Pit Bull attacks 2 month old

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Another infant has been severely mauled by a Pit Bull. The baby was in a "bouncy chair" and when the dog pawed at the chair causing the chair to bounce. Apparently that bouncing startled the dog and it bit the infants head. This biting and shaking, ripped off the baby's nose, crushed its cheek bone, and penetrated the baby's brain and misplaced an eye.

Every year dozens of infants and children are severely mauled by those viscous animals who are bred for combat in the ring. In my opinion, those animals should be illegal. For the life of me I can't imagine what kind of person would own such a killer animal.

When I returned from my fishing trip, I read in the San Diego Tribune that the infant, after numerous surgeries, including plastic surgery to replace the nose, has been released from intensive care at Rady Childrens Hospital, and miraculously , is expected to make a full recovery.

Sorry if I get a little bombastic about such, but one thing I get more emotional about than anything in the world are sweet little angels.

At the request of the neighbor, the animals owner, the dog was put down immediately.
 

Traveler said:
Another infant has been severely mauled by a Pit Bull. The baby was in a "bouncy chair" and when the dog pawed at the chair causing the chair to bounce. Apparently that bouncing startled the dog and it bit the infants head. This biting and shaking, ripped off the baby's nose, crushed its cheek bone, and penetrated the baby's brain and misplaced an eye.

Every year dozens of infants and children are severely mauled by those viscous animals who are bred for combat in the ring. In my opinion, those animals should be illegal. For the life of me I can't imagine what kind of person would own such a killer animal.

When I returned from my fishing trip, I read in the San Diego Tribune that the infant, after numerous surgeries, including plastic surgery to replace the nose, has been released from intensive care at Rady Childrens Hospital, and miraculously , is expected to make a full recovery.

Sorry if I get a little bombastic about such, but one thing I get more emotional about than anything in the world are sweet little angels.

At the request of the neighbor, the animals owner, the dog was put down immediately.
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Just like two other breeds, Doberman and Rottweiler, I think, sometimes, Pit Bulls get a bad rap. All three, like the German Shepard, can be awfully intimating to people. But, I've petted very nice Pits, Dobbies an Rotties. But, if any "guard dog" type breed is taught to fight.........look out. They can definitely be dangerous.

I remember, when we lived in Colorado, a neighbor across the street had a purebred German Shepard named Shiloh. I had never met this dog, but one day I was walking over to talk to the owner (Russ). I knew him and he was very nice. Anyway, Russ had let Shiloh out the front door and he made a "beeline" towards me on the sidewalk. I didn't know what to do and, was actually scared that I was going to be attacked. I just stood there "stiff as a board". Shiloh ran up to me and next thing I know, he was dancing around and yelping happily at me. Yes, "happily". I reached down and pet him and everything was completely fine. But, talk about intimidating and scary for me when he came running at me!
 
Some pitbulls are very mistreated by their owners who are trying to make the animals mean. At least out here, it has become a thing for druggie type people (both black and white) to own pitbulls, and then they keep them chained up , left out in the weather, and sometimes starved to try and make them more aggressive .
Anytime you have two dogs and starve them, they are going to fight for the food when they are fed, and if the only interaction they have with a human is to be hit, cursed and abused, then it is no wonder that they learn aggressive behavior.
There is almost an epidemic of innocent pets being stolen, both cats and dogs, and then they are used as “bait dogs” to train the pitbulls to attack and kill other living creatures.

It is only in recent years (relatively speaking) that these dogs were bred as fighting dogs, and before that , they were used with livestock, and also were common family dogs because of their loyalty to their family and their protective instincts.
I totally agree that the practice of raising pitbulls as fighting dogs needs to stop, and that it puts innocent children (and adults) in danger when one of these dogs is running loose.
My opinion is that it is the owners who are responsible for breeding this into what was always a fine breed of dog, and it is the dog fighting that has to be stopped before anything can change.

For many years I had a beautiful Gladiator Doberman, and he had been bred and trained as a guard dog before I got him. He had been sold to guard a lumber mill that was on strike, and to keep the workers from breaking in while the mill was closed and vandalizing it.
After the mill re-opened, they were going to put Bruno to sleep, so one of the workers took him home. He kept him outside on a chain in his yard, and when I first saw him, the poor dog was skin and bones. I asked them to give Bruno to me, and they did.
He proved to be an amazing and intelligent dog, and very affectionate. When I had company, he loved anyone that I brought into the house, and would go and sit next to that person and just lean into them to be petted.
However, when I was not home, and he was in the yard, no one came in the front gate. Bruno was on guard, and he took his responsibility seriously.

So, it was not that he was naturally vicious at all, he simply knew that he had a job, and that was to protect me and our home. I don’t think that he would have actually bitten anyone (unless they were a danger to me); but he certainly scared people into thinking that he might.
This was a totally different thing than a dog who attacks because he has been mistreated and abused, and distrusts any human.
 

