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Deadly pit bull attack to likely prompt charges; law changes | WCNC.com | Charlotte News, Weather, Traffic, and Sports | WCNC.com | News for Charlotte, NC
Greg Kearney won't forget his Wednesday morning trip to the mailbox anytime soon.
I heard a woman screaming loudly, he says.
The screaming was coming from 67-year-old Nancy Presson, as she was trying desperately to save her granddaughter, 5-year-old Mikayla Woodard from the jaws of two pit bulls.
The little girl died in the ambulance and her grandmother has what has been described as "serious lacerations" on her hand, wrist and arm.
She was screaming very loudly several times I knew something bad happened, a bad situation, Kearney says.
He says he's seen the dogs roaming the streets before and worried that something like this could happen.
It did because of pit bulls reputation, he explains. It did worry me, I stayed away from them.
Pit bulls are just dogs.
Any dog that is trained to become aggresive will be dangerous.
Its not the breed folks
Deadly pit bull attack to likely prompt charges; law changes | WCNC.com | Charlotte News, Weather, Traffic, and Sports | WCNC.com | News for Charlotte, NC
Greg Kearney won't forget his Wednesday morning trip to the mailbox anytime soon.
I heard a woman screaming loudly, he says.
The screaming was coming from 67-year-old Nancy Presson, as she was trying desperately to save her granddaughter, 5-year-old Mikayla Woodard from the jaws of two pit bulls.
The little girl died in the ambulance and her grandmother has what has been described as "serious lacerations" on her hand, wrist and arm.
She was screaming very loudly several times I knew something bad happened, a bad situation, Kearney says.
He says he's seen the dogs roaming the streets before and worried that something like this could happen.
It did because of pit bulls reputation, he explains. It did worry me, I stayed away from them.
Pit bulls are just dogs.
Any dog that is trained to become aggresive will be dangerous.
Its not the breed folks
I disagree, pit bulls have genetic tendancies to be agressive.
Just like some breeds have tendancies to hunt birds or herd animals.
An improperly trained pitbull is more dangerous than virtually any other improperly trained breed.
That is a fact.
Present your evidence
"Studies indicate that pit bull-type dogs were involved in approximately a third of human DBRF (i.e., dog bite related fatalities) reported during the 12-year period from 1981 through1992, and Rottweilers were responsible for about half of human DBRF reported during the 4 years from 1993 through 1996....[T]he data indicate that Rottweilers and pit bull-type dogs accounted for 67% of human DBRF in the United States between 1997 and 1998. It is extremely unlikely that they accounted for anywhere near 60% of dogs in the United States during that same period and, thus, there appears to be a breed-specific problem with fatalities." (Sacks JJ, Sinclair L, Gilchrist J, Golab GC, Lockwood R. Breeds of dogs involved in fatal human attacks in the United States between 1979 and 1998. JAVMA 2000;217:836-840.)
source
Table 1Breeds of dogs involved in human dog bite-related fatalities (DBRF) in the United States, by 2-year period, between 1979 and
1998. Death-based approach of counting most frequent purebreds and crossbreds involved in 7 or more human DBRF
PurebredNo. deaths for which 10 20 26* 24 22 34* 24 25 26* 27 238
Pit bull-type 2 5 10 9 11* 8 6 5 4* 6 66
Rottweiler 0 0 1 1 3 1 3 10 10 10 39
German Shepherd Dog 2 1 4* 1 1 4* 2 0 2 0 17
Husky-type 2 1 2 2 0 2 2 1 2 1 15
Malamute 2 0 3 1 0 2 3 1 0 0 12
Doberman Pinscher 0 1 0 2 2 2 1 0 0 1 9
Chow Chow 0 1 0 0 0 2 3 0 2 0 8
Great Dane 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 7
Saint Bernard 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 7
Crossbred
Wolf-dog hybrid 0 1 1 2 1 4 1 2 2 0 14
Mixed-breed 0 3 1 2 1 2 0 1 1 1 12
German Shepherd Dog 0 2 0 2 2 2 0 1 2 0 10
Pit bull-type 0 1 0 3 2 3 1 1 0 0 10
Husky-type 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 6
Rottweiler 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 2 5
Alaskan Malamute 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 3
Chow Chow 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 3
Doberman Pinscher 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Saint Bernard 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Great Dane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
source --it's WAY easier to read than the above.
FYIO Pittbulls TOP THE LIST every year for the the 11 years these statistics were compiled.
