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a 7 and 1/2 month old puppy!!!
snuffed out in the prime of life.
he coulda had class. he coulda been a contender. he coulda been somebody, instead of a bum.
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4/16/2008 7:37 PM |
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Last year NY city was liable for a $5 Million judgement when one of it's police officers picked up a stray pit off the streets and gave it to a family. The subsequently mauled one of the kids and the city was on the hook.
I don't understand why the liability doesn't extend to breeders or agencies that adopt out the dogs.
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4/17/2008 5:07 AM | Flag as abusive
And how much has the owner paid for the damage done to this child? Why isn't the OWNER of the dog in prison?
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4/17/2008 6:33 AM | Flag as abusive
I would also like to add that I feel this is a form of child abuse; owners of dangerous dogs who, time and again, let them run loose...especially in a neighborhood full of kids.....are no better than pedophiles. These people are deliberately putting children in harms way. If you drove drunk and ran over a child with your car, you would end up in prison. But it's OK to get a pit bull and let it run loose and maul or kill a neighborhood child? It doesn't make any sense. People who own these dogs need to be in prison.
There is no real incentive NOT to own these dogs...nothing happens to the owners when the dogs maul or kill. Society and the victims keep picking up the tab, the owners slink away, and the breeders keep making money. It's a system that needs to be fixed.
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4/17/2008 6:46 AM | Flag as abusive
The net costs of Pit Bulls to communities keeps adding up, six figure maulings, crowding the shelters, killing dogs/livestock and now judgements....
They do however, provide valuable marksmanship practice for law enforcement.
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4/18/2008 4:31 AM | Flag as abusive
Police marksmanship practice is right! In an older thread about the police gun range in Oceanside, one area resident complained, "The police don't go for accuracy. They just pump as many bullets as they can into whatever they shoot at. Take a certain pitbull that got shot in the foot yesterday. Couldn't even shoot that right."
Clearly, people want pit bulls shot properly, but I'd have to argue this person has never tried to hit a moving pit bull with a side arm. Some departments lack a standard pit bull protocol, but more and more officers will go 10-97 and emerge with a shotgun. That's evidence of good training and/or experience.
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4/18/2008 3:17 PM | Flag as abusive
Do we know what happened to the owner of this dog? Were their ANY consequences at all? Drunk drivers are put in prison for hurting people, even if the intention was not there. If you want to own a pit or pit mix, you are already consciously making a decision to keep a breed of dog that can pose a danger to your neighbors. When you subsequently don't contain the dog, you have acted consciously to put your neighbors at risk.
Therefore, criminal penalties should be brought against anyone whose dog makes an unprovoked attack on a person, if the dog is of a breed known to guard or fight, regardless of the dogs previous behavior. "Intent" can be proven by the decision to own that breed.
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4/25/2008 1:46 PM | Flag as abusive
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Owners Clyde and Gloria Salle said Solomon bolted from the house through the front door. Usually, the dog is chained in the backyard, Clyde Salle said.
Clyde Salle said the dog has never bitten anyone in his family. “I don’t know how to tell Daniel’s dad and mom I’m sorry,” he said. “I would never have intentionally left that dog out. It was an accident.”
An archive search will need to be done for more.
by bitbypit
4/25/2008 2:38 PM | Flag as abusive
I have a feeling this town will be more attentive to animal control issues now!
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5/20/2008 5:24 PM | Flag as abusive
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