Toddler dies after pit bull attack

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Toddler dies after pit bull attack

From Live5 News

Authorities say a toddler was mauled to death when the family pit bull got loose from inside a laundry room and attacked the young boy.

Brian Palmer died Tuesday morning from his injuries. He would have turned two-years-old in August.

The 2-year-old dog was euthanized, and its head was sent to Columbia for testing.

Authorities say the dog had killed a family cat and fought with another dog within the last month. There were --no-- adults in the house when the attack occurred and the oldest of four children at the home was 16-years-old.

Story Created: Apr 25, 2007 at 8:54 AM EDT

Story Updated: Apr 26, 2007 at 1:21 PM EDT

[kanawa]

Goodmorning Kanawa, I have what could be a very vicious Jack Russel Terrier (AKA terrorist)haha.

Good morning to you as well, eastforker.

If I dug far enough back in my posts I could come up with an email I posted.
It involved someone I know who owns an AmStaff.
She was coming out of her house, with her dog on leash of course,
when the loose JR from next door ran over and latched on to her dogs mouth.
It took them quite a bit of time and effort to disengage the JR.
Meanwhile the viscious "pit bull" was wimpering, crying and not fighting back.
The damages the JR caused were serious enough to warrant a visit to the vet
and understandably the Amstaff owner was quite upset.
She ended up filing a complaint and the JR was never seen again.
Anyway..just another example to add to the hundreds of thousands of others
that go against the stereotype of "pit bulls".

I think JRs are great. A friend has one, Fizz, who is my little buddy.

They are bundles of energy and can be quite tenacious.
One of the most humorous things I ever saw was the JR races at a dog show.
The whole bunch of them chasing the bait towards a one dog size hole at the end.
The pile ups at the finish were horrendously funny.

But, if a person does not have the fortitude to manage a large dog, they should not own one but this is America and freedom means we have the right to do stupid things

Yes many people own dogs that shouldn't, even small ones.
Here's a case in point...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxwHuu9l4ZU

I have to disagree with you slightly about people having the right to do stupid things.
They certainly have the freedom to do stupid things
but we have the right to hold them accountable for their actions.
What freedom means is that we don't restrict everyone (responsible people)
because of the actions of the stupid.
It means that we will never live in a perfectly safe world
but freedom trumps safety.
The slave may have perfect safety but the cost is unacceptable.

[MilspecRob]

I'm with you. I've never heard of a collie, irish setter, or sheltie maul a kid to death -- no matter how the dog was raised.

I've been bitten by a dog twice in my 56 years both time totally unprovoked both times by collie's

[MilspecRob]

I'm with you. I've never heard of a collie, irish setter, or sheltie maul a kid to death -- no matter how the dog was raised.

I've been bitten by a dog twice in my 56 years both time totally unprovoked both times by collie's

[zipper]

There are so many flawed assumptions about my reasoning skills, and so many flaws in yours, I don't have time to respond to everything.

for a few moments I would have been happy to see 99.98% of bears eradicated and the other .02% put behind bars in a zoo

Oh really? How many bears do your neighbors have? Are they chained? Do they ever get loose? Do they roam your neighborhood where there are small children playing? Are the social statistics for chihuahuas similar? Do bears have free will?

Then why aren't bears kept as pets?

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This animal killed a person

This animal is a bear

Bears cannot be trusted to live in my neighborhood.

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Now substitute "pit bull" for "bear" above

[kanawa]

Then why aren't bears kept as pets?

Bears don't have a history of 1000's of years of domestication.
Bears are not pack animals.
Bears are not the same as Dogs.
I never brought them up in order to suggest they be pets
but rather to illustrate the folly of letting emotions guide decision making.
I have failed and will leave you to your hysteria.
Have a nice day and rest assured that when they come
for your property you will be able count on my support.

[ClearBlueSky]

For your edification:
No where did I say ‘ban pit bulls’.
I do think that societal opinion of them ( right or wrong-as I said more than once) will make it VERY costly, in many ways, to choose pits as pets and might very well result in a ban of the breed.
Nowhere did I say ‘every’ person who chooses to own a pit bull( given public opinion of them) has a pathological reason for doing so. However I DO believe that SOME people choose them for the ‘notorious’ and ‘danger’ factor they have acquired. SOME.
Pit bulls ARE the dog of choice of the thug culture in my area. Not so for you? Fine.
And one last thing—it’s rather ironic that you question what business it is of mine if neighbors have pit bulls when what you fear is a ‘ban’ of the breed in the US- and you don’t even live here!
So how come it’s your business if public opinion of pit bulls is bad in this country, while its not my business if a potentially dangerous dog lives next door?

Oh- and I love dogs. I couldn’t even watch a pit bull that had killed someone be put( deservedly) to death. I’ve had a Papillion, and two Shelties( that I will never stop missing); I currently am owned by a black and white maltepoo named Mr. Bingles.
The last word I’ll have on this subject is this: ANY dog you have to lock up for the safety of it’s OWN FAMILY is too dangerous to have.

