chewbecca
Posted : 7/8/2007 6:04:49 AM
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Yeah. HERE'S THE STORY:
My friend was walking her pit bull ON LEASH, with her 5 children. A harmless family walk. Her neighbor has an over-sized doberman that has shown to be growly and mean while in its fenced in backyard. My friend never messes with the dog.
Well, while she was out walking her dog with her children, this doberman was on leash in it's yard.
Guess who was holding the other end of the doberman's leash??
The neighbor's 10 YEAR OLD SON.
Now my friend's pit bull is a little larger than the breed standard, but he's a gentle guy just barely over a year old. Not a lick of dog aggression in this dog as my friend fosters and has NEVER had a problem with this dog and other dogs.
Well, the doberman sees them walking and charges for them.
And guess what happened. The 10 year old boy, OF COURSE, got knocked on his butt and the doberman got loose and continued to charge at them. My friend put her children and Kain behind her. And when I say "charged at them" I mean, VICIOUSLY charged at them. Growling and barking at them. Right before the dog went for her, Kain jumped out and grabbed the dobe by his head and then grabbed his neck, yanked, and snapped the dog's neck. My friend had a hold of Kain's leash the ENTIRE TIME.
She said it couldn't have lasted longer than a few seconds, but she said it was an ETERNITY.
Her children were freaking out, rightfully so, and she had to tell them to run home.
It happened so fast that by the time the son had run to tell his mom what was going on, and she ran out of the house, her dog was already dead. She ran up screaming at my friend, "DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I SPENT ON THAT DOG!?!?!?!"
My friend was devastated, in shock, and scared for her life. And this lady was screaming about the price of her dog. YEAH.
I'm sorry, but if a doberman was running towards me and my children, barking and growling at us, I'd probably pee myself in fear.
So what happened besides the doberman got killed and everyone was upset?
The cops and AC were called and they had to come and take Kain and put him in quarantine. AC tried to reassure my friend that it wasn't anything that her dog did wrong, that it was procedure and that anytime a dog killed another dog in her county, this was what had to happen. They have to make sure that the dog Kain killed didn't have anything. He's not being quarantined from humans, just from other animals. She is able to go see him and her and her husband do, but Kain won't eat.
And she said for some reason, in her county, if that dobe owner so wished to deem Kain a vicious dog, they'd have to put Kain to sleep.
BUT, she said that AC is on her side with this and are going to talk to the lady about not pressing charges against my friend because my friend can turn around and sue her for the cost of her dog. And technically, HER dog charged and went for MY friend and, honestly in my opinion, that dobe owner should thank her lucky stars that my friend and her children were not attacked by her dobe because other more serious charges could have been pressed had that happened. I'm sorry but dog/human attacks are taken a bit more serious than dog/dog attacks.
So, IMO, Kain the dog could have to pay for someone else's irresponsibility. And that is NOT right.
My friend is upset, not only for her dog, but because she witnessed a dog attack (I know how devastating that one is) and her dog killed another dog. And no matter what the circumstances are, a dog lover doesn't like to see another dog kill another dog. It's a horrible thing.
o.k. I copy pasted this because Im new to this site and couldn't figure out how to simply reply to this "story" So, ...this sounds like pure fantasy...Dog violence is a horrible thing, but there isn't a pit bull on the planet that can kill a full grown doberman in 10seconds, that is pure hogwash. Secondly, dobermans arent stupid enough to charge a family with children. Pit bulls are notorious for attacking anything and anyone, not dobermans. I love pitbulls but they are simply a dumb breed....