Pit bull attack injures 6-year-old boy

[The Straight Story]

HAYDEN, Idaho-- A six-year-old boy from Hayden is recovering from a pit-bull attack. Family members said Charlie Stone was riding his bike near Drover Drive when the leashed dog bit him Tuesday night.

The attack left bite marks on Stone’s neck. Stone’s father, Nathan, estimated that the puncture wounds are five inches deep.

Records showed Charlie was bit by a dog named Samson. Police documents showed that Samson was on a leash with a choke collar.

“The fist thought that went though my mind is one more second of, if the dog shook his head, what if that lady wasn't there? Just the worst things come to your mind as a parent,” said Nathan Stone.

http://www.ktvb.com/news/Pitt-bull-attack-injures-6-year-old-boy-206875831.html

[PeaceNikki]

1. Here's another: Dog Euthanized After Woman Killed In Attack

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2013/05/06/coshocton-dog-euthanized-after-woman-killed-in-attack.html

COSHOCTON, Ohio - The Coshocton County Dog Warden says he will probably never know why Rachael Honabarger's 3-year-old German Shepherd attacked her last Tuesday afternoon.

“The investigation is complete,” said Russell Dreher. “It's a very unfortunate accident."

Dreher says for some unknown reason, the family's 104-pound German Shepherd attacked the 35-year-old mother of two in the yard of her home on Country Road 23.

"It was a scene of controlled chaos at the first. There was a neighbor on the scene that advised us what had happened,” Dreher said.

Terrible.

[galileoreloaded]

2. once in a while a big dog snaps....

but what is driving these vicious killer pit bulls with constancy? so many sad stories. women and babies torn apart and the best we can do is blame an owner. it's like having a tiger as a pet and then blaming the owner if it escapes. seriously? its a fucking tiger. thats what it does.

im with you.

[PeaceNikki]

3. Pit bulls are the most frequently abused, tortured, abandoned & euthanized breed of dog in the US.

According to the American Veterinary Medicine Association, “controlled studies have not identified this breed group as disproportionately dangerous.” The American Temperance Testing Society (ATTS) puts thousands of dogs – purebreds and spayed and neutered mixed-breeds – through their paces each year. The dogs are tested for skittishness, aggression and their ability to differentiate between threatening and non-threatening humans. Among all of the breeds ATTS tested – over 30,000 dogs through May 2011 — 83 percent passed the test. How did pit bulls do? They showed an above average temperament, with 86 percent making the grade. Pit bulls are the second most tolerant breed tested by ATTS, after only golden retreivers.

Karen Delise, research director for the National Canine Research Council and author of “The Pitbull Placebo,” has investigated hundreds of serious dog bite incidents in depth. As she explains:

My study of dog bite-related fatalities occurring over the past five decades has identified the poor ownership/management practices involved in the overwhelming majority of these incidents: owners obtaining dogs, and maintaining them as resident dogs outside of regular, positive human interaction, often for negative functions (i.e. guarding/protection, fighting, intimidation/status); owners failing to humanely contain, control and maintain their dogs (chained dogs, loose roaming dogs, cases of abuse/neglect); owners failing to knowledgably supervise interaction between children and dogs; and owners failing to spay or neuter dogs not used for competition, show, or in a responsible breeding program.

http://www.salon.com/2013/02/05/in_defense_of_the_pitbull_partner/

[galileoreloaded]

4. all the more reason to look at killer dogs

and get tough on their proliferation.

[PeaceNikki]

5. And all Muslims are terrorists, huh?

Have fun spreading your bullshit.

[baldguy]

6. I thought DU already had it's weekly Two Minute Hate session to heap abuse on dogs?

[The Straight Story]

7. It's not the dogs

It's the idea behind it all.

Some people - a tiny tiny few percent - are not responsible with a great many things. Pit bulls. Pools. Guns. Etc.

We use those few to push ideas/agendas/fear in an effort to make new laws.

Just like the right will use the few who are Muslim and radical to push their ideals and hate - we do the same thing, but feel when we do so it is justified.

No one needs to own a pitbull. They have a fetish, are pit bull nuts etc (it helps to spread hate and fear when you label things).

We hear how some people own them and they are the nicest dogs (my son owns one) and how it is the owner that is the problem. My sister owns a whole safe full of guns. And she has never hurt anyone and raised three kids around them and no one was ever hurt. But...she is a 'gun lover' and dangerous.

Everyday on DU we have at least one thread about some idiot who didn't store their gun properly and a kid got harmed. 50 million families have guns (and other things) in their home. Statistically there will be idiots and accidents. But we want to base new laws on the very few and try to promote that the many are nothing more than dangerous rednecks who should not own guns.

I could write 49 million plus posts a day about people who didn't do something irresponsible and stupid. But that won't feed the outrage brigade or stoke the fires of fear some want to fan.

Pit bulls:
Bias in the media:
http://www.aspca.org/fight-animal-cruelty/advocacy-center/animal-laws-about-the-issues/pit-bull-bias-in-the-media.aspx

Pit Bulls by the numbers:
http://stubbydog.org/2012/05/pit-bulls-by-the-numbers/

There an estimated 2 million pit bulls in the US. I could post one story a day about them biting/killing and that would still only be 365 incidences - which is 0.018%.

But it's DU - where we blast the majority for what a minority does. Except in some cases, and then we call it bigotry and spreading hate, etc.

Same tactics, different topic, and when you call people on it you are an nra lover or nut, etc.

[baldguy]

9. Here's an idea: Why not force people to be responsible?

If there's an issue where people aren't acting in a responsible manner (with Pit Bulls, pools, guns. etc.) we should take steps to ensure they do: licensing, registration, mandatory training, etc.

If dog owners exhibited the same level of irresponsibility as gun owners do, we'd have 9000 people killed each year by dogs instead of just 30.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Was the dog named "Pookums" or "Cuddles"?

That always adds a touch of warmth to the story.

[pintobean]

10. "puncture wounds are five inches deep"

A sabre tooth pit bull?

In the video, the father said one of the wounds was a half inch deep. I'd guess that whoever transcribed the story screwed up.

[cliffordu]

11. A 5 year old's neck. Five inch bite depth = decapitation.

Hype serves no one.

If the kid was badly mauled by a dog, lets go to that.

The rest of this shit is just shit.