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That is beyond awful.  I wish all the victims the best recovery.  That was a fast thinking mom to stick the baby in the trash.

Link?

Bah. Registration.

Nevermind. My mad interweb skillz prevail again.

The only problem I have with this is the classifying of it as a pitbull. My dog looks a lot like a pit, but she has no pit in her. And the media loves a good pit bull attack story.

DukeofNuke wrote:

justine wrote:

DukeofNuke wrote:

Is it possible that these people are somehow connected to dog fighting ?

Because they owned a vicious dog? Not everyone that owns vicious dogs are involved in dog fighting.


Muck:    http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews … ck_check=1

True, I suppose. However, vicious dogs are a prerequisite to dog fighting, and I can't imagine tolerating a vicious dog when what is wanted is a companion animal.
Also, although individual animals personalities differ, I don't believe that any one breed is inherently vicious. They are trained to be so.
I speculate that the owner may have been into dog fighting because:
We have recently learned what a big underground business dog fighting is, and
This dog had a history of violence, not the kind of thing you want in a pet,  and,
They tried to protect it, so it must have been valuable to them.
Vicious, valuable, but not a pet, = dog fighting.
Of course, I might be wrong.

Not everyone that owns a dog wants it for companionship. Some people want guard dogs. Some want pits thinking they're some sort of status symbol. I know a lot of people here that don't consider dogs pets at all. They keep them for the sole purpose of guarding their homes, and a lot of them never allow their dogs inside their homes.

You can speculate about the owner all you want, but there's really no way to tell if they were involved in dog fighting or not. The cops and the press have not hinted at that up to this point.

That, and the words, "Pit Bull Attack".

Fried Chicken wrote:

Somehow justine is connected to everyone who has something bad happen to them, especially when it involves something someone on the forum is passionate about

Whatever.

doc-robc wrote:

justine wrote:

Fried Chicken wrote:

Somehow justine is connected to everyone who has something bad happen to them, especially when it involves something someone on the forum is passionate about

Whatever.

I was just having a similar thought; that justine sure knows a lot of people that have had bad things happen to them.

Maybe she's a jinx 

I know someone that got hit by a car. How do you figure i know a lot of people that have bad things happen to them?

doc-robc wrote:

Is that it? Just two people? I seem to recall seeing more posts than that about bad situations people you know have been involved in.

Anyway, I don't mean anything by it. Don't Taser me bro!

Who's the second person, and do you call all women bro?

doc-robc wrote:

The person hit by the car and now this ladies daughter's dog.

I don't consider my friends daughter or the dog a victim. Bad things happened to their victim, whom i don't know.

LeeBarnes wrote:

I don't own a dog.


However, if I did, and it attacked someone; I would kill it on the spot.

Perhaps I would feel different if I was a dog owner, but I hope that I would not.  Pet owners should/must take responsibility for the actions of their pets.

I use to know someone that had a Chow. It was a family pet. It was a few years old. Was around kids a lot. Then one Thanksgiving, her 2 year old niece walked by the dog (in front of everyone there) and the dog just lunged for the kid. The dog grabbed the kid by the stomach. They had to pry the dog off. They called 911 and either the cops called animal control or my friend did, but they came out to quarantine the dog, she told them to put it down. She didn't want the dog back in her house, and she didn't want anyone adopting it and possibly have the same thing happen again.

doc-robc wrote:

justine wrote:

I use to know someone that had a Chow. It was a family pet. It was a few years old. Was around kids a lot. Then one Thanksgiving, her 2 year old niece walked by the dog (in front of everyone there) and the dog just lunged for the kid. The dog grabbed the kid by the stomach. They had to pry the dog off. They called 911 and either the cops called animal control or my friend did, but they came out to quarantine the dog, she told them to put it down. She didn't want the dog back in her house, and she didn't want anyone adopting it and possibly have the same thing happen again.

There's another one.

I knew you'd say that.


As old as i am, the odds are that i'm going to know people throughout my lifetime that bad things have happened to. Oh, and that isn't a second one anyway. I didn't know the 2 year old.

Last edited by justine (2007-09-21 7:35 pm)

MuckSavage wrote:

Bah. Registration.

Nevermind. My mad interweb skillz prevail again.

The only problem I have with this is the classifying of it as a pitbull. My dog looks a lot like a pit, but she has no pit in her. And the media loves a good pit bull attack story.

The Media Definition Of A Pit Bull: Any medium sized short haired dog that attacks someone.