Neighbor attacked by Pit Bulls

[timster2]

Quick update: Neighbor came home from the hospital on Saturday. Still has to go back for plastic surgery in the future when the wounds heal some.

Nothing on charges to the owner yet, haven't heard anything from the investigators.

 

[J F]

Glad your neighbor's back at home, Tim...not half as glad as he is, I bet. :thumbsup:

 

[dmccarty]

Glad to see he is back at home. Looks like he spent three weeks in the hospital! :shocked: You know he is glad to be home.

Later,
Dan

 

[Midniteoyl]

Good news..

 

[Car Doc]

Hopefully Tim and his neighbors story will get in the Armed Citizen column in some future issue of NRA American Rifleman and American Hunter it certainly deserves to be there I think anyway.

 

[bcp]

Hopefully Tim and his neighbors story will get in the Armed Citizen column in some future issue of NRA American Rifleman and American Hunter it certainly deserves to be there I think anyway.

NRA-ILA | Armed Citizen

 

[Car Doc]

NRA-ILA | Armed Citizen

I contacted them and sent the links to his story this morning thanks it wouldn't hurt if more of us did it too. :thumbsup:

 

[PhysAssist]

Not necessarily. I used a prong collar on our Newfy. Sweet dog, just too much power when out walking her (they have been used as draft dogs for logging!) A short while with the prong collar and she became much more enjoyable to walk with.

As for the pit bull breed, I have known people with very sweet and friendly pit bulls. I think the big issue is that some people want and create "big bad mean" dogs out of them. These morons gravitate to these types of breeds to show off their own attempt at a tough image. Those dogs are dangerous. Most others of the breed are not. We have seen the same type of problem with other breeds....German Shepherds, rotties, dobermans, etc.

Personally I don't think the whole breed should be condemned, just those who are handled by mean morons who are looking for a dog to cover their own inadequacies.

DITTO, with regard to Newfies, we had 2 that my tiny neice called "the big black boogers"...

...with such thick fur that the pinch collar only just helped get their attention so they "remembered" that were supposed to heal.

We lost ours to cancer at 13 &15 y/o.

The 165# English Mastiff that replaced them can/could be walked on a piece of 1/8" twine, if I didn't drop it so easily.

Thomas

 

[PhysAssist]

This has gotten me worried for a friend. His next door neighbor has a pit bull chained all day outside, about 40 feet from my friend's grandchildren's house! He's already told the knucklehead about it, and the sheriff too. Scares me to death for them! That thing is always pulling on the chain with his muscular neck, which needs a bullet in it!

I'm a real dog lover. But, hey, pit bulls, etc. were bred to kill.

Wrong-- bred originally to fight OTHER DOGS and then come home to be the family pet. At the time, any pitt puppy or dog that showed ANY aggression toward humans was culled, put down, pick the euphemism of your choice, which still happens at reputable breeders.

Irish wolfhounds, bred to hunt and kill wolves (so successfully tha there are exactly NO wolves remaining on the Emerald Isle) average 36" at the shoulder and can run over 200# pounds, but have NEVER been implicated as a dangerous breed specifically because the breeders KNOW that they are potentially dangerous and specifically cull any aggression from their litters.

SOAPBOX MODE d/c'd

Thomas

 

[PhysAssist]

He is married and was going to celebrate his 58 wedding anniversary last weekend with his extended family. He was going shopping for the BBQ when this all happened!

My daughter sent me the sound track from the Lone Ranger. "and with ha hardy hi ho Kubota he rode off into the sunset" Will have to rename the tractor Silver I guess.

Too perfect,

I have been catching up and just realized where I had heard this referenced in another thread.

As so many others have said, you are the definition of a hero, risking life and limb to help another, an innocent victim, and if not for your God blessed presence, your neighbor might not have seen that 58th wedding anniversary.

I only hope that I could emulate your actions, but hope to heck, I never have to.

God bless and stay well, we need more like you in this world.

Thomas