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Post by AmyJo27 on Dec 16, 2009 16:33:22 GMT -5
I live in the country but the town we shop at is very Pit friendly.
Many of the sheriffs and officers have some kind of bully breed of their own!
The chief of police in Hampton is an *ss but the other officers are great.
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Post by RealPitBull on Mar 2, 2010 8:40:52 GMT -5
'Ax Men' Star's Daughter Killed by Family Dog Posted Mar 1st 2010 1:40PM by TMZ Staff The 4-year-old daughter of Jesse Browning -- one of the stars of The History Channel's "Ax Men" -- died tragically yesterday in Oregon after being mauled by one of the family's pet Rottweilers. Jesse -- whose father owns the "Browning Logging" company featured on the show -- called 911 around 1 PM after the dog attacked his daughter Ashlynn at the family home, this according to Clatsop County Sheriff Tom Bergin. We're told Ashlynn was airlifted to the Oregon Health and Science University Hospital in Portland shortly after the attack ... but was pronounced dead on arrival. We're told cops are investigating the incident. Sheriff Bergin tells TMZ the dog involved in the attack -- along with another Rottweiler owned by the family -- was taken to a nearby animal shelter for a mandatory hold. The family will be given three options on the fate of their dogs -- they can take them back into the home (with restrictions), adopt the dogs out to another family ... or choose to have them euthanized. And there's this: Bergin said four months ago to the day, one of the family's other Rottweilers attacked another family member -- that dog was put down after the attack. Read more: www.tmz.com/#ixzz0gxq4i8eT
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Post by adoptapitbull on Mar 2, 2010 9:32:00 GMT -5
Oops...sorry! I didn't know we already had a thread on this.
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Post by RealPitBull on Mar 2, 2010 9:38:40 GMT -5
That's ok
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Post by RealPitBull on Mar 2, 2010 10:44:15 GMT -5
And another...... Unattended infant killed by Siberian husky at home near Independence, police say11-day-old boy was in car seat on bed By David Hanners dhanners@pioneerpress.com Updated: 02/20/2010 10:14:02 AM CST When it involves a baby's death, even the tired eyes of veteran cops well up. At times pausing to compose himself, West Hennepin Public Safety Director Ray McCoy explained Friday how a 71-pound Siberian husky attacked and killed 11-day-old Robert Hocker in a lakeside home west of Independence. While McCoy and his office are investigating the death, the Hennepin County medical examiner's office said there was no doubt the boy died from "head injuries suffered in canine attack." When emergency crews were called to the family's home at 12:28 p.m. Thursday, they worked for 40 minutes to try to revive Robert. He was pronounced dead at 1:06 p.m. "Anytime you deal with the death of an infant, it tugs at your heartstrings a bit," McCoy said. Officials declined to release the names of the infant's parents but said the family was cooperating with investigators. McCoy said that so far, they had few details, and that the ones they have they won't release while the investigation is open. Four people live at the address, McCoy said, and although he declined to say how many were home at the time of the attack, he did say nobody claims to have seen it. "What we are doing is documenting all the facts, documenting the scene, and when we're done, we'll forward it to the Hennepin County attorney's office for the determination if there's any charges," McCoy said. The child was tucked into a car seat, unattended on a bed, when the attack occurred, McCoy said. The -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advertisement -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- American Kennel Club describes Siberian huskies as "friendly and gentle." But the organization's Web site also cautions that the breed's "predatory instincts are strong, so Siberians should be supervised around small animals in and around the home." Richard Polsky, an expert in dog attacks, said Siberian huskies have been involved in fatal attacks on humans but in far fewer documented attacks than pit bulls and Rottweilers. "Huskies have been involved, but not to a large extent," he said. "It's mostly Rots and pits." The dog, named Dealer, has been impounded at the Animal Humane Society in Buffalo and is quarantined for 10 days. The animal will be tested for disease and then euthanized at the end of the quarantine, McCoy said. Dealer is large by AKC standards. McCoy said the dog weighs 71 pounds; the national organization says males generally weigh 45 to 60 pounds. The AKC also says that the breed "does not display the possessive qualities of the guard dog" and that its "intelligence, tractability and eager disposition make him an agreeable companion and willing worker." The attack occurred at