What is it about people that think these are friendly dogs. They are not. Every one of them is a ticking time bomb ready to maul no matter what their owners say about them being such a good dog and "my dog would never do that."
Posted on 06/07/2017 8:47:42 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
A 12-year-old Herkimer girl is still recovering a week after she was viciously attacked by two pit bulls as she waited for her school bus.
The incident happened on May 31, when the girl was with other children waiting at a bus stop on North Main Street in Herkimer, about 15 miles east of Utica.
According to Herkimer police, one of the dogs latched onto the victim's arm and violently flung her into the air and back down to the ground, breaking her ulna and radius bones and causing severe puncture wounds.
Herkimer firefighters treated the girl at the scene, and took her to the St. Elizabeth Campus of the Mohawk Valley Health System for emergency surgery. She will likely require additional surgery in the future, police said.
Police determined that at no time did the victim or the other children antagonize or approach the dogs.
They learned that the dogs' owner, Aaron Brown, 25, of Herkimer, did not have licenses for the pit bulls.
Brown was charged with Dangerous Dog, Unregistered Dog and Failure to Restrain under the Department of Agriculture and Markets. Police also charged him with misdemeanor reckless endangerment.
Brown voluntarily handed over the animals.
Brown also had an active arrest warrant in St. Johnsville for Criminal Trespass. He was arraigned in Herkimer Village Court and turned over to the St. Johnsville Police Department.
Herkimer is a nice town. It’s not particularly rich, but this isn’t a ghetto thing.
So it may not be “It’s not the dogs, it’s the owners” in this case, ya think ?
They are as safe as members of the Islamic cult.
pit bulls are the dogs of choice for drug dealers and a status symbol for thugs and wannabes.................
Do criminal records and pit bull owners go hand in hand?
Looks like a wigger..............
The Breed of Peace!
Imagine a Pit Bull with the temperament of a Chihuahua. :)
I believe owners should be held responsible as though it was their pet Bengal tiger that attacked. When you make the decision to own a potentially dangerous animal, you need to be responsible for what it does.
Same for Chihuahua’s, but no matter how mean that little sucker is, the risk of serious consequences is still pretty low. :-)
What is it about people that think these are friendly dogs. They are not. Every one of them is a ticking time bomb ready to maul no matter what their owners say about them being such a good dog and "my dog would never do that."
Supposedly only 5% of dog owners bother to train their dogs. Even just the bare minimum of stay, no, come, sit. I can’t ever remember being around a small dog that was trained well. Maybe that’s partly a brain size thing but I suspect the consequences are less dire so they bother even less with small dogs than bigger dogs.
Dogs like structure, they like knowing what is expected of them. Being around untrained dogs suck for dogs and people. Being around well trained dogs are a pleasure for the dogs and you.
Freegards
Good luck being reasonable with this bunch
These threads are click bait to bloviate by the Haze of Sunlight in the Golden Retrivers mane crowd
As they all hop in the Subaru Outback
Yes Chihuahuas at 150 pounds would be honey badgers as pets
But imagine if housecats were 150 pounds
Man
They’re be no dogs
I hate them, and they are ugly.
and the pound is full of nothing but them!
Hey! I have a Golden Retriever! :)
I’m with you. To me, it is not about the personality of Pit Bulls. They may be really nice dogs. But if one DOES go off the reservation, it can be disastrous. Again, it’s like having a tiger that you accidentally forgot to feed before you left for work today and now you are wondering what happened to the maid.
How dare she wait for her school bus. A very aggressive gesture.
More “it’s the owner, not the breed” nonsense coming.
Pit bulls should be eradicated. I hate them. I don’t like seeing them in my neighborhood. Even some of the owners get panicky while walking them on a leash and they happen by another pedestrian.
Pit bulls were once a good breed, but over many decades, they’ve been bred by unscrupulous breeders to be vicious. Really can’t trust them unless you have had the same line for generations.
Here is the stupid moron who owned the dogs and allowed them to attack the innocent. Lock the moron up for a long time.
Perhaps we should deport all moslems AND pit bulls. Send them to the same island, and watch the fun. The Religion of Peace vs the Breed of Peace...streaming LIVE on Netflix.
There is one that lives up the block from me. Owned by some woman who can not control the dog. It frequently yanks the lease from her and goes running down the street.
When I am out mowing the lawn or working in front of my house I always have my Ruger LCP handy. The dog will only come at me once and I will waste it where it stands. It may be the person and not the dog, but when they get into attack mode there is no controlling them. I read somewhere that if you grab the hind legs and lift them off the ground they will stop attacking - just long enough for me to pull my pistol and have a nice clear shot to the head...
It frequently yanks the lease from her and attempts to have the property rezoned so as to open up a cat-house ...
I told my girlfriend that if her cat was 40 pounds, our carcasses would be in in a tree, ripening.
Problem is the fat little SOB is halfway there now. Cars really do spend all day plotting to kill you. We’re just lucky they lack opposable thumbs.
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