Vicious Christmas Eve pit bull attack leaves Kentucky woman dead, husband injured

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[familyop]

A woman was killed and her husband seriously injured after a vicious mauling by two pit bulls on Christmas Eve in a Kentucky coal town. Investigators said the husband managed to shoot the dogs afterwards, killing one of them...a caller had reported his brother and sister-in-law were attacked by two of their neighbor’s dogs, WLEX-TV reported.

[PAR35]

Great response, bagster.

[TigersEye]

A friend of mine had a Pit that was very gentle even though it first came to his door looking wild-eyed and with pellets lodged in its hips.

But I’m not sure the source I linked to is much exoneration for Pit Bulls as it says they are responsible for 65% of all lethal dog attacks in the U.S.

[sargon]

Amen....you have to be insane to own one.

I've never owned one, but your statement is asinine...

[Crucial]

Yes but if you abuse a Pomeranian the worst you could expect is a sore Achilles‘ tendon.

[Wissa]

Pit bulls have a bad rap. I’ve heard of golden retrievers doing this too.

I suppose if a non-Moslem commits a terrorist attack, you'd say that's clear evidence that the Moslems are getting a bad rap.

I'm not going to do a count, but a quick scan of this list makes it look like 90+% of the fatal attacks in recent history are done by dogs with pit bull genes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_dog_attacks_in_the_United_States

[huldah1776]

With the population explosion never rule out inbreeding which results in psycho dogs no matter the breed. Bro had an English Bulldog that was WACK.

[gundog]

It’s been my experience that many people shouldn’t be allowed to have unaltered dogs, never mind pits. Multiple dogs are also an issue. Do I want it legislated? No.

[MrEdd]

If there were even the tiniest fragment of truth in that statement, we would be reading these stories about other breeds much of the time.

But we are not.

[Falcon4.0]

You're right about the shelters.
We went out about 5 years ago to find a dog and 90% of the dogs there were Pits.

[Karl Spooner]

"If a dog is wagging its tail it won't hurt you".

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[gundog]

A friend used to work in the Amarillo animal shelter. He said a day didn’t go by without some black guy coming in looking for “a Rockweiller. “

[Norski]

