Posted on 07/14/2011 8:26:02 PM PDT by george76
MANCHESTER, Maine -- Kennebec County's sheriff said a 12-year-old boy prevented further injuries by shooting and killing a pit bull with a shotgun after it had attacked two people and killed another dog...
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120-pound pit bull killed a terrier at a 826 Prescott Road home in Manchester and then attacked an 11-year-old boy who tried to break up the fight, Liberty said. The boy's grandmother, Lena Walker, and Anthony Manganella tried to protect the younger boy, but were attacked as well.
The boy's 12-year-old older brother loaded his father's 20-gauge shotgun and shot the dog, Deputy Jesse Duda of the sheriff's office said
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How was the shot group? Did he use buck shot?
The modern day version of “Old Yeller.”
Very sad, but TG for the quick action of the 12 year old.
Killing a dog can break you for a little while. even the wild ones. Its tragic but needs to be done sometimes.
That you Chet?
I absolutly agree, Pitbulls are not pets and never will be, anybody that don’t understand this by now are morons, yea, i know some people don’t agree, but it’s true never the less, same goes for Dobermans, mastiffs other large dogs that were bred to kill and fight
Agreed.
My father once shot a small kitten to end its suffering. He was carrying a huge vat of water and stepped on it. Dropping the water to get his weight off the cat ASAP, he saw it was too late - the cat was in horrible condition but still alive. My father picked up his rifle and shot it; he did not want to but there were so many injuries visible. He buried the kitten and kept to himself for awhile, silently working on his car or making repairs, pausing to shake his head sometimes but not talking about it.
3 days later, ALL the kittens in the litter sat on the top of the stairs waiting to be fed. Freaked my mother out - she kept counting and recounting and still came up with the ENTIRE litter. A careful search of each kitten revealed one with a tidy little bullet wound grazing his front leg. The wound was clean and healed well. Apparently what my father saw when initially checking the kitten was a series of complete dislocations that the kitten must have exchanged for 2 or 3 ‘lives’ of his 9 to get the bones back where they belonged. Cat lived a long life after that - despite the beginnings.
I wondered for a long time how my father could have possibly failed to kill the kitten at point blank range since he was quite an accomplished marksman. He was a tireless hunter and seldom missed his mark even at great distances with prey in motion. How could he fail to shoot the kitten. The only answer that came to me, that made sense, is that he felt so bad for stepping on the kitten, hearing it’s pain, seeing it’s injuries - well by the time he had to shoot it...I reckon’ he kinda closed his eyes.
Apparently the kitten did too rather convincingly because he was limp while being buried. But - he lived to have the last laugh and never seemed to single my father out for harsh treatment (must have been the forgivin’ sort).
Even as a hunter, my father didn’t relish an deer or pheasant dying, he just wanted to eat it.
I don’t think so. My cat was killed by a 100 lb pit bull a few months ago. I kept thinking they had the breed of dog wrong, but it was confirmed.
They are breeding them bigger nowadays. And the one that killed my cat was unneutered.
Wow. $10,000 stud fee, and what an ugly motherf*er!
Does it come with a 12 gauge with 00 buckshot?
Your post made me laugh so much I had to go look at the picture again. He is indeed ugly. This time I see that the website says that he weighs 150lbs and it shows him paws up on the shoulders of a 5’10” man! Hope that beast never has a ‘bad day’. As to your query about a shotgun...well now I am wondering if that is a new ‘collar’ attachment for these big pits. So...next question: who or what do they feed it, and how many pounds of chow does it eat to keep that musculature?
Sorry about the cat.
I had no idea they were breeding Pit’s that big.
In general, that’s a 75 lb dog.
Hey, Ransomnote, glad you enjoyed the post.
I guess if the owner gets the 10K stud fee (and he probably does), he can afford to buy whatever that monster needs to eat.
One chewed the entire zipper out of my leather jacket.
That dog always looked at me like a pork chop.
I have never been comfortable with the breed.
That said, the SOB never bit anyone that I know of.
Several years ago, I had a family member’s pit bull crash through my front door screen and kill a beloved calico cat of mine. I’ve hated that breed of dog to this very day.
I remember when I was about 8 my parents had a friend with a Dobermann and we went to their house. I did not like the sense of attack I got from that dog and it was as tall as me. There are too many examples with those dogs why they do not make good pets.
I’ve always liked pits. But I hate owners who don’t take the ownership of aggressive breeds very, very, seriously. This dog was blocks from home.
I have two akita mixes, there is no way they are ever loose. Ever. And I don’t care what anyone says, from the attack description, these people did not have control of the dog. The dog thought it was boss, not the people. Deadly.
Loving a dog does not mean it considers you boss.
When I was a kid, Dobermans scared the hell out of me. Shiny black with those pointed, cropped ears. Then there was they way that they stared at you. Yikes.
I ended up getting one. My dog was a big (large even for the breed), and looked pretty scary. I raised him from a small puppy, and he was the sweetest, most gentle dog I've ever seen. He's gone now, and I still miss him.
A well bred Dobe is gorgeous, and an amazing protector. Pinging Salamander to show off her lovely Odin.
That website sure shows a bunch of losers.
That’s good to know and that dog surely scared the hell out of me. I remember how scared I was of it and the way it came around me and how they tried to calm me down, but I just remember feeling like it wanted to attack me. And that was a big dog.
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