Posted on 12/16/2011 8:52:02 AM PST by marktwain
SIERRA VISTA — A woman was transported to the hospital for injuries to her face and head after being attacked by several dogs just east of Sierra Vista on Wednesday.
The Sierra Vista Police Department, assisting the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office, and a witness to the incident confirm that the woman was walking her dog in the area of Risner Boulevard and East Central Avenue when she was attacked by no fewer than three dogs.
Area resident James Corcoran said he was drinking coffee on his porch on Central Avenue when he heard a commotion down the street.
“I hear ‘Get the dogs off her,’ so I run inside, get my gun and run down the street about 200 yards,” Corcoran said.
Gathered around the woman and her dog were several people attempting to fight off a brown boxer and white pit bull, as well as another unidentified brown dog, he said.
“There were like eight people there trying to get these dogs off her,” he said. “By the time I got there, (the dogs) were focused on the victim’s dog, which looked like a heeler.”
Corcoran said he aimed his 45-caliber handgun at the brown dog and fired, hitting the dog, which ran off along with another dog.
He then turned to the pit bull, and fired off one round into its shoulder.
“It ran off about 20 feet, then came charging back at us. Then I shot it in the chest,” he said.
The victim, he said, was suffering from lacerations to her face and head.
“She had blood everywhere,” he said, noting that, at one point, the woman momentarily lost consciousness.
Tracy Grady, public information officer for the Sierra Vista Police Department, said that the victim was transported to the Sierra Vista Regional Health Center for treatment to multiple bite wounds, and that her dog was taken by animal control officers to a local veterinarian.
Further details about the attack, and whether or not anyone was cited as a result, were unavailable from the sheriff’s office on Wednesday.
“This isn’t the first time that we’ve had problems with dogs in this area,” Corcoran said, recalling an incident about a year ago at the corner of Risner Boulevard and Schrader Road in which a couple were walking their dog when it was attacked by at least two boxers.
“I ran back and grabbed my hammer and started swinging at the dogs,” he said. “It’s a problem out over here in this area, everybody has dogs. Most of the houses around here aren’t in the best of shape, so the so-called fences they have aren’t good.”
Two dogs hit by .45 initially remained in action. The power of adrenalin.
People are abandoning pets as money woes mount; they go feral quickly. We’ll be seeing more of this, sad to say. Pack heavy.
Mainly a question of how good the shot was, did it go through anything vitaletc.
Saw a Rottweiler take two from a .357 when I was a kid and it didn’t even slow him down for at least 20 seconds, then he just walked away and died. The cop got him twice through the chest too, once from the front.
Once they get the adrenaline flowing and their minds made up its amazing how long many animals can keep going.
First shot was a nick, second was not.
I wouldn't want to deal with an angry one.
Just recently a 15 year old jr ROTC cadet was driving to school and she saw a little boy being attacked by a Rottweiler and a Doberman, she didn’t have a gun, all she had was her keys. She jumped out and fought with them and WON. She got more bites than the little boy but she most probably saved his life as he was in a rural area waiting for his bus which wasn’t due for a few minutes.
http://www.demingheadlight.com/ci_19557910
Some might say that where I live (Chandler) is not a rural area so the chances of this happening are less. Rationalization. I have seen large dogs running free. I've been attacked by one. And I have seen coyotes (3 in one instance) in my neighborhood. One coyote was huge.
I might want to consider up-gunning to a Taurus PT Slim in 40S&W.
Good story. Now on to step 2, hunt down the owners and beat them to death with a set of keys. If people want to own deadly animals they need to be prepared to suffer the consequences if they are unable to control those animals.
I carry a .40 Glock 27 or a .45 H&K depending on my mood here in Tempe
I just posted a story about that. The Deming paper does not allow posting, so I found another source.
I'd hate to catch you in a foul mood!
Other than a nick, a .45 should put quite a whack on a dog size critter. I suspect ball ammo too.
Anyway, good work by the shooter for responding as he did.
Considering humans can last 30 seconds or more with a fatal shot (obviously not a head shot) to keep fighting and firing back, it’s not a surprise animals can too. The blood only comes out at a certain rate.
Exactly so. Spine and brain shots will most likely stop the trigger finger from twitching right away. Pelvic girdle or other shots breaking the major support structures can put them on the ground (for two legged predators) or slow down four legged ones. Keep on shooting as long as they are a threat.
I agree, its just disconcerting (and educational) for a young kid like me to see it first hand when in the movies you shoot something and the thing instantly rolls over and stops moving like in the old westerns.
I took about a 300# Russian boar in Tennessee years ago with a 30-06 round right through its chest at about 50 yards while on the run from the dogs. Saw the red mist and it tumbled it right over, I hit it right behind the shoulder. Next instant later it had jumped up, was facing me and running strait at me. I remember because there wasn’t any cover between it and me, nor anything to climb at all. Very exciting, I’d never hunted something that would jump up and chase your butt after you shot it before. The dogs intercepted it which kept me from a follow-up shot until they took it down, It sits over my fireplace and is sporting a Santa hat with sunglasses now. (I have kids...)
Some crack house may be light on protection this weekend.
This was on our evening news - these dogs were pets and not feral.
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