Posted on 02/17/2010 3:59:08 AM PST by from occupied ga
(WSB Radio) -- A seven-year-old girl is recovering after she was attacked by a pit bull mix. Cobb County Police Sgt. Dana Pierce tells WSB the little girl was walking home from school in front of the Valley View Mobile Home Park near Eastside Drive, when the dogl came after her. That's when a neighbor, who saw what was happening, ran to her aid, possibly saving her life.
"He went out with a piece of wood and actually struck the dog and was able to get the dog off of the seven-year-old girl," said Pierce. He then scooped the child up and took her to Kennestone Hospital. She was then airlifted to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston with a serious leg wound.
"Those injuries to her leg were originally thought to be very, very serious. Those injuries and her condition have since been upgraded," said Pierce.
The dog is in the custody of animal control and will likely be euthanized. Charges are pending against the dog's owner.
PS no one has said or believe that ALL attacks and maulings are from pits, just the majority with pits and rottys..
And yet pit bulls and rottweilers lead the breed stats on human attacks and killings Some rattlesnakes make good pets too - doesn't mean that it's appropriate to have one. In fact I can help wonder at the deliberate blindness shown by some of the apologists for the breed here on FR. If the breed has a marked tendency to maul and kill why have one? I don't see sheep dogs or golden retrievers having so many people defending them. Hmmm I wonder why. You recon it's because they don't have a well deserved reputation for being vicious and don't need defending?
Dogs respond to training and treatment
Apparently not all breeds respond with the same degree of success or you would see no particular breed standing out in the dog bite stats.
The life of an occasional small child, mailman, or senior citizen is but a small price to pay for the hours of pleasure these fine animals give their proud owners in those all-too-few and precious days between incarcerations.
Why not post constructive thoughts? For example, why not allow these pet-owners to share their cells with their wonderful pets ... and feed neither.
The stats tend to show the most popular dogs with the wrong crowd at that time. Years ago, this same argument was being used for several other breeds, including bloodhounds. All of the breeds involved at the top of the list have been dogs featured in movies as tough dogs. If it was to come out that labradors were the best tough dog, they would have a demand with that audience and probably would end up becoming the number one. Most of the dogs involved in these issues over the years have had quite a bit of mythology created by exaggerations and ignorance. Did people really believe that Dobies would go crazy from their brains outgrowing their skulls? Absolutely. Did people really think bloodhounds were vicious mankillers? In the 1800’s, yes, after some bad publicity created a “need” for such a dog.
If it really were a breed problem, would 19 people have died last year from other kinds of dogs? Would 13 thousand people get attacked by dogs every single day, as they do now? If it is really about pit bulls, can you please tell me what you think the reason is for places with breed bans to not see declines in serious attacks? Can you tell me why the only places to see declines have been those that pass responsible ownership laws? Seems pretty clear to me, no matter what the issue is here, if bsl isn’t working but rdo laws are, then irresponsible ownership is the common factor needing attention, not breed.
I've posted this pdf file on 2 threads asking a couple of posters who concentrate on the "pit bull"
as being unique in it's propensity to attack or kill to explain what they see in the pdf.
As yet I haven't received an answer.
Unfortunately attempts to introduce rational analysis into the discussion
are often met with accusations of being an " pit bull apologist".
The degree of damage a dog is capable of is strongly related to its size (breed).
Medium and large sized dogs are more likely to cause serious damage
or a fatality when they attack than are small dogs.
It must be stressed though that when the victim is very young or very old
even small dogs can do serious or fatal damage.
The number of attacks/fatalities by a particular breed/type
is also strongly related to the total population of that breed/type.
The effects of a particular dog population to incidents of DBRF can be seen
by comparing the pdf file given above with US statistics.
Often discussions get side tracked with arguments about which dog is most dangerous
By way of example let's suppose a population of 100 'pit bulls'.
Then let's assume that there are only 1/10 the number of the type of dog
involved in the attack linked at the top of this post.
That is, 10 of dog 'x' compared to 100 'pit bulls'.
There have been 4 fatalities this year...
3 reported to involve "pit bills" and one by dog "x".
The ratio then of DBRF is 3 per 100 for "PB" or .03
and 1 per 10 for dog "x" or (.10).
One could make a (I think over-simplistic) case that if the populations were equal
then dog "x" would be ~3 times more likely to cause a DBRF than a "PB".
While all this is an interesting mental exercise
it is to a large extent a distraction from formulating strategy and tactics
that will address dog attacks regardless of breed.
We know that all dogs are capable of biting.
We know that large and medium size dogs
have a greater ability to cause damage/DBRF than smaller dogs,
with the caveat that the victims on either end of the age scale
have increased risk of greater damage from all dogs,
now we should concentrate on a further analysis of all dog attacks
and extract other common factors involved.
For example...sex, reproductive status, function of dog, children left unattended,
neglected or unsocialized dog, stray dog, tethered dog, pack behavior and so on.
When we have a clear understanding of these other salient factors,
we can than develop effective and proactive education, law and enforcement tactics.
This is the path that will lead to less dog attacks regardless of severity or breed.
Excellent post. I am beginning to see that there are those here who would rather simply complain and amuse themselves with what they think are witty zingers than really try to solve the issue. We have all offered information that comes from reputable sources, and some of us have even shown examples of legislation that works. They will have none of it. I think it’s great what you are doing, and I hope that some folks reading these exchanges will see where the rationality is coming from.
So because you are angry at Kanawa, the truth, that it was NOT A PIT BULL, doesn’t matter? What about the rest of the forum and people on the thread, don’t we deserve the truth?
You should not be posting here. You are dishonest.
Another braying jackass heard from. See post 68 if you can count that high.
American bulldogs look a lot like pit bulls.
Yes. I often get asked if my Amstaff, who is big for the breed, is an American Bulldog, but even he is smaller than an average AB.
But if you compare a Staffordshire Bull Terrier(called a pit bull) to an American Bulldog, the difference is substantial.
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