Tips to Avoid Provoking a Pit Bill

Pitbull Attacks, Maulings, and Killings:
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If no one can foresee when these unprovoked, previously gentle dogs are going to attack...isn't that a problem?

Smallwood, who owned the two pit bulls that mauled and killed Jennifer Lowe, said Tuesday he was concerned he would be charged criminally for something he deemed "an accident" that no one could foresee. He couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

Smallwood said he owned the two dogs, Mafia Lee and Passion Maria, for about three years since they were puppies. Knox County animal control officials said they had responded to complaints about Smallwood's dogs, but Smallwood disputed other reports that the dogs were dangerous, saying the two dogs had never attacked anyone or any other dog.

"I've never in my life owned a vicious dog," the 25-year-old man said. He never trained the dogs to fight, he said.

"I don't see any charges," Gill said. "There would have to be some knowledge of the dangerousness of the dogs and reckless disregard ... or some intention to release dangerous dogs into the community and neither one of those exists there." 

...Actually there is foreknowledge of the pit bull being a danger, the only people that do not seem to have it, or they choose not to believe it, are the owners of these  psychotic and unpredictable, overzealous dogs.

pit bulls attacked and killed his 21-year-old roommate 


Basically, in order not to provoke a pit bull, you can't jog, walk, or be a child near them. Don't eat anything or look at them, don't fall down, or make a loud noise, or bump into them. If you have a pet, have a very very high fence.

Abbott's son, Saben W. Jones-Abbott, was found unresponsive about 15 minutes after he had gone to feed the family dog. His injuries indicated the dog had attacked him.

Don't feed them, either.

Cook was walking his 6-year-old Chow Chow, Xena, and his 2-year-old Pomeranian, Jazzy, when he says the pitbull came out of nowhere.

For Gods sake, don't walk your dog!

The pitbull killed the Pomeranian, injured the Chow, and then turned its attention to Battle.

Cook spent a week in the hospital recovering from his injuries. No one knows exactly who owned the pitbull. Battle believes it belonged to his neighbors, who have several other pitbulls.

...the dog she was walking allegedly attacked and mauled two smaller dogs and repeatedly bit their owner and a good samaritan. 

The police report indicated the dog began snarling and lunging after it apparently caught sight of a 44-year-old neighborhood woman walking her two pet Cairn terriers on the same sidewalk.

No dog-walking of any breed.

the 3-year-old pit bull, Chanes, jumped a chain-linked fence in his owner's backyard. The dog then bit Kieta, who was with two other boys,

"The dog literally ripped (the muscle) right off his leg to where it didn't fall off, but it was hanging," she said. The dog grabbed his leg and kept biting, the boy said.
"It just stayed on my leg the whole time, just gripping and ripping it," Kieta said. "My brother was kicking it and everything."

Consider a fence to be mere decoration, do not antagonize the Pit Bull by passing it's fence. 

An attack by wild dogs left a man needing more than 2000 stitches. Robert Wall, 28, was bitten 182 times on the head, arms and legs by four pit bulls and a chow in Deerfield Beach, Florida.

Do not live in Florida, period.

The dog that killed Peppy had caused trouble in the neighborhood before.

Avoid known troublemakers, move if need be.

Mr. Davis' dogs ran onto his property and mauled his dog so severely that she had to be euthanized. Testimony indicated Mr. Davis had five pit bull terriers loose with him while on his mother's property, which is adjacent to Mr. Mascari's. Those witnesses testified the dogs in question were friendly with them and never harmed anyone. (until they did.)

Move.

 the american staffordshire-cross attacked, gripping the boy's head with its mouth.
Neighbours heard his mother scream and they had to beat the dog to death in order to free the four-year-old.
Always carry minimally, a stun gun, at least, in the event you must kill an overzealous animal. (Beating to death is so tiresome.)

 American bulldog

George Brown had to undergo four hours of surgery and have 200 stitches after the dog seized him by the face. He had been playing with friends and his sister in Norfolk Road near his home. Another child, aged seven, also needed hospital treatment.