This is an excerpt from the website "17 Barks". For the whole interview, you may wish to look there yourself. If you wish to know more, google Merritt Clifton. If you are beginning to be very concerned about breed-specific maulings and human and pet/livestock deaths, might want to begin creating your own information sources and database. A Pit Bull Advocate's Interview with Merritt Clifton [Editor's note: This series consists of two posts: A Pit Bull Advocate's Interview with Merritt Clifton, and a prefatory essay by Barbara Kay titled Sweet Revenge. "Mark" is a pseudonym; Ms Kay does not wish to call negative attention to his highly reputable college or its excellent film department. See Sweet Revenge for events leading to this interview.] The following email interview was conducted in February, 2013. Mark: Right off the bat, assuming someone doesn’t know your stance on the BSL issue, would you say that pit bulltype dogs are inherently more dangerous than most other breeds of dog? If so, what evidence would you use to support this assertion? Merritt Clifton: see: http://www.dogsbite.org/dogbitestatisticsstudydogattacksandmaimingsmerrittclifton. php The pattern discovered during the past 30plus years of data tracking turns out to have prevailed among nonrabid dog attack cases going all the way back to 1844, which is as far as the data can be reconstructed from published accounts. However, the frequency of attacks has increased exponentially, from fewer than one dog attack fatality per year in the middle decades of the 20th century to an average of more than 30 per year just by pit bulls since 2010. Also, more than half of all the pit bull fatalities & disfigurements of the past 30 years have occurred just since the Michael Vick dogfighting case broke in April 2007. Pit bulls had already accounted for half the total numbers of dog attack fatalities & disfigurements then. Mark: Looking at the report, and some summations of it, one would come to the conclusion that you feel pit bulls are an inherent danger to the public. Why is it that almost every single agency concerned with animal welfare and veterinary Breed Holocaust First They Came Martin Niemöller Premack's Second Principle Breed Holocaust The Concept of Breed By Any Other Name Pit bull Agility The Natural History of Fighting Breeds Do Fighting Breeds Exist? Locking Jaws Locking Jaws: II Fighting Breeds Ulster County K9 Training Steve Croft: Pit Bull Entrepreneur Should Pit Bulls be Trained as Police K9s? Poughkeepsie's New K9 Pit Bull K9s 2015 Top Ten 2014 Top Ten 2013 Top Ten 2012 Top Ten 2011 Top Ten Top Tens Legislators' Reading List Michigan A Pit Bull Advocate's Interview with Merritt Clifton Debacle at Hazel Park Port Huron Official Blames the Victim October OpEd Pieces Debacle at Hazel Park Pt 2 Should Pit Bulls Be Trained As Police K9s? 2015 Top Ten St. Louis Public Radio Carolinas Under Siege First X, Then Y, Then Z Most viewed now: A Pit Bull Advocate's Interview with Merritt Clifton Featured Page: Recent pit bull attacks: On police officers On horses Attack Timelines All Dogs Bite First They Came Premack's Second Principle Alltime Most Viewed Wisconsin People Problems Annoyance Bite People Problems 9/17/2016 Sudden, Random, Unprovoked & Violent: A Pit Bull Advocate's Interview with Merritt Clifton http://sruvpitbulls. blogspot.com/2015/08/apitbulladvocatesinterviewwith. html 2/12 medicine has come out vehemently against any breedspecific legislation? They really have nothing to gain or lose by opposing BSL. MC: It is entirely incorrect, indeed the inverse of reality, to assert that the agencies involved “have nothing to gain or lose by opposing BSL.” Indeed, the organized veterinary profession has for more than 60 years opposed ANY legislation that would curtail breeding dogs, and the largest humane societies have tended to align themselves with the veterinary societies time & again, until smaller organizations employing veterinarians who have been willing to buck the establishment have conducted the demonstration projects & won the lawsuits that permitted the introduction of discount spay/neuter, highvolume spay/neuter, spay/neuter offered through nonprofit clinics, the introduction of neuter/return, and differential dog licensing, which means that sterilized dogs are licensed for a lower fee than those who are intact. Time and again the major humane societies have belatedly climbed aboard the bandwagon once it was already rolling, rather than risk losing market share. Further contributing to the present positions of most of the major humane societies is the reality that over the past 20 years, donors have responded very positively to the transition many have made to a nokill or lowkill modus operandi – exactly as I had editorially urged at the now defunct Animal People newspaper from Volume 1, #1. (I was in fact the keynote speaker at the first No Kill Conference, in 1995.) Unfortunately, it is very difficult for any humane society to remain nokill when 30% or more of the dogs coming through the doors are pit bulls – unless the humane society ceases to be openadmission on the one hand, thereby obliging a public agency to accept all of the hardest cases, and denies the realities pertaining to pit bulls on the other, so as to be able to adopt out more of them. Among the consequences are that of the 42 fatal dog attacks by shelter dogs occurring in the past 33 years, 40 have occurred since 2000. There have been 37 fatalities involving shelter dogs from 2010 to present, involving 29 pit bulls, seven bull mastiffs, two Rottweilers, a Lab who may have been part pit bull, and a husky. Mark: Even Dr. Julie Gilchrist of the CDC has come out with the

[Norski]

Sorry, Paragraph insufficiency problems. I realize that paragraphs are our friend; I just don’t know how to fix. Could use assistance. Thanks for any help.

[Falcon4.0]

The idea that it is the fault of the owners who don't know how to train their dog is to suggest that,
all Golden Retriever owns know how to train their Dogs.
And all Irish Setter owners know how to train their Dogs.
And all German Shepard owners know how to train their Dogs.
And all ... owners know how to train their Dogs.
The World would not miss the Pitbull.

[Rebelbase]

IMO, for pure nastiness a Chow out ranks a Pit.

[Ann Archy]

And Merry Christmas to you too!!

[Wissa]

Amen....you have to be insane to own one.

I've never owned one, but your statement is asinine...

It's pretty much like owning a firearm that has a tendency to discharge itself.

[Terry Mross]

Had a neighbor who owned, I thought, two pit bulls. Turns out they weren’t. But when I moved in I had a fence built between the fences just in case they got loose.

[gundog]

Had a cat move in under the house , way back when I had my pit. She got bolder and bolder,, until one day she walked into the house. She was down the hall, and me and Nemo were on the couch, watching TV. Cat sauntered in, dog watching intently, and jumped up on the coffee table, turned her back to us, and sat down. Pit was beside himself, tensed up. We looked at each other, and I shook my head and said “no.” Spent the next decade with that cat and her offspring, and the dog loved them all. They’d sleep on him in the winter.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#66: "never rule out inbreeding which results in psycho dogs"

Just like Muslims.