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Breeder involved in mating that produced killer Houma 'pit bull' denies wrongdoing
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^ | April 09, 2014 | Robert McClendon

Posted on 04/09/2014 10:40:11 AM PDT by BBell

The breeder whose dog sired Niko, the 130-pound dog who killed a 4-year-old Houma girl in March, says his animal is being wrongly blamed.

"I know everyone is blaming Kimbo, and I don't think it's right," said Gustavo Castro, a California man, in a conversation via Facebook messenger.

Kimbo, famous in the world of XL American bully breeding, was Niko's father. After Niko's attack, several other owners of Kimbo's progeny said in online forums that their dogs were also unstable. One man, Zach Dank, said his Kimbo son attacked him, breaking his forearm and tearing through the muscle.

He said that, after the attack, he warned Castro not to breed Kimbo, "or a child was going to get killed one day." Dank was attacked in 2010, two years before the breeding that produced Niko.

(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: americanbully; la; pitbull
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To: BBell

As to be expected, second spoken word in the video is an obscenity.


21 posted on 04/09/2014 11:45:31 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

correction - to hillary, its a “lady lewinski”.


22 posted on 04/09/2014 11:46:20 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: rarestia; libstripper
As one of the comments to the article points out, the issues with inbreeding are easily addressed by the coefficient of inbreeding:

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23 posted on 04/09/2014 11:52:46 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?)
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To: eCSMaster

Houma, Louisiana is named after an Indian tribe called the Houmas Indians.


24 posted on 04/09/2014 1:19:10 PM PDT by Do the math (Doug)
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To: BBell
"One man, Zach Dank, said his Kimbo son attacked him, breaking his forearm and tearing through the muscle."

"...his Kimbo son...?" That's contemporary journalism.


25 posted on 04/09/2014 2:03:30 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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