No playing, especially children. 

Last Thanksgiving, a 4-year-old Houston boy was killed after he was attacked by two pit bulls.

The boy and his 2-year-old brother, Peter, were playing outside when the pit bulls attacked. 

Do not play. Do not allow your children to play.

...a 10-year-old San Antonio girl who died after being attacked by her neighbor's dog while trying to help the animal after it had gotten its collar caught on a chain-link fence.

Do not attempt to help the dog. Chances are, it's a ruse to draw you near.

 Although the two dogs had owners, authorities have not determined whether any charges will be filed. No leash laws? Don't want to infringe on the dogs freedom?

 ...a pair of pit bulls that attacked two girls on their way home from school in north Harris County...

They passed her, but when Lopez turned around to see if they had left, they were following her.

Twelve-year-old Ruth Lopez: "They started chasing me and I started screaming," Ruth said. "I dropped my backpack and the white one got in front of me and I tripped, and the black one got behind me and grabbed my ankle with his teeth. I was crying and screaming."

Oh, you looked at the dog? Your bad.

...the dogs attacked the 7-year-old girl farther down the street, dragging her along the sidewalk as neighbors and paramedics rushed to her aid.

Don't be a bystander.

 ...a neighbor tried to beat the dogs away with a stick, but the dogs attacked him as well. 

Don't interfere with a Pit Bull's prey.

Animal Services spokeswoman Marti Ryan said most dog-bite victims are the elderly and children.

Do not be young, or elderly.

An 82-year-old woman was slightly hurt and her Yorkshire terrier was killed in a vicious dog attack Thursday morning in Chestnuthill Township.

She's breaking every rule, here.

As of early Thursday, the boy remained in critical condition at Tampa General.

Ian suffered facial fractures, an eye injury and trauma to his neck and head,

The dog that mauled the toddler was a family pet.

The child apparently tripped on the dog's chain, and the animal attacked him, Callaway said

Consider putting your toddler up for adoption, as toddlers are too clumsy to be trusted around Pit Bulls.

Cordero said he is torn about whether people should be permitted to own pit bulls. He said he didn't raise his to be a fighter, but they "have a mind of their own."

Remember, Pits are independent.

Brittany K. Olson, 17, was allegedly bitten in the face and neck by a pit bull owned by Charlie Kropf, 19, of Mason City, police said. (why is their no minimum wage to have them if in some places they are considered deadly weapons?)

Brand Olson said her daughter had three layers of stitches in her cheek and more stitches inside her bottom lip.

One puncture wound was 1 1/2 inches deep on Brittany's neck, her mother said.

Keep your insurance current if your friends own Pits.

A 28-year-old man was seriously injured after he was mauled early Friday morning by a pack of up to five pit-bull dogs, the Broward Sheriff's Office said.

mauled from head to toe -"I can't bend my leg. I have to go through physical therapy,” said Battle. 

The dogs had attacked and killed the family's rabbit and a guinea pig. Both had been kept on the front porch.

Don't leave other pets where they may provoke a Pit Bull, such as on your porch.

The victims were walking near the Tamarack Drive entrance in Union City when the pit bulls charged them, the prosecutor said.

The prosecutor said that he does not believe Clark knew the dogs would attack the pair, but added that she is legally responsible for her dogs and knew that they were vicious.

"Her dogs have a history of chasing people in her neighborhood, and one of them attacked a smaller breed dog (in the past)," Carmine said. That dog almost died, he said.

So, we give violent dogs back to their owners after they've tasted blood already? Dogs have more rights than people?

A 6-year-old Houston boy spent three hours in surgery Sunday after being bitten in the face by a pit bull, his father said today. 
Palomo said his son told him he was heading for bed and was trying to hug the dog good-night when it suddenly bit him.
Wolfe said the mother told deputies that the boy was playing with the dog when it bit him.

