They're not just for breakfast...
Prayers for the child.
/johnny
Doesn't matter which animal did it (if in fact it even was one of the animals at all), the parents are morons for not protecting their child.
Great story though for pit haters to decide it was the pit...even though the puppy was only 6 WEEKS old.
ping for later viewing
They're not just for breakfast...
I wouldn't have guessed that this was just a misdemeanor. Insane.
This is gonna come up on your radar....
Let's see....Ferret, Pit Bull, Baby Girl....Isn't this some sort of an IQ test trying to find the one that doesn't belong. Sheeesh.
"Dogs of Peace" coming to your home soon!
I thought this story was suspect. A pit would have chewed off the entire leg, at least.
So am I the only one who found the use of "[snip]" to be strangely inappropriate in this copy of the article?
Bare feet can attract a playful ferret like roses attract bees. And more than one ferret owner has stepped out of the shower and right into an ambush – a musky little friend lying in wait to attack the toes!
I tend to believe it was the ferret, since even a puupy-edition pit bull probably couldn't manage to bite off anything as small as a 1 month old baby's toes without taking off a whole lot more. But these parents must have been sleeping off a MAJOR meth run. A one month old baby would let out a massive howl at the first nibble on her toe (that is, assuming she'd been been fed within the past 24 hours and wasn't half-dead from malnourishment and dehydration), and she was right next to them! These parents are obviously the sort of people who shouldn't be allowed to own a ferret, much less a pit bull. Naturally our useless "justice" system won't have them sterilized, and they'll pop out their next little victim in short order.
I don't think that a ferret would go after a baby's toes but a 6 week old puppy would definitely be a target.
I always said it was that nasty ferret. I hope the baby is going to be alright and that these stupid parents lose custody of her. They should not have children or animals. Prayers for the baby.
I have no horse (or dog) in this race but this thread is short on statistics and long on anecdote.
http://www.la-spca.org/dedication/talk/t_judge.htm
In 37 years, 342 children were killed by dogs, an average of about nine children a year. Shockingly, approximately three children are killed each day, or 1,100 per year, by their parents. Delise notes that "A child in the United States is over 100 times more likely to be killed by his or her parent or caretaker than by a dog."
Pit bull and pit mixes account for 21 percent of all human fatalities, while mixed breed dogs account for 16 percent and other nonspecified breeds, 15 percent. Delise's study demonstrates that the breed of dog should not be the sole factor by which an attack is judged. Other factors include inherited and learned behaviors, genetics, breeding, temperament, surgical sterilization, environmental stresses, owner responsibility, victim behavior, size and age, timing, and the physical condition and the size of dog.
Why had this thread degenerated into a series of flames for and against pit bulls?
The topic is that the parents of the child were negligent and slept through the screams of their child being eaten alive just inches from them.
You were right.
Any chance Louisiana will secede from the Union any time soon?