Um, Mr Inviso owns weimaraners.
Not exactly a fixture of inner city gangland...
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
We own 2 chihuahua/rat terrier combos. They are very sweet to me and my wife, but don’t care at all for other people. And they are afraid of nothing at all.
Same here.
You hear that, Kanawa? Diehard is willing to let you keep your dog because...What’s the reason, again, Diehard? Because his ears aren’t shaped like a pit bull’s?
My dog’s ears are pretty atypical of the breed, can I get a signed pardon from you too?
I love some nice hot funny in the morning. :-D
Neither did the Constitution strip the states, counties and municipalities of their inherent police powers over public safety issues.
Owning a dog is a God given right.
By your "logic", owning a rabid dog is a God given right.
"If, however, an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death."
Typical gang banger mentality.
Using your brain is a God given right too, exercise it!
Arguing that God gives you the right to violate the law isn’t “using your brains.”
Um, Mr Inviso owns weimaraners.
Not exactly a fixture of inner city gangland...
You must be doing that extrapolation thing again
either that or your reading comprehension skills need work.
Um, he was opposing pit restrictions.
I see no law banning oxen to prevent future, theoretical gorings.
God told you that you don’t have to obey any public safety laws unless you feel like it. Brains.
Yes, because people think his weimaraners are ‘pit bull-type’ dogs.
You accused him for thinking like a gangbanger for desiring to protect his personal property from these theoretical bounty hunters.
Try keeping one in your backyard in an urban residential neighborhood.
That's an interesting euphemism for murder.
Sorry, I thought we were speaking of the levitical laws, I didn’t know you were quoting modern ordinances. Love to kno what state that was from...
No one’s arguing the wisdom of destroying a dog who’s attacked. We disagree with the constitutionality of destroying a dog because it’s appearance scares someone.
Okay, I think I see the problem.
You don’t believe in the use of deadly force to protect property, is that it?
You bizarrely and incorrectly asserted that there were no such modern ordinances. In fact, most urban areas restrict the types of animals that can be kept in residential neighborhoods. An oxen in your yard would be a danger to your neighbors.
A gunfight in a residential neighborhood over a pit bull seems to be a valid public safety concern.
OK...so just what have I posted that leads you to believe I laugh every time I read about a kid being attacked?
Oh, and I'm still waiting for you to point out any time where I ever advocated people not being held personally responsible or legally accountable....certainly you'd have produced something by now, no?
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