Posted on 01/26/2006 12:00:29 PM PST by iPod Shuffle
11-Month-Old Girl Loses Her Ear To A Pit Bull
(CBS) PALMDALE, Calif. An 11-month-old girl was in stable condition Wednesday but doctors were unable to reattach her ear that had been torn off when she was attacked by a pit bull, according to a Palmdale police lieutenant.
The girl was attacked by a 3- to 4-year-old male pit bull terrier at a home in the 2900 block of East Avenue R-13 about 1 p.m. Monday, according to the Antelope Valley Press.
The girl's injuries were mostly around her face, including a detached ear. That ear was shipped to UCLA Medical Center where doctors were going to try to reattach it, but were unable to, according to Lt. Don Ford of the Palmdale Station.
The infant was with her aunt who had gone to visit friends. The dog, who had had no problem with the girl on previous visits, attacked her without provocation. There had been no previous problems with the dog, Ford said.
The animal was euthanized at the Lancaster Animal Shelter.
Your point "A" and point "B" don't really relate.
Many, if not most, Muslim terrorists are not Arabic, but they are not middle easterners either. (Think Phillipines, Thailand, and Indonesia, for starters, then throw in sub-Saharan Africa.
On the other hand, you have Muslim terrorists who are Arabs, but not middle easterners. (Algerians would probably fall into that group, since Algeria is usually classified as "Near East".) And don't forget the European Muslim terrorists who were defended by the US and NATO.
For non-Arabic Islamic middle easterners, your universe is quite small, and only a tiny fraction of them are terrorists.
Well, how many more "Aw, the poor doggy had a bad owner" comments about these canine monsters can one take?
Even though I love my dogs more than I love some humans I know, I have to agree with you. Animals have no morals... and neither do some people. Animals have that excuse for their so-called evil doings. People don't.
I'm glad someone agrees.
REally, that's kind of the founding principle behind animal rights activism. It tries to put a human face on animals, because they're so cute and cuddly and whatever (have you noticed animal rights activism only protests the harming of cute animals like dolphins?).
But animals and humans are inherently different things. There is a gulf between us. We do ourselves, and them, no favor by trying to cross that gulf.
Yeah, I always feel really comfortable around a dog that has one of those things on it's neck. If that's what it takes to control an animal, the owners can tell me till their blue in the face what a wonderful pet they have and how it wouldn't hurt a flea, and ya know what? I won't believe them!
Ever watch a Border collie try to herd cars, or a horse that kicks back? They suffer the consequences and go back for more. You just can't stop them from trying.
When my son was a newborn, my mother's Bouvier was very threatend and startled easily around my baby. The dog was nervous and would pace and growl around my baby. Within a month's time, my mother had the dog euthanized, with the veterinarian agreeing that a frightened dog can be very dangerous around children. My mother believes that the chosing the dog over her grandson was the right thing to do.
I can see that that marriage won't be lasting long. If my husband fought for his dog over his daughter and told me to keep the kid away from the dog, he'd be mighty surprised to find out just how far away I'd keep her; like another city. This guy has major control freak issues and she's nuts for staying with him. How much more does he think she can control a toddlers every action than he can control that dog? This isn't the first case I've heard of about Dalmations being nasty either by a long shot.
No one said wolves aren't good pack animals. Your post is word salad.
What a ridiculous analogy. And absolutely the opposite is true. There is no statistics that SUV accidents are more fatal to the occupants, in fact, their larger weight often makes them safer than little cars. You want a good analogy... see how long a car stays on the market that explodes even semi frequently and bursts into flames without cause.
Yeah, I always feel really comfortable around a dog that has one of those things on it's neck. If that's what it takes to control an animal, the owners can tell me till their blue in the face what a wonderful pet they have and how it wouldn't hurt a flea, and ya know what? I won't believe them!
You know why I'd believe them? Because I respect that they are people who believe in training their dog, not being yanked around by a rambunctious dog while they plead for the dog to heel. It's called a pinch collar. They work well on large dogs because you don't have to be rough with them and you don't need brute strength to have nice responsive reactions to leash corrections. I would much rather see people using a pinch collar softly than a dog that lunges at the end of a leash with a leather collar, or a dog that will choke himself with a regular choker.
Pinch collars are used by many many people in training their dogs... I use them and swear by them for training big dogs without a lot of brute force. They aren't 'spikes' really, and they don't so much hurt as they do mimic the feeling on the neck they'd feel when their mother, or a dominant dog, plotzes them by holding them by the back of the neck. They don't work because they hurt (they don't) they work because they speak to a part of the dog's psyche that they instinctively understand.
Please do something for me... next time you are at a pet store go to one of these collars, put it around your leg and yank on it. I'm serious. They do ~NOT~ hurt like you think they do. They are psychological to the dog, not cruel.
see my 155... I meant to ping you :~D
Good explanation on pinch collars.
Thanks... I hate to see people say untrue things because they just don't know the truth.
You seem to keep ignoring my many statements that I don't want breed legislation.
I hate the Gov molesting people for things that aren't violating any1 else's rights (like molestation for no-seat-belt BS).
So it is unnecessary for you to tell me that the concern is about government.
"a dog with one of those feckless flexileads. Now those things scare me."
http://www.dogsecrets.com/articles/a_4.html
Finally I found a trainer (besides my own local) who speaks up about these dumb things.
To me, since they started out in the '80s, it is the sign of a cuckolded owner who is mastered by the dog.
The other week, in fact, at NIGHT, I was driving home in the neighborhood and suddenly I vaguely see a form in front of me, then goes off to the right - an Irish Setter let to go out in the street thanks to 1 of these dip-!$#!@#% "leads" by the idiot on the sidewalk. And of course, sidewalks are generally only 4 ft from roads.
If I had been going faster I may have hit him. They were all in dark, to boot, so I barely saw him - mostly realized what it was after the fact!
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