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Posted on 02/26/2016 11:38:39 AM PST by DCBryan1
CABOT, Ark. - A pit bull attack almost turned deadly for two horses at Roman's Training Center in Cabot.
Trainer June Roman said a pit bull came out of the woods Sunday and attacked two of her American Paints, Porche and Flashy.
"No provocation whatsoever," Roman said. "Just murder on his mind. He was ripping Flashy's nose and leg off."
"She [Porche] was covered in blood on her legs, her face, chunks hanging off," said Dana Bailey, Porche's owner. "I was just crying because I have the horse gene and she's my baby."
After the horses stomped the pit bull, Roman said a Pulaski County deputy contained him.
"The dog then jumped up, grabbed a cat and the deputy shot him," Roman said. "The dog ran off and eventually they followed the blood trail across the highway and someone else had shot and killed him."
Porche and Flashy spent the next three days in a vet clinic. Roman said each owner is facing at least a $2,500 medical bill.
"Someone needs to be responsible for this," she said.
"It was an irresponsible dog owner that led to my poor horse getting attacked," Bailey said.
While they try to track down the pit bull's owner based on the information on his dog tags, Porche and Flashy were able to return home Thursday.
"The second she saw me she nickered and it made me tear up a little bit like, 'Mom, pick me up, bring me home,'" Bailey said. "Their injuries look amazing compared to what they looked like Sunday."
Roman expects the horses to recover in several weeks and plans on purchasing a donkey to help protect them and the other animals. She said they are known to get rid of predators.
"This probably won't happen ever again," Roman said. "And it hasn't happened in the 30 years I've been a trainer here. The vet told us even coyotes or wolves would not have done this."
Not my rescue cat, Cooper, he is fiercely protective of the other cats and the wife and I.
Pit bulls are like loaded guns, only guns don’t have free will.
Cows are good watchdogs....they will do a group stare at any strangers that approach.
Fake shoot pit bulls don’t they?
He said normally they stick to grazing but when he went near that carcass, they got suspicious. “That’s not your concern, farmer. Just keep walking”. He also said the cows don’t associate people with food, they associate trucks with food.
Wait!!!
I thought that was the zot cat....
With the “adopt don’t shop” brainwashing that has been going on for years now, the most numerous dogs available in shelters are pits and pit mixes. Pit bulls, needless to say, do not belong in many homes, especially homes that are not willing to keep their dog from escaping and roaming unsupervised. The number of people pushing the “pibble” mindset, that these dogs are the perfect pet for everyman, grows with every passing day.
I will bet the owner just cannot believe their dog would ever hurt a fly.
One last thing. It’s no sin to research purebreds or mixes and to find a dog that fits your lifestyle and your experience level. Never had a dog? Don’t get a pit, get a golden retriever or a beagle.
If you can’t find a dog outside a shelter, find a good breeder and ignore the animal rights whack-a-doos that try to make you feel guilty.
They shot the cat. /s
“The dog then jumped up, grabbed a cat and the deputy shot him. The dog ran off.”
Pitbulls are the muzzie jihadists of the dog world. Uh oh - here come the pitbull sympathizers to straighten me out - “it’s the owners, blah blah”, obscure articles about people mauled by yorkies, etc., etc.
Why people want a muscle-bound barely-controlled dog with a dull-witted demeanor and cold evil eyes just baffles me. It’s like living with and playing with an IED.
Just my question!
(Guess I have the cat gene.)
Yes, pit bulls are just popular thug accessories, part of the prison-culture-is-cool mentality.
Civilized people want nothing to do with them, or their creepy owners.
Of the very few dogs I have ever seen run loose in my neighborhood - the very odd time it even happens - it’s a pit. Some of the “owners” of the things think it is OK to walk them off leash if it’s late at night, because they think the folks are all in for the evening. I used to walk my dobes later in the evenings, and when I would see one of those come rolling up on us I’d about crap my pants. Then I would chew out the owner. It stopped happening. Two dobes can stand their ground, but are not a match due to the jaw strength of a pit. I hate those dogs, they have no business being in family neighborhoods.
When cows stare at me I feel like an idiot.
She might accidentally shoot horse if it’s on top of horse.
Yes, you’re right to nip that late-night off-leash roaming pit problem in the bud. You have the protection of your two dobes (not that it would completely prevent an attack) but suppose some little child came outside his house to put mail in the mailbox for his daddy, and the pit spotted him? Could be another tragic pit bull story.
In Memphis years ago an elderly man stepped off a public-transit bus. Two pits from a nearby car lot escaped under their fence, and attacked the man. They ripped his arm off right there in the street. I always think of that story when I see one running loose.
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