed away this past Sunday. His beloved Bella, a English bulldog, is grieving along with the rest of us. Bella will not allow anyone to sit in my brother’s chair.
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