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15-year-old recovering from 100 puncture wounds after pit bull puppies attack
Khou ^ | July 10

Posted on 07/10/2013 10:15:58 PM PDT by Arthurio

NORTHEAST HARRIS COUNTY, Texas -- A 15-year-old old girl is recovering from more than 100 puncture wounds on one leg and slashes on the other after a vicious dog attack in her own backyard.

Deputies said her own two pit bull puppies turned on her in an instant.

It happened around 1:30 p.m. in the 12000 block of N. San Circle Drive. According to investigators, the teenager was giving the puppies food and water when they lunged at her.

The two 8-month-old dogs had the girl pinned on the ground and were reportedly biting her repeatedly.

Family members were able to pry the aggressive pets off of Kasandra Benavides before things got worse.

“She was screaming, I’m going to die,” said neighbor Lucero Almazan.

Benavides was rushed to Memorial Hermann Hospital where doctors stitched her up. Doctors expect it’ll be a while before she can walk again.

“She’s got a lot of pain,” explained father Juan Ruiz. “I don’t want these dogs back to my house.”

The girl’s father Juan Ruiz said his daughter helped raise the puppies since they were four weeks old. He claims the dogs have never displayed any signs of aggression.

A neighbor, who wants to remain anonymous, has a different take on things.

“Those two dogs killed the neighbor’s dog,” said the neighbor.

The neighbor claims these same two pit bulls recently killed a shih tzu in their mobile home community.

“We were all startled, and I was concerned for the safety our children,” she said.

The two pit bulls are now in quarantine at Harris County Animal Control.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: chet99; doggieping; mansbestfriend; pitbull; pitbullattack; pitbulls
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To: Undecided 2012

I can take anything from my dogs anytime I want to.

From the beginning, they were taught that I am alpha and everything is mine, on loan to them and may be reclaimed at will, just because I feel like it.

I have taken half-eaten raw steaks from Odin’s mouth in mid-chew and he just sighs, gives it up, sits down and waits to see if I’m going to give it back..or not.

All dogs, big or small can and should be trained to accept and respect the owner’s wishes, capricious or not.

And, odds are, you’re sadly right.

*Lots* of dog bites happen because somebody inadvertently triggers a reaction based on misunderstood ‘body language’.

Letting kids “hug” dogs horrifies me.

Dogs interpret “hugs” as pretty serious dominance behavior.

[I know I’m a PITA about this stuff and not everybody has the time or desire to devote to dog training/behavior stuff but in a perfect world, if more people did, we’d not be reading about kids and old folks being savaged by improperly trained dogs]


41 posted on 07/11/2013 12:46:35 AM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: Undecided 2012

I’ll tell ya this, Don’t ever own a wolf/dog.
I had the most docile very large German Rott fixed male and was given a wolf/dog puppy. He looked 100% wolf he was beautiful but that was the only thing beautiful about him. He was a wild animal for sure. Twice he attacked my Rott the one time my adult son grabbed him in a head lock and after that day he could never go near him. I was the only one who could go near him and feed him. He was a huge huge liability waiting to happen. I fretted putting him down for over a year. I was deathly afraid he’d kill someone.
I told the pound listen you’ve got to come get him because even at that point now even I couldn’t go near him. I told the guy who came don’t let his beauty fool you, you need to put him down.
We have a rodeo arena about a mile down the road and one day this girl about 14 was riding her horse down the street, I guess getting the horse ready for the barrel races. The wolf/dog was going so absolutely ballistic that I was physically praying to God he wouldn’t get loose.


42 posted on 07/11/2013 12:52:30 AM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: Salamander
As a rule, if my dog won't trust someone, I won't either.

Funny that he is instinctively hostile toward anyone wearing a uniform (don't know about military, yet--Postman, UPS, Fed Ex, Police, Sheriff Dept., etc.)

He isn't the first I have had who is that way, either, although I have never encouraged nor taught it.

43 posted on 07/11/2013 1:47:00 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Salamander; Undecided 2012

Bump!


44 posted on 07/11/2013 5:42:27 AM PDT by VMI70
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To: Salamander

Perhaps a few hours in a room with a disapproving doberman will prompt them to desire to shed their ignorance.

Offender: “I couldn’t take it any longer; the more I justified to the dog how I never trained Fifi, how I gave her treats for ‘looking adorable’, and how I even carried Fifi in my purse, the more the doberman glared at me contemptibly. Have you ever been glared at contemptibly by a doberman? It’s a most dehumanizing experience?”

(Hmmm...me thinks a disapproving doberman will be in contact with me shortly to express its disapproval of my proposal. ;) )


45 posted on 07/11/2013 7:39:16 AM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Mastador1
Check the history of Pitbulls in America before you make a statement like that.

Perhaps you should review the last ten or twenty years of attacks and killings by pit bulls in America before you act like someone's offended your mother.

I know about the history of pit bulls in America. I also know that they were originally bred by European farmers to hunt and kill rodents. They're simply more naturally aggressive than other breeds of canines, and no amount of denial and angry retorts is going to change that.

46 posted on 07/11/2013 9:53:35 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Mastador1

Your logic is utter nonsense. It is not ‘cruel’ to sterilize a dog. There is nothing ‘heartless’ about not allowing one to continue breading. If that was true then 90% of pet owners would be animal abusers. There are flawed breeds. They were made by humans and humans are fallible. A dog breed has no feelings or life of it’s own. Stopping the creation of more of them is morally neutral act.


47 posted on 07/11/2013 11:06:20 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: Altariel

48 posted on 07/11/2013 12:06:02 PM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Perhaps some people put on an attitude with the uniform?

Odin is not one for categorizing.

He dislikes individuals and there doesn’t seem to be a pattern.

I was concerned he might be a ‘white dog’ based on the first few reactions he had to black guys as a youngster but then he turned around and went goofy-happy over a very nice black gentleman and his young son in PetCo one day.

Loved ‘em both to bits and did all his ‘stupid pet tricks’ for the adoring little boy.

He seems to be more inclined to judge solely on the individual person and no other [obvious to me] criteria.


49 posted on 07/11/2013 12:12:10 PM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: TalonDJ

You make less sense then I can believe, you continue to want to blame the breed instead of the people responsible. Using your logic we should sterilize every gangbanger or violent person so as to eliminate gangbangers and violent people. Let’s just agree that we will never agree on this and let it go. Good luck and God speed, i’m done.


50 posted on 07/11/2013 3:59:45 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Salamander

They follow me everywhere. I can’t escape them. :)


51 posted on 07/11/2013 9:06:49 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Altariel

Well, they are infamous for stalking...:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8xaDJQ3lQM

[I think they do it just to give us the creeps]

;D


52 posted on 07/11/2013 9:34:36 PM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: TalonDJ; Mastador1

“Cruel” is subjective.

Adverse health effects are proven facts.

http://www.chercarkennels.net/rethinkingspayneuter.html

I’ve had intact dogs my whole life.

Never had a single “accident” *or* litter for any reason.

I know where puppies come from and how to prevent them from happening.


53 posted on 07/11/2013 9:41:05 PM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: Mastador1

Get a grip. Sterilizing a human and sterilizing a dog are not every in the same galaxy of moral spectrum.


54 posted on 07/12/2013 5:51:31 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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