Posted on 07/01/2009 5:28:02 AM PDT by BnBlFlag
Dog Earns Keep in Weekend Assault
By Jane Howard Lee Contributor
Published June 30, 2009
A 27-year-old Baytown man went to jail Sunday after allegedly stabbing another man but police said the victim’s dog came to the rescue, and levied his own form of punishment first.
Police said the incident evolved from an argument over some car keys and a barbecue.
Police were called to the 1500 block of Cedar Bayou to check out a stabbing victim and a dog bite victim about 3:45 p.m. Baytown Police Captain Roger Clifford was one of the officers who went to the scene.
“Apparently there was a dispute between a boyfriend and girlfriend over some car keys,” he said. “The girlfriend and her friend (another woman) wanted to have a barbecue and this friend was waiting outside for the other woman when she heard her inside arguing loudly with her boyfriend. That woman’s husband, child and dog were waiting in her car.”
The friend went inside and got into the argument. When the friend’s husband heard the other man yelling at his wife, he also went inside also, leaving the child and the dog in the car, and joined in the verbal altercation. Then things turned physical.
“The one woman’s boyfriend and the other woman’s husband got into it physically,” said Clifford. “The fight started inside but then they burst through the door and into the front yard.”
The boyfriend then allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed the other man in the rib cage, said Clifford.
The child and the dog both witnessed that, Clifford said. The child’s mother realized that the child was getting upset and went to comfort it. When she opened the car door the dog burst out of the vehicle and ran to defend its owner. It bit the man with the knife several times, police said.
Family members pulled the dog off the man before police arrived. Both of the men were taken to hospitals – the stabbing victim to Ben Taub Hospital in Houston and the dog bite victim to Baytown’s San Jacinto Hospital, then on to jail after his wounds were treated and bandaged.
Police charged the 27-year-old stabbing suspect with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to jail records.
Clifford said that Baytown Animal Control impounded the dog until proof of rabies vaccination could be provided.
The director of animal control said he understood that the dog owners provided that proof on Monday but that the dog would still be held at the animal control facility for 10 days as required by law.
“The owners live outside the city limits so we have to hold the dog here for that 10 days and monitor its behavior,” Gary Chambers explained. “If they lived inside the city we could do an at-home quarantine.”
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Thanks for posting...I just love good dog stories!
What kind of dog was it?
A good dog.
yeah what type of dog? What horrible reporting. I am sure this person will be covering Buttrack soon since he’s good at leaving pertinent facts out the story.
But I was just wondering, since it is a POSITIVE dog bite story, and since the breed was not mentioned, if perhaps the animal was a pit-bull or pit-bill-like dog.
It seems to me that pit-bulls have become sort of like Republicans to the MSM. When they do BAD, it is all over the news and their "affiliation" is well documented.
When they do GOOD, there is only one small story (if that), and their "affiliation" is hardly ever mentioned at all.
One with teeth, I surmise.
A good dog. A Great dog.
Amen Brother!
“What kind of dog was it?”
The article didn’t say but I figure it must have been fairly large.
Doggie Ping!
The husband should never have gone into the house and injected himself into the argument, he wouldn’t have gotten stabbed.
I pity the fool that makes a move towards me. My dachshund jumps for the crotch - forget about the ankles :)
The old reliable "STAND BY ME" reference. :)
“The husband should never had gone into the house and injected himself into the argument, he wouldn’t have gotten stabbed.”
That may be true but anyone who gets into a fist fight and pulls a knife is a thug. IMHO
You are likely right.:)
Don’t mess with old men, they will kill you.
from the spring newsletter of the Weimaraner rescue I work for:
“At only five days of being with my family,
Mackie has become our hero. My house was broken into at 9:30 a.m, while everyone
was at school and work. When the burglar
entered the side yard, Mackie stayed curled up in his bed in the garage, afraid to investigate the noise because he is terrified to use the doggie door. The burglar broke my window on my French doors in the back yard,stuck his hand in and unlocked the door. When he opened the door, the ADT alarm sounded. The alarm alerted Mackie that there was danger. Mackie ran out the doggie door and went after the burglar. He attacked the burglar, leaving spots of the burglar’s blood smeared on the door way. Evidence suggests that Mackie struggled with the burglar, bit him, jumped and wrestled with him and finally scared the burglar off. The burglar suffered from the “Big Mac Attack”
,as my family refers to it. Mackie wasn’t hurt at all in the struggle.
He definitely came out the winner. My alarm company notified me of the break in immediately. I returned home 10 to 15 minutes after the break in to find Mackie calmly awaiting my arrival in the garage. He went back to his normal calm, almost sedated self. Needless to say, he was my hero, and he was given the King’s treatment!
I love my dog and I am so grateful I have him in my family’s life!”
Mackie is a Weimaraner of roughly 80lbs size. (not the Baytown dog from the article above)
This sort of thing does not get NEARLY enough mention these days. It’s right up there with defensive uses of firearms.
Our mini-dachshund (a Katrina rescue) did just that to my husband the other night! He and my 9 yr. old son were rough housing in the den and she didn’t like it one bit. She’s very protective of her boy!
UPDATE:
“What kind of dog was it?”
In a story today, the Baytown Sun announced the dog, a Pit Bull, successfully completed his quarantine and was released to his owner.
See below:
Canine hero back home with family
By Jane Howard Lee
Contributor
Published July 9, 2009
A Baytown man was reunited Wednesday with the dog that probably saved his life last week.
Cody Thomas picked up his 3-year-old pit bull, Ody, when the dog’s 10-day quarantine came to a conclusion.
Baytown Animal Control took Ody on June 29 after the dog mauled a man who had stabbed Thomas during a fight.
The incident began after the suspect got into an argument with his girlfriend while Thomas and his wife and one of their two children were outside the other couple’s home. Thomas’s wife, who is friends with that girlfriend, went inside to check on her friend and on the Thomas’ other child who had spent the night at the house.
Standing outside, Thomas said, he heard yelling between the residents escalate, then heard the other man yelling at Thomas’ wife as well. That’s when he went inside, he said.
A physical fight between the two men erupted then and spilled out into the front yard of the home. The suspect pulled out a knife and stabbed Thomas in the ribcage.
“I didn’t even realize it right then,” he said later. “We were still fighting. He had me down though, and if not for Ody, he might have stabbed me again.”
When Thomas’ wife realized just how bad the fight had gotten and feared for her husband’s life, she went to the SUV and opened a door. Ody didn’t hesitate. He leapt out of the SUV and went for his owner’s attacker.
“I guess he bit him several times,” said the dog’s owner.
Despite his stab wound, Thomas knew he had to pull his dog off the other man and managed to do so. Baytown police arrived then and Thomas only remembers an Animal Control officer taking custody of the dog before he was rushed off to a Houston hospital.
“I didn’t think I would ever get him back,” he said. “I thought I had lost him forever.”
That would have been a huge blow for his entire family even if Ody had not just saved his life, he said. The day after the fight, though, after family members provided Animal Control with documentation of the dog’s vaccinations, they learned that the dog could come home if he made it through a 10-day observation period without showing any strange behavior or signs of illness.
“I’ve had Ody since he was a puppy,” he said. “He goes almost everywhere with me. He’s a good dog. He gets lots of attention from all of us and gets lots of playtime too. He’s not mean, he’s just protective.”
Thomas spent two days there in the hospital and said doctors told him that the knife barely missed his lung. He knows that he is a lucky man … lucky to have had Ody ready to come to his rescue.
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