3-year-old fatally mauled by dog [Pit bull]

Ocala.com, Ocala, Florida ^ | 20FEB10, 21FEB10 | Suevon Lee

[familyop]

What do you think, Freepers? Should this be posted under "News/Current Events," "Crime/Corruption" or only as "Chat," "Pets," etc.?

[familyop]

Ping!

[Senator Goldwater]

Its News.

The owners of the dog and/or the parents of the child are culpable for this appalling and senseless tragedy.

[familyop]

Thanks. I’ve tried several times over the past year or so, but pit bull mauling crime news is not allowed under crime or news here. The news stories were all reassigned to “chat,” “pets/animals” or the like.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

TANKS,,,did the other thread get pulled ?,,,

Sure seems like news to me...

[9YearLurker]

“Chat” or “Chet”? I wonder if any Freepers are waking up to this.

[ColdWater]

[historyrepeatz]

Actually, I think FR should have a separate area for posts called “Today’s Pit Bull Maulings”.

[ColdWater]

Lori's site is down but from the archives ...

"We are working toward a personal goal in our breeding program where the emphasis is on a temperament that is above all, people and child friendly."

[RnMomof7]

Would you call the dogs in that pic “bull dogs” I would call them pit bulls

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

“...after it was attacked...”

“IT”!!!????

How about “she”?

[FlingWingFlyer]

...the child somehow wandered into the pen, where it became entangled...

Wow! A human being reduced to "it".

[HardStarboard]

Front and center - pit bulls are the jihadists of the dog world!

[DuncanWaring]

Need a new category called “Chet Missed One”. ;-)

[humblegunner]

A 3-year-old girl was killed late Saturday afternoon after it was attacked

The girl is an "it"?

[kanawa]

It should be posted under BS.

You are deliberately using incorrect reports.

MCSO officials originally said that the dogs were pit bulls, but they have since said that they were actually American bulldogs.

The people bred American Bulldogs.

[LatinaGOP]

LOL, Duncan

[LatinaGOP]

You are deliberately using incorrect reports. MCSO officials originally said that the dogs were pit bulls, but they have since said that they were actually American bulldogs. The people bred American Bulldogs.

But,they LOOK like pits, so any dog that looks like a pit is automatically a pit. Right, Chet?

[familyop]

Stop spamming the threads with that dishonesty. Under the law of most jurisdictions banning pit bulls, they’re pit bulls. It’s common knowledge.

[ColdWater]

It should be posted under BS. You are deliberately using incorrect reports. MCSO officials originally said that the dogs were pit bulls, but they have since said that they were actually American bulldogs. The people bred American Bulldogs.

Looks like you have been fooled also.

UPDATE 02/21/09: Lori Haaker, the mother of the child, is an active breeder of Scott type American bulldogs and hybrids. The two Haaker dogs depicted in the photo clearly illustrate pit bull type dogs (See: Pit bull faq) and once again raise the issue of exactly how to classify the Scott type American bulldog. The Scott type and breed standard is by definition a pit bull-mix, as the breed was directly developed by crossing early Johnson lines with the American pit bull terrier. Pit bull breeders, owners and kennel clubs of have been disguising the pit bull's name since 1935. The Scott type American bulldog seems to be the latest outcrop. Though Haaker's website, dreambulldogranch.com, appears to be offline, one can browse the site's web archives. We found this page particularly ironic: "We are working toward a personal goal in our breeding program where the emphasis is on a temperament that is above all, people and child friendly."