a home in the 3000 block of Lake Haughey Road, which runs along the western shore of Haughey Lake about midway between Independence and Delano. The occupants keep at least one other dog, a basset hound, but officials said they had never gotten complaints about the animals. McCoy said his department, which patrols Independence and Maple Plain, had responded to "numerous" calls to the home in the past but for "nothing that would be more than just a nuisance violation." He said the infractions involved matters such as burning without a permit or violation of other city ordinances. According to state records, Daniel James Hocker, 48, who lists the home as his address, has had run-ins with police. Court records show that in March 2007, he was convicted in Stearns County of misdemeanor domestic assault with the intent to cause fear of bodily harm or death. He was sentenced to 90 days in the county jail, but 80 days were stayed for the two years he spent on supervised probation. He was fined $1,000 and ordered to have no contact with the victim. In March 2003, Hocker was convicted in Hennepin County of carrying a pistol without a permit, a gross misdemeanor. He was sentenced to 91 days, but because he had a job, he was placed on electronic home monitoring and his sentence was stayed for two years. McCoy would not say whether Hocker was related to the child. Robert's death is at least the fourth death attributed to a dog attack in the U.S. this year. On Feb. 12, a 5-year-old girl in Terry, Miss., was killed by a neighbor's pit bull. Pit bulls also were the killers in the other two cases: the Jan. 9 death of a 3-year-old boy in Apple Valley, Calif., and the Jan. 17 mauling of a 56-year-old Chicago man. Polsky, who has a doctorate in animal behavior and is founder of Animal Behavior Counseling Services in Los Angeles, documented 32 fatal dog attacks in the U.S. in 2009. He said finding out what happened to Robert would require a lengthy investigation. "It's hard to say exactly what happened," he said. "You don't know what the background of the dog was, how familiar it was with kids, whether they introduced it to the child. "You have to do a fairly thorough forensic examination in order to get an understanding of how the attack happened or whether there was any negligence on the part of the parent," he said. David Hanners can be reached at 612-338-6516.
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Post by adoptapitbull on Mar 2, 2010 11:11:58 GMT -5
Oh my gosh...just a few days old! That poor family. I would never leave a baby unattended with any animal present. Heck, the animal could just sit on the baby and suffocate it!
Why do they have to bring Pits into the story, though? It's so unfair. When you report a theft or a car accident, do you say "Another black/white/purple male was also involved in a robbery this year".
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Post by RealPitBull on Apr 27, 2010 8:52:18 GMT -5
prize breed to owner, a menace to others By James Osborne Inquirer Staff Writer A quiet suburb known for its Victorian homes and quaint downtown, Haddonfield has no shortage of dog owners. So when borough commissioners called a meeting two weeks ago to announce they had reached a deal with a local surgeon whose prize Rhodesian ridgeback show dogs have become public enemy number one in recent years, residents turned out irate. Equipped with stories about the dogs' past attacks on children and data on Rhodesian ridgebacks' maximum jumping height and their breeding to hunt lions in Africa, they offered their take on the question: Isn't there any way to lock these dogs up or throw them out of town? The meeting went late into the night. The borough's attorney, Mario Iavicoli, listened patiently until finally offering his legal opinion: The town was powerless against all but one of the five dogs - the one that had, in fact, been involved in the attacks. The owner "could build an enclosure for the one dog and tear down the existing fence around his yard," Iavicoli said. "We can't force him to put up a taller fence. We can't discriminate against breeds. The law is very clear on this." Once a dog bites someone, local ordinances in the United States are generally pretty clear: The offending owner goes before a judge, who will determine whether the dog is vicious or dangerous and needs to be put down or locked up. But how far can government go in preventing dog attacks? Some places put restrictions on certain breeds. In Ohio, for instance, pit bull owners must house their dogs in locked enclosures and maintain at least $100,000 of liability insurance. But like a small minority of states, New Jersey and Pennsylvania prohibit cities and towns from making breed-specific laws. The thinking, which many dog experts support, is that the task of identifying a dog as of a certain breed is fraught with difficulty, and even then, who's to say what a vicious breed is? For a time, German shepherds were considered dangerous. "It's misleading. An unsocialized dog is dangerous no matter what the breed," said Colin Campbell, New Jersey deputy public health veterinarian. