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Coral Springs mother of two savaged by her 120-pound pet (dog)
South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | Posted August 19 2006 | By Robert Nolin, Sallie James and Jennifer Gollan

Posted on 08/19/2006 6:45:34 AM PDT by Fawn

CORAL SPRINGS · A burly exotic guard dog, one of several that frightened residents of an upscale neighborhood in recent days, ferociously mauled and killed its owner Friday afternoon, apparently in sight of the woman's young daughter.

Police said they found the dog, a Presa Canario named Zino, in the backyard of a home in the 9000 block of the Northwest 39th Court in The Hills neighborhood. It was standing over the body of the mother of two.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animals; buthewassogentle; cautious; dog; doggieping; dogofpeace; killer; maul; notrust; pets; snap
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To: Sooth2222

Or he could have had more than one landscaping crew working, the business can be quite lucrative, some of the figures I have heard quoted make me want to load up my riding mower and set out.


41 posted on 08/19/2006 7:08:45 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Does anybody still believe this is a free country?)
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To: sweet_diane

$800,000 homes in South Florida were $200,000 homes 6-7 years ago.


42 posted on 08/19/2006 7:11:06 AM PDT by elfman2 (An army of amateurs doing the media's job.)
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To: Fawn

Sorry--pasted the same article by mistake....


43 posted on 08/19/2006 7:11:25 AM PDT by Fawn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjPrL3n63yg)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

All day ?? : )


44 posted on 08/19/2006 7:12:16 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Our troops will send all of the worlds terrorists to hell in a handbasket with no virgins!)
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To: elfman2

Very true. My home tripled in 6 years.... Can't afford to move...taxes would kill me...and insurance(if I can find a company).


45 posted on 08/19/2006 7:12:39 AM PDT by Fawn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjPrL3n63yg)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Just as soon as I get him in my scope.


46 posted on 08/19/2006 7:15:27 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: martin_fierro
"This is horrible," he said. "She was really beautiful."
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The victim or the dog? Or is he trying to say that it wouldn't be so bad if an ugly woman were eaten alive? Later in the article the author says that the Presa Canario nearly went extinct but was kept alive by breeding with Mastiffs, this makes absolutely no sense, how can a breed of dog become extinct? A breed is simply a variation on a species produced by selective breeding, only species can become extinct. An expert breeder could probably produce and animal indistinguishable from the Canario without having a single specimen of the breed available for breeding.
47 posted on 08/19/2006 7:19:33 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Does anybody still believe this is a free country?)
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To: houeto

I had a German Shepherd as a child too, and he was very protective of our family. Now that we have a young one I'd like to have another dog that I know will be protective, but not attack the child? Is that possible?


48 posted on 08/19/2006 7:20:31 AM PDT by pnz1
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To: martin_fierro

The Hound of the Baskervilles.


49 posted on 08/19/2006 7:22:27 AM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: Publius6961

I once owned a Rottweiler that weighed 120 pounds, he was magnificent and never offered to hurt a human being, he was even extremely protective of children. Having said that, let me add that I am older and wiser now and never intend to own another, even though I am six four and well over two hundred pounds that dog could probably have had me for breakfast in about one minute. The strength of a dog of that size and type must be witnessed to be believed.


50 posted on 08/19/2006 7:25:53 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Does anybody still believe this is a free country?)
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To: Fawn

I think the Federal regs on house sales have changed. Check with your accountant. Florida, well thats a different story.


51 posted on 08/19/2006 7:34:42 AM PDT by Comus
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To: Sooth2222

Landscapers make real good money. I've helped make a few of them rich. :(


52 posted on 08/19/2006 7:34:45 AM PDT by Graymatter (Don't like the PC, the lies, of the MSM? Don't watch TV.)
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To: Fawn
It should be destroyed promptly for taking a human life.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)

53 posted on 08/19/2006 7:37:07 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: pnz1
Now that we have a young one I'd like to have another dog that I know will be protective, but not attack the child? Is that possible?

Sure, get one of these.


54 posted on 08/19/2006 7:38:46 AM PDT by houeto (Isn't 1400 years of the same shi'ite enough?)
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To: Fawn
"The blackish gray dog, a leash still around its neck, reacted aggressively when officers entered the backyard, so they shot and killed it, Nicorvo said. The animal either fell or jumped into the pool and sank."

Methinks the cops threw it in the pool just to make sure the unruly beast was really dead!

55 posted on 08/19/2006 7:39:47 AM PDT by albee (The best thing you can do for the poor is.....not be one of them. - Eric Hoffer)
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To: elfman2

The problem's more the combination of the owner and the breed than just the breed itself. A dog like that Presa is going to take a HUGE amount of socialization, constant supervision, and careful handling. There are some people out there that can handle it and turn a Presa into a good pet, but probably not that many.

My in-laws own three Hungarian Kuvasz, which are European sheep guard dogs (not herd dogs). They're big (males go about 90-110 pounds), and while they're not known for aggressiveness like bull terriers or Presas, they're VERY oriented toward their "pack" and their territory--they've got 600 years of livestock-guard breeding in their veins. So they're very smart and independent, which makes them a challenge to train and socialize.

Their youngest, a 75-pound female, was a holy terror when they first got her. It's taken them FOUR YEARS to socialize that dog to the point where she's reasonably good to take on a walk without going after another animal, and where she won't go nuts on people when they come over to visit. She's accepted the whole extended family as part of her "pack" now, and she's the sweetest dog I've ever seen now...to us. And even then they are very careful with her--she never goes off-leash, she's always closely supervised, and when my wife and infant daughter went down to visit, there were always adults nearby--as in, within grabbing distance, or with a hand on her collar or fur--when the dog and the baby were in the same room. They're very skilled at handling Kuvasz. If Shari (the dog) had ended up with an inexperienced or incompetent family, I guarantee you she'd be dead right now, either at the hands of another dog, in front of a car, or euthanized.

You can make any dog into a mean dog. And you can make (virtually) any dog into a nice dog. The problems arise when people who don't know what they're doing get a high-maintenance, dominance-oriented dog like a Presa and the dog ends up being a 125-pound time bomb. The dog's being a dog. It's the owners that are the problem.

}:-)4


56 posted on 08/19/2006 7:42:41 AM PDT by Moose4 (Dirka dirka Mohammed jihad.)
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To: Seamoth
It does takes a stimulus (just like a person with alcoholic genes isn't tempted by alcoholic till he drinks it for the first time) but it is a disaster waiting to happen.

That was an excellent analogy.

57 posted on 08/19/2006 7:45:50 AM PDT by Hildy (Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.)
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To: Fawn

Good!


58 posted on 08/19/2006 7:47:27 AM PDT by Doc Savage (Bueller?....Bueller?...Bueller?...Bueller?...Pelosi?...Pelosi?...Pelosi?...)
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To: Sooth2222
Landscaper? $800,000 house? Maybe her boyfriend engaged in some enterprises in addition to landscaping? Just a thought.

Just what I was thinking. The dog was guarding a meth lab or some similar operation.

59 posted on 08/19/2006 7:47:40 AM PDT by capt. norm (Bumper Sticker: Honk if you've never seen an Uzi shoot from a car window.)
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To: hopespringseternal

We had neighbors like that once. They let their dogs (90+ lbs) run loose for three straight years until I killed one going after my wife.
You would have thought I killed one of their kinfolk.

Lesson? Kill the dog silently and dump it somewhere in the next county.


60 posted on 08/19/2006 7:48:03 AM PDT by LFOD (IRAQ - Back in downtown Baghdad)
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