A Yorkie Smiles...;0)
Posted on 03/26/2009 2:07:15 PM PDT by Chet 99
Edgewater, MD - Less than 24 hours after the attack, James Powell carries the wounds from a stray dog that showed up at the door of his Edgewater home and attacked him.
"When I reached for the door, he came under my arm and just... and it was instant... gone," said Powell, who stumbled inside the house with the pit bull on his heels, which then attacked his wife and son.
"About 15 minutes, we were fighting for our lives,” said Dana Powell, “We knew if we let this dog go, it was going to be bad. He came in like a bull in a China shop. It was unbelievable. I have never seen anything like that before in my life."
As the Powells struggled to restrain the dog, James saw his wife’s life was in jeopardy.
"His teeth was right in her face,” recalled James, “So that's when I pulled my knife out and I stuck my knife in his throat just to kill him to stop him."
But even that wasn’t enough.
"The dog just didn't want to stop,” said the Powell’s son, Brandon, “The cop had to shoot him six more times after we cut his throat."
Paramedics transported members of the Powell family here to the Anne Arundel Medical Center with varying degrees of injuries, and James was the worst.
He was missing part of his face.
Back at the family’s home, another son, Chad, would make a gruesome discovery that would help to make him whole again.
"It was sitting on that square rock over there and my brother saw it and he picked it up and he thought it was a piece of the dog,” said Brandon Powell, “and then he looked at it and saw that is was my Dad's mustache and lip and everything and he put it in a bag of ice and ran it up to the hospital."
It took doctors hours of surgery and more than 100 stitches to repair the damage.
Anne Arundel County Police say the dog’s owner, Karim Abdalla, has received civil citations for allowing it to run at large and for having an animal that poses a threat to public safety.
The family says they’ve been told he will be paying their medical bills.
Just do it. Shoot that dog!
Obviously, someone slipped that dog some bad crack.
It’s not that easy to own a gun in MD!
My BIL’s pit bull is a giant puppy who gets chased by Pomeranians and is scared of thunder.
Its how you raise them... of course the one in the article is a stray
It’s like this: Pit Bull? Meet my friend, Mr. Remington Wingmaster. KaBoom. Bloodied dead pit bull. I chuckle and say “I guess that pit bull attacked the wrong Mr.”
Big sticks work too but you have to hit the dog hard on the head before he chomps on you.
I am scared to death of pit bulls but that doesnt mean I want the government to ban them. I just want owners to be responsible for them. The dog in the story had an owner though. One who is willing to pay medical bills. I doubt that is all he will end up paying though.
I’ve been told, repeatedly, that attacks like this are rare.
I’m scare to death of lions but that doesn’t mean I want the government to ban them. I just want owners to be responsible for them.
Did the above make sense?
Being responsible after the fact is small comfort.
I didnt mean after the fact. I meant I want owners to be responsible for the dogs as in not letting this happen.
Read it again. The owner is one Karim Abdalla.
Those who fail to raise them ought to get shot, too. And if they suddenly go bad after being a kitten for years, shoot the owner, anyway.
How's that?
Not a muslim pitbull!
We need to make sure to outbreed them with the redneck, or nose, pitbulls
Fool’s, don’t let some polititian come lately tell you that gun ownership is against the law when clearly the 2nd amendment says you can! You don’t need a judge or anyone else to interpret anything.
IT’s just that simple.
Absolutely!
I want them to be responsible beforehand, too. But since history has proven time and time again that some aren’t, and carnage and death have repeatedly resulted, I’d like to see them banned.
Just like I don’t want a neighbor with a lion.
O o o KAY! ROP?
It's only marginally harder to own a gun in Maryland than elsewhere. The problem comes when you try to use it. Attitudes towards guns vary significantly from county to county. Anne Arundel County (where I live) is fairly rational, and I would certainly not expect this homeowner to have any problem.
A Yorkie Smiles...;0)
Haha. Of course, I’ve seen some mean old Yorkies who’d be happy to maul people the way a pit bull does - if only they were physically capable of doing so!
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