Posted on 04/05/2005 6:22:36 AM PDT by Dan from Michigan
Family's two pit bulls kill Hamtramck girl, 6
4/5/2005, 4:28 a.m. ET
The Associated Press
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) — Two pit bulls attacked and killed their owners' 6-year-old girl in the backyard of a home near Detroit, state police say.
Cassidy Jeter was killed Monday morning, said state police Lt. Harold Love.
The girl had known the pit bulls since they were puppies, The Detroit News said.
Cassidy and a younger child were walking down an alley next to the home about 9 a.m. when the dogs attacked, Love said. The family recently moved out of a home around the corner, and the dogs were still staying at that house. The alley separates the two homes.
"For some reason the dogs were loose, and one of them attacked the girl," Love said.
The other dog apparently joined the attack. The younger child climbed a fence to get away, and the girl's mother tried to save her daughter.
"The mother tried to beat the dogs off the girl with a 2-by-4," Love said. "She was screaming for help from the neighbors."
The girl was dead at the scene. Police shot the dogs to death.
Police in the Detroit enclave of Hamtramck asked state troopers to investigate because a person died and its officers used their weapons.
What a horrible nightmare. I bet their marriage breaks up.
Rottweiler, Mixed Breed Owners, German Shepherd owners...watch out, you're next....
It is patently IGNORANT to assume that dogs are killers by breed. Roll your eyes, CHILDREN, I don't care. Look at the stats in the link I posted. If dogs are killer by breed a lone, my HUSKY is a killer. I have a Rottie, too...which makes me the owner of TWO killer dogs. In fact, if anyone remembers, a POMERANIAN killed a baby a couple of years ago, which makes my mom's dog a killer breed.
Aggression and gameness can be characterized by breed, but not a kill drive.There are millions of dog bites a year...rarely resulting in fatality (I'm not exaggerating...I mean it--MILLIONS). Not that it matters to you smug folks who embrace that illogical leap from this story posted to "pitbulls are killers!!!" There are MILLIONS OF pits (sloppily bred pits to cautiously bred amstafs), Rotties, German Shepherds and mixed breeds in America. Again, no exaggeration--millions. And somehow there have been less than 300 fatal dog attacks in the past 20 years. Some of you people are like the idiots who want to take away my guns because some criminal shot up a courthouse with the same caliber I own. Or want to take away my guns because some kid accidently shot himself with his dad's handgun.
For godssake, most of you would never accept the argument you are using for dogs if we were talking about guns, would you?
Bull$shit. The problem is the dog. When was the last time you heard about a beagle killing anybody? Come to think of it, when was the last time you heard about a german shepherd killing anybody? What does it take with you guys?
I have really tried to side with the "Pit Bulls are no more aggressive than any other dog" crowd and just blame it on the owners. But it is just getting out of hand.
Sometimes you just gotta judge a tree by its fruit.
Should we ban Pomeranians?
The most horrifying example of the lack of breed predictibility is the October 2000 death of a 6-week-old baby, which was killed by her family's Pomeranian dog. The average weight of a Pomeranian is about 4 pounds, and they are not thought of as a dangerous breed. Note, however, that they were bred to be watchdogs! The baby's uncle left the infant and the dog on a bed while the uncle prepared her bottle in the kitchen. Upon his return, the dog was mauling the baby, who died shortly afterwards. ("Baby Girl Killed by Family Dog," Los Angeles Times, Monday, October 9, 2000, Home Edition, Metro Section, Page B-5.)
Your kids? Why anyone's kids? Kids are everywhere. ALL pit bulls have the potential to do just what these did. A pair came out of nowhere one day and stared my elderly father down who was on my porch. They would not leave until I pulled him back inside. I say destroy the breed.
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seems like every pit that kills a kid was just likethat...up to the day of the attack.
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With children, it's important to supervise them constantly when around any animals, even seemingly harmless pets. And the children should be taught never to pull the tail or otherwise do anything that might provoke the pet.
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yeah, that stupid kid...
Actually, Guns kill and injure much less than pit bulls, German shephards, and even Golden retrievers. I've never seen a gun get up and fire by itself.
But for some strange reason, pits just seem to 'freak out' and go from snuggle bunny to crushing jaws in an instant. I really think there is something dangerously unstable in the breed. If you're going to own one, please live out in the woods and don't have children.
Can you prove that or are is this merely your opinion?
"Yep. A little French bulldog's great around a house.."
Aren't those the ones who look tough, but run off into a corner at the slightest sign of danger? Their white butts waving as they run?
I've also heard that one of the biggest problems with pit bulls (oftentimes mixed with mastiff) are that drug dealers oftentimes unprofessionally breed them and use them to guard their stash, and don't have the right temperment.
I don't know the origins of these two dogs, but if it's in Hamtramck(completely surrounded by Detroit), I doubt its origins were from people at the AKC.
One incident against thousands. Own all the Pit Bulls you want but keep them the heck away from other people.
Their inbred killer nature set them off. They don't need an excuse, as the owners of these dangerous animals find out periodically.
I was wondering that myself, although Kalamazoo is on the other side of the state.
Prison time.
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