Video of Peaches behaviour (clearly, this is an aggressive and unstable dog) and her owner (just what I expected) available here. Calgary's Liontamers are going to rehab Peaches and send her home.
Update: Looks like this pit will be returned to the owner to maul another day. "Peaches" might have to wear a muzzle for a year, but I'm sure her owner - clearly a responsible, upstanding citizen (can you see Peaches abdomen in that picture? Looks like she has already had at least one litter) - will abide by the new rules...don't you think? Seriously, can you imagine the stupidity of an AC department that would release a dog that had to be beaten off a child by more than one person and continued its attack on the child even while under attack by several adults itself? I am going to make a prediction that Calgary is going to have a pit fatality this year.
04. 24. 11. Four year-old Haley Khidri is the latest victim of Calgary's generous dog bylaws. At around 7 pm Haley was attacked in her own yard by a loose, unlicensed (but Bruce, I thought ALL pits were licensed in Calgary??) "tan-colored" pit bull. Neighbours rushed to her aid, but the pit bull would not relent and the child had to be first placed on top of a car, then rushed into a house while neighbours tried to distract the pit bull by beating it with brooms and sticks. The pit bull followed the child into the house (have you EVER heard of another breed doing this? Can you imagine a Lab being this relentlessly focused on killing a child? A Collie? A Shepherd?) so the neighbours had to resume their beating of the dog. If this had happened on a day when the neighbours had been working and not available to repeatedly beat the dog off the child, the child would be dead. Does a child have to die in Calgary before something is done about the growing pit bull problem here? Man up Bill, you know this isn't working.
I live in thhe ne of calgary. And last night I was out walking my pointer cross PUPPY! The little ones in this area and their parents and grandparents were FREAKING out as I walked. My little puppy around the lake. Its ridiculous the rections learned by the parents. The dogs have no choice but to get riled up by those reactions. They ARE dogs after all
ReplyDeleteFunny you say that... there was actually a second dog involved in this attack that was a lab X that belongs to different owners. Looks like taradale has an issues with random dogs running at large.
ReplyDeleteI can't find much information about the "second dog", except that there was a second dog present. I can find nothing to suggest that the second dog was involved in biting the child. If you have other information please provide a link.
ReplyDeletePEACHES has been caught
ReplyDeletehttp://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110426/CGY_dogbite_bylaw_110426/20110426/?hub=CalgaryHome
"My little puppy around the lake. Its ridiculous the rections learned by the parents."
ReplyDeleteWhat's so ridiculous about parents wanting to protect their children? They do pretty much the same toward anything that has proven harm in the past toward children and that damn sure includes pit bulls. Since your dog is still a puppy, how do you know it isn't a pit or pit mix? It may be that these parents see what you are refusing to see or admit.
LMFAO! Well all dogs had better be banned in calgary then!!. Punish the DEED not the breed. Funny how there is mentioning of a lad x..Yet no one cares.. just pit bull pit bull pit bull. I about kids an people over reacting. They get worked up screaming and running, which frightens the dog as well. So learn how to behave around dogs, or just shut up and stay away!
ReplyDeleteUhm, I believe the kid had scratches and no bites. This sounds like a case of excited dog licks the kid's face. My pit bull "attacks" me all the time too - with licks all over my head and neck. She does the same thing to most people she meets, kids included. VICIOUS. You clearly don't understand biology. And the fact that if you ban pit bulls, douchebags will buy other breeds and screw them up too. Breed bans haven't worked anywhere and kids are way more likely to be killed by their parents anyway. BAN PARENTS THEY ARE DANGEROUS AAAHHHHH. I love fearmongering.
ReplyDeleteHave to wonder if Peaches was one of the foul bred Pits Bill Bruce imported from the US?...It is absolutely insane to intentionally traffick our mankilling Pits into another country....
ReplyDeleteSome light reading of 281 documented fatal Pit Bull attacks in the US:
http://www.fatalpitbullattacks.com/index.php
Hey, Anon, with your philosophy of punish the deed, then why don't we apply that to serial killers and lock their parents up? After all, they "raised" the serial killer. There are about 400 different breeds recognized around the world and when one breed is responsible for 2/3 of the fatalities, you punish the breed, duh.
ReplyDeleteA nutter saying WE don't understand biology - HA HA HA!! "So learn how to behave around dogs, or just shut up and stay away." Yes, wear full body armor so people can keep owning pit bulls, or lock yoursleves up in your houses so that 2% of the dog poopulation can do as they please. Does it ever enter their heads how stupid and self absorbed they sound?
ReplyDeletethese nutters and dingbats cant help showing themselves up. they have an answer for everything and anything. the only point in having any kind of dialogue with these cretins is for them to let themselves be seen for what they are.
ReplyDelete"They're not wild animals; they're domestic dogs just like any other domestic dog.Of course pit bulls are not always the right dogs for every family--but in blaming pit bulls as a breed for all those horrendous incidents we read about in the news, we're forgetting the basic fact that we humans have created the very characteristics we vilify in pit bulls, simply to fill our own needs. We are responsible for them. But even in the dog world, DNA isn't destiny. Pit bulls are not born aggressive to dogs or to people--we make them that way. Properly socialized and raised with the same consistent rules, boundries, and limitations as their natural pack would instill in them, it's been my experience that pit bulls make the most amazing pets."
ReplyDeleteCaesar Millan
PS. I don't think their are too many people with more experience than him
I got beaten and robbed by a couple of Native people while I was downtown one night. Better ban them all from our city so I can feel safe again...
ReplyDeleteDoesn't that sound ridiculous, so to should a ban on a breed of dog
Another Pit Attack in Calgary yesterday...soon Bill will turn Idyllic Calgary into Tanzania!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.calgaryherald.com/life/Calgary+police+Taser+bull+three+times/4793969/story.html
What a nasty attitude to a dog that bites fewer people a year than the number that DIE from bee stings.
ReplyDeleteYou do realize that in a five minute span, parents kill, wound, and abuse more kids than pitbulls have since the breed has been in existence... talk about a lack of priorities from all the dog haters out there.
Mar 2008...Woman loses finger in Calgary Pit Bull "bite" incident...neighbors have to beat the animal off the victim with shovels. Way to go Bill!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/city/story.html?id=3998c2be-2563-46ca-aaa7-d07240ee2241
Okay First.. Why was a 4 year old out in the yard by herself at 7pm? That is calling forth all types of things that could go wrong, she could have been kidnapped, ran away or something.
ReplyDeleteSecond.. Punish the deed not the breed. This is ridiculous. Dont blame the pitbull, it wasnt because she was a pitbull. Any kind of dog could kill someone and thats a fact. Cocker spaniels have the worst temperment. More so than a pit or a rottie or a dalmation. NO NEED to blame the breed no matter what dog it was. If you think that pits are dangerous because of the "reports" youve seen... im going to tell you once. Your an idiot. Thank you for your time and im sorry for the loss of this unsupervised 4 year old.