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped tracking dog attacks by breed in 1998, after concluding the data were not significant. There's little science determining whether certain types of dogs are dangerous, said Ken Phillips, a lawyer in Los Angeles. "It's like that old line about pornography. 'I can't define it, but I know it when I see it,' " he said. Phillips has been working dog-bite cases for two decades, primarily on the victim's side, and has assembled a near-encyclopedic collection of laws and statutes on his Web site, www.dogbitelaw.com. The way governments protect their residents from dog attacks is vast and varied: from the old standard under British law that an owner could be held financially liable for a dog attack only if the dog had a history of aggressive behavior to public housing limiting the size of residents' dogs. The Humane Society of the United States, which has lobbied heavily against breed-specific laws, finds a correlation among certain types of owners, breeds, and incidence of attack. "There's a vicious cycle where dogs who are thought of as dangerous attract the wrong types of owners. They're not responsible and the reputation worsens," said Adam Goldfarb, a director with the society. "These breed-specific laws really address the wrong end of the leash." In Haddonfield, where the saga of the Rhodesian ridgebacks has taken the borough and owner Bob Taffet in and out of court since 2007, the two sides have agreed to a settlement in which Taffet will, among other things, keep no more than two dogs in town at any time. The others will remain at the family's Salem County farm. But some residents objected to the deal releasing Taffet from some of the requirements of a recent state appeals court ruling, including a provision that he maintain a $1 million liability insurance policy. Iavicoli said he hadn't seen so many people coming to borough meetings since the town proposed hiring someone to trap raccoons a couple of years ago. "Usually, we get about six people turning up," he said. "But if an animal issue comes up, it's a packed house." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact staff writer James Osborne at 856-779-3876 or jaosborne@phillynews.com.
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Post by catstina on May 5, 2010 11:36:16 GMT -5
What really upsets me is that all the titles are "Dog Attack" or "Killed by Family Dog." If they were pit bull attacks they would name the breed right in the title. It would never say, "Child Injured in Accident with Family Pitbull." Pits "maul" people viscously, while poodles "accidentally hurt" people. It is ridiculous. I am so sick of the blatant bredism (racism for dogs). !
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Post by sugar on May 5, 2010 12:04:03 GMT -5
Problem is people hear about a pitbull attck, the reaction is "Yeah, those dogs are evil and should all be put down!". People hear about poodle/golden/lab/shepard attack? Reaction is "Oh, something must have happened to cause that dog to bite. Maybe the owner abused it or maybe they cornered it or maybe it was hurt and just lashed out in pain..."
They always try to rationalize other breed attacks, but never care to stop and find out what was the underlying cause in the pitbull attack (pit ones they just take at face value).
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Post by catstina on May 5, 2010 15:23:09 GMT -5
So true, sugar. People are to blame when any breed bites, not just a labradoodle or other "family" dog. I will never understand people, no matter how hard I try.
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Post by RealPitBull on May 25, 2010 7:15:04 GMT -5
Sled dog mauls 3-year-old girl in Alaska village (AP) – 3 days ago
NAPASKIAK, Alaska — Authorities say a sled dog mauled to death a 3-year-old girl in the southwest Alaska village of Napaskiak (nuh-PASS'-key-ack).
Alaska State Troopers say Krystal Brink was playing outside Thursday night with other children and wandered into a dog yard when she was attacked by one of the dogs — even though the owner had the team tied up.
The girl and her family were visiting from Kasigluk (ka-SEE'-ga-luck).
Troopers say that in response to the mauling, a member of Brink's family became upset and shot all seven dogs.
Brink's body was sent to Anchorage for an autopsy.
Napaskiak is a community of nearly 430 people about 400 miles west of Anchorage.
Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Post by suziriot on May 25, 2010 22:46:42 GMT -5
Troopers say that in response to the mauling, a member of Brink's family became upset and shot all seven dogs. I know that this person obviously must have been feeling incredible anger and grief, but WTF!? I don't know the particulars of the dog in this case, but most sled dogs in that region are not treated humanely AT ALL.
