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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 Razaele:
Every one of these stories - “they never did anything like that before!”
As a runner I spend a lot of time on the street. I haven't been threatened frequently, but whenever a dog comes after me the moron owner always says that.
Well, guess what? I've never sued anyone into extreme poverty, but if you're too stupid to leash your dog, I guess that'll be two firsts. I've been charged by dogs enough that I will absolutely get a late-night lawyer and sue you for everything I can get. I've lost patience with stupid owners.
The last time it happened to me was terrifying. A biggish dog was going to kill me until the stupid owner sprinted up and grabbed it. And then two hours later when I passed by the house on the way home, the dog was still running loose. That idiot is going to fund my retirement at some point.
Now, I probably should carry mace, but it happens infrequently enough that it's hard to justify carrying something around on every run. But this is reminding me that I should. Plus, I guess it'll train the dogs if the owners are too stupid to do so.
I've actually been charged more often than I probably remember. But if a dog charges me on a leash, the owner's good and they can always stop it. I did have a woman almost go down when she was walking two labs and one of them went insane when I ran by 30 feet away from her. But she hung on, so I tip my hat to her.
Of my three scariest incidents, two were labs, which surprises me. But labs are so common that I guess even a low attack incidence will produce a few problems due to sheer numbers.
Originally Posted by threebag:
Seems like they are everywhere, especially with societies shift towards normalizing thugisms
Very sad for this family and others who have had bad experiences with mad dogs
We had a pit bull ban in Denver until about 18 months ago. Everyone seems to have one now, and these aren't thugs. They're pretty normal-looking (usually young) people. I have two theories behind this:
1. There was sweet and sad violin music for years about the ban and how it unjustly punished a lovable breed. I think that might have convinced a lot of the younger population that pit bulls are sweeties who have been persecuted, and now we're seeing a population boom by those people in an attempt to atone.
2. The modern internet culture makes it cool to go against advice, recommendations, and common sense. So maybe it's cool now to get a pit bull to show that "no one can tell me what to do".
I'm sure there's an appeal to thugs as well, but I live in a low-thuggery neighborhood so I don't see that.
With good owners, I suspect that most owners will be fine, and probably 1 percent of owners will get totally screwed because their dog will "never do that before" until it decides one day to maul a person. [Reply]
Originally Posted by crayzkirk:
I have a friend that loves them. He's a hot head and thinks they are cool. Of course, they aren't trained and when they do something wrong, he yells at them and hits them. He had a male and female that he had to keep crated because they would just keep tearing each other up.
For him, at least, the dogs are more of a symbol of how much of a badass he thinks he is. He's Italian, short and fat. He asked me to watch them one time and I said absolutely not. Nothing worse than an untrained dog. Won't sit, heel or even respond when it sees something it wants to go after. It's a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Is there a Pitbull ordinance in Kansas City?
there is but not sure its enforced. Mayor does all he can to look the other way from the hood [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigBeauford:
This is ****ing terrible. And these two tards look like the poster children for "My pittie cupcake wouldn't hurt a fly".
Right, it’s always “well MY dog would never do that” [Reply]
If you can get behind an attacking pit bull (easier said than done) they're one of the easier dogs to asphyxiate. You can just pull back on the collar and they'll go to sleep. Two dogs is a wrap though. Looks like the owners had the dogs before they had kids. Didn't do a good job of seperating the kids from the shitbulls. Unnecessary tragedy. [Reply]
I don't have any issue with pits or any other breed, but you need to be able to control your animal at a moment's notice; therefore, I would not endorse having larger breeds of dogs around small children with only a weak man or woman present.
It sounds like the mother here did her best but I question her strength and decision-making. Laying on a child with two ferocious 40-65 pound dogs trying to kill her is just not a good choice. If the dogs had the child in their jaws, she should have been choking, kicking or stabbing the shit out of those animals. If they didn't have a hold of them, she needed to get them off the ground immediately. If she could have gotten them on the kitchen counter, she could have bought some time to get things situated.
Generally speaking, physical incompetence, especially in dealing with "wild" domestic animals really upsets me. Any viral video of an out-of-control dog or cat is bound to involve a handful of weak ass people just standing around having no clue how to handle the situation. [Reply]
Those parents will be in therapy for the rest of their lives. If one of them was against the pets on the first place, divorce court and hate will be first on the agenda.
I can't even fathom seeing your two small children being mauled and torn apart by two dogs.
There is nothing positive from this, not a single thing. [Reply]
Originally Posted by scho63:
While your post is well thought out and is ideal, the one major flaw in your argument is "controlling" your pets.
What we see all too often, including this story, are that the pitbulls loose control and owners have no ability to get them to stop.
I understand that you can't mind control your animal at all times. What I mean by control is being able to end the threat quickly if a situation like this arises. Emphasis on the "ability to get them to stop."
Cats are not very big, but they're assholes and will not hesitate to scratch or claw at an infant if it invades their space. For that reason, I'd say you should not have a cat with an infant/toddler around. If you do, you need to be ready to punt the shit out of the cat in a heartbeat.
On a similar note, pit bulls aren't as temperamental as a cat, but they're far more dangerous if that kill switch is suddenly flicked for whatever reason. Knowing that, controlling your pit bull, Rottweiler, German Shepherd, etc. would mean putting an end to the violence.
This woman was incapable of doing so. A lot of people are incapable of doing so. [Reply]
If some owners are able to stop an attack from becoming lethal, then that means pitbulls are even MORE lethal than the stats suggest because there could easily be more deaths. [Reply]
