Posted on 10/04/2009 6:48:21 PM PDT by Chet 99
7:28 PM Sunday, October 4, 2009
HAMILTON — Pastor Greg Andrews paid a price trying to protect his parishioners from a menacing pit bull.
The 53-year-old leader of the House of Deliverance Church on Millikin Street was attacked late last month by a neighbor’s pit bull in the church parking lot.
Around 200 parishioners, including children and elderly, had gathered inside the church for a concert. The dog was loose in the parking lot. Andrews said he asked the owner to take the dog away and secure it.
“I turned around and the next thing I know the dog’s on top of me,” said Andrews, who was hospitalized for three days and sustained a broken wrist and puncture wounds in his hand. “I’m just grateful today that I suffered instead of one of them kids.”
Andrews said he may have to receive rabies shots because authorities can’t find the dog to quarantine it.
Hamilton Health Director Bill Karwisch confirmed that the bite was caused by a pit bull and that the owner, David Collins of La Grange Street, was cited for failing to confine a dangerous dog.
The owner was also cited by the Butler County Dog Warden’s Office, according to Hamilton police records.
According to the city’s charter, pit bulls are automatically classified as dangerous dogs; owners must observe strict confinement rules and carry extra insurance.
Pit bulls have been responsible for the majority dog bites in the city since 2001, according to city health records.
Somebody should have shot it.
Greater love hath no man, than that he lay his life down for his friends....he practiced what he preached.
The Pastor needs the Pasteur treatment.
As another poster on one of Chets threads stated, 95% of pit bull owners are not able or unwilling to properly train them.
No Dog but pit bulls has ever had rabies.
That's why pastors are sometimes call 'shepherds' and their congregation a 'flock'. Shepherds lead and protect their flock. Grand-dad was a Baptist (fire&brimstone) preacher. He carried a snub .38 in his jacket. That much I know for fact. I have the pistol on my desk in front of me.
Story is that he used it during the '30s to stop a free-lance socialist from taking the offering. That was before my time, so I can't vouch for it.
But I did know his moral and philosophical position of caring for those you are responsible for.
/johnny
I happen to know more about rabies than most Dr`s, I learned this first hand. The vast majority of Dr.s and vets will live and die without seeing a true case of rabies. A dog that has rabies will be dead within 10 days. The odds that this dog has rabies are so unlikely that it is not even funny. And the truth of the matter is that, if the dog actually had rabies, there is only a small chance that getting rabies shots would even save you. Rabies kills, there really is no cure. There are so many false reports of rabies.
They wanted to shoot me up with the shots after my experience, each Dr in the hospital (was there 7 days) had a different idea of what rabies actually was, seems they devote about 5 minutes to the subject in medical school. I was all set to have my series of shots until a old man, who actually knew about rabies,and was not a Dr,gave me the low down. There are very clear signs of a rabid animal, this sounds like just a vicious dog. Better chance of winning the lottery then getting rabies from a dog or cat in 2009...THANK GOD
Your non-doctor friend who gave you the “low-down” would have killed you, had the animal in question been carrying rabies. NO, you cannot tell by looking, there are stages when it is not showing symptoms, that the animal can still spread the disease.
The shots are HIGHLY EFFECTIVE if taken within ten days of the exposure. Once you exhibit symptoms, you’re pretty much screwed.
In many rural areas, and out west, rabies is a constant menace. Im not going to engage a debate on this. But simply advise all this; disregard cornball homemade advice like this on rabies. If there is doubt, don’t listen to anyone who tells you, “lets just keep an eye on it”. When you show your first symptom, you will die. There is no downside to the shots, and no reason whatsoever to roll the dice.
he’s right... rabies in domestic dogs is exceedingly rare. rabies is not like a virus... the animal must actually have an active outbreak of rabies to transmit it. while the outbreak might not be evident at the time of the bite, it most certainly will be within 10 days. That’s why there are quarantine periods.
“That’s why there are quarantine periods”.
Try because it’s an expensive vaccine. It’s around 1000 bucks for the series, and state health depts usually pay the tab. They like to avoid that.
Nothing but an idiot would gamble if the dog’s status cannot be confirmed. You can blindfold yourself and probably walk across a rural interstate at 3 am. Making it doesn’t mean you were smart, just lucky.
“rabies is not like a virus”
Correct,,it’s not LIKE a virus. It IS A VIRUS.
should say rabies is not like an ordinary virus which can be transmitted regardless of whether outward symptoms are manifested. The infected animal must be symptomatic in order to transmit the virus.
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