Posted on 06/03/2011 7:47:48 PM PDT by Jim 726
Pet pit bull mauls and kills 15-day-old baby
Pit bulls and other large dogs continue to maim and kill people. Is it because these dogs are aggressive and dangerous or are they owned by irresponsible and careless people?
Buster didn't have a history of being aggressive. He was a family pet, a year old and hyper like many young dogs. Buster's owner, 25-year-old Mallory Wildig had been staying at her mother's house following the birth of Darius on February 4 along with her 2-year-old son, Keylin Tillman. She would return home to feed Buster and let him outside. The times she couldn't get home a friend of her father would stop by to feed the dog. Wildig and her two children returned home on February 19. She had Keylin feed the dog, he was then let outside and given a bath afterward.
After reading to the children in Keylin's room she turned a movie on for Keylin and took the infant to her room for a nap. After closing the door she returned to Keylin's room and laid down with him for his nap. The dog was on the floor near them. Her cell phone woke her up about 10 minutes later. She went to check on Darius and found him on the floor dead.
The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety report said she, “discovered that Darius was dead and had been mauled and partially consumed by Buster."
The report said she sobbed throughout her initial interview with Detective Sheila Goodell. According to Mlive.com Wildig told the detective when she found her son his bassinet was tipped over and Darius was on the floor.
According to the police report Wildig said, “When I walked into the room, there was blood on the bassinet and he just looked like a little doll on the floor. It felt like all of this was a nightmare.”
Charges of involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to animals were sought against Wildig, but the Kalamazoo County Prosecutor’s Office declined to authorize charges. lamazoo County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Carrie Klein said, “This was her baby. She loved her baby. She was traumatized by what happened.”
Klein said to charge Klein there there would have be gross negligence showed.
Klein said, “Nobody ever saw any aggressive or violent tendencies from the pet at all. There was no way for the mother to know it was going to attack and kill someone. It was not gross negligence on her part to have the dog running loose in the house with the baby in the bassinet. She had no way of knowing the dog was going to do what it did.”
Buster was euthanized and an autopsy showed the dog's stomach was full of food.
Last month, Saquina Jubeark, a mother of three little boys, ages 2, 4 and 5 said she left the room they were in to get something out of the stroller. When she returned to the room where the boys were she saw her Cane Corso tearing at the 4-year-old. The little boy died from being bitten in the head and neck.
According to neighbors the home was like a zoo with the Cane Corso, a pit bull, a German Shepherd, a parrot and a snake.
Neighbors said it took 10 firefighters to remove the dogs from the home.
Nydailynews.com reports Kenny Riser the superintendent of the building said "People were scared of those dogs. The dogs belong to the husband, who is seldom here. This was a tragedy waiting to happen."
Shelbra Freeman, 72-years-old saw her neighbors pit bull loose and was trying to let them know when the dog turned on her.
Another neighbor heard the dog barking and when she went outside she saw Freeman near her yard. wyff4.com reports her neighbor Erica Sykes said, "(Freeman) was just laying here screaming for help and she had blood running everywhere. So, I just wrapped her arm up with a towel and squeezed it real tight and just tried to help her breathe and calm down because she was still screaming .All I was worried about was just helping her. I mean, it was shocking."
Another neighbor said, "I ran over there. She was sitting up with her ear lobe chewed off and blood all over her arms and, I mean, it was just horrible." Freeman is recovering in a hospital.
Chad McBride from the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office said the dog is being quarantined for 10 days and the owner, David Milner, has been cited for no proof of rabies and dog running at large.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/307542#ixzz1OGr13zrS
Prayers for the poor little child.
Two breeds that require experienced owners left alone in the house, running free, with an infant around. BRILLIANT.
Definite prayers coming my way. It is one of those stories that make you sick and you hope that “it was quick”. Words fail...
RIP.
Yep. It is terrible those children were killed. No one with any sense would leave a dog alone with a baby. Especially those breeds.
The first account about the pit bull seems just a bit off to me.
why does anyone with a baby or children have a pit bull? There are so many other loveable breeds of dogs out there. The pit bulls have a bad reputation. I know some of the dogs have never attacked before but are we willing to put them to the test when our children or others are involved? Dear God... a 15 day old baby. Wow.. I’m heartbroken.
