There's Something Wrong With This Picture
In Bossier City, Louisiana, a pit bull puppy chewed off the toes of an infant child. The child is now a ward of the state or some such thing because of parental neglect/desertion (apparently the parents were sleeping nearby while this happened). The part that amazes me the most is that the public interest there and concern seem to be primarily for the DOG, not the BABY WHO'S HAD TOES CHEWED OFF. I can't figure that out. What is wrong with people?
posted by jay are at 10:52 PM
14 Comments:
I do find that interesting.
When I was a fledgling social worker some 30 plus years ago, I had a client who babies’ toes were similarly chewed off by rats in her apartment. No one had any compassion for those rats!
I, for one, did include among the “rats” the slum lord who owned the apartment building and continued to own it for years after the atrocity happened to these infants.
8:40 AM, December 16, 2006
See my previous post on this:
http://micrographia.blogspot.com/2005/05/i-cant-understand-it-hes-never-eaten.html
5:29 PM, December 16, 2006
It is a sad world when animals have precedence over humans but in some minds that is how it is. ec
7:24 PM, December 16, 2006
Yes, that seemed extremely bizarre and sick to me as well.
11:01 PM, December 16, 2006
nick, that's awful! and unca, thanks for the link. Agree with you---just seems like an unnecessary risk.
11:50 PM, December 16, 2006
If you referred to Unca’s post you can tell by my comments that I am not a pit bull fan. When I heard the story it was more about the neglect of the child than the pit bull. The baby is now in foster care and the parents are charged with criminal negligence as Jay are mentioned. I also heard on the news that the pit bull was only 6 weeks old. Plus there was a veterinarian saying that the puppy might have been trying to nurse. I think the nursing factor brought a lot of sympathy to the pup.
Believe me I’m not defending pit bull's but I think people are looking at this more as the parents fault and the puppy doing what comes natural.
12:36 AM, December 17, 2006
Aurgh! The parents AND the dog have to go. This stuff makes me crazy. A cop-friend of mine had to shoot a pitbull that had a deathgrip on his forearm, after he'd warned the owners to call the animal off. He gets stitches, the PETA folks went CRAZY. WTF?!
When I was a kid, we had a neighbor that kept their dog so mean that it once went into a frenzy, knocked the screendoor right off the hinges, and came after me, ripping into my thigh and upper arm before they got control of it...all for my merely walking home from school. They blamed my screaming from fear, sending the dog into frenzy enough to bite me a second time. No one needs an animal like that in their home.
6:29 PM, December 17, 2006
well, blogball, you brought in some details that might make the whole thing a little less evil than it had seemed before. Still and all, I'm not a huge fan of dogs near newborns anyway---you hear all the time stories of a jealous animal (and understandably so) and it just seems like a big risk. Having a pitbull or any animal that can become vicious and holds on till death--I just don't get it. I know some wonderful people who have a pitbull. There are lots of great people who have them. But I don't buy the whole "He's as sweet as pie and would never hurt anyone. He's never harmed any of us." Well, not yet. And I like the gun analogy that unca mentioned in his post (see his comment). Some things just don't seem worth the risk, no matter how small that risk may seem or be.
12:43 AM, December 18, 2006
This is the results of a Google news search after I entered Pit Bull Attack
All headlines are recent & separate incidences and just a few of the many more that were listed.
.Pony recovers from Harris County pit bull attack
.6-year-old recovering from pit bull attack
.Businesses Raise Money For Pit Bull Attack Victim
.Toddler Gets 57 Stitches In Face After Pit Bull Attack
.Vincent girl, 2, recovering from pit bull attack
.Manslaughter Charge Filed In Fatal Pit Bull Attack
.Girls Injured In Pit Bull Attack
.Second pit bull attack causes concern in Salem
.Girl attacked by neighbor's pit bull
.Pit bull attacks teen on her bike
.Woman Attacked by Pit Bulls
.Sheriff's deputy searching home kills attacking pit bull
.Serena Williams' friend's pit bull bites security guard
10:01 AM, December 18, 2006
Pit bull lovers think it's just an agenda against them. But I think the reason we don't see "Girl requires 57 stitches because of Dachsund attack" is because it will never happen. Pick a dozen, two dozen, three dozen other breeds of dogs---it isn't going to be in the news because it isn't going to happen. So why take the risk with a dog that is KNOWN to make it happen? Well, I'm just repeating myself, but I obviously feel strongly about it.
10:08 AM, December 18, 2006
Pit bull lovers must forget the jaw mechanism on the animal. It locks once it gloms onto something. Not the animal's fault, no, that is the way it is put together, but why have one??? I run the other way when I see one!!
10:58 AM, December 18, 2006
The argument about it not being the dog's fault reminds me of the NRA's stand. In this case, "Dogs don't kill people, People kill people."
8:37 PM, December 20, 2006
jay are: did you hear about the latest pit bull attack? i think it was in central ca (merced?). a little girl was attacked by a neighboring pit bull (who had previously bitten someone else). she was hospitalized -- i heard it got her in the face and that she lost a lot of blood. don't understand the on-going stories of these dogs that keep attacking people and are allowed to keep doing so.
9:54 PM, January 01, 2007
that is so horrible!
10:24 PM, January 01, 2007
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