How's this for a double standard?

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Loose Dogs Attack Man in KCK
KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A dog attack landed a Kansas City, Kan. man in the emergency room and left a little boy shaken up on Wednesday. An animal control officer even took a spill fighting off the dogs.

The owners said the blue-heeler black lab mixes were locked up in their backyard at 40th and Booth, but slipped out. During their time on the run, they bit a man and chased a boy, while refusing to be taken in by animal control.

Little League coach Robert Dorsey was playing catch with one of his players out in the street. The boy yelled that the dogs were out, giving Dorsey little time to run.

"When I did they were on me," Dorsey said. "And then I slipped and fell on my face on the grass, and then I said, 'Oh my God, he got me.'"

With a bloodied bandage covering the bites on his calf, Dorsey said he tried fighting back.

"I was able to grab a brick and hit the dog in the face to get him off of me," Dorsey said.

A KCK animal control officer took a spill too. Police said the dogs didn't bite him. Neighbors said it's not the first time the pair of dogs got loose.

"They had my son on the porch," neighbor Staci Simmons said. "They were in the yard and my son was on the porch, scared of them. And he was like, 'Get away. Get away.' I opened the door and it was those same two dogs."

The owners told FOX 4 they felt bad the neighbors got hurt.

Eventually the dogs made their way back to their owner's backyard. Animal control made sure they weren't able to slip out again.

"We were in the process of going out to practice with the guys today, and now we all of a sudden end up being attacked by dogs," Dorsey said.

The three-year-old dogs are in animal control custody to be observed for a week. If they are licensed and had their shots, the dogs will then return home

You just *know* if these had been pits, they would have been shot on sight or at least put down ASAP.

At least they did tack on to the newscast that "80% of dog bites are from un-spayed/neutered dogs and 80% of those dogs attacking are males".

Moral: Speuter your dogs!!

 

[SummerRiot]

Ack...

Those dogs need to be rehomed or PTS...

No reason for aggresion issues like that!

 

[darkchild16]

thats bullshi* imo, they should be evaluated then rehomed or pts.

 

[elegy]

whether they should be rehomed or pts i can't comment on, but where are the fines for the owner?? oh wah they feel bad. whoop dee do. we need some laws that will make them feel worse.

 

[2BlackDogs]

whether they should be rehomed or pts i can't comment on, but where are the fines for the owner?? oh wah they feel bad. whoop dee do. we need some laws that will make them feel worse.

I agree! Aren't there laws about biting dogs there? They hold the dogs to make sure they are licensed and updated on their shots then they go home ... that's it. what about fines, rules for the owner to get to keep the dogs, etc.

They really need to make better laws for these situations.

 

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The pit bull people here are in an uproar, because in the past month 3 or 4 cities have passed blanket pit bull bans because of a number of attacks over the summer that were identical to the one posted above, save these new dogs weren't pits.

They are all pointing to the fact that any loose dog can and may bite and that they shouldn't be targeted unfairly. I think it's falling on deaf ears though...I heard mention of a rumor today that KCK is thinking about banning GSD's next. Pretty soon the only dog we'll be able to own in this area is a stuffed one.

 

[BlackPuppy]

I was just wondering, do you think if the man/kid "played dead" it would have helped. Sometimes I just wonder if the prey drive gets the dog all excited and into kill mode. I know at the dog club, if a little dog gets away, the people with the big dogs are put on alert. After all, there's not much difference between a Yorkie and rabbit when their just a furry blur.

Then I think of poor Molly, the border collie in NYC who was attacked and nearly eaten by a pack of German Shorthairs. Those dogs were just out for blood.

 

[SummerRiot]

Belgians are on the "possible black list" as well..

If that happens.. i'm moving. I think its ridiculous.

Its the dumb ass irresponsibile owners who make it difficult to own a dog now adays.

 

[bigdaddyTank]

http://www.kshb.com/kshb/nw_local_news/article/0,1925,KSHB_9424_5005105,00.html

Two save woman from pit bulls
“They would not let go,” said one of the rescuers. The animals had escaped from their owner’s fenced yard in KC.
By CHRISTINE VENDEL
The Kansas City Star

Two pit bulls attacked a 32-year-old woman Monday morning as she walked down a Kansas City sidewalk, ripping chunks of flesh from her legs.