The evidence is very clear that of all breeds of dogs PITTBULLS are by far and away, the most dangerous breed of dogs to humans,
You me and proably everbody else knows some sweetheart pittbull.
And they are a sweet breed usually, too...until they're not
Deadly pit bull attack to likely prompt charges; law changes | WCNC.com | Charlotte News, Weather, Traffic, and Sports | WCNC.com | News for Charlotte, NC
Greg Kearney won't forget his Wednesday morning trip to the mailbox anytime soon.
I heard a woman screaming loudly, he says.
The screaming was coming from 67-year-old Nancy Presson, as she was trying desperately to save her granddaughter, 5-year-old Mikayla Woodard from the jaws of two pit bulls.
The little girl died in the ambulance and her grandmother has what has been described as "serious lacerations" on her hand, wrist and arm.
She was screaming very loudly several times I knew something bad happened, a bad situation, Kearney says.
He says he's seen the dogs roaming the streets before and worried that something like this could happen.
It did because of pit bulls reputation, he explains. It did worry me, I stayed away from them.
My Son showed up with a Pit Bull Pup for Christmas. Loving dog, but a little hyper. Nobody should have to put up with dogs running the streets unsupervised. That is just wrong.
Pit bulls are just dogs.
Any dog that is trained to become aggresive will be dangerous.
Its not the breed folks
I disagree, pit bulls have genetic tendancies to be agressive.
Just like some breeds have tendancies to hunt birds or herd animals.
she's too stupid to understand genetics. I raised a pit bull from a puppy, he was mixed with black lab. He was treated with nothing but love and kindness, one day, for no reason he attacked and tried to kill our Jack Russell Terrier. The Pit Bull died that day by euthanasia.
I disagree, pit bulls have genetic tendancies to be agressive.
Just like some breeds have tendancies to hunt birds or herd animals.
she's too stupid to understand genetics. I raised a pit bull from a puppy, he was mixed with black lab. He was treated with nothing but love and kindness, one day, for no reason he attacked and tried to kill our Jack Russell Terrier. The Pit Bull died that day by euthanasia.
Yep that has been my observation about pit bulls as well.
imho many owners of pit bulls are low self esteem types that feel tough dogs make them tough.
I think that the breed should dissapear.
Deadly pit bull attack to likely prompt charges; law changes | WCNC.com | Charlotte News, Weather, Traffic, and Sports | WCNC.com | News for Charlotte, NC
Greg Kearney won't forget his Wednesday morning trip to the mailbox anytime soon.
I heard a woman screaming loudly, he says.
The screaming was coming from 67-year-old Nancy Presson, as she was trying desperately to save her granddaughter, 5-year-old Mikayla Woodard from the jaws of two pit bulls.
The little girl died in the ambulance and her grandmother has what has been described as "serious lacerations" on her hand, wrist and arm.
She was screaming very loudly several times I knew something bad happened, a bad situation, Kearney says.
He says he's seen the dogs roaming the streets before and worried that something like this could happen.
It did because of pit bulls reputation, he explains. It did worry me, I stayed away from them.
Deadly pit bull attack to likely prompt charges; law changes | WCNC.com | Charlotte News, Weather, Traffic, and Sports | WCNC.com | News for Charlotte, NC
Greg Kearney won't forget his Wednesday morning trip to the mailbox anytime soon.
I heard a woman screaming loudly, he says.
The screaming was coming from 67-year-old Nancy Presson, as she was trying desperately to save her granddaughter, 5-year-old Mikayla Woodard from the jaws of two pit bulls.
The little girl died in the ambulance and her grandmother has what has been described as "serious lacerations" on her hand, wrist and arm.
She was screaming very loudly several times I knew something bad happened, a bad situation, Kearney says.
He says he's seen the dogs roaming the streets before and worried that something like this could happen.
It did because of pit bulls reputation, he explains. It did worry me, I stayed away from them.
How horrible. And yet here, there's a goofball trying to take pits off the vicious animal list.
House bill seeks to remove pit bulls from Ohio's vicious-dog law: Animals in the News | cleveland.com
Pit bulls are plentiful in Cleveland, where the city kennel euthanized 968 of the 1,281 pit bulls it impounded last year. Because of the state law and comparable city ordinance, only those claimed by owners who had secure pens and $100,000 of liability insurance were allowed to leave.
Pit bulls made up 60 percent of the 1,600 dogs killed among the 4,078 impounded at the Cleveland Kennel.
No intelligent parent would leave any child unsupervised with any dog. Dogs are not human, even the most docile dog can snap.