Happy Valley... oh the irony.
Waiting patiently for the pit bulls are unfairly maligned crowd.
IMHO, anybody with children should NOT have a pit bull or pit bull mix.
Flame proof PJs donned. Have at me.
Thumbs through the dogs eyes.
A sharp knife works much better, pulled hard from ear to ear.
The most vicious dog I ever had was a terrier-shepherd mix. He bit people back in the day when people didn’t sue. (They all deserved it- each case was with criminal behavior- so I never got rid of him.)
The problem with pits is, they are being used for status symbols by people who never should have a dog in the first place.
That said, once one of the fighting breeds decides to fight, they are hard to disengage. I have akita mixes that when they were young had several major battles.
One fight they locked onto one another and I actually hit them with a small door- several times. It was like fanning them with a piece of paper. I don’t think they ever felt it. I also emptied a can of pepper spray into their eyes. Nothing. After the fight they noticed, but during, it was as if everything except their fight drive was turned off.
Eventually we sorted out the dominance stuff. They realized it wasn’t tolerated, and I keep close tabs on them. They haven’t fought in years. The interesting thing is, the other part is lab. You could just as easy say they are “lab mixes”. But I can understand where people come up with the story that these dogs don’t feel pain.
Jayda’s father, Steven Hehr, was smoking a Marlboro
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What’s the danger here ????
The cigarette or the vicious dog ????
Steven Hehr rescued his daughter, Jayda Kempas, from a dog attack.
Obviously the dog had problems or the previous owner would not have given him away.
At first, Titan wouldn't let go, so Hehr tried to calm him, telling him he was a good boy.
Titan released the girl and attacked Hehr.
First he bit Hehr's hands and leg. Then, aiming for the throat, he sunk his teeth into Hehr's chest. Hehr wrestled the dog into a headlock and yelled for help, dislocating his shoulder as the dog lurched and struggled.
Friends and neighbors rushed to help. William Bahler grabbed an aluminum baseball bat and slammed it into the dog's back.
Titan barely noticed.
Bahler kept swinging, striking with full force the dog's back and rear.
As Bahler tired, another friend, Alan Clinansmith, took the bat.
"We must have hit the dog at least 40 times," said Clinansmith, who recently took the dog in while trying to find him a new home. "No human could have survived that."
Then someone else got a noose around the dog's neck and pulled it tight. Another person tied a strap around the dog's hind quarters.
Witnesses said the struggle continued for 20 or 30 minutes. Clackamas County Sheriff's Office deputies said they arrived at the home on Southeast 172nd Avenue within five minutes of receiving a call.
Deputy Greg Martin pulled up to find three men tangled up with the dog. As Martin took out his 9 mm handgun, Hehr kept Titan in a headlock and sprawled across the dog to keep him still. Martin eased the barrel up to the dog's ear and pulled the trigger. Titan went limp.
I have never had a more wonderful dog than my pit bull, collie mix. He was so wonderful.
That being said my dumb neighbors let their kids come into my yard to mess around with my lab on her rope. I hate this!!! Parents need to teach their children to stay away from dogs that are not their own. My lab is a good girl, thank God, but I don’t know about the neighbor’s kids. Are they good or could they ever be mean. I tell them to stay out of my yard and not to go near my dog. They think I am mean. I wouldn’t have to be if their parents weren’t so stupid!
A Golden Retriever once bit a kid on the ankle. Therefore, it is all about how you raise the dog, and pit bulls are no worse than any other breed.
What’s going on? Today I have seen more pit bull attack threads on Fr that at any other time.
The vet report on this dog came back. It was an American Bulldog, not a pit bull. An acquaintance who lives in Gresham found out about it and shared with another board. He was contacted by the local news station to do an interview after the story aired.
The news station still has not posted the correction, and my guess is that it won’t.
An acount of the event that day...
Friends and neighbors rushed to help. William Bahler grabbed an aluminum baseball bat and slammed it into the dog’s back.
Titan (the dog) barely noticed.
Bahler kept swinging, striking with full force the dog’s back and rear.
As Bahler tired, another friend, Alan Clinansmith, took the bat.
“We must have hit the dog at least 40 times,” said Clinansmith, who recently took the dog in while trying to find him a new home. “No human could have survived that.”
Then someone else got a noose around the dog’s neck and pulled it tight. Another person tied a strap around the dog’s hind quarters.
Witnesses said the struggle continued for 20 or 30 minutes. Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office deputies said they arrived at the home on Southeast 172nd Avenue within five minutes of receiving a call.
All the while the dog had the girl in its jaw grip. She will undgo reconstructive surgery while no doubt pitbull lovers on FreeRepublic will write nice things about pitbulls, claiming they are just like other dogs.