Posted on 05/24/2006 8:42:10 AM PDT by rawhide
Cecil Wallace awoke about 4:30 a.m. Saturday to the bawling of cows and the howling of dogs. The Buford farmer grabbed his shotgun and went running out the back door.
His son and next-door neighbor, Kenneth Wallace, also jarred awake — also carrying a shotgun — joined him. Father and son ran toward the pasture...
...Reaching the pasture, the Wallaces saw a cow, bloodied and torn, its calf standing nearby. As they approached the animal, according to reports, two dogs came running towards them.
Kenneth Wallace raised his 12-gauge. Boom! The larger dog hit the dirt, howling. Wallace fired again, and the dog was quiet.
The female kept coming. Kenneth Wallace fired a third time, the blast echoing along the darkened reaches of Bart Johnson Road.
The Wallaces dragged the dogs' bodies aside and tended to the cow, Betsy. She looked bad — right ear torn off, the left shredded like paper. Her nose was ripped and torn. Two teeth were knocked loose. Not long after daybreak, Cecil Wallace took Betsy to a Cumming veterinarian, who prescribed painkillers and antibiotics for the Angus/Hereford cross.
"She's still in bad shape," Cecil Wallace, 73, said Tuesday. "She tries to eat, but she can't; her mouth's too sore."
Animal control officers have cited one dog owner with failing to have the animal on a leash.. They also charged the owner with violating the county's vicious-animal ordinance, which requires owners of a dangerous dog or cat to have it muzzled whenever the animal is off the owner's property.
Meghan Martin, who lives near the Wallaces, said she is the owner whom officers cited...p>
When I went to sleep, my dog was in bed with me," she said. A roommate let out her dog, plus a friend's pit bull, Martin said...
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
What is the strange need for some people to own a breed they know has a dangerous reputation? Some of these people even have small children. These dogs belong in a lock box, just like the law expects gun owners to do.
Did ya kill the snake when it got too big or release it? Theres a big python problem in Florida as released pets have taken a foothold and are breeding. I guess it was cool to own them....Just like it's cool to own a fighting breed.
Look at me!
I guess dogs are like people - they can get a reputation they don't deserve. Take George Bush and Tony Blair, for example, there are those who claim they should be tried for war crimes.
Don't worry these people who are afraid of pit bulls are probably also afraid of the dark.
Holy Cow!
I'll add you to the list, kanawa.
It IS pretty low volume - for now! =)
Good Luck.
*sigh* I'm against banning dog breeds for a lot of reasons, but mainly because it's a dangerous thing for government to tell other people how to live their lives. However, I am a big believer in passing judgement on folks as long as it's by the same rules I'd apply to myself. A person who has a snake as a pet (for example) is a fool. Most often an amusing fool, a temporary fool, an amiable fool, occasionally a dangerous fool, but a fool nonetheless. A person who has a well-trained and well-treated Powerdog is not a fool; he is someone who has developed a good and useful working relationship with a dog, where he's the boss and the dog is the dog. It is the opposite of foolish -- it is wise and noble.
For thousands of years, dogs, cats, and humans have shared a relationship unique in the animal world. Dogs and cats have a long and distinguished history of being neither beasts of burden or livestock (food), but willing partners with man. Dogs and cats helped enormously in the formation of civilization, agriculture in particular. We have a symbiotic relationship that has helped us hugely in the past and will probably help us hugely in whatever future awaits. That alone is reason to dismiss breed-banning altogether and seek a different solution.
Your assinine line about "people who are afraid of pitbulls" is shallow and deliberately insulting. If Powerdog breeds (it's gratifying to see that some folks have finally picked up on my word for dog breeds that are bigger and stronger and potentially more dangerous than others) are banned, people with attitudes like yours will have yourselves to blame. You're so busy taking things personally that you're missing the main feature. Half of the problem is the bad owner -- the other half is the breed. A bad owner with a spaniel or a poodle may have a pissed-off mailman or neighbor on his hands, but not a dead or severely injured one. Until responsible Powerdog owners accept that, they're on defense. They're focusing on the symptom, not the cause.
Personally, I think the REAL problem is that so many people today have a total disconnect with nature and animals. They really believe that "pets are people, too." It is why they start taking things personally, why they think it's okay to demand that others tolerate their pets' misdeeds, and why dogs in cities kill humans. They think snakes are "pets." Where I grew up, keeping a snake (or a lizard or any other critter I caught in the wild) as a "pet" was cruel, plain and simple. People who have Powerdogs -- or any large dogs that live to roam and romp -- in cramped-up city situations are cruel and fools and should be kicked in the butt BEFORE their dogs hurt humans.
The only ones who can "kick butt" in this circumstance IMO are people like kanawa. He's a dog owner who doesn't cruelly keep the dog cooped up and starved for attention. He is the RIGHT kind of owner, the kind all should aspire to. He appears to respect the fact that as the owner of a Powerdog, he has responsibilities slightly more crucial than owners of average dogs (lets define "average dogs" as ones that even at their worst would have a hard time ripping a human to shreds, infants and very young children excepted, and have little or zero track record of doing so).
Any person who owns a powerdog would look up to kanawa and guys like him because clearly, these are folks in a kind of earned brotherhood. So if a guy like kanawa saw this person with a staked-and-chained snarling pit bull in a tiny yard with a wimpy fence and kanawa and pals went UP to this person and said, "Hey Pal, what you're doing here is NOT COOL, you're screwing it up for the rest of us because you're stupid," the person would pay attention. He'd probably ignore Animal Control, but guys who are "real" owners as opposed to amateurs? He'd be intimidated.
It takes balls, and it takes passing judgement -- which in itself takes balls, but the key to justified judgement is when you call for the same standards as you hold to yourself. Peer pressure, social stigma and intimidation, are GREAT ways to get rid of stupid behaviour by a minority that endangers a majority, without getting the government involved. This is why I think the Powerdog folks themselves, the ones who passionately love these breeds, appreciate them -- and in a sense help ALL of us in keeping them going because the day may come when we'll be darned glad to have these animals around and on our side -- are key to solving this problem the right way, keeping government out and breed-banning off the table.
More on this bull baiting incident:
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/georgia/news-article.aspx?storyid=58248
The dogs came from a property about a quarter of a mile away. But the owner of the female pit bull says there is no way her dog did that.
"I know for sure my dog could never attack a cow," said dog owner Meghan Martin.
But the night of the attack, Martin had a friend over -- and he brought his pit bull.
"Both dogs were inside, in bed. Woke up roommate, both dogs were let out," said Martin.
Knowing where they were found and shot, she says she’s not sure what to think.
"I don't think either dog is aggressive," said Martin.
Typical...A PIT-BULL owner in denial that her dogs could actually perform the act they were bred for This fool condemned her dogs to death.... Fortunately the farmers were packing heat or this could have been much worse.
Thanks for the comment but I think I'll stick to Plato!
Sounds awesome!!! If you have any more pics, you'll have to send a link.
When I lived in Toledo, I almost backpacked on the Bruce Peninsula but a friend got pinkeye right before our trip.
Have you done any sea-kayaking?
(crickets...)
Annette Rojas, 8, rests sedated at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital after being attacked by a pit bull that escaped from a neighbor's home
Got any pics of little girls after they have been savaged by human animals?
Don't try and change the subject. Look at what your beloved evil dogs have done to that little 8-year-old girl! For even trying to suggest what you have makes you as bad as the humans sickos that prey on little girls.
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