WHOA--Did anyone else hear about this?

    • Gold Top Dog

    WHOA--Did anyone else hear about this?

    Is it just me or does sometihng about this seem completely fishy?

    http://www.wivb.com/global/story.asp?s=6768851

    • Gold Top Dog
    jigga WHA?!
    • Gold Top Dog
    That sounds very fishy to me.  No way...I just don't believe it. 
    • Gold Top Dog
    No - it's not just you.  That is beyond bizarre.  If as the story states,  the kid was wearing a diaper, shouldn't that have given someone enough time to get the dog away? I never knew dogs, or any other animal for that matter, had any urges to mate outside of its own species. [:-] Live and learn - but it wouldn't surprise me if there's a little more to this story.
     
    Joyce
    • Gold Top Dog
    I'm guessing they are blaming the pit bull for some human's act.
    • Gold Top Dog
    I submitted the link to snopes.com...maybe soon they'll be able to comment on the veracity...I happen to agree with mudpuppy.
    • Gold Top Dog
    errm. Well...
    When I was young we had a large black Lab in our neighborhood that would accost any child that was bent over. No lie, tying your shoe? BAM...Looking under a car? BAM...this dog was feared in the neighborhood because of this. We all had clothing on of course so the dog never did more than well, soil the back of your pants and occasionally scratch you with his declaws. It was horrible...talk about irresponsible owner. I'd forgotten or blocked that memory until reading this just now...ugh.
     
    This case? The child must've been nude? I guess my kids have been nude around my dogs...right after a bath...or mid clothing change...but....long enough and isolated enough for THIS? umm...no. Never. Ever.
     
    I do find it suspect...but folks...people leave evidence just as a dog would...and if there is no other human contributor in cells, blood, hair, dna, whatever...only dog. What else can one say?
     
    Certainly...the people involved could have orchestrated the act...and that is a disgusting thought. But given the amount of stings lately for child porn rings....nothing would shock me.
     
    ETA: change a word
    • Gold Top Dog
    As usual, when a Pit Bull is involved, the conclusion that everyone jumps to is that the victim is at fault or the people reporting it are not telling the truth...... [&:]
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    Whaaat?  Ok, this dog had to have some serious aim to accomplish that.  Sounds fishy to me that someone's trying to cover their tracks.  Wonder what the toddler has to say?
    Sick.
    • Gold Top Dog
    As usual, when a Pit Bull is involved, the conclusion that everyone jumps to is that the victim is at fault or the people reporting it are not telling the truth......

     
    Not as usual....this is a VERY strange story and I deeply suspect humans have a far greater hand in this than in the case of an attack story.
    • Gold Top Dog
    So my husband has a story similar to Gina's about a friend who got knocked down and humped (fully clothed) rather graphically by a local dog. But I am none too sure that dogs know where to, er, put it with another species. Like yes, humping a leg, air humping, it happens. But do dogs really know about human orifices?

    • Silver
    It's up on some other news sites and I first read it here yesterday: [linkhttp://www.wkbw.com/news/local/8419972.html]http://www.wkbw.com/news/local/8419972.html[/link]
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    I want to put this forth...how many of us...even as kids...had dogs in the household that would use stuffed toys, people bent over doing this or that, or our legs or etc and laughed about it?
     
    Many of these incidents piled upon each other within a household, for the benefit of a good laugh by older siblings or etc,...added with the wrong circumstance (ie the boy being unclothed) could lead to this happening. 2y/o spend a lot of time on their knees playing, crawling, just being kids. To me with experience with breeding dogs...things happen quickly...and the scenario is not as far fetched to me as it might be to others...just as stomach turning...but not completely out of the realm of possible.
     
    Dogs know when their mistresses are having their periods...they sniff without fail the genital areas (crotch) of humans upon meeting them many times...just as they would another dog. I don't think they are mystified when it comes to a humans orifices, no. Many are right along with their owners when they are intimate with their human partners, I've seen plenty written about "the dog likes to watch, what do I do?" LOL...no?
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    I'm finding the story very hard to believe, too...I mean, yeah, I've seen dogs mount people before, but that is always more of a dominant thing than a sexual thing, right?  I also think it would be hard for the dog to get that far if the mom only left the child "for a brief moment."  And was she in the floor changing the kids diaper?  Don't ;people usually have tables or something?  I'm not saying that it couldn't happen, but it does seem very odd...
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    I want to put this forth...how many of us...even as kids...had dogs in the household that would use stuffed toys, people bent over doing this or that, or our legs or etc and laughed about it?

     
    Gina - I did have a neighbor dog that was very much like the one you described.  I can remember this dog, a bassett/beagle mix, humping many of the kids.  I also remember it happening to me one time.  I was probably 6 or 7 and sitting on the sidewalk when it happened.  The dog was surprisingly strong and I was crying and fighting it off (it was using my arm/shoulder).  Of course, all the other kids thought it was hysterical.  Yeah, I guess something like that might've been what happened...but did it just happen so fast the parents couldn't react in time?