Yesterday was the worst day in my life-(warning disturbing)

Oh gosh I am very sorry to hear about this. Pit bulls are known as attackers. Your friend and her daughter were very lucky they weren't hurt!! I would never get within 20 feet from a pit bull! Hopefully, the new kitten will bring her peace.

I am so so so very sorry. This must've been emotionally and spiritually draining for you. As a new owner of a very young, cute, innocent and curious of everything puppy... I can only imagine your grief and the grief of the families involved.

thats really sad, and kinda scary at the same time. Its actually really creepy...just to think it was all over food. I'm sorry you and your friend had to go through it all.

That sounded VERY scary, & freaky-I'm sorry that you had to go through something like that, & hope that things soon start to return to normal.
I will never understand the popularity of Pittbulls in this country-my sister has 2 of them & I try to avoid them because I can't stand them, & I am an animal lover. I don't want them in my home, either.
Her first Pittbull tore open the neck of another dog that she was looking after because it got too close to her. The dog lived, & she had to pay it's vet bills.
Hopefully that's the only price she will have to pay for being so naive..

OMG!!! How horrible! My sympathy goes out to your friend and her dogs.

What will become of the pit bulls?

I know they are agressive in many ways, I have one i've raised from 6 wks and he is now 5 years old. I know his bite very well too on account he bite me by mistake will tryn to run from two others. He is now getting a little agressive when he plays and bites even harder. So I have to be a little more careful.


PLEASE NEVER EVER break up a dog fight alone!!!! You can be turned on, you need to at least have one person per dog and each grab the dogs hinds legs and pulled back while turning in a circular motion, to prevent the dog from biting you and so it will be busy tryn to keep balance. PLease never yell at the either that will also convert them to attack you if they feel threaten. Tell you friend to keep something handy that can cause a break in the fight. This might sound mean but it works, try a fire extinguisher(sorry if it isnt spelled right) the cold blast will stopped them and you can quickly remove what you can or restain them.


I had read about that from a pitbull breeder's web site.
The pit could have reacted to the warning growl as a threat and reatced in agression and off of basic instinct as what most could have done.

Ashley

Oh how terrible! I'm so sorry you all had to go through that!
My heart goes out to all of you, especially the little one who had to witness all of it. I hope that he doesn't become fearful of dogs because of this.
I've owned dogs in the past and believe me, even the smallest dogs have nasty bites. Mine were Pomerian-mutts. I had the vet at the house(I owned six and couldn't take them all together for their shots, so she came to us) well our one was upset because she didn't like the vet and bit right thru my thumb nail to the bone! . Holy crap did that hurt!!!!!
But anyway, my story is for another time......
My heart is for you and your friend, right now. I'm glad none of you were bitten.(and that the kitty wasn't nosey at that time). May time blur all your horrible visions, that you have right now, in your head.

How terrible. So very terrible. I am glad no people were hurt. I myself own a husky, and they can be food agressive, but will usually warn.....pitts being agressive in nature...no doubt took that as a threat so very sad.

my heart goes out to you

That would have been so hard to witness especially since you were helpless to do anything, i agree with the others on interveening, it is hard to just let it happen but you have to be careful you don't get hurt yourself.

Last weekend my Husband and i went camping with some friends and their two dogs, one of the dogs (a lab cross rotweiler) max has been friends with my puppy anassa for ages, anassa is a pointer cross wolfhound. The other dog, saxon is a staffy cross.

saxon is a very quiet dog, this was the first time i'd met him, all the dogs were tied up to the cars because we were in a caravan park and they weren't allowed to run loose. saxon would just sit there and growl for no reason, his owner had brought him from an animal rescue place when he was about 7 months old and he'd had a pretty rough life.

the next day, we took all the dogs to the beach for a run, they were all running through the sand dunes and nassa was having so much fun, her big ears would fly into the air with every bound

saxon and max were playing a little rough, they are both male and sometimes it would nearly esculate into a fight but they left anassa alone.

not long before we left one of the dogs found a large shark (dead) washed up on the beach, nassa has never seen a shark before and was excited and ran over to investigate, for some reason saxon just went at her, he was attacking her and growling and all i could hear was her yelping, saxon's owner grabbed him somehow and dragged him off, poor nassa was yelping so loudly, she was all wet and had her tail between her legs, she snuggled up to me then followed me back to the car where she jumped in and curled up in a ball, i know she was scared because usually she can't or won't jump in the car, it's a fourwheel drive and we lift her inside.

she is only four months old but she is already bigger than saxon and is nearly as tall as max so maybe he didn't realise she was a puppy, either way, it was too scary and i don't know what would have happened if saxon hadn't been taken away.

she looked such a pitiful site though, she was all wet and her ears were dangling down, she was looking up at me with her big brown eye's which looked soooo sad and she was whimpering, it nearly made me cry .


i guess with any dogs, you just never know what to expect, some dogs are more prone to fighing than others but you can never tell.


love,

felicia

Thanks for all the kind words. It was a very emotional and scary scene. I am a die hard dog lover and unfortunately I will never look at another pitbull the same. We got her a cat last night and his name is "cat". It was her sons idea.
It is so sweet and is 3 years old. He is a mixture and caught our eyes the minute we walked in. We get to bring it home tonight and I am going to help her in the introducing process from all the great tips on here. Im hoping it will help take the nightmares and sorrow out of there life forever.
I hope the dogs are all doing well in doggy heaven as they were all 3 sweet dogs. They were treated well and lived long good lives.
Thanks again for the words of encouragement and prayers. It will take awhile to heal from this episode but I think the new addition will help.
Gosh I still cry when I talk about this. It was very traumatizing for everyone.

That's truly awful - pitbulls are known to be unpredictable, no matter what age they have been raised from, or how well they are trained. Still, it's so horrible that this was such an unprovoked incident - as unprovoked as it would get anyway. My heart goes out to all of you.

I am soo sorry you had to go through this..you know..I know many people who love their pits and I have owned one myself who was a sweety.....but this is the THIRD story like this I have heard THIS MONTH alone about pits who were *wonderful* and gone crazy...and no, I haven't heard another story about another breed this month..it really stinks...hope everything works out for you and your friend.

I am not really fan of a dog, but sorry to hear that. My mother in law's dog had to be euthanized cause he bit another person. Before he bit Jake and it was really bad and left a big scar on his arm.