Friend’s 9-year old daughter in surgery after stray dog attack.

[Sigarms]

Re: Friend痴 9-year old daughter in surgery after stray dog attack.

Created JUST for this thread:thumbsup:

 

[Diggin It]

One dog you'd think you'd be able to trust, but never should is a Dalmation. They have been known to turn awfully quick for little or no reason.

 

[95XL883]

Good to hear she痴 home and recovering. Maybe mom can get a little rest now too.

We got our GSD for a couple of reasons. One was to have something for my wife when the youngest left. One was to encourage me to walk more. Another was something to provide some protection. We don稚 want and won稚 have a vicious animal. The GSD fits perfectly. The dog loves positive reinforcement and reciprocates with love and devotion. I walk up to 7 miles a day now. We do not allow Sammie to be aggressive but it is her nature to warn us of anything amiss. I have no doubt that if real trouble came that Sammie would get very physical.

 

[Jim Nelson]

Re: Friend痴 9-year old daughter in surgery after stray dog attack.

The first "pit bull" I ever saw was back in the early 70's I was living in Casa Grande,Az. on a 19 acre place I had leased. I was shoeing horses on the side and one of the feed lots I worked for would occasionally get in a pregnant heifer and would give the day old calves away. I had 3 or 4 of these calves in small pens made of pallets.One Sunday a friend of mine and his young bro. in law stopped by on their way home from Tucson where the b.i.l. had just picked up a dog he said was a pit bull.As soon as he went to the back of the truck and unsnapped the tether they had him tied to, he jumped out of the truck and ran over and jumped into the pens and killed 3 of the little calves before we could do anything.My buddy ran back to his truck and got a pistol and shot the dog before it got the last calf.In those days, before all the screaming half wits of today, we all carried a gun most of the time and nothing was thought of it.This was the first time I ever saw or heard of a "pit bull",I still don't know if this was really a "pit bull" or not, but it sure needed killing and got it real quick.
The first time I ever saw or heard of a Rottweiler was in 1986 soon after I moved to Calif.. I had moved out here for work and was living in our 5th wheel trailer in a park in Lake Elsinore. One morning, as I was leaving for work, there was a new small trailer parked in the temporary area and it was shaking like crazy. I stopped to see what was going on and there was this huge dog that looked like a King sized Doberman running from end to end ripping the blinds off all the windows and making terrible snarling noises.I knew I didn't want anything to do with that and started to pull up to the managers place to tell him when the owners or the trailer and dog pulled up. Apparently they had gone out for a quick breakfast and the wife was giving her young husband what for, for leaving the dog alone. From what she told me this was the second trailer this dog had destroyed and she just hated the dog but it was her new husbands Buddy that he had raised from a pup. The dog settled down after he got to him and brought him out.I stayed in my truck but asked him what kind of dog it was. He said "This Buddy my imported Rottie, he weighs 125 lbs."Just as I was leaving his bride said "either you get rid of that s.o.b. or I'm leaving and you'll never see your child". Apparently she was pregnant and didn't want anything to do with the dog.I don't really blame her after seeing him in action but her hubby apparently had the dog longer than her.

I'll never know how that turned out but I'll always think it wasn't a happy ending fo any of them.

I've known several of these breeds since then and never seen it turn out well, many of the owners swore they were the finest pet ever but in every case it ended badly.

 

[Streetcar]

Re: Friend痴 9-year old daughter in surgery after stray dog attack.

A former co-worker raises English Bull Mastiffs. He always tells the story of arriving home from a grocery shopping trip to find half the local police force parked around his house. Neighbor boy about three or four years old, I forget, had got in trouble with his parents and fled thru the gate to Ed's back yard. One of Ed's huge male Mastiffs was in that back yard. The dog was staying within a few feet of the child and every time a parent or police officer tried to enter the yard the dog would growl and the hair would stand up on it's back. When Ed made into the yard the child was swinging on a swing set and the dog had positioned itself between the boy and the gate. When the dog would look at the boy it would wag it's tail. The only reason the police hadn't shot the dog was because it was staying so close to the child. My friend calmly called the dog to him and retrieved the child. The child would always try to get into Ed's back yard when he got in trouble.

Ten years ago he got $2500 a pup from people who would put the dogs with a young child. Said he had never had a complaint about one acting aggressive but had plenty of accounts of the dogs protecting children and families. The biggest complaint people had was the sheer volume of slobber the dogs spread over everything and the amount of dogfood they could eat. Those dogs were bred to protect people.

As a side note the University of Tennessee was also coming and taking blood and tissue samples from the dogs. From the papers Ed had the line had existed for more than fifty generations with none of the dogs having cancer.

RSKY

It is hard to believe that digs can be traced back 50 generations and know what disease they had or didn't have

 

[atsah]

Re: Friend痴 9-year old daughter in surgery after stray dog attack.

many of the owners swore they were the finest pet ever but in every case it ended badly.

They are all dogs and NONE of them are to be trusted, even my own.. Everyone's dog is the finest pet ever until it does something to make it the worst pet ever..

 

[Sigarms]

Re: Friend痴 9-year old daughter in surgery after stray dog attack.

but her hubby apparently had the dog longer than her.

Take your dog and wife and lock them in your car trunk. Open the trunk 24 hours later and see who is happy to see you.

 

[Sigarms]

Re: Friend痴 9-year old daughter in surgery after stray dog attack.

It is hard to believe that digs can be traced back 50 generations and know what disease they had or didn't have

That's part of what you get for a $2,500 puppie LOL

It's hard to believe the dog in the original post who hurt the girl was actually a pit bull without some kind of photo for verification.

Per all those shelters filled with "pit bulls" per another poster... DNA studies reveal that shelter workers often mislabel dogs as ‘pit bulls’ >> College of Veterinary Medicine >> University of Florida

 

[RSKY]

Re: Friend痴 9-year old daughter in surgery after stray dog attack.

It is hard to believe that digs can be traced back 50 generations and know what disease they had or didn't have

This was more than ten years ago and the number of generations may be wrong. But the number fifty sticks in my mind as correct. The friend and his wife had been raising and selling these dogs for many years.

RSKY

 

[95XL883]

Re: Friend逞ｴ 9-year old daughter in surgery after stray dog attack.

They are all dogs and NONE of them are to be trusted, even my own.. Everyone's dog is the finest pet ever until it does something to make it the worst pet ever..

My GSD is very well behaved. We get many compliments on her behavior. She will never be left alone with a child under 16 and truthfully there are adults who I wouldn稚 leave her with. Or more accurately who I wouldn稚 trust to be unsupervised with her.

And it isn稚 necessarily the size of the dog. Some years ago I found a CDC list of ten breeds which were involved with the most human fatalities. At that time, Cocker Spaniels were on the list. I知 guessing a big part of the problems is poor ownership.

In the OP痴 case, where was the dog痴 owner. Why was it running loose? A little girl is paying a big price because of poor ownership.