8-Year-Old Girl Critical After Lithonia Dog Attack

cbs atlanta ^ | 3/9/2010 | Jennifer Mayerle

[from occupied ga]

And yet another vicious child provokes a couple of the sweetest, wonderful with children, pit bulls into mauling her.

I'm waiting for the delusional* to come out of the woodwork and give one of their many excuses for this latest in an endless series of attacks on children

1. The dogs were provoked
2. It was the owners' fault they trained them to be that way
3. And one of my favorites, The child's parents didn't intorduce the child to the dog so that they didn't recognize her as one of their pack.
4. The dogs were misidentified. They weren't really pit bulls and I'm a liar and should go kill myself for even suggesting the the most wonderful sweetest most precious wecious puppie wuppiekeins in the world could do a thing like that (they were really chiwawas in disguise)
5. The child wasn't really hut the dogs were just playing (and indeed they were - no doubt having a great time)

I don't know how you people who constantly defend this breed live with yourselves. In no small part it is you and the many people like you who bear the responsibility for this sort of stuff by trying to hide or deny the fact that there is a tendency for this breed to attack people. And then try to shout down a rational approach to the problem (ie banning the breed). Flame away head cases, but when you value a dog breed over human beings you show exactly what you are.

Those who repeatedly deny an external reality and live in a fantasy world are by definition delusional, but may not be clinically insane.

[from occupied ga]

fyi

[HiTech RedNeck]

Cats rule, dogs drool

[HiTech RedNeck]

I get a sense that a lot of pits are purchased as “bad ass” dogs, and they are raised outdoors in rough conditions with minimal socialization to humans. Then people are shocked when the dogs live out the way they were raised.

[Badabing Badablonde]

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[Moonman62]

The dogs were a known problem in the neighborhood. It’s too bad someone didn’t take the matter into their own hands before the girl was attacked.

[LRS]

You left out the part how breeds like chihuahuas, weiner dogs, malties, etc. etc. are responsible for most dog bites...

[wolfcreek]

“Staffordshire bull terriers”

Sounds like such a nice breed of *timebombs* ur..... dogs.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Cat and pit bull love

[HiTech RedNeck]

Hot dogs, Armour hot dogs,
The dogs kids love to bite!

[caver]

I agree. I hate pit bulls. They ought to be put down. The main reason is I see some urban thug with tattooes, piercings, slouchy pants and backwards hat walking their pit bull with spiked collars, looking stupid.

[pajama pundit]

“You left out the part how breeds like chihuahuas, weiner dogs, malties, etc. etc. are responsible for most dog bites...”

...but not deaths...

[Travis McGee]

Jones said she tried to capture the dogs on several occasions, and has called animal control about them. “They came in my yard and mauled my cat to death,” said Jones. Other neighbors say they've attacked them too.

Should have been shot by any neighbor long ago.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Or call the dog catcher, if it is killing other pets.

[palmer]

I blame global warming.

[utherdoul]

agreed. And I bet the breeders wern’t exactly the most reputable bunch either. You raise any big working dog like that and throw in bad genes you have a timebomb on your hands. Euthanize both dogs and give the owners jailtime or hell euthanize all of them if the litle girl dies.

[rintense]

The breed has become an ‘image’ breed, used by gangs, and thug wanna-bes to exude some false outward appearance of toughness. Such a shame.

[HiTech RedNeck]

A big dog like that wants a big yard to run around in, same as if it were a Great Dane or St. Bernard. It’s cruel to tie it to a short chain in a postage stamp sized piece of lawn and expect it to just wait there as an ornament at your beck and call.

[LRS]

I admit I hate most dogs. I have all my life for some reason. But wiener dogs crack me up! Just something about their demeanor. (And I don’t mind border collies either.)

[utherdoul]

I don’t blame the dogs at all or the breed per se. It’s BAD breeding and lack of proper care that made them do what they did. Not that they were evil. Even so if a dog like that attacks you need to put them down because if they’ve attacked once its very likely they’ll do it again.