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Post by pettoprincess88 on May 26, 2010 0:20:25 GMT -5
I have a question, if a chihuahua attacked me how can I get the same attention as if a pitbull had attacked me? Im mad that a chihuahua charged at me and my dogs today. He looked like he was going to bite me but my dobie got in the way. My dobie did not hurt the chi but he got it to retreat. My sweet lab even barked a couple of times as a reaction to this. Me and my mom walked back from were we came from and the 3 chihuahuas did not follow us. I just got myself worked up thinking that my dobie would definitely have been blamed if the owners were out and the chi got hurt. I am also mad and sad that if the worse had happened...there is not anything I can really do right? Even if the chi had bit me...would it be listed as a dangerous dog or put down? I don't think so but what do you guys know about that?
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Post by adoptapitbull on May 26, 2010 8:28:11 GMT -5
If it had bitten you, your local state/county laws would dictate what would happen. Some counties have "strikes", others list as dangerous, others euthanize right away. If you know the owner, you could call animal control and file a complaint for an unrestrained animal.
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Post by michele5611 on May 26, 2010 20:13:21 GMT -5
As Mary put it so eloquently the other night my husband is the poster child for dogs other than pit bulls DO and CAN bite! Poor guy has been bitten multiple times by various breeds.
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Post by sugar on Oct 1, 2010 14:07:00 GMT -5
Two 100-pound pooches fatally mauled a tiny Schnoodle in a Carroll Gardens dog park last week - their second victim in two months, their owner acknowledged. Little Kaiser, a 20-pound Schnauzer and poodle mix, died after the attack at DiMattina Dog Park after the Alaskan Malamutes attacked last Saturday around 7:30 p.m. "Why did they attack my little guy like that?" cried Kaiser's owner, Alexis Russo, 29, who witnessed the brutal attack and was bitten on the wrist trying to stop the melee. "It's very overwhelming, it's upsetting, it's really surreal." Russo, an unemployed artist from Red Hook, took her five-year-old brown Schnoodle to the Hicks St. park that evening. Soon after, dog owner Robert Harney entered the park with his two killer canines, Jack and Ginger, letting them run off the leash, said Russo. Within minutes, the blood-letting began, and Russo watched in horror as the two attacking animals ripped Kaiser apart. "You only see this on Discovery Channel, and then it's a lion eating its prey," said Russo, who wants Harney to euthanize his dogs or keep them muzzled at all times. "They were blood thirsty. The sounds they made were otherworldly." Harney went with Russo to a nearby animal hospital, where vets determined there was no way to save Kaiser's life. Harney later paid the $938 fee to euthanize the dog. "I feel like a scumbag. I'm horrified over this," said Harney, 53, a UPS worker from Bensonhurst, who insisted he shouted to see if anyone was in DiMattina Park before letting his dogs run free. But this isn't the first time his pooches have killed, Harney admitted. Two months ago, he said, Jack and Ginger escaped from his parked car on 101st St. in Bay Ridge, killing another tiny pup on the sidewalk. "I love (my dogs). I don't have any children," said Harney, adding he now feels forced to put his pooches to sleep. "This is a heartbreaking situation for me. ... I don't want anyone's animal hurt." City investigators are looking into the Sept. 25 attack, said a spokesperson for the Dept. of Health. Read more: www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/10/01/2010-10-01_repeat_offender_malamutes_may_be_put_to_sleep_after_fatally_mauling_schnoodle_ka.html#ixzz118T4jQxVSo this guy's dogs had previously attacked and killed another pup like a month before but he STILL thought it was a good idea to bring them to a dog park?!?
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Post by sugar on Oct 1, 2010 14:44:19 GMT -5
And what REALLY gets me is one of the commenter says "Why do people insist on getting these type of killer dogs, pitbulls...blah blah blah" The article states they we Malamutes!! And still people say pitbull. Apparently malamutes are new breed of pitbull.
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Post by maryellen on Oct 1, 2010 14:52:46 GMT -5
malamutes do NOT belong in a dog park period... their prey drive is usually high, and any small critter including small dogs/puppies they will attack if loose...
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Post by adoptapitbull on Oct 1, 2010 17:37:22 GMT -5
I've just gotta say one thing not related to the Malamutes...
Schnoodle? Seriously? I'd be mortified to say I owned a "Schnoodle". It sounds like something from the lunch menu at the corner deli.
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Post by maryellen on Oct 22, 2010 13:57:03 GMT -5
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