oh noo, another pit bull attack

MySoulmateEmmy · 03-23-2010, 10:15 PM

more bad press for the pit bull

a dog wandering on the streets with no owner/leash ran up to a female and attacked her biting her face. She had to be hospitalized and the Pit was taking by animal control. SIGH. I hope the girl is okay and though the dog will most likely be euthanized, I wish almost it WASN'T a pit but another breed that wasn't an "aggressive" breed, though I feel bad for the girl.

Pitbull Bites Young Girl in SE DC

its a developing story so i guess they don't know how the girl is now or the dog.

~MSE

**Criosphynx** · 03-23-2010, 10:27 PM

ugh.

Larkwing · 03-23-2010, 11:19 PM

Oh, dear...

Surely this wouldn't have even been called to our attention by Fox if it wasn't it a pit. I swear, the media seems to try their hardest to bring pits into a bad light...

The poor dog is surely going to be killed, likely without any further look at its personality or reasons for biting the girl. Yes, reasons. The articles says, "Young girl". Is it not reasonable to believe that maybe the girl provoked the dog? Not on purpose, but maybe just standing over it, running up to it, etc?

I do feel very bad for the girl. Poor thing may be scarred for life and never want to be around another dog again. I hope the injuries weren't too bad, and that they heal up and she has no scars to show.

pawzaddict · 03-23-2010, 11:32 PM

We just had an attack by a pit on a woman walking down the street...the pit jumped an 8 foot wall and grabbed her rib area. I did not follow up on the story so I dont know what all happened but its sad.

MySoulmateEmmy · 03-24-2010, 09:54 AM

I don't know if the girl was unaccompanied or if there was someone with her, but it made it sound like she was alone. That is not smart, where was her parent(s)?

And if people just secured their freaking dogs, we wouldn't have these issues.

~MSE

pawzaddict · 03-25-2010, 04:14 PM

AMEN! And of course it is the "dogs fault" in the eyes of the public. Poor puppy dog

Mikey · 03-25-2010, 04:17 PM

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The articles says, "Young girl". Is it not reasonable to believe that maybe the girl provoked the dog? Not on purpose, but maybe just standing over it, running up to it, etc?

Exactly. And then we have one more voter (or family of voters) who would support BSL

What of the owner? You must have an idea your dog is capable of this? What steps did they take? thoughts?

**Criosphynx** · 03-25-2010, 04:41 PM

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Is it not reasonable to believe that maybe the girl provoked the dog? Not on purpose, but maybe just standing over it, running up to it, etc?

yup....she might have hugged it, or ran away screaming. Any number of things.

pawzaddict · 03-25-2010, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Mikey

What of the owner? You must have an idea your dog is capable of this? What steps did they take? thoughts?

I think yes and no. Its hard to tell b/c sometimes an owner may say their dog has never bitten anyone or even been in a situation for them to know how the dog would react, or the dog may have actually never shown aggression and the girl could have thrown something at it, hugged it (like Crio said), ran away screaming, etc. I can tell you one thing...running is a common mistake and IMO leads to some instincts of chase and bite...sometimes I wonder if thats what happened and the dog was not even being aggressive at first, but with the fighting, caused the dog to bite down more.

If owners know their dogs aggressive or skittish and they do not properly confine the dog especially when unsupervised then its their fault.

I have also seen dogs bite people who have never shown the capability of biting. Sometimes it just takes one situation to cause a normally ok dog to react.

Good questions! lol

MySoulmateEmmy · 03-25-2010, 09:29 PM

yea what a sad situation all around for both parties unfortunately, I am going to see if they have any updates but I am not sure if I'll be able to find any.

~MSE

eta- here's the updated link I found:

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/loca...-attack-032410