I think that Pit Bulls should be banned. If not banned, then the owner should be held criminally responsible in exactly the same way we charge , put on trial, and imprison gun owners who are negligent and a child is shot.

In my opinion Pit Bulls are natural born killers. I also think that it is extremely irresponsible to own such a viscous animal.
 
It's more genetic than being mistreated. They are bred to be aggressive!

Yes they can be trained to fight, but the base of the problems is genetics caused by breeders .

I get tired of hearing pit owners swearing their pits are just big, sweet babies and then there's an attack. Like what happened at the dog park last year.

The park has two fenced areas separated by chain link fence; big dogs and little dogs. I was speaking with a young couple with a big pit bull across the fence, and I asked if they ever worried about the pit "tendencies" They went into the "big baby" speil when suddenly the big baby attacked another dog and there was one hell of a fight-it took not only the couple but a few others to break it up. The couple removed the dog from the park immediately.

None of this is the dogs fault! This "breeding" or genetic engineering to produce dogs with powerful jaws and aggressive dispositions are to blame. Add further training to attack and you have a real problem.

If anyone would read the history of the German Shepherd, you can see how breeders ruined that wonderful dog to the point no one wanted them anymore. Fortunately back in those times, they began to reverse the damage , even changing it's name from German Police Dog to the much gentler name of Shepherd.
 
Small children and dogs that can do them serious harm should never be together unsupervised.
It doesn't matter what the breed is, if it is capable of reacting to the way children behave, then they should be kept well apart.

The Australian kelpie, which is a sheep dog, is not known for being aggressive and is usually trustworthy but when I was a young child we had a kelpie rescue dog that would snap at me, a five year old, for no apparent reason. We had to return him to the shelter with instruction that he should not be assigned to any household with children. Much later my mother had an elderly kelpie cross that could not be trusted with little ones. She was happy to be shut in a bedroom when my children arrived at the house and would take herself there as soon as she saw them She did attack my daughter a couple of times. My daughter poked her with a toy broom and suffered a bite to an ear and another time fell on the sleeping dog and was bitten on her face.

We learnt that it is better to keep even the most even tempered dog and little children apart. Aggressive dogs are a much higher risk altogether.
 
IMO....If a person has small children, and wants to get a dog, they should get a Puppy....and NOT a fully grown dog...especially one from a shelter, etc. That way, the dog has a chance to grow up with children around, and will almost always be protective of the child, and Never aggressive towards the child. Anyone who gets an adult dog, and has children in the house, is taking a huge chance that the dog won't turn on the child.
 
I have almost always had children around: first mine - then my grandson - then my great grandson. As a result, I have always had children friendly dogs - bought as puppies. First an Irish setter - then from then on Golden retrievers. I'm sure there are wonderful dogs to be had from the pound, but you know little to nothing about their personalities or what kind of temperaments they will have as adults. With purebreds there is some breed history to go on - and Goldens are a very people friendly and gentle breed. At least that's my thinking on the subject.
 
There is no doubt that there are some wonderful breeds of dogs, but would anyone in their right mind allow an unknown adult pit bull around their infant ?
 
I've owned four dogs down through the years. By far, the sweetest, gentlest one was our golden retriever.

Traveler, I agree about the pit bull.
 
I agree 100% with Traveler and also Radish Rose.

There used to be a member on SF who was ridiculously defensive of pit bulls. Then hers bit a neighbor. Hmmm.

Pit bulls are illegal in the suburb where I live. In the suburb just east of me they were banned for many years, but the ban was reversed. Last I heard some residents were working to get the ban reinstated.
 
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From a 5 yr review:
51 percent of the attacks were from pit bulls,
9 percent were from Rottweilers and
6 percent were from mixes of those two breeds
Review of dog-bite injuries from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia,
published in 2009 in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

I cringe when I hear people say pitbulls just get a bad rap. Statistics say otherwise.

Our county animal shelter is filled with pit bulls. The 50 Rescue Shelters we have go there, take only the adoptable dogs, and place them in foster care until a good home can be found.

Nobody wants the pitbulls so they are killed. It's sad. Why do breeders keep breeding them??
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This breed should be closely supervised as should any children around them.

Even with breeding most dogs if trained right and exposed to a variety of people and circumstances can be controlled or trained not to freak out. My guess this dog had minimal exposure to kids and/or people, experienced some treatment issues including confinement and might have been rough house playing. Also many people act wrong around many animals but the big thing is keep calm, don't show fear or anything resembling aggression. Dogs literally can smell fear because a person or animals scent changes.

If this dog wasn't on a leash that's a big issue especially with that breed. Is there a link?
 
