Do pit bulls need a law of their own? (All Pit Bull News)

Shoot the fuckin thing! WTF?!

Hundreds of pit bull attacks listed in Hub


Hundreds of Bostonians have become human chew toys for powerful pit bulls while the dogs are being abandoned at an alarming rate — just as rules to rein in the controversial canines are set to expire, a Herald review found.
There were 226 confirmed pit bull attacks on people between 2008 and 2011, while 40 percent of all dogs that turned up at city shelters were pit bulls, city officials said.
“These numbers clearly speak to the need for sensible regulations on ownership of this dog,” said City Councilor Robert Consalvo, who is fuming that the state recently struck down local laws that target specific breeds. “Without the regulations, it’s a free-for-all out there.”

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220824hundreds_of_pit_bull_attacks_listed_in_hub/

By the numbers

There are 197 licensed pit bulls in Boston.
Below are the number of confirmed pit bull biting incidents:
2008: 60

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220824by_the_numbers/

These people need to start being charged with negligence, just like leaving a loaded firearm out for their kid to play with imo.

Family Pit Bull Mauls & Kills Baby, Dog Euthanized

BURLESON (CBSDFW.COM) – A 3-month-old baby is dead after being savagely attacked by the family’s pit bull.

Police were already at the home in Burleson, after responding to a family disturbance call.

“The officers observed the baby outside and checked its welfare when they got on the scene,” Sgt. Cindy Aaron explained. “They said the baby seemed fine and it had fallen asleep. So, they had handed it to one of the relatives to go put in the bed inside, and the dogs were inside the house.”

According to Aaron, a few minutes later officers heard screams coming from inside the house.

“A man came running from inside the house carrying the infant.”

Officers knew the boy was injured and the child was quickly rushed to a nearby hospital where he died.

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s website identifies the child as Rayden Bruce, who just turned 3-months-old on Monday.

Police continue to investigate the case and early Tuesday morning Aaron said, “The dog was believed to be a pit bull and it has been quarantined by our Burleson Animal Control.” By lunchtime the dog had been euthanized.

Police have not determined if any criminal charges will be filed in the case.

Nope, because just like the Obama sympathizers they left.

I wonder of pitbulls cause more unintentional injuries than handguns.

Pit bull shot after teen bit, cat killed


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BITING CRIME: Animal Control officers and Boston police respond in East Boston yesterday, after two pit bulls struck fear in the neighborhood, injuring a teenage boy and killing a cat.

One of two rampaging pit bulls was shot by cops in East Boston yesterday after it bit a 14-year-old boy in the buttocks, mauled and killed a cat and frightened residents — all just weeks before a city law requiring the breed to be muzzled in public will be revoked.
“These two dogs terrorized the neighborhood ... They had already lashed out and bit a young boy and a cat. If we didn’t take a shot at the dog, who knows who else would have been bit,” Boston Police Superintendent William Evans said at the scene.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/re...afterteen_bit_cat_killed/srvc=home&position=3

3-Week-Old Girl Mauled To Death By Pit Bull In Detroit

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/10/05/3-week-old-girl-mauled-to-death-by-pit-bull-in-detroit/

DETROIT (WWJ) - A three-week-old girl is dead after being mauled by a pit bull on Detroit’s west side.
Sgt. Eren Stephens said the incident happened inside of a home on Staheilin street, near Tireman and the Southfield Freeway, around 5:45 p.m. Thursday.
Investigators say the 24-year-old mother went inside of the home and placed her infant daughter, who was strapped in a car seat, on the floor. The mother walked away for a moment and when she returned, she saw the pit bull attacking her daughter.
The child was taken to Sinai-Grace Hospital for medical treatment, but died from the injuries.

Dalton police kill dog after attack on man

DALTON - Police have shot and killed one of two dogs that attacked a Dalton man and sent him to the hospital with bite wounds to his face and the left thigh.
Police say the man in his 30s was attacked outside his home at about 4 p.m. Thursday.
One female and one male dog burst out of a nearby apartment and bit the man.
Police tell The Berkshire Eagle they shot the male because it continued to act aggressively and it was too risky to capture it. The female was caught and taken to a shelter.
There was no immediate word on the breed, but they appeared to be pit bull-types.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20121012dalton_police_kill_dog_after_attack_on_man/

Atlanta girl, 5, loses ear, disfigured in pit bull mauling

Published December 06, 2012
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A 5-year-old girl who was attacked by a pit bull Wednesday is recovering in an Atlanta hospital, MyFoxAtlanta.com reported.
Police say they were forced to shoot the dog, killing it.
Two neighbors, Dewayne Warner and Nicholas White, said that they heard screams and saw three dogs attacking the girl in her backyard.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/06/atlanta-girl-5-loses-ear-disfigured-in-pit-bull-mauling/?test=latestnews#ixzz2EIWODMA8

After close call, man says regs need bite


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DOG DAZE: Animal Control removes a pit bull, who jumped out a window and wreaked havoc in East Boston.

