Posted on 05/15/2008 7:10:46 AM PDT by 95Theses
A 3-year-old boy died Wednesday after being attacked by a dog at Camp Lejeune, Onslow Memorial Hospital spokesman Tim Strickland confirmed.
The dog, a pit bull, attacked the child at Tarawa Terrace I, base spokesman 1st Lt. Craig Thomas said. The dog was captured and is being held at the Camp Lejeune kennel, Thomas said.
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a little cheese-flavored anti-freeze will fix your problem, if you get my drift...
Pit bulls are nothing like labs. It’s people who believe this who are the problem. You can chain a lab in the backyard with nothing but food and water for years, and it probably will be loving and sweet it’s entire life.
Do the same with a pitbull, and it will turn sour & vicious. They are very different dogs with different needs.
I understand you want to defend the breed, but pit bull owners need to be honest; these are not dogs for people who only want a companion.
I’ve heard it all before:
Scott Pace Warren was inside his house Friday evening with his 13-year-old sibling when the dog attacked, Dallas police spokesman Sgt. Gil Cerda said. Family members told police the 1-year-old dog did not have a history of aggressive behavior.
“When the mother came inside the house, she saw the dog attacking the 6-year-old and tried to restrain the dog,” Cerda said. “By that time, a lot of damage had been done.”
Warren was taken to a hospital, where he died, Cerda said.
The fatal mauling occured one day before a new state law in which dog owners whose pets attack and seriously injure someone could face up to 10 years in prison took effect. In a fatal attack, the sentence could increase to up to 20 years.
Cerda said it’s too early to say whether anyone will face criminal charges.
Animal control officers removed the dog from the home. Its fate has not been decided, Cerda said.
“In many of these cases, the dog is normally euthanized,” Cerda said.
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You are in denial: The deadliest dogs Merritt Clifton, editor of Animal People, has conducted an unusually detailed study of dog bites from 1982 to the present. (Clifton, Dog attack deaths and maimings, U.S. & Canada, September 1982 to November 13, 2006; click here to read it.) The Clifton study show the number of serious canine-inflicted injuries by breed. The author's observations about the breeds and generally how to deal with the dangerous dog problem are enlightening. According to the Clifton study, pit bulls, Rottweilers, Presa Canarios and their mixes are responsible for 74% of attacks that were included in the study, 68% of the attacks upon children, 82% of the attacks upon adults, 65% of the deaths, and 68% of the maimings. In more than two-thirds of the cases included in the study, the life-threatening or fatal attack was apparently the first known dangerous behavior by the animal in question. Clifton states: If almost any other dog has a bad moment, someone may get bitten, but will not be maimed for life or killed, and the actuarial risk is accordingly reasonable. If a pit bull terrier or a Rottweiler has a bad moment, often someone is maimed or killed--and that has now created off-the-chart actuarial risk, for which the dogs as well as their victims are paying the price. Clifton's opinions are as interesting as his statistics. For example, he says, "Pit bulls and Rottweilers are accordingly dogs who not only must be handled with special precautions, but also must be regulated with special requirements appropriate to the risk they may pose to the public and other animals, if they are to be kept at all."
And the beat goes on.................
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Pit bull terriers attack, critically injure 3 year old in Fort Worth
Fort Worth Star Telegram ^ | May 15, 2008 | Susan Tallant
Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:04:35 AM by tuffydoodle
FORT WORTH — A 3-year-old girl was in critical condition at Cook Children’s Medical Center after being attacked by two pit bull terriers Wednesday night.
Police responded to the call shortly before 8 p.m. at a mobile home park in the 5000 block of N. DeSoto Court, Lt. Jimmy McCarthy said. The child’s aunt, who was also injured, was taken to Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital, McCarthy said. Police declined to identify the woman.
The girl does not live where the attack took place, but was in the care of her aunt at the time, said Lynn Alexander, a neighbor at the Redwood Estates Mobile Home Park in southeast Fort Worth.
This is just plain not true.
Guns don't eat, don't bark, and don't have to go potty.
If you have enough land to keep your vicious dog out of sight and out of contact with the general population, you aren't part of the problem.
It is very easy to effectively ban breeds which are allowed into situations where they can be seen by the public.