Gloria Reed suffered possible permanent injuries to her legs during the 7 a.m. attack on Prospect Avenue near 34th Street, police said.

Two passers-by rescued the woman by scaring the dogs away.

“If someone would not have intervened, this woman could have been killed by these dogs,” said police Capt. Rich Lockhart, the department spokesman.

Just before the attack, Dell Wells was driving himself and Willis Hughes to their jobs at a nearby liquor store when they saw the dogs running loose. The sight concerned Hughes.

“They just didn’t look right,” Hughes said. “I was thinking to myself, ‘I hope no one comes by there walking.’ ”

When the men stepped out of the pickup they were in, Hughes heard a woman screaming.

“I think those dogs are attacking someone!” Hughes said to Wells.

They jumped back into the pickup and drove one block, where they saw a woman on her back with a dog clamped onto each of her legs.

“She was kicking and swinging and yelling for help,” Hughes said. “They would not let go.”

Wells pulled his truck to the curb and honked his horn, startling the dogs. They started to run but then paused, as if to return.

Wells drove closer to them and honked again.

When the dogs were gone, Wells and Hughes helped Reed, whose legs and hands were bleeding. She couldn’t move her left leg, Hughes said, and could barely move her right.

“It was the most horrible thing you could ever see,” Wells said. “I’ve never seen anything like that.”

An ambulance took Reed to Truman Medical Center, where she underwent surgery Monday afternoon.

When officers visited Reed at the hospital, she told them she was walking along the sidewalk when the dogs pulled her to the ground. She told officers she took off one of her shoes and hit the dogs.

Shortly after the attack, police searched the area for the dogs and encountered a pit bull in the 3300 block of Park Avenue. The dog charged an officer, who shot and killed it, police said. That dog was not involved in the attack.

Police then saw two dogs with blood on their fur inside a fence in the 3200 block of Olive Avenue. Animal control officers impounded the animals and cited the owner, Ron Washington, with two violations because his dogs were running loose and had injured a person. The violations together carry a minimum fine of $325 and up to six months in jail.

Washington said his dogs apparently dug a hole and crawled underneath his chain-link fence. He said he had owned the dogs, named Buster and Spotty, for two years without any problems.

“I don’t understand,” Washington said. “But they did have blood on them.”

Washington said the dogs protected his property but weren’t trained to fight or be violent.

“I take them out with me on my bicycle, and they don’t bother anybody,” he said. “It’s hard to believe.”

According to a police report, the dogs also escaped from the fenced yard two days ago. Washington told police he put boards over the hole, “but it must not have worked,” the report said.

Washington said he planned to check back with the city’s animal control division in 10 days to try to get his dogs back.

Andrew Perez, an animal-control supervisor, said the fate of the dogs had not been determined.

“We have to do our investigation,” he said.

Perez said that officers would check whether the dogs had bitten anyone before and consider the seriousness of Monday’s attack before deciding whether to return the dogs to Washington.

The Kansas City Council last month adopted an ordinance requiring that pit bulls be spayed or neutered unless an owner obtains a breeder’s license.

Several area cities, including Kansas City, Kan., Overland Park, Liberty and Grandview, have banned pit bulls. Several others are reviewing their animal ordinances. The attention to pit bulls follows a spate of attacks that severely injured a man in Independence and killed a Kansas City, Kan., woman.

 

[misticaleclipse]

Washington said the dogs protected his property but weren’t trained to fight or be violent.

Interesting. I thought pit bulls are not very good guard dogs because they love people? At least that is what I heard. I think this part is the clue to the guys attitude and issue with these dogs.

 

[LizzieCollie]

Interesting. I thought pit bulls are not very good guard dogs because they love people? At least that is what I heard. I think this part is the clue to the guys attitude and issue with these dogs.

From my own experience some pit bulls can make pretty good guard dog because from what I have seen they bond strongly to family, but are wary of stranger unless properly introduced.