Posted on 05/20/2010 2:50:46 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
LAKE FOREST -- A woman in Lake Forest shot her neighbor's dog after the animal attacked her 6-year-old daughter, authorities said.
The attack happened just after 10:30 a.m. Wednesday ...
A 14-year-old boy heard screams and saw a brown and white boxer grab his 6-year-old sister's shoulder while she was playing on the driveway with her 3-year-old sister.
The boy ran to the driveway and tried to pull his sister away from the animal, but the dog then bit the girl seven times on the leg, head, shoulder and face, authorities said.
The girl's mother, Jennifer Cooper, was on the porch with her 1-year-old child and saw the dog bite her daughter. She said she tried to get the children in the house and scare the dog away.
She told police the dog tried to lunge at the youngest child, and she then went inside the home, got a Glock pistol and shot the dog in the throat.
"It could have been much worse," Cooper told KTLA. "I could be at the E.R. right now with a child that's been severely mauled or even dead."
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Good Mom!!
Good for her!
a Boxer?
good thing momma bears can’t shoot
Quick, somebody call Chet99’s mom and have her go down in the basement and wake him up. He is going to want to read this.
Must have been a Pit Boxer. Or an American Staffordshire Boxer. Or raised in the same box with a Pit Bull.
(Everyone knows only Pit Bulls are unpredictably violent!)
Bad doggie!
Impossible.
It had to be a pit mix that only looked like a Boxer.
To her credit, she tried to humanely shoot it instead of sneaking around like a gutless coward and poisoning it.
No to worry, the dog will be put down.
What? They're trying to save the dog?
Few people remember it today, but as late as the 1940s-50s, packs of stray dogs were a very dangerous threat in small town America. They still are in many towns in central and South America.
I knew one man who was elected town mayor on the sole platform of personally shooting the wild pack dogs that had menaced the town. He kept his campaign pledge, and was reelected.
During the national “salad days”, when cities and counties had lots of money, this threat declined. However, with shrinking budgets, they are likely to return.
This means that large dogs loose in public, alone or in packs, will be seen by the public as a threat. The critical point will come when just seeing them loose will impel many people to get their gun and to shoot it. It doesn’t matter what the dog owner thinks.
It is good to avoid shooting a dog in the head. An intact head allows for the testing for rabies. My little brother had to have rabies shots because my grandfather shot the biting dog in the head and killed it. So multiple shots to the body would be better.
The bigger question is, WHERE was the dog’s owner and why was it not leashed or confined to the owner’s property?
I won’t let my dogs run loose simply out of consideration of *their* safety, not to mention other people’s.
The owner doesn’t *care* if the dog gets hit by a car?
[or poisoned by some cowardly scumbag?]
Neighbors say this particular dog roams the area unleashed and the owner is unknown.
Many dogs are vicious and many dogs bite. Had it been a pit though, chances are far higher that the child would have been dead. Dogs that bite are one thing... dogs that rip throats out are another.
TANKS! warDaDDy
for the ping
Dem Boxers got it
COMING! I
remember back in ‘01 I waz
IN MACAO when
them Boxers tried to make
it OVER the WIRE
into my yard
OR HONG KONG (I
forget which)
Betty Lou’s TOOF
Got a workout THAT night!
Almost had to
gas ‘em.
Aim wit the thing on the end of the barrel
Shoot wit da trigger thingy
Kill it wit ice cubes.
My heart be still!!
Dog - 0
Good Shooting Mom
I have no problem with a mom having to do what a mom has to do, but I am surprised it was a Boxer (yes I know all dogs can bite).
As stupid as it may sound, my godfather back in the ‘80s spoke of groups of stray cats that were just frightening and dangerous around his neighborhood. He isn’t a wimp and was about to start shooting them. That’s how horrid these things were.
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