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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]
Pitbulls are aggressive but some of you are taking it way too far. They aren't all like that. Dogs have personalities just like humans. Every breed has aggressive dogs Pitbulls just are.more.prone to it.. that doesn't mean 'kill all of them.'
Humans have done far more damage to other species and this planet than Pitbulls ever could.. keep that in mind. [Reply]
Originally Posted by GeorgeZimZam:
“Don’t get it twisted guys! There is no way this pack of murderous pit bulls that mauled their owner’s elderly mother were food aggressive! Also you are so dumb!”
Big Daddy is eloquent and a natural spokesperson for setting the record straight about pit bulls. I don’t see how any of us ever had this backwards. All hail BD!
It helps when you're speaking about killing everyone's dogs that you actually have a clue and experience with the breed instead of the steady steam of soy boy discharge we get in this thread. I am simply saying the APBT is not a food aggressive dog by nature at all.
If you want to talk about what's stupid here, it's having 5 pitbulls off the chain as a pack in your backyard. THAT is stupid as hell for a lot of reasons. Owners should be held accountable. That should apply to all breeds.
Originally Posted by wbbonneriii:
I would shoot every single one if I had the ammo and wouldn’t go to jail…I literally hate pit bulls (crap breed)…
I walk 5 to 6 evenings a week. used to walk by a house that had two "rescued" pit bulls running free. They would not bark, but run up behind me and headbutt me in the back of my legs. The owners thought it was cute.
Originally Posted by stonedstooge:
I walk 5 to 6 evenings a week. used to walk by a house that had two "rescued" pit bulls running free. They would not bark, but run up behind me and headbutt me in the back of my legs. The owners thought it was cute.
Scared the shit out of me
They were testing to see if you were weak.
Any sign of weakness and they would have torn you limb from limb. [Reply]
Originally Posted by PAChiefsGuy:
Pitbulls are aggressive but some of you are taking it way too far. They aren't all like that. Dogs have personalities just like humans. Every breed has aggressive dogs Pitbulls just are.more.prone to it.. that doesn't mean 'kill all of them.'
Yeah man just a coincidence that the only breed that has ever attacked me was pitbulls. [Reply]