Actually, it’s kinda dangerous to leave a pit bull alone with an adult, too:
“Pit bulls are also more likely to kill an adult than a child. In the 3-year period, pit bulls killed more adults (ages 21 and over), 54%, than they did children (ages 11 and younger), 46%. In the 21-54 age group, pit bulls were responsible for 82% (14) of the deaths. The data indicates that pit bulls do not only kill children and senior citizens; they kill men and women in their prime years as well. “
http://www.dogsbite.org/newsroom-release-dog-bite-fatality-study-042209.htm
I own a 12 year old hybrid wolf.
She is a wonderful lovable dog and we’ve never had any problems with her around people or children.
That said, she’s now in a large kennel outside now that I have a 7 month old. Don’t feel bad for her, it’s a nicer kennel than some people’s homes. Amish built dog house, sun shade, lounge chair, stall mats, etc...
Animals should not be left alone with babies or small children. Common sense.
Well ... yeah. Now.
Sadly (and somewhat curiously) he got the boot about a month and half before you signed up. :-/
There is a certain mentality that likes to shock and disgust onlookers. The same types who get all these ugly tattoos—just to get an “ick” response from people. Scary dogs, same thing.
I decided at one time to adopt a German Shepherd puppy that was orphaned at 10 days old. I named him Schultz, because he knew nothing....
I enrolled the two of us in Puppy Kindergarten, and it was taught by a Hampton, VA K-9 Officer; and he impressed me because most of the training was for the owner, to teach them how to properly communicate with the dog. He stressed that every breed of dog needed a different, but similar, degree of discipline to constantly reinforce who was “Alpha Wolf”.
Schultz would listen to me, but in my absence HE was alpha wolf and that meant he was unsuitable as a pet in an urban setting. He refused to submit to my wife and we had a very close call with the dog where he literally treed a mailman, who used all of his pepper spray to no effect. Schultz was adopted out to a new owner with more space that suited him better than my neighborhood did.
I have a very good friend here now that is master of a pure bred American Pit Bull bitch named “Lucy”. Lucy is absolutely the sweetest dog I have ever known, and she just loves it when I come over to visit, and she can snizzle my moustache...I think it must be better than her Mom’s because she never stops loving me....
I trust her implicitly, but she is such a strong dog I would very much hesitate to leave her with a baby. I don’t think she would ever deliberately hurt a baby, but simply because of her size and build, she is certainly capable of it, no matter if her intent was innocent or evil. Lucy weighs a good 80 pounds and is solid, well fed muscle...imagine any animal that size against a young child.
I keep seeing these articles that seem to demonize the breed when it also appears that the animal was put into a situation for which it was ill suited, ill prepared, underestimated, and ultimately ill supervised by a human being.
Dogs can’t help being dogs. Sometimes that brings about very tragic results.
when I was a teenager, I experienced a pit bull attacking and shaking a little girl....I intervened and choked the dog to death...The owner was irate, but I was big enough to justify my actions.....Later, he was found to be responsible for his dog....I was not injured whatsoever...the dog is dead.
hmm....coincidence?
I think your last sentence sums it up. Dogs will be dogs.
One cannot fully trust a dog left on it’s own as it will,
when challenged, fearful or hungry, resort to it’s wild
defensive/offensive/feeding behaviour.
These were sad stories, I love dogs but dogs are not little people and some breeds are weapons bred for assorted purposes.
You nailed it Mam!! These ‘muslims of the dog world’, (pit bulls), lovers/owners are just little dick, look at me I’m stronger/tougher than you ‘cause of my dog make most FReepers puke. Most are young’ns, makes ‘em feel big I guess to have one of these monsters. Then they act all upset when they are called on their ‘pets’ savage work here. Oh well, children will be children....They have to own these things to feel important I guess. A lot of other breeds out there but I guess they don’t make these kids feel tough enough huh?
Pits most definitely require experienced owners that have facilities for the dog. I love powerful dogs like pits and have had many opportunities to get one but I haven’t because I don’t have the time, equipment or facilities to deal with such dogs.
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