Posted on 11/22/2008 5:19:40 PM PST by Chet 99
Archdale, NC -- It sounds too bizarre to be true, but a local woman fended off a four-legged intruder's attack with a butcher knife.
Nancy Verzone says a loose pit bull first went after her rat terrier in her backyard. When she snatched her dog from the pit bull's jaws, the attacking dog followed her inside.
"Here I was just stabbing just as hard as I could to get him to let go and he kept coming and coming," says Verzone, who has the bloody t-shirt to prove it. "The harder I stabbed the more he got mad," she says.
Randolph County Health Director MiMi Cooper sees the incident as a warning to keep dogs restrained. "Wake up people. You've got to take care of your dogs, you cannot let dogs run loose," says Cooper. "Dogs are predators."
Verzone says her rat terrier was injured so badly, she had her veterinarian euthanize the dog.
The pitbull's owner shot the dog in the head and buried it in his yard. Animal Control later made him dig it up so the dog could be sent to Raleigh for rabies testing. Cooper says because of the bullet wound to the pitbull's head, rabies testing came up inconclusive. Verzone is now receiving rabies vaccinations for her dog bite.
"It was the most heart wrenching thing for me to have to do that to that animal," says Verzone. "But it was either me or him."
The pit bull's owner promised to cover Verzone's rabies vaccination bill. The price tag tops $2400 dollars for a series of at least five shots. WFMY News 2
Most don't, creating severe public safety issues.
The quote works against you.
If you did, that would make you a typical pit bull owner in southern California.
If we’re going to play pretend that we can shoot dogs in the city, why not have a bounty on any dog that’s running around loose?
My evening walks are complicated by 3 loose pit bulls, a german shepherd, a rottweiler, a red husky, a yellow lab, an american eskimo-type dog, a miniature pinscher, 2 rottweiler mixes and inumerable small, fierce chihuahuas, none of whom are likely to be vaccinated.
I have to defend myself and my neutered, vaccinated, well cared for, and much loved pit mix from a combination of these dogs with nothing more than a maglite.
Instead of fantasize about killing dogs that just look mean, why not deal with the ones that are?
So, because some people are irresponsible, those of us that are not should suffer?
My brother has a chihuahua / rat terrier mix that my 17 yo son is terrified of. He won’t go into his home unless the dog is secured somewhere. This little beast has attacked/bitten children before. He will literally spring forth from the sofa and latch onto you. And people call my dog dangerous?
Show me one place where I ever failed to advocate people taking responsibility for their animals, or exercising proper ownership...or taking personal responsibility for anything. Just one...that's all I'm asking, and I'll concede the point. I've been posting here for over nine years, so you should have plenty of material to work with.
Actually, the quote doesn’t work against us. An expert is saying what most of us law abiding, responsible pit bull owners have been saying for a long time.
It’s easier for people to assign malicious intent to a particular breed, so they don’t have to deal with the fact that they’re never truly safe, they’ll never be safe...That life itself is not safe.
It’s the same thing with second hand smoke, trans fat, global warming, hand guns, SUVs...Pick something and focus your fear on that,so you don’t have to deal with anything else.
“Wishful assumptions” and “frequent projection”...Please, do elaborate.
There may be some responsible crack smokers. Most aren't.
That has nothing to do with the actual behavior of multitudes pit bull owners.
Yeah, but there’s a lot of meat on one of those sons of bitches. What with mad cow disease amd all.... Just sayin’.
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BTW, in this context that wasn’t a swear word or term.
See, now you’re talking about this theory like it’s actually happening...
Crack’s illegal. Dogs are not (yet).
I have had people ask me if my 46 pound Chocolate Labrador Retriever is a pit bull. And nobody who has gotten a dog from our local animal shelter was ever informed correctly about the breed.
And those are the jokers who would be 'identifying' random dogs as pit bulls so that they could collect the bounty.
The analogy to guns is very apt. An "assault weapon" can be just about anything a legislator wants it to be -- except an actual assault weapon, which is covered by the old 1936 Act and permitted with a Class III license. I don't expect them to do any better identifying dogs.
What percentage of pitbulls attack?
Yes, it does. I've had one pet mauled by a pit bull and I've had to kill one in the street to prevent another attack.
While "responsible" pit bull owners may exist, I've never met one. Without exception they were scum indifferent to the danger their animals posed to the community.
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