Not that you'd know just from looking at them.
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
Can you give me a written description of any of these breeds that is specific enough to exclude dogs like english or american bulldogs, black mouth curs, mastiffs and others? Banning dogs that display vicious behavior is one thing; describing a dog that can be from 20-100 pounds, with drop or prick ears, docked or natural tails, with no defining markings, all without misidentifying hundreds of non-bully dogs,is impossible.
> There are plenty of breeds that bite and are aggressive but they don’t make the news.
And none do it with anywhere near the frequency or savagery of the mungrel-mutt “breed” known loosely as Pit Bulls.
> We don’t like pit bulls so PLEASE ,Mr. Government, please protect us from them and make them illegal.
It’s not necessary for the Gummint to make them illegal: all they need to do is declare them Contraband and announce a bounty. Well-armed law-abiding citizens can do the rest, at little cost to the taxpayer and no inconvenience to the erstwhile owners of the Pit Bull mungrel mutts.
There. Problem solved.
I will say again, banning a breed does NOT eliminate the human irresponsibility that always accompanies such attacks. Today it is the pit bull. Tomorrow it may be your favorite breed.
Worth repeating!
I keep one loaded under the bed. It is the remote control for any problem that might wake me up.
> Yes, just what the government needs,free reign to come into your house and decide whether or not your boxer, weimeraner, or catahoula looks enough like a pit to be carted off and destroyed.
They don’t need to come into your home, in fact the Gummint doesn’t need to be involved very much at all. All they need to do is declare Pit Bulls to be Contraband, and announce a Bounty. Your neighbors will do the rest.
The fear of lawsuits will keep your neighbors from getting it too wrong: for example, the weimaraner (the purple-silver-looking sorta-skinny Labrador-looking dog) and the boxer (looks like it chases parked cars) or even more tragically the German Shepherd (nothing looks as good as a German Shepherd). Your neighbors all know what a Pit Bull looks and behaves like, so they will be careful to get it right.
And if they occasionally get it wrong, sorry no bounty plus the owner sues them for the illegal killing of his pet Shar Pei.
A beautifully-simple system that is self-maintaining and self-policing.
Come to think of it, the head alone would be enough to identify it as a pit-bull-like dog.
It’s so cute that you think the government will trust the judgement of it’s citizens to defend themselves. :-)
No, it’ll be handled by the city, with lots of help from the Humane Society and the experts at PETA, just like every other pet related ordinance we allow.
“And none do it with anywhere near the frequency or savagery of the mungrel-mutt “breed” known loosely as Pit Bulls.”
I’ll give the savagery but the frequency is B.S.What is a mungrel? Can the erstwhile owners of the mongrel mutt Pit Bulls protect their property from the well armed”law abiding”citizens?
Not that you'd know just from looking at them.
"PFFfftttt,,,Bust A Cap In They AZZ!!!..."...
Pit bull mixes are close enough in appearance for a pay day. It’s all in the eyes of the contributors.
Is this the Du or some other left wing site? We don’t like something so we’ll just take it away from you. It’s for your own or the good of the community at large.What would you like to get rid of next?
I do agree the woman would have been better off to shoot the dog.
My dog got attacked by a loose chocolate lab once. Another time it chased me and my dog into another yard where I got lucky and found a stick and got it away from us. Called animal control on it both times and it is still loose. There is another chocolate lab that lives near by and it came out of it yard menacing like the other dog did towards us and it scared my dog to death. I have also been charged by a few other non-pit dogs while out on walks. There is another house that I walk by when I am on my walks and there is two crazy retrievers. They go nuts every time I pass. My guess is none of these dogs are trained, get proper exercise or are properly socialized. But at least they are not loose and a danger to me and other people.
Now on the other hand my dog has been to the dog park no telling how many times. He has never been attacked by a pitt or pitt mix there. Most dogs that go there are trained and properly socialized, like they should be.
Are they saying the Pitt Bull had rabies? If they have the dog they would know if it did and that should be the only reason to give her rabies shots.
I’m not sure if you realize how irrational you sound, maybe you could read over your last few posts.
I’m glad you have been kind enough to have the dogs commonly known as “pit bulls.” Having had one, I can attest to the fact that they can be sweet, loving dogs whose behavior is exemplary.
The fact is, according to the American Kennel Association, there is no such breed as “pit bull.” That was a name hung on these poor animals by a group of people who tortured them to make them behave in a manner that actually goes against their nature. That group maligned the animal (feeding it gun powder, continually beating it, starving it, etc.) and made it cruel. And, in fact, it is the members of that group that should be punished, not the terriers.
Before that group singled out “pit bulls” for mistreatment, that particular breed of terrier was known for its gentle nature — hence, the Lil Rascal’s dog was one, Buster Brown’s dog was one, the RCA Victor dog was one, and the Navy’s mascot was one.
Read up on the breed in Cesar Millan’s books. He loves them dearly and considers them one of the best dogs to own as pets.
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