[ClearBlueSky]

Thanks for the laugh!
How many dog OWNERS chew through fences, or break leashes, to maul passersby? How many dog owners have to be locked up to protect the rest of the family?
How many pools chase you down the street to drown you? How many .38’s levitate and shoot you without warning?
And those ladders—oooh, forgot about how many of them eat babies every year!
I’ll be afraid of pit bull OWNERS when they order their dogs to attack me. Until then, the animal does the damage- the owners should be held liable for neglect and stupidity just as pool owners are held accountable for an ‘attractive nuisance’, or gun owners are held accountable if they act stupid with a weapon and it kills someone.
Comparing a raging pit bull aggressively hurting someone to a ladder that is passive in any injury your clumsiness may cause you is mind-boggling!

[kanawa]

it’s rather ironic that you question what business it is of mine if neighbors have pit bulls when what you fear is a ‘ban’ of the breed in the US- and you don’t even live here!

Really not that ironic when you look at how the nanny state liberals
feed off each other across the border.
When the ban was being 'debated' here, the ban in Ohio was cited for support.
Dog catcher...oops sorry... dog warden Skelton
was import from Ohio to speak in support of the ban.
Now that there is a ban in Ontario, jurisdictions across the US
are citing it as a model for their attempts to ban dogs.
See how it works?

Nowhere did I say ‘every’ person who chooses to own a pit bull( given public opinion of them) has a pathological reason for doing so. However I DO believe that SOME people choose them for the ‘notorious’ and ‘danger’ factor they have acquired. SOME.

When I read your original post and see this...

I think there is something in the psychological makeup of people who CHOOSE pit bulls....

It does not indicate to me that you're talking about 'some' owners,
but I accept the clarification you have given and agree with it.

No where did I say ‘ban pit bulls’.

And nowhere did I state you did
unless my tongue and cheek offer to enroll you
in my campaign to ban alcohol was construed as such.

The last word I’ll have on this subject is this: ANY dog you have to lock up for the safety of it’s OWN FAMILY is too dangerous to have

Yep I would have to agree.
I'd only add that leaving any dog, even one that has never exhibited warning signs,
unsupervised with a child is a recipe for tragedy.

Have a nice evening ClearBlueSky

[kanawa]

Didn't take them long...

PETA URGES DORCHESTER COUNTY TO BAN PIT BULLS IN WAKE OF FATAL ATTACK ON TODDLER

[endthematrix]

You probably have a child molester in your vicinity. People are more a danger. More of them broke out of jail and in to homes and killed than pitbulls. More kids drown in pools that are killed by pitbulss. Little children who get hold of firearms die more than pitbulls kill. Again you chastised another about bigger things to worry about, but you just aren’t grasping that death rates are more prevalent in other occurrences.

[KoRn]

No one should have pit bulls in a house with young children. It’s just too risky, as this article demonstrates.

[Killborn]

Watermelon scumbags. Exploiting a tragedy for their anti-pet agenda.

[endthematrix]

Any large dog breed has risk for causing serious bite wounds, and in a handful of breeds, even death. Death and mauling percentages are small compared to the total number of pits, but the consequences are great.

[zipper]

Have a nice day and rest assured that when they come for your property you will be able count on my support.

They will have to pry my cold, dead hands ... but in your case the pit bull will have already eaten them off.

[zipper]

You probably have a child molester in your vicinity. People are more a danger. More of them broke out of jail and in to homes and killed than pitbulls. More kids drown in pools that are killed by pitbulss. Little children who get hold of firearms die more than pitbulls kill. Again you chastised another about bigger things to worry about, but you just aren’t grasping that death rates are more prevalent in other occurrences.

Red herring -- a decoy, an idea that is tossed into the argument to lead the line of reasoning in an irrelevant direction (from the practice of dragging a herring across a trail to throw off the scent in a hunt).

[endthematrix]

If you track back to CBS’s stance on society’s interference in private matters, you’ll understand my points are valid.

[zipper]

Ha! Following that same 'logic', the only malady we should worry about is the one that causes the most casualties -- maybe this year it's cholera, or AIDS, or malaria, or TB, or typhoid, or traffic accidents, or skateboard injuries, or Catholic priests, etc. etc.

Gee, I guess I was under the mistaken impression that every human life is precious.

I wasn't aware that compassion is a zero-sum activity -- reducing one risk to the public obviates society's management of other risks.

[endthematrix]

When it comes to government interference into private affairs, the weighing of public safety over individual rights is a balancing test of the courts.

You aren’t comprehending my posts. You are too emotional on the subject. Next thing you’ll be be telling me that if you can save one child’s life you’ll advocate government intrusion on ANYTHING.

[higgmeister]

Nope. My dogs would lick you to death, that is about it. I can’t say it enough. Boxers!!!!! It’s all about the Boxers!!

I was going to say that Boxers protect women and young children. At one point when I was in about the second grade, we had around twenty Boxers. We gradually found homes for them until we kept three and then still later only two. They were constantly bating and fighting the copperheads, and were bitten a few times. They survived after mad dashes to the vet. In hindsight I think they had been protecting us against the snakes too. We found that Candy, our first dog and the mother of all the rest, hated fire. She would even blow out matches and try to quench flaming embers with her paws.

[Silly]

We need strict canine tooth control. If these dogs did not have such dangerous teeth, the best they could manage is to gum a few people.

Dogs don't kill people. Teeth do.

And that's the tooth.