Logan was visiting his mother at her northwest Harris County home  late Saturday when the dog bit him two or three times in the face, the father said.
Harris County Animal Control officials went to the residence after deputies responded to the call but did not take the dog into custody because it is not a stray, Wolfe said.
IF A PERSON DID THAT TO ANOTHER PERSON THEY WOULD GO RIGHT TO JAIL!  What is this Bullshit!? Are they kidding?




"They don't have any reason to believe the child provoked the dog in any way," said Cindy Beavers, spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department

HESPERIA - A newly purchased pit bull attacked a 2-year-old boy, crushing the bone around his eye, breaking his jaw in two places and inflicting numerous puncture wounds.

Deputies found a chain that may have kept the dog tied up, but it was unclear why the dog attacked the boy.

The boy has a crushed left orbital, which is the bone surrounding the eye, two jaw fractures and multiple bite and puncture wounds. All from the neck up. Doctors fear they will be unable to save the sight in the injured eye.

Monday afternoon, a loose pit bull ripped into the throat of Ruby, a 12-year-old poodle mix. Owner Patsy Downs, 61, had to put Ruby down the next day.

Do not let your pets, of any kind, into your yard.

In November 2005, six of Hernandez's dogs attacked 76-year-old Lillian Stiles as she was gardening in her front yard of her home near Thorndale. The medical examiner told the court the dogs attacked the woman's face and head beyond recognition and broke her neck

Do not dig in your yard.

A vet testified that the kind of breed the dogs are--a pit bull rottweiler mix--is like a loaded gun. She said the dogs may have seen Stiles as prey.

Remember that you are prey and wear protective clothing when outdoors.

“The dogs go to start an attack, and the others joined in,” veterinarian Valeri Bobbitt said. “Once they start, it's just a frenzy."

Do not fault the dogs, they're exuberant. They're just doing what they naturally do. it is up to humans, who can think, to protect themselves.

Hernandez says if he knew the dogs were dangerous he would have gotten rid of them.

If you own a Pit Bull, it's likely that at some point you will be in trouble because of them. Dig a gigantic hole under a rock right now, because that's where you will have to prove that you live in order for anyone to believe you didn't know they are dangerous.

 Unprovoked, two pit bulls attacked his puppy, biting its back legs, he said.  
The puppy needed stitches in both legs and a drain in one due to a damaged muscle. 

Davies said that at that point he held his dog above his head while the other three dogs lunged at him. 

Davies himself suffered puncture wounds to both his hands and arms.

Do not tease Pit Bulls!

Charles Bridges, 64, who was attacked in front of his Buchanan Street home as he began to take an afternoon walk. He suffered several nasty bites to his legs in the attack.

Do not leave your house.

"Eliasar Macias, the dog's owner, said he was horrified that his sister-in-law was killed and his wife was injured by the dog."My dog never had any problems. He was a real friendly dog until now," Macias said.
He was dragging her, and all her scalp was hanging by her side. He wouldn't turn her loose. He would let her go and attack her again," Bernal said. "I saw police shoot the dog with a stun gun. That's the only way they could cut him loose."Family members said the pit bull attacked and killed Diana, then turned on her sister who was trying to help."When she went to help my wife," Bernal said, "the dog turned on her and tore off all her thumbs.

Though any type of dog can attack, pit bulls are bred to be aggressive, she says. 
Bred, not raised. The following dog was nurtured (raised) as a family pet, but breeding won out and nature took over: the dog, which the family raised from a puppy, 
John Henderson needed a skin graft after the Staffordshire bull cross Simba attacked him at his home...

"He was stroking Simba, who was on the bench, then the dog went for it as John was eating it.

"The dog bit his lip and held on to it. He was just hanging on, and that is when he pulled the skin away.

"John was screaming and was trying to feel his mouth."

She had been cradling her year-old miniature schnauzer when she saw two pit bulls run toward her.
"The pit bulls, they grabbed each end and pulled her apart," the woman says.
If you have what they want, surrender it.

