Brooklyn(Md) infant is killed in home by family pit bull

Baltimore Sun ^ | August 9, 2003 | Jessica Valdez and Alec MacGillis

[Skooz]

You're wasting your time. The people most opinionated on this matter know nothing about dogs. Their minds are made up. Food good, pit bull bad.

[Threepwood]

I bought a golden, when they come to banning them I suspect we will deep in "end-times" territory. Mind you, maybe not. Once the lefties get regulating and banning things the power tends to go their heads.

[Consort]

You lost.

[ValerieUSA]

I don't believe the dog killed this baby. Even on the front p orch, parents should be able to hear a swing knocked over, a dog attacking, and a baby screaming. The police took out their frustrated aggression on the dog, but I bet they wanted to shoot the parents.

[rdb3]

I guess you're right. It appears that deeply held opinions can cloud judgement.

[Consort]

That is just the way it is in your little head, but no gives a damn what you think.

That mentality makes you part of the problem.

[FITZ]

Neighbors who spoke with the parents speculated last night that the baby might have died because of being knocked out of the swing.

Since the baby doesn't show signs of being mauled, I wonder what injuries caused his death? If it's head trauma, I bet the dog didn't do it.

[ChemistCat]

I'm not sure you can even say the police took out their aggression on the dog. It was running loose and they had a report it had killed a human being. Their actions were perfectly reasonable and they would have been guilty of negligence had they done anything else, and that dog bit someone else. It's not like the dog could have offered any defense to itself. Aggressive or not, it was a dumb animal and it could never receive justice, nor have the police time to try to establish guilt before executing sentence.

But now it's time to look very very closely at what actually happened. The dog is a prime suspect, but my money is on the parents and I'm wondering what the autopsy is going to show. Wonder if that dog will be blamed for old healing fractures, cigarette burns, abuse-level diaper rash, drugs in the baby's system, whatever.

[Admin Moderator]

Knock off the personal attacks.

[BluH2o]

Recently he told me of one that he had to get rid of, seems it ate one of his smaller dogs, not a rottweiler.

Not an unusual occurence when a larger breed dog, such as a German shepherd or rottweiler, encounters a smaller dog without the owner nearby. A small poofy type dog wandered into a yard with a shepherd standing guard a few years back (in our neighborhood) and didn't live to tell the tale. It happens ... dogs are dogs.

[rdb3]

You lost.

Ha!

[spunkets]

"I bet they wanted to shoot the parents."

They'd have to go to the store and buy more ammo. They used up their supply on the dog.

[Consort]

You know what you can do with your name calling, don't you? Don't get another pit bull.

[Skooz]

The dirty little secret is that Pit Bulls are some of the sweetest and friendliest dogs on the planet. It is unfortunate that scum-of-the-earth dogfighters have used them for bloodsport and trained (read: tortured) them to make them mean and aggressive.

Unfortunate for the dogs who suffer such a fate, and unfortunate for the dimwitted dull bulbs who think such behavior is chracteristic of the breed.

[sinkspur]

I used to use the term too until it occurred to me to be an odd sort of phrase.

I think it's an entirely appropriate term to use with a couple who leave a 2 week old alone to go outside to smoke cigarettes.

If that's what happened. I think something worse than what is described in this story happened, with the blame being put on the dog.

I use "white trash" in lieu of an obscenity.

[Pukka Puck]

Petey, the dog from the Little Rascals was a Pit Bull.

[Pukka Puck]

So was Buster Brown's dog.