Posted on 01/14/2007 5:00:17 AM PST by Racehorse
Lori Jones heard her daughter's screams. She ran into the backyard and saw the pit bull on top of her daughter. It had bitten Amber in the stomach and was now attached to her neck. Frantic, Amber's mother tried to push the dog off. A man rushed to help and added the needed strength to get the dog away from both mother and daughter.
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As they waited for the ambulance Lori Jones held her hands over the wounds in her daughter's neck and stomach. The dog continued to hover. Amber's father, Robert, drove from his job at the Hilton Palacio del Rio downtown to University Hospital, where Amber was airlifted.
Amber died just a couple hours later at about 6:30 p.m.
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The family wants Amber's death to be a lesson to others about the dangers of dogs. But, they said, they had no reason to think this dog, whose name they did not know, would ever attack their daughter.
"She was in the back just like she had been 100 times before," Megan said.
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What's the point of your sarcasm? Neither the article nor anyone in it tries to make it the little girl's fault or said she shouldn't be out in her yard. There's no defense of the dog's owner.
Just saw two pit bulls running loose in our neighborhood when I was walking with our 18 month-old boy. Should be a felony.
Looks like the dog was in distress when the girl aproached it. It does sound like an unfortunate accident and IMO could have happened with any breed of dog. I would say the grave mistake was the mother allowing the child to aproach the animal while hung up in the fence.
I hope your armed.
Never, ever approach an animal in distress if you aren't the owner and even then extreme caution should be exercised.
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Apparently and 'old problem' taking a new turn here. And sad; a level of adult obliviousness on both sides of the fence and with tragic consequences.
You've been around a lot longer than me. I'm faily certain you've seen these dog attack threads before.
If this one follows the usual pattern, the point of my sarcasm will shortly become abundantly crystal clear.
And yes, for anyone who might want to know or not, I own dogs. Two of em. Mongrels.
The grave mistake was that the owner's fence was too low.
I disagree. Show me one story in the recent past where a Lab, a Springer or any other breed has attacked and killed a child for no apparent reason.
Civility, Compassion, Justice. . .would have that the owners here; waive the hearing. . .
Given the past judgments exercised here re this dog; I suspect that will not be the case; but hoping; nonetheless, for a 'step-up and forward. . .
Exactly! I own a terrier mix who would, if given a chance, lick a person to death. I have a cat who's slightly bigger than he is.
Several years ago he was hit by a car and I heard him screaming from inside the house. He'd managed to sneak outside while fiance was distracted. Hearing him screaming I ran outside, saw him and ran up to him. I started talking to him and he calmed down a bit but when I went to touch him he bit me three times...to the bone. I ran back inside to get a towel and yelled out to fiance that Rufus had been hit by a car. Fiance ran out the back while I hurried back through the front with a towel. By the time I arrived back on the street fiance already had picked Ruf up and was about to bring him inside.
I went into detail because even I as Rufus's owner was bitten. We talked about it later and decided Rufus hadn't recognized my smell because I'd been inside cleaning the house so my hands smelled like the different cleaning fluids I'd been using. Fiance was a safe smell and one he instantly recognized so he didn't bite him.
Even if you are the owner caution needs to be excercised when an animal is hurt.
(I'm happy to report that while Rufus did require surgery he's suffered no lasting affects from getting hit or from the surgery. I also didn't suffer any lasting affects other than having to get a tetanus shot.)
If it was my dog, it would already be dead.
It does happen like that; dogs will bite when distressed. Sorry to hear about your little guy and hope he's ok.
The one small sentence in this story that speaks VOLUMES is that the dog was almost always alone in the back yard. This tells me the owners never bothered socializing him. People like that make me sick.
The same thing happens with children that are neglected and/or abused. They become something society won't tolerate, often.
I am not a fan of pit bulls but frightened or injured animals of any breed have the capacity to attack, it's just plain instinct.
Any pit bull I see running loose in my neighborhood is dead, end of story. I'll face the misdemeanor charge of discharging a firearm within city limits and the owner's sob story to the media of what sweet dogs they are. It's worth it to save pain and suffering, and maybe somebody's life.
Pit bulls should be hunted with no bag limit.
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