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
> It’s so cute that you think the government will trust the judgement of it’s citizens to defend themselves. :-)
Here in New Zealand our gummint “trusts” us to do plenty of varmint control by ourselves. With real guns and no bounty. The gummint does not get involved.
Two pests in particular get this treatment: rabbits and Australian possums. They get shot/poisoned stone dead in vast quantities, and the gummint does not even say “boo”. Because it is good for New Zealand.
Even PETA and the Humane Societies dare not say “boo”: and Australian possums are even cute little critters! But they are also unwanted bio-organisms and varmints with highly-desirable soft fur with amazing properties...
> 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.
Not if you do it right. Just do it the same way we do possums and rabbits and stoats and weasels and minks and rats in New Zealand: give the people free rein, and say “it’s good for Our Country”. We The People will do the rest.
The owner shot the dog and destroyed it’s brain, rendering it untestable. I’m guessing the dog hadn’t had it’s vaccinations (stupid!), so they’re just being cautious.
It will be the free market (bounties) and justice by free American citizens in action. On the other hand, “the Du or some other left wing site” would want to continue unnatural affections for animals preferred over people, preferences for government banning use of firearms to defend against dangerous animals, and the like.
Well then, by all means, have fun shooting your neighbor's dogs. In America, the banning will be handled by those most competent of entities, city governments and the fat fingered idiots in Washington.
I’ve personally owned the breed for years, and frankly, I won’t ever choose another breed to have as a family companion. I also work in PB rescue in conjunction with local LE and Animal Control. What man has done to this animal is abominable.
To the contrary, it's PETA and a lot of others on the ultra-left who are pushing pitbull bans with the view of banning animal ownership all together...it's not much different than the gun grabbers who just want to go after the "assault rifles" (first)...because, "who really needs a weapon like that?"
But as long as it's "for the children," you're welcome to hop in bed with them...
Ignore him. He’s a one man pit bull exterminating machine...according to him.
“So, the ban needs to encompass “dangerous mungrel mutts that look like, and behave like, pit bulls.” As descriptons go, that is more than adequate.”
That’s pretty much the kind of description used to outlaw “assault” rifles a few years ago. It worked then— it’ll work again.
> What is a mungrel?
The canine equivalent of a “bastard”. A useless mutt of mixed breeding and no pedigree.
> Can the erstwhile owners of the mongrel mutt Pit Bulls protect their property from the well armed”law abiding”citizens?
Only in the same way that a drug dealer can protect his “property” from well-armed law-abiding citizens: that is to say, “illegally.”
That is why mungrel mutt Pit Bulls need to be declared Contraband: so that it is illegal to own or breed them, and even more illegal to resist their lawful destruction. Just like a marijuana crop.
The beauty of this method is its simplicity: it requires no new laws and no new powers for gummint. It only requires existing powers to be used intelligently.
Sadly some people always get irrational here when it comes to pitt bulls.
Last night, on a separate thread, I asked if you were on drugs. I was wrong. You're just ignorant, and frighteningly so.
Somewhere in their fevered & timid bosoms is a conservative respect for private property and individual freedoms...We just have to keep trying to wake it up.
My dog’s life may depend on it.
Mine are some of the friendliest dogs at the park. My female, Ruby; a 65+ lb red nose red brindle, even has a 12lb Jack Russel “boyfriend” named Hammer.
Where in the US can you get a bounty for turning in a dead pitbull? I thought y’all were just fantasizing here...
Or, one day your own life may depend on it.
We just got a little chihuahua minion for our pit-mix, Swiper! He’s always been fond of little dogs, now he has one of his own. :-)
Shooting a dog, regardless of its breed, is a crime unless you are defending your life or property. I very seriously doubt you are so unlucky enough as to have “cause” to shoot pit bulls on regular occasion. You’ve said before that the only folks who own pit bulls are criminals or kooks. Maybe you need to rethink who is the criminal, or kook, here.
“Only in the same way that a drug dealer can protect his “property” from well-armed law-abiding citizens: that is to say, “illegally.””
If you came on my property without an invitation or warrant you would be on it “illegally”. So you can just trespass if you feel there is contraband on someone’s property?
Must be symbolic.
With the election & the economy, I've sensed this country's going to the dogs. Apparently the pit bulls.
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