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Two young children are dead and their mother suffered major injuries after two family dogs attacked a baby and toddler outside their West Tennessee home.Kirstie Bennard, 30, suffered critical injuries when she tried to intervene in the attack on her 5-month-old boy, Hollace Dean, and 2-year-old girl, Lilly Jane, family and police said.
"She put her body on top of Lilly’s to try and protect her after the attack started," Bennard's uncle by marriage, Jeff Gibson told USA TODAY on Saturday. "Both (dogs) started attacking her while she lay on Lilly."The two children were pronounced dead when officials arrived at the home, the sheriff's office reported.
It was not immediately known what provoked the mauling.The mauling, Gibson said, lasted about 10 minutes.The dogs – two pit bulls that belonged to the family – were euthanized at Memphis Animal Services Thursday.
The family owned the pets, Cheech and Mia, for more than eight years without a violent incident, Kelsey Canfield, the mother's best friend, told Fox News.
"I can promise you those children were her world, and if there was any inkling of danger, she would have never had those dogs near her kids," Canfield told the outlet. "Those children were everything to them, and they just have a really long journey ahead."
How do you feel about PittBull's? I posted this because my wife shared this story with me and my son was just recently participating in a "read to sheltered dogs" event where you could adopt a dog (I know brilliant).
I've heard the arguments that PittBull's get a bad wrap, but it seems time and time again they are the focal point of dogs who do these horrible acts. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThaVirus: :-) I actually like cats, owned several over my lifetime. That’s how I know that cats are murderous, rampaging lunatics!
I know you grew up on farms so you probably had outdoor cats, which makes a bit more sense, but any of these fuckers living in the city who just let their cats roam outside won’t get any sympathy from me when their little Boots gets mauled by a coyote or dog.
With as much time as you spend online, I’d expect you to be more informed.
You’re probably going to spend 10 hours today online, trolling random message boards and cooking up some Star Wars video that no one will give a shit about. You could have taken 20 seconds to Google this and learned something new without needing to be spoon fed some solid knowledge. There’s even an entire Wiki on it:
You’re a dipshit, dude, and your reading comprehension is garbage.
Click one of the links I just posted and try to put some wrinkles in your brain.
Insects were definitely a reach. I’m in Florida so cats typically impact the mammal, bird and reptile population here. I was trying to think of what types of animals a cat would kill in Missouri/Kansas and figured y’all probably don’t have reptiles like we do and decided to replace them with insects.
In general, though, yes, I think we should be a little worried about insects. Studies show that insect populations are declining 2% per year. Anyone who’s taken a biology course knows how important those organisms at the bottom of the food chain are.
But in regards to this conversation, you are right. Cats don’t really significantly impact the insect population and it was dumb of me to mention them.
I largely agree. The evidence is out there of the average lifespans for outdoor cats being significantly shorter.
If an owner’s cats live, eat, sleep, and shit indoors, just keep them indoors. Yes, that might mean you have to pay attention to them, play with them, and buy scratching posts. You know… be a responsible pet owner. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
Cats generally kill things that harm humans, such rodents. This often happens outdoors, in the mud and the rain, and it's possible that an occasional sparrow or songbird slips in. There would be no way of knowing.
On a completely unrelated note, I took a course last week on how to stop severe bleeding. I've never taken any kind of first aid course and it was being offered for free at the local rec center, so I figured I'd show up. I've always wondered what to do if I ever happened upon someone injured and bleeding.
They started the course by talking about how to put latex gloves on and off, and then started talking about the attributes of different types of gauze and tourniquets. I don't carry gloves, gauze, and tourniquets, and apparently lots of others are like me, because someone else asked about what we do if we don't have that equipment. The instructor said he wasn't allowed to talk about doing it without proper equipment.
Really? This was a community course.
I did get some insights, though. I learned that I can stuff a shirt into a wound if I have to, and I learned that a tourniquet needs to be at least one inch wide or you can't get it tight enough without essentially tightening it through someone's arm. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ModSocks:
Jeez, Zimzam, did a Pitbull fuck your wife or something? :-)
Fortunately, I was able to intervene and save her from the pit bulls running a train just in time. It was a good thing I had my side piece handy to satiate their bloodlust for human pussy.
R.I.P. Krystal from Seeking Arrangements. 🙏🏻 [Reply]
Originally Posted by GeorgeZimZam:
Fortunately, I was able to intervene and save her from the pit bulls running a train just in time. It was a good thing I had my side piece handy to satiate their bloodlust for human pussy.
Oh, I also learned that if someone has a bleeding head wound, you shouldn't put a tourniquet around their neck. The instructor felt strongly about this. [Reply]
