Posted on 08/17/2012 4:09:51 AM PDT by from occupied ga
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The DeKalb County medical examiner says a woman found dead in her home was killed by at least one of her five dogs.
Twenty-three-year-old Rebecca Carey spent her life rescuing animals, taking several into her home to keep them from ending up at animal control.
Carey’s best friend, Jackie Cira, went to Carey’s home when she did not show up for work on Sunday.
“There was a lot of blood,” Cira said. “And when first got there, it looked like she had fallen and hit her head.”
The DeKalb County medical examiner ruled Carey’s death was the result of dog bites.
Animal control took custody of the five dogs in the home – two pit bulls, two presas and a boxer mix.
Any dog that has bitten a person goes into a special isolation lockup at animal control.
Cira said she knows Carey’s dogs, and actually owned one of them, a therapy dog, at one time.
“Any dog she came into contact with, she brought out the best in,” Cira said.
Cira said she wanted the dogs she knew to be gentle to be spared punishment.
“I don’t know who did what, but I can say with certainty who did not,” Cira said.
Animal control’s interim director Tim Medlin told Channel 2’s Jeff Dore that the county can’t risk putting a killer dog with a family, and they have all been put down.
“We didn’t know which dog did which. I can’t be wrong. Not just myself, no one can be wrong in putting out a dog that possibly had to do with these type of injuries. I will not put another person at that kind of risk,” Medlin said.
Carey’s family declined to speak with Dore, but they issued the following statement:
"Rebecca Carey of Decatur was 23 years old and an avid animal lover. Since the second grade when she read the book Throw Away Pets she vowed to be a voice for all animals. She attended Georgia Perimeter College and worked at a veterinary clinic. Upon placing her first abandoned animal in a permanent loving home in 2003, she volunteered countless hours with rescue networks and animal shelters. There she did what she loved the most: rescuing animals from untenable situations to find them safe, loving homes."
Big cats!
Not always. Depends on the 'breeder'. But if you are taking them off the streets, as this woman was, and keeping 4 dogs of a type often bred by criminals for viciousness, then yeah...you are asking for trouble.
Take something like this weighing up to 160 lbs, add poor breeding, multiple dogs and a woman of uncertain experience, and you have a recipe for trouble:
If those are actual cats, they’re too fat to attack even a dust-bunny.
There are a lot of animals that are aggressive and prone to attack humans, including a number of breeds of dogs. However, only a few kinds are big and strong enough to do serious damage or kill.
Most dog *bites* are from small dogs such as miniature poodles and little terrier breeds, but most injuries/deaths involve pit bulls and rottweilers. It doesn’t make them more “vicious” as a breed than others, but it does make them more dangerous, and pretending otherwise can be fatal.
It is illegal to have one in my town. Here’s the deal. There are people that own pit bulls to fight to make them money because these people always have an angle and it is slavery to work an 8 to 5 minimum wage job according to them. These dogs are damaged. How they will respond in the future is problematic. They may be the nicest pups on the planet or they may be frightened and paranoid or somewhere in the middle.
There is another possibility. I had one problematic dog that I owned from the day she was born because her mother was also mine. The mother was sweet as pie. This little pup though, was always high strung nervous and tended to circle nonfamily members and nip without warning. Never again will I tolerate such a doggie. Although I kept that dog for 12 years until she was so old she had to be carried outside to do her thing, it was a long road with that dog, never easy. So some dogs just have a wired temperament NOT caused by human abuse. She had been to school and loved on and treated like a princess, but it didn’t make a difference. She was just nervous in the service.
I caught the cat and stuffed in the mailbox, then waited for the mailman.
Watching the mailman open the mailbox with that cat in it was a sight to behold.
Some are. The North American Cougar is more closely related to the house cat than any other species, and they exhibit many of the same traits. The Cougar. like the house cat, prefers to eat the organs of its prey while it is still alive. Some sources say that it is like ice cream to the big cats.
More big cat facts: http://www.wwbrock.com/COUGAR/index3.html
My mother is a sweet gentle soul and animal lover. She got a presa as a guard dog and after extensive training recognized in it the heart of a natural born cold as ice killer. She shot the thing and buried it and told anyone who asked that it ran away.
If she hadn't she might have ended up like this gal.
Some dogs are just killers - especially ones bred to BE killers.
Corgi puppy murdered near Coravllis within the last week. Corgi owner with 15 stitches trying to intervene. PB down, owner non apologetic and un moved by the loss of his PB.
True pit bulls do not get much over 70 pounds.
Further proof that pit bull haters are liars and cowards.
What’s it like to stay in on sunny days because you are scared of your own shadow?
With the combination she had, it’s not a surprise. Just consider that one of the dogs has an aggression for other dogs and she tried to stop a fight. I have tons of experience with lots of working type dogs, I did bitework with one last night.
You should be smart enough to realize that when one of these dogs ends up as an adoption, odds are if it’s a shepherd, dobe, presa, pit bull, rotty, it is there because it has bitten someone. That’s just a fact of life. Mixing four of them together is just ignorance IMO. I have no use for a truly aggressive dog, you are way better off to have a trained dog that will hit on command if needed because you are the one making the decisions. That’s also why you don’t hear the horror stories about malinois, dutch shepherds, working german shepherds, because they are taught to be social, and that the handler makes the decisions. They will bite and take someone down, but are really in their mind playing a game when they do it, some of these others are not that way.
Evidently not all of them.
First of all, remember that "rabid" in relation to dogs means they have rabies. Any "rabid" dog is dangerous. As to Yorkies being bred to be savage, who cares? They're just Yorkies. I could handle a Yorkie attack much better than one from a Pit-Bull. Remember that Pit-Bulls were bred to be killers in the Elizabethan bear-bating pits.
Moreover when they do “hit” it is with a mind to knock the threat over and SUBDUE it - by holding it by the neck. They are not bred to tear into the threat (as fighting dogs are) - but to subdue and hold.
But I doubt if there are nearly as Bull Mastiffs available for “rescue” because they have bitten someone they were not supposed to bite - as there are Pit Bulls and (apparently) Presas.
On a related matter a family member is a surgeon, and one of the things that said family member does on a regular basis is repair the faces of those who are attacked by their own dogs. One in particular was reattaching a nose that was bitten off by a "rescue dog". Moral of the story if you're going to have a dog, raise it from a puppy, don't pick up someone else's problems.
Maybe that WAS their best.
That picture is of a Presa Canario, and they have a (minimum) weight of 100 lbs - and weigh up to 160 lbs; and usually a surly disposition.
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