WhatInThe said:
If this dog wasn't on a leash that's a big issue especially with that breed. Is there a link?
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Sorry, no link. The story I reported was on local TV.
How in the world the 2 month olds head was not crushed is amazing. As it was the babies nose was ripped off and the fangs pierced the brain. Unbelievably, the infant is expected to make a full and complete recovery. The story said the owner somehow got his hand down the dogs throat and the dog let go of the baby.
 
Lara said:
From a 5 yr review:
51 percent of the attacks were from pit bulls,
9 percent were from Rottweilers and
6 percent were from mixes of those two breeds
Review of dog-bite injuries from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia,
published in 2009 in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

I cringe when I hear people say pitbulls just get a bad rap. Statistics say otherwise.

Our county animal shelter is filled with pit bulls. The 50 Rescue Shelters we have go there, take only the adoptable dogs, and place them in foster care until a good home can be found.

Nobody wants the pitbulls so they are killed. It's sad. Why do breeders keep breeding them??
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Tigers will be tigers and pits will be pits. You never know when either one will attack either. Both are wild animals like pet anaconda's people love them too till it slowly smothers them.

My great grand daughters face was mauled terribly by a pit while visiting her grandmother who had the dog for years and it never bit anyone, TILL is attacked this 4 yr old who had to have plastic surgery and if the childs father hadn't have been sitting there it would have been worse.
They put the dog down. It is cruel to own these dogs and if they are so " tame " then why will most insurance com.l not insure a home with a pit or other vicious type dogs? This is only one story of millions about the dangers pits offer those who own them.
 
My granddaughter was attacked when out on a run years ago.

She was a few hundred feet ahead of my daughter and son-in-law when two dobermen came charging through an open gate. She panicked and ran. One sunk his fangs in her back and started dragging her away, while the other one sank his fangs twice in the back of her knee, and was trying to tug her in the opposite direction. My son-in-law was kicking at the dogs and got bit, too.

Police, ambulance, much ado. Owner claiming that the dogs "had never done anything like that before" and "if she hadn't run away this wouldn't have happened." Son-in-law was ready to deck the guy.

Specialists had to be called to the ER because the bite to the back of her knee was dangerously close to the tendon. She also had many stitches to her back where her skin had been ripped. The dog's owner had to pay all the expenses and he was not a happy camper about that.

My granddaughter was such a tender-hearted little thing. Her big concern wasn't that she might have had her running and triathlon future jeopardized but that the dogs would get in trouble. On the way home from the hospital, she asked to be taken to see the dogs so she could tell them she wasn't mad at them.
 
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Right. They are just sweet loving pets until something triggers their aggressive instinct and they rip your grandkids face off.

And then the in denial dog owner repeats that old familiar refrain: "Owner claiming that the dogs "had never done anything like that before" and "if she hadn't run away this wouldn't have happened.""
 
Well stated, Trade. :yes:

It's amazing that when pit bull attacks, the dog owner will often blame the victim - even if the victim is a member of their own family...even an innocent child.

BUT...
Tara the Hero Cat was not gonna stand for it:

 
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My son who lives in Tennessee related a more positive story about pit bulls to me. A few years back some undesireables managed to get a mortgage and move into his neighborhood and they had several pit bulls that they would let roam free. One day one of my sons neighbors came home from work and was accosted by one of these animals in his front yard. The dog kept menacing him every time he started to open the door to his truck to get out. So he found himself in a situation like the woman in the Stephen King book "Cujo". With one exception. He had a loaded .45 under his seat. So he was able to defuse the situation rather quickly. It wasn't long before the undesireables got foreclosed on and moved out much to the relief of everyone in that neighborhood.
 
Yep, pardner, jest goes to show that everyone should go around at all times carryin' a loaded .45, and be ready to use it. Never know when one of the neighbors will release one of them pit bulls. Yeehaw!
 
Trade said:
Right. They are just sweet loving pets until something triggers their aggressive instinct and they rip your grandkids face off.

And then the in denial dog owner repeats that old familiar refrain: "Owner claiming that the dogs "had never done anything like that before" and "if she hadn't run away this wouldn't have happened.""
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This dog played with the child and they lived with this granny so the dog knew the kid. But was also jealous of the toddler too.
No sense in talking chances with dogs with bad reputations,imo.

My daughter had told my granddaughter to keep the child away from the dog. But like most she was told the dog loved and protected the kid.

I knew a woman in Jax about 30 years whos pit almost severed a 5 y.o. childs neck and a miracle she lived. But scared for life.
Of course we always watch all dogs around kids.
 
Sunny said:
Yep, pardner, jest goes to show that everyone should go around at all times carryin' a loaded .45, and be ready to use it. Never know when one of the neighbors will release one of them pit bulls. Yeehaw!
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You got that right,especially with all the crime now . :cool: We wouldn't leave home without our protection.:gettowork::cheers1:
It is sad the dog had to pay the ultimate price of the foolish owner.
 

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