Retired electrician Louis Gizzi of East Boston can’t forget his narrow escape from a pair of unrestrained pit bulls.
“They should be muzzled and leashed,” said Gizzi, who recalled watching in horror this fall as two marauding pits entered his Everett Street yard.
“One of them was friendly, the other one was ferocious,” Gizzi said about Max and Bruin, two dogs who clawed their way through a window screen, jumped out of their owner’s first-floor apartment and began running the streets.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/after_close_call_man_says_regs_need_bite

Mother, daughter seriously injured in dog attack

A Fitchburg mother and daughter were seriously injured when they were attacked by a dog Friday afternoon. They were flown to UMass Medical Center in Worcester for treatment.


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Police officer shoots, kills pit bull

Boston Police are investigating the shooting and killing of a pit bull by a police officer in Dorchester Saturday night.


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Sheriff: Adults Home When Dogs Killed Ga. Toddler


Georgia Toddler Killed by Family Dogs
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By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press
ELLABELL, Ga. March 28, 2013 (AP)




A toddler who slipped outside through a doggie door was mauled to death by her family's seven dogs in the backyard while the attack went unnoticed by the child's mother and other relatives inside their home, a southeast Georgia sheriff said Thursday.
Bryan County Sheriff Clyde Smith said the child's grandmother told investigators she was lying in bed when she heard the pit bulls and pit bull mixes barking, and she looked outside her window to see them dragging the girl. Smith said she began yelling, "They're killing Monica!"
It was too late. Monica Renee Laminack, who would have turned 2 on June 1, was dead by the time an ambulance arrived Wednesday evening. Animal control officers used drugs to euthanize the dogs at the home on a rural road in tiny Ellabell, about 30 miles west of Savannah. Deputies found the girl's shoes, diaper and shredded clothing scattered across the fenced-in yard, Smith said.
"They had dragged the child all over the yard. ... They tore her clothes all up," Smith said.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/toddler-dies-ga-mauled-dogs-18826973

Pitbull Attacks 6-Year-Old In Courtyard Of NH Condo Complex

LONDONDERRY, N.H. (CBS) – Six-year-old Sarah Stewart was playing with friends in the courtyard of her Londonderry, New Hampshire condominium complex Sunday evening when she went to grab a bottle of bubbles on the front stoop of a neighbor’s house.

Police say this pitbull attacked a child.
“I was trying to get a big thing of bubbles, I slipped on the leash and I fell on the dog and he started attacking me,” said the little girl, who is back at home.
Sarah had tripped over a leash and fell on top of her neighbor’s dog, a pit bull named Oliver.
“I heard a lot of screaming,” said Sarah’s father Greg who was inside his house. He ran outside and found a large chunk of skin had been ripped from his daughter’s forehead above her left eye. A neighbor drove father and daughter to the emergency room.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/01/pitbull-attacks-6-year-old-in-courtyard-of-nh-condo-complex/

Mass. boy in danger of losing arm after dog bite



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WESTFIELD, Mass. — Authorities say an 8-year-old Massachusetts boy is in danger of losing his arm after being bitten by the family dog.
Police say the Westfield boy was taken to a Westfield hospital after being bitten Tuesday afternoon, then was transported to a Springfield hospital for additional surgery in an attempt to save the arm, which suffered damage to the brachial artery.
Animal control officer Kenneth Frazer says the boy's parents told him that doctors are not sure the arm can be saved.
The Westfield News (http://bit.ly/12kLt1N ) reports that the boy was bitten on the upper arm as he was letting the 3-year-old American bulldog in the house.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinio...ss_boy_in_danger_of_losing_arm_after_dog_bite

Georgia toddler killed by family pit bull inside home

Published April 25, 2013
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ATLANTA – Authorities say a metro Atlanta toddler was killed in a dog attack Wednesday while his mother was in the bathroom.
MyFoxAtlanta.com reports that the unidentified 2-year-old boy was attacked by a pit bull that had been in the family for eight years.
Neighbors told the station they heard the mother's screams as she ran out of the house and began rolling around on the ground.
The mother, whose identity was not released, was so distraught that she was taken to an area hospital for observation, MyFoxAtlanta.com reported.
Fulton County police Det. Melissa Parker said the attack appears to be accidental and it is unclear whether charges will be filed.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/25/toddler-dies-in-south-metro-atlanta-dog-attack/?test=latestnews#ixzz2RTSjLApx

Man saves girl being attacked by dogs

A New Hampshire man credited with saving the life of a 12-year-old Maine girl being mauled by her family's pit bulls says the two dogs were trying to "tear the girl apart."


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Southern California woman fatally mauled by pit bulls

By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 63-year-old woman was fatally mauled by a pack of pit bulls while walking near her home in Southern California on Thursday and authorities were still searching for the dogs as darkness fell, law enforcement officials said.
A driver called police Thursday morning to report that four dogs were mauling the woman by the side of a road in the small unincorporated community of Littlerock, near Palmdale, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Captain Mike Parker said.
When a sheriff's deputy arrived on the scene a few minutes later, he found the woman being attacked by one dog, which repeatedly circled and moved aggressively toward him as he approached, Parker said.
The deputy fired twice at the animal, apparently missing, before it ran into the desert. There was no sign of the other three dogs, Parker said.
The victim, who was not immediately identified, died in an ambulance while being rushed to a nearby hospital, Parker said, who said the Los Angeles coroner would conduct an autopsy to determine cause of death.

http://news.yahoo.com/southern-california-woman-fatally-mauled-pit-bulls-004701208.html