My wife told me of a story she just heard of a man that grabbed an attacking eighty pound pit bull by the collar and twisted it choking the dog till it died suferring several bites on arms. Has anyone else heard this or have a link for this story?

 Quote: Mitch Kuta

My wife told me of a story she just heard of a man that grabbed an attacking eighty pound pit bull by the collar and twisted it choking the dog till it died suferring several bites on arms. Has anyone else heard this or have a link for this story?

http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou070131_mh_pitbulldeath.393518db.html

This story irritates the he** out of me. SO the guy turns around and challenges the dog instead of just walking like he was doing and minding his own business (mind you he should have kept an eye out, but to turn around, lunge and holler at the dog was just asking for confrontation).

I've "lunged and hollered" at several dogs who were screwing with me and mine. Made violent contact with 3 which sent them scurrying.

My neighbor had a classic fear biter way back when. The dog would go on the offensive only as long as one's back was turned. I tried that approach. He did not go scurrying. Nor did the majority of such dogs I encountered while spending many a night going through people's backyards as part of my job description. Acting like a bigger, badder (biggest, baddest, in fact) mofo did the trick.

I'm not inclined to obvious give s***-head people OR dogs the benefit of the doubt.

If they don't back down (which they usually do with good old lunging and hollering)...then I guess the fight is on. If you turn your back and HE THEN DECIDES the fight is on, then advantage; dog.

Edit: this is all in the context of a dog being a pro-active, coming-at-me-right-now jerk.

Fear, just plain fear surging out of "Joe Blow Don't Know Better" which obviously, in this case, led to fight or flight, right?

Interesting that the killed pit's owners put their other pit to sleep too. Prolly more to this story as well.

Since were speaking of tragic pit bull stories, check out these news articles. This was only a four month old puppy. Its obvious that the blame lies with the owner here.

Toledoan charged as son loses foot in pit bull attack
Dog warden wonders if pup chewed off foot

I'm sorry Carol but imho that man did the community a favor, what if it was my child or wife taking a walk on a public street. They may have been killed. Yes, there may have been other ways for the gentleman to handle it but he is under no obligation to learn anything about dog behaviour, thats the dog owners resposibility.

I don't think the man was at fault at all, in fact I feel bad for him. The injuries he sustained must have been really painful.

Clearly the dog was aggressive and a threat to people in the neighbourhood. The owners are irresponsible idiots for letting the dog continue to get loose (especially since they'd already gotten involved with animal control over the dog according to the report).

We'll never stop hearing stories like this if such imbeciles continue to own dogs, let alone pit bulls.
Then again, if it were a papillon maybe the man would've had an easier time defeating the dog and wouldn't have had to resort to choking the dog to death

I agree, I know Carol it's hard to hear these stories without feeling bad for the animals which in many cases are innocent.Acting as nature intended, sometimes it is simply curiousity and other time ,fear.But you have to think that if this man would have been with a child or a child alone riding his bike, it would have been the child or an elderly woman we would sad for and being perhaps buried instead. I think what this guy did is what many wish they could have done to prevent a horrible attack on an smaller individual, you know?.But I understand both sides, and at the end both the guy walkijg in his neighborhood and the dog are really the innocent , the guilty party is THE OWNER OF THIS DOG!!
Again another dip sh.t that lets their dog roam free!I wish the guy could have dragged the owner instead by the collar..

 Quote: carol boche

This story irritates the he** out of me. SO the guy turns around and challenges the dog instead of just walking like he was doing and minding his own business (mind you he should have kept an eye out, but to turn around, lunge and holler at the dog was just asking for confrontation).

Carol, I think the guy did what he needed to do to prevent an attack on him. The guy said the dog kept "running up" on him, so he turned to face him. That's pure instinct - you don't want your back to a dog that is barking and on your heels. Turning your back is risky at best when the dog is in that mode. I turned my back on a pitbull that was ready to attack, but did so cause I could see he was fixed on my pup and not on me (picked up my pup and turned away). There's nothing easy about having a large strong dog bent on confrontation with you.

At the same time, my heart breaks for the dog dying the way he did. IMO, it's not JUST the owners of pitbulls that are irresponsible, it's the breeders as well. Lots of backyard sh*thead breeders of pitbulls that know nothing about keeping stability of temperament in a breed. They breed for their own reasons, a lot of them for sheer aggression in a pitbull. They don't WANT a stable temperament, not for their agenda. So they have put the breed at risk. These types of breeders don't breed for sport dogs or family pets. They breed for a dog that meets their own desire to fight the world, to fulfill their own anger at everyone, and to defy social norms.

They're the ones to blame. There are tons of newspaper ads to sell pitbull pups. Some people just put signs up on light poles. The people who love the pitbull breed need to target these sellers/breeders by calling and asking important questions like why did they breed, what's the temperament of the dam and sire, etc. Depending on the answers you get, you may know the next step to take, if any at all will ever stop this kind of breeder.