Guide dog owner’s pit bull terror

Express Star (UK) ^

[bshomoic]

Guide dog owner’s pit bull terror

A blind man today told how he, his teenage son and his guide dog were attacked by an unleashed pit bull in the centre of Wolverhampton.

Kevin Lloyd was on his way home from work when the dog set upon his four-and-a-half-year-old dog Watson, which was pinned down and left with deep bite marks to his head and eyes. Mr Lloyd, 43, said he and Watson were rescued by staff from a bank as the pit bull’s owner looked on from a bus stop.

“I can’t believe the owner had a dog like this loose,” the Birmingham Midshires worker said. “If it had been a smaller dog, or even a child, it would have been torn to pieces. I was walking through the city centre with my 19-year-old son Jonathon when the pit bull went straight for Watson.

“We tried to drag it off him but it just kept on coming back and pinning him down. It was a really volatile and violent dog.

“The owner was in a bus stop drinking beer with his mates. Staff from the Royal Bank of Scotland came to help us.”

The attack happened in Princes Street at 1pm on Friday. Mr Lloyd, of Kent Road, Wednesbury, said: “The dog bit Jonathon on the arm but luckily it didn’t get through his winter coat. He later said it was the scariest thing that had ever happened to him.

“Traumas like this can really affect guide dogs and even end their careers. Luckily, Watson’s injuries were superficial but he was shaken by the whole thing. We are now looking after him at home.”

Mr Lloyd’s MP, Tom Watson, said today said he was “shocked and horrified” to hear of the attack and called for immediate action to find the dog involved.

“Mr Lloyd’s dog had teeth marks and cuts around his face,” the West Bromwich East MP said. “It is a shocking thing to happen to someone in a shopping area, and there should be a full inquiry.”

[Jeff Chandler]

3...2...1

Cue the pit bull lovers.

[ClearCase_guy]

Bet he never saw it coming!

[bshomoic]

“The owner was in a bus stop drinking beer with his mates.

Here's a shocker.

[untrained skeptic]

I've known some really nice pit bulls. This one, and it's owner, should be put down.

Not all pit bulls are overly aggressive, but some people are intentionally breeding ones with that trait.

The breed as a whole may not deserve the bad reputation is has, but there are a lot of dogs of that breed that have earned such a bad reputation.

[samtheman]

this is one of the few good uses for lawyers

sue the sh*t out of the people who own and don’t control dogs like this

[bshomoic]

Some drunken lowlife pit bull owner is basically judgment proof - he has no assets that can be collected again.

[PAR35]

It happened in the UK, where there is no longer a viable right to self defense.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Some pit bull owners are cowards.
They own the pit bull to bite animals and people,
the owner is too cowardly to bite themselves.

[Badeye]

cue the idiots that judge things based on MSM reporting in 3, 2, 1....

[doc30]

In the U.S., an attack on a guide dog is a felony. If it happened here, the owner would be looking at serious time in a federal, pound-in-the-*ss prison. I know. I raise guide dogs for our local guide dog school. It’s a real shame if the guide dog is retired because of this. It costs $30-40K to raise and train one and the blind person becomes very dependent on the guide dog for mobility.

[doc30]

We also have a pit-bull mix of our own, in addition to the guide dog puppy we raise. They are playmates and the guide dog pup tires out the other dog very quickly. So it really is the owner who is the lowlife in this.

[divine_moment_of_facts]

Heya Jeff.. I used to be afraid of pit bulls until I started volunteering at the MCSPCA.. The majority of dogs there are terrier mixes (pit bulls) and I absolutely love these dogs now. I have yet to come across one that is aggressive. I have, however, seen a trainer at the shelter have her top lip almost ripped off by a Lhasa.. It’s a history of abuse that makes a bad dog.. not the breed.

[tupac]

If this would have happened to my dog, this low-life would be scraping what’s left of his pitbull off the curb. I enjoy hunting pitbulls and have learned to dispatch them with a single blow....from my double barreled 410. Notice that there are none in my neighborhood....anymore.

If the owner objects, well I make him an offer that he can’t refuse......

[HighlyOpinionated]

Pit bulls are not necessarily violent dogs. But if an owner inbreeds or fails to feed or trains one to attack, then the dog’s violent nature is because of the human, not the dog.

Pit Bull Puppies are rarely vicious at birth. Occasionally one is born with a neurological dysfunction, but if bred for gentleness and brought up as a gentle dog, a Pit Bull makes a fine companion and a fine family dog.

I work in a Family run Kennel and we had a year old Pit Bull who had lived with the owner since he was 8 weeks old (and she had 10 other dogs, including a huge German Shepherd female). The Pit was adopted by a couple a few weeks ago. He is a very gentle dog. Not food aggressive. Great with children, cautious with cats. And he had a tenor bark (I said we neutered him too young and he turned into a tenor.)

Only this dog wasn't leashed. Take the Pit and sue the owner. And if the seeing eye dog can no longer work, the Pit's owner should have to pay for the replacement, as well as a fine for allowing his dog to run loose and for failing to stop the dog fight.

Yes, I'm an animal lover. I also loath dog owners who raise dogs to fight, as Michael Vick (former QB for Atl. Falcons) did. I'd have definitely given him more time in jail.

[jagusafr]

Well, assuming he’s got this bigass dog to make up for his own personal inadequacies, perhaps what there is of his “personal assets” should be removed and used to satiate the dog...

[SIDENET]

Cue the pit bull lovers.

You should have just pinged me, Jeff.

[Jeff Chandler]

I like to trap pit bulls and sell them to Vietnamese restaurants.

[tupac]

The last litter of pitbull puppies that I observed were spasming out and yelping like four legged retards on a white water trip, of course the bag they were tied up in was sinking pretty fast.

[SIDENET]

You seem to really dig talking about killing innocent creatures.

I'm sure you're a hit at cocktail parties.