Almost throughout the entire country citizens are prohibited from owning dangerous animals like lions, tigers, etc. This works.
How many deaths from ALL DOGS TOTAL in that many years?
Dog Bite Law - Home Page
http://www.dogbitelaw.com/PAGES/statistics.html
Dog Bite Law
Statistics
There is a dog bite epidemic in the United States. There are almost 5 million victims annually — about 2% of the entire population. 800,000 need medical attention. 1,000 per day need treatment in hospital emergency rooms. The annual human death count in the USA is over 30. Most of the victims who receive medical attention are children, half of whom are bitten in the face. Dog bite losses exceed $1 billion per year, with over $300 million paid by insurance.
oh
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Seriously the all caps is brutal.
Bears repeating. My friend was recently attacked by a golden retriever. DEFINITELY not a vicious breed. He got a couple stitches and weeks later is almost completely healed. Now if it had been a pit bull-type breed....
A pit bull attack will always, always be devastating, if not fatal. I would never argue that point. But banning the breed is not going to prevent irresponsible people from keeping them(or dogs like them), so why infringe on the rights of people who know what they’re doing?
Why not just impose heftier penalties for the owners who can’t keep their animals under control?
IMO, anyone who who owns a dog over 30 pounds should be able to prove that they can keep it control; If you can’t walk it without being pulled, and you can’t keep it from lunging at people (’friendly’ lunging or otherwise), you shouldn’t have it.
Wrong; if your dog is vicious, you ARE the problem. It doesn't matter where you live, if your dog will indiscriminately attack people you are doing something very wrong. But banning a breed will only prevent knowledgable, responsible owners from keeping their pets, it will not affect people who don't license, vaccinate, or walk their dogs anyway.
On an unrelated note, how are they going to define pit bull? I know some champion weight pulling dogs who are no more than 30 pounds; they look like beefy Jack Russels. Then there are the unpapered block-headed types that look like bulldogs; There are slim pit bulls, fat pit bulls, and pit bulls that look like mastiffs.
Except for a small percentage of pedigreed ADBA dogs, 'Pit bull' is a catch-all term for a smooth-coated dog that's big. Are you going to ban all mutts? What about pit bull mixes?
You're going to end up with a bunch of ham-handed government regulations targeting any dog that anyone cares to name, and irresponsible pet owners will continue to harbor dangerous dogs.
My other question is of the deaths that have occurred is there a percentage of those that occurred when it was the person getting into the dogs space, i.e junkyard or the dog was chained up, etc..?
Actually you should do a little more reading on your so angelica labs. they are very much like a pitbull in fact they are a part of the pitbull family. So sorry to burst your bubble. Also there are a lot of breeds you probably dont know that you think are sweet and innocent that are part of the “pitbull” family. And no not all pitbulls are vicious. You should try mines they are just like babies. And it is in all reality the way you raise them. Pitbulls are one of the most loyalist dogs. But i guess you dont read that they save lives too. look up an article about the old man trapped in a burning house and a stray pitbull saved him and died in the process. but people will think what they want to.
1. Learn to type.
2. Read all my posts on this thread.
3. Stop being a retard.
4. After completing steps 1-3, get back to me and we can talk about how much we love our pitbulls. Yep, I have one too.
LELegs, I don't know if it's possible for someone to stop being a retard, but we can always hope.
Actually you should do a little more reading on your so angelica labs. they are very much like a pitbull in fact they are a part of the pitbull family.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhehehehe...oh, it hurts! It hurts!!!!
The scariest thing about that post is that that chick probably owns teo or more pitbulls and truly believes that there is nothing dangerous about them
It just boggles the mind...
you say this only because you do not really know the breed. you only know what you hear in the news or read in the paper. yes i agree pitbulls can be extremely dangerous when they are brought up that way. not all pitbulls are bred to fight. by all means i am not standing up for the vicious dog that attacked that poor litte boy. but my husband and i have 2 pitbulls who are the best dogs i have ever had. they dont have a violent bone in their body. if you did some research you will also find other dogs that are just as aggressive as pitbulls. its not the breed, its the owners! any dog can be just as agressive if you make them that way!
1. Learn to type
2. Learn to punctuate
3. Read all my posts on this thread
4. Stop being a retard
Then maybe we can talk.
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