PAWS director Lauren Malmberg has heard endless pit-bull horror stories. She doesn't doubt that an entire neighborhood could be gripped with fear.

"They should be," she says.

Example of correct behavior in order to avoid provoking Pit Bulls:
Downs and her family say the neighborhood is so lousy with pit bulls that some residents stay inside.

"The neighbors say they can't put their kids out because of the dogs," Downs says.



What happens when irresponsible parents allow their children out doors?
On Saturday morning, a pitbull attacked a two-year-old boy at his home.

...and later that day a pitbull-chow mix bit four children at a park at 24th and Frankford.
In separate pit bull attacks in St. Paul late last week, Jamie and 5-year-old Brianna Senn were bitten.

Moomoo, a 3-year-old male pit bull and the dog that attacked Jamie in the Frogtown neighborhood, reportedly bit a woman in January

...the muscles on Jamie's left forearm were partially severed after Moomoo bit down to the bone, family members said. 
The dog, which came from neighboring 354 Edmund Ave., lunged at her face, and she protected it with her forearm.

This is the view of Jamie Khottavongsa's left arm, prior to her surgery, showing one of the wounds she suffered after being attacked by a pit bull near her home Friday in St. Paul.

Brianna was playing a few houses down from her grandmother's home when a pit bull broke off a chain in the back yard at 1836 E. Nebraska Ave

The dog then bit Brianna on the side of her back and knocked her to the ground, causing her to scrape her knees and face, Eide said.

The 28-year-old woman — who is ‘‘six or seven months” pregnant — was walking the two pit bulls and a German shepherd when a woman walking a pug approached from the other direction, said Officer Diane Tillery, community services officer for the 6th District Police station.

The two mixed-breed pit bulls became agitated and attacked each other. When their owner tried to intervene, one of them turned on her and attacked.

The dog’s jaws clamped on her arm, the pregnant woman ‘‘hit the dog on its head” and managed to tear herself free, then sat on the sidewalk clutching her bloody arm, Tillery said.

The dogs, she said, "They shredded a 1,200 pound horse."

"Woman Killed In Pit Bull Mauling"

A 21-year-old Knox County woman has died after she was mauled by her roommate’s pit bulls.

Police said Jennifer Lowe was attacked by the two dogs Monday afternoon.

She was taken by helicopter to the University of Tennessee Medical Center where she died after surgery.

She had severe bites to her face and arm, officials said.

BARSTOW, Calif. - A pack of pit bulls surrounded a woman and mauled her to death, authorities said Wednesday.

Police found Kelly Caldwell, 45, lying in the street around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, and took her to a hospital, where she later died, the San Bernardino County sheriff's department said.

Detectives also are looking into whether the dogs' owners knew whether the animals had any history of violence. If the dogs were dangerous and the owners knew it, they could face criminal charges, Ells said.

"He has multiple bites to the head and various different punctures through the lower region of his body," Barker said. "He's also bit through his arms and his legs. He's in good condition right now. He is doing well--he's one strong little kid."

Animal control investigators aren't sure why the dog attacked, but say it is now in quarantine and will eventually be put down.

That’s when another grandson told her “a dog attacked Bud,” she said.

She had seen some blood, but didn’t realize how serious the injuries were. “I thought maybe his nose was bleeding from getting beat up,” she said. Then she made him come over into the light, and saw the gash in his neck.

“The white T-shirt on him looked like a bib of blood,” she said.

Metro Atlanta no stranger to dogfighting

08/05/07

"A full third of all dogs taken in so far this year were pit bulls and close pit-bull mixes, she said.

Many were so aggressive that they were confined to a 28-run barn the shelter created just to house dangerous dogs.

Yet so-called backyard breeders keep producing more, said Gail Harris, director of the Homeless Pets Foundation.

When her group holds adoptions at local Petsmarts, they sometimes see people in the parking lot trying to sell pit bull puppies.

"The biggest thing is that we have to stop that," Harris said. "They're breeding them constantly so they can sell them so they can fight them. It's the most horrific thing.""