This evening I just read of a pit bull attack in temecula. Two pit bulls broke into a yard and attacked 2 dogs, one a austrailian shepherd mix and a pomeranian. Of course the pom was killed and it the neighborhood had not come to the rescue, the shepherd mix would have met the same fate. The owners of the dog who was killed were not home, but expected that their dogs would be safe inside their own fenced yard. The story goes that the pit bulls in their own yard, saw a stray dog and barked at it, and it ran away, they went wild and broke through their own fence and chased it. It escaped before they could attack it and then noticed this families dogs barking at the stray dog. They broke into their yard (they don't say how they broke into the fence or through it) and the attack was on. The owners of the dog that was killed said they were so glad their little three old child was not out in the yard playing, who knows what would have happened to them. They pit bulls are at the animal shelter in Lake Elsinore and they shelter said they want to give the dogs a chance, even though in 2004 the dogs had bit a child.
We have to make sure our fenced yards are safe don't we? what a sad story! But how much more tragic it would have been if the family had been home that day and their children were playing in the back yard.
Man! The people with the pit bull were upset by the attack, but have not asked for their dogs to be put down. The shelter said if the owners of the pit bull get them back they will have to keep them in a kennel with many regulations.
Just wanted to pass this story on. This problem seems to be growing every day in our area.
Sharon Empson

Nothing against you Sharon, but man, I am really getting tired of hearing about these "Pitbull attacks". I'd really want to know if they were indeed real Pitbulls or Lab mixes. I don't trust the media worth a damn anymore regarding these stories..

I know these are the kinds of stories that will always make the news. They seem to evoke the same interest as gawking as we drive by an auto accident. I'd expect everyone here would see it as another example of owner error.

I thought some time ago that Ed said he didn't want to see these stories posted - or is that wishful thinking?

Mike

No, I don't remember seeing anything about Ed not wanting dog attack news stories posted here. I do know that he objects to breed bashing, and posts that want to know which breed is more likely to go crazy and turn on their owners and stupid stuff like that. I personally don't trust the dog breed to be a pit bull unless the media publish a picture of the animal in question. People tend to lump almost ALL bully breeds under the heading of pit bull, especially if they attack another animal or a person.

If the dog has short hair and a big head, it's a pitbull to the media. Like the recent story headline about a "pitbull" who adopted a kitty or bunny or something, and the picture was that of a Rottweiler. A lot of these dogs are mixed breeds too, and since most reporters are hired for their looks instead of their intelligence, no telling what breed the dog is, much less the specifics of the story.

I'm getting tired of hearing about "pitbull" attacks, too. It's an obvious bias on the part of the media. A bias they've created by reporting these attacks over and over and sensationalizing the reports. I'm not saying pits being raised by idiots can't be unstable, just saying all we hear now is about pitbulls.

Here's the story:

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/11/01/news/californian/9_03_2110_31_06.txt

 Quote: alex corral

Nothing against you Sharon, but man, I am really getting tired of hearing about these "Pitbull attacks". I'd really want to know if they were indeed real Pitbulls or Lab mixes. I don't trust the media worth a damn anymore regarding these stories..

From the story, which is from OCTOBER 2006:
"They said they hope their loss can serve as a lesson on the need to tightly secure all backyard fences, as a Labrador running loose also played a role in the melee."