RIP, little fella.
Posted on 08/31/2010 8:47:50 PM PDT by Chet 99
Published: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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By Carol Hopkins, For The Daily Tribune
A family in Rochester Hills is grieving the loss of their puppy after roaming pit bulls mauled the dog to death Monday.
Brianna Adams, 19, said her brother Larry, 16, was walking the family’s 5-month-old beagle-terrier dog, Pebbles, in their neighborhood near Culbertson Avenue and Auburn Road at 1 p.m. when Larry saw two pit bull dogs walking on the street.
“They were not leashed,” said Brianna.
Brianna said Larry picked up Pebbles to protect her and began walking away.
“The pit bulls jumped on my brother to get to the dog,” Brianna said.
Larry tried to stay on top of Pebbles but he lost his grip.
The pit bulls mauled Pebbles. The main dog attacking the puppy was white, said Brianna.
“By the time help arrived, it was too late,” said Brianna.
A concerned woman who was nearby came out and took the dog to a veterinarian, said Brianna, “but there was nothing they could do.”
Brianna said her parents were notified and Oakland County Animal Control came within the hour and removed the white pit bull from its home on Culbertson.
This wasn’t the first time the pit bulls had been around the family, said Brianna.
A few months ago, Brianna’s 6-year-old sister was in a neighbor’s backyard when the dogs came into the area.
“They were barking for her and she climbed to the top of a playset,” said Brianna.
“Eventually my dad scared the dogs away and we got her down. She was crying.”
The family believes the white pit bull will not be returned to the area.
“We are working to have the second dog taken (by Animal Control),” said Brianna.
Rochester Hills does not have an ordinance against owning pit bull dogs.
The owners of the pit bulls have approached the Adams family but “we have said to please leave,” Brianna explained.
“We are devastated,” she added.
“Pebbles was another person in our family. She is one of us.”
The family thinks about the roaming dogs.
“We are in fear of walking in own nghbord because of the pit bulls,” said Brianna.
“We shouldn’t have to be in fear. We live here.”
exactly what happened to my Yorkie
Shoot ‘em and dump ‘em in the owner’s front yard with a bill for labor and ammo.
Exactly...
Pit bulls are always brutally killing children and pets.
There isn’t a week that goes by that you don’t see these reports.
You somehow missed a story the other day describing a pit bull that mauled and killed a couple of people. What is happening to you? You are falling down on the job.
Happened to a friend of mine, walking her little dog and a pit broke down a screen door in a house and ran across a busy street to attack her dog, it survived —barely.
I am afraid to walk in my neighborhood because people think their dogs are sweet and kind and therefore don’t need to be on a leash or fenced it.
Pitbulls and Islam have too much in common. They’ll both be foreign to our shores in the next 5-10 years. Americans aren’t stupid- slow- but not stupid. Smoke ‘em while you got ‘em.
Sounds like a 12 gauge shotgun with #4 pellets is appropriate. Cut those suckers in half and dare the owners to say a single word about you defending yourself.
There was a story in the newspaper last week that 31,740,292 people were allegedly attacked by alleged pit bulls in the United States in 2007.
This is not a dog for the mentally complacent nor judgementally impaired.
Pitt Bulls are to the dog world what Tigers are to the cat world.. Vicious animals which MUST be caged.
English Setters are bred to hunt birds
Australian Shepherds are bred to herd sheep
etc etc
Pitts were bred to kill.
It’s instinct.
there needs to be a ban.
grassroots, common sense!
:( I’m so very, very sorry. :(
I guess I’m missing something here. Your family brought in a strange dog .......and allowed it access to the cats? Then the dog is shot for doing what it does naturally?
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