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Two young children are dead and their mother suffered major injuries after two family dogs attacked a baby and toddler outside their West Tennessee home.Kirstie Bennard, 30, suffered critical injuries when she tried to intervene in the attack on her 5-month-old boy, Hollace Dean, and 2-year-old girl, Lilly Jane, family and police said.
"She put her body on top of Lilly’s to try and protect her after the attack started," Bennard's uncle by marriage, Jeff Gibson told USA TODAY on Saturday. "Both (dogs) started attacking her while she lay on Lilly."The two children were pronounced dead when officials arrived at the home, the sheriff's office reported.
It was not immediately known what provoked the mauling.The mauling, Gibson said, lasted about 10 minutes.The dogs – two pit bulls that belonged to the family – were euthanized at Memphis Animal Services Thursday.
The family owned the pets, Cheech and Mia, for more than eight years without a violent incident, Kelsey Canfield, the mother's best friend, told Fox News.
"I can promise you those children were her world, and if there was any inkling of danger, she would have never had those dogs near her kids," Canfield told the outlet. "Those children were everything to them, and they just have a really long journey ahead."
How do you feel about PittBull's? I posted this because my wife shared this story with me and my son was just recently participating in a "read to sheltered dogs" event where you could adopt a dog (I know brilliant).
I've heard the arguments that PittBull's get a bad wrap, but it seems time and time again they are the focal point of dogs who do these horrible acts. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Frazod:
I saw the Iowa fire her 16" guns once. Six years in the Navy, that was the absolute coolest thing I ever saw, and only a couple of others even come close. There were so many things I experienced back then that I didn't appreciate at the time. That was definitely NOT one of them.
The company I was in went to Grafenwoehr for some Range Qual, this is where I got to qualify with the M2, and on the way to our station drove past a battery firing 203mm Howitzers. It was impressive, looked like a cinder block flying through the air, but that was just an 8" shell. Hard to imagine something double that size, and seeing the damage it did when it hit. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
Do you get any indication of where the shells are going? Is there any kind of smoke trail or contrails or anything? Or do you just see it fire and then 5 minutes later you see the coast blow up?
We were at least half a mile away. I saw the fireballs erupt from the barrels and heard the roar a few seconds later (even at that distance, it was loud as hell). I have no idea if the fired shell is visible to the naked eye or not from close up. And I also have no idea where the shells hit, although I figure if they were aiming at anything, it would have been some sort of floating target in the Caribbean too far away to see. This was peacetime off the coast of Guantanamo Bay. Iowa was probably down there for the same training and readiness evaluation that my ship was. [Reply]
Here's a picture of Kelce from the breeder. Clay, how could you be scared of such an innocent face?
Here's my malinois-like energetic 93 pound female doberman. Speaking from experience (high energy dog) with a Staffie you're going to want to teach it how to fetch. Only way I survive. Neighborhood walks aren't going to work (dog will eat sheet rock\smaller pets). Also get her to be good off-leash so that you don't have to get involved with blood-sports at the nearest dog park...My dog has checked several pissy little bitches that wouldn't leave her alone (after multiple warnings). Latest victim was another American Doberman that kept getting in her face. Dog wouldn't leave her alone and after 10+ minutes (and casual requests to the dogs owner) my dog finally bit the other doberman in the leg and caused a limp. After which I wrote dog parks off.
I don't think I've been in this thread - but now I have a story to tell.
I've been trying to walk more and had some 4 mile loops from my house kinda established. A bit over a week ago I was on the last mile of a loop and on a street I dont frequent when I ran into three loose dogs, 2 pitt type and a German Shepherd. I was already tired because I had dressed to way too warm. Spring is tricky. Anyway, the dogs were loose and across an empty lot about 40 yards distant. I was maintaining a steady pace on the sidewalk. Suddenly, I felt an inquiring nip on my fingertips and a light nudge on my thigh. And then I had the two pitts jumping around me, nipping at my hands, and shouldering me. The shepherd circled and joined the barking. I crossed my arms like I was going to jump on an airline emergency slide, and just kept a steady pace, and yelling NO - to no effect. When I'd walked a lot or two past the empty lot where I picked them up, they went back - I was probably skirting their perceived territory.
I was unharmed, but I was concerned that things might escalate. My watch showed that my heart rate had spiked a little right then.
I'm of sturdy build (hence the increased walking) so their shoulder nudges didn't have much impact. But if I was a skinny person, they might have. I don't know what they would have done if I had shown signs of panic or tried to hit them. I think if they knocked someone off their feet, it would get ugly fast. I feel like these dogs were starting playfully, but prodding, poking, looking for a reaction. I'm a dog owner - that may have helped in interacting with them.
Originally Posted by seamonster:
Here's my malinois-like energetic 93 pound female doberman. Speaking from experience (high energy dog) with a Staffie you're going to want to teach it how to fetch. Only way I survive. Neighborhood walks aren't going to work (dog will eat sheet rock\smaller pets). Also get her to be good off-leash so that you don't have to get involved with blood-sports at the nearest dog park...My dog has checked several pissy little bitches that wouldn't leave her alone (after multiple warnings). Latest victim was another American Doberman that kept getting in her face. Dog wouldn't leave her alone and after 10+ minutes (and casual requests to the dogs owner) my dog finally bit the other doberman in the leg and caused a limp. After which I wrote dog parks off.
Appreciate the advice. We already have obedience classes scheduled with a dog trainer and my wife and I both run a few days a week and plan on teaching the dog to come on these runs with us. We're hopeful that since she will be in a house with a very small dog that socialization with a little ankle biting pain in the ass will help. Fingers crossed. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Zebedee DuBois:
I don't think I've been in this thread - but now I have a story to tell.
I've been trying to walk more and had some 4 mile loops from my house kinda established. A bit over a week ago I was on the last mile of a loop and on a street I dont frequent when I ran into three loose dogs, 2 pitt type and a German Shepherd. I was already tired because I had dressed to way too warm. Spring is tricky. Anyway, the dogs were loose and across an empty lot about 40 yards distant. I was maintaining a steady pace on the sidewalk. Suddenly, I felt an inquiring nip on my fingertips and a light nudge on my thigh. And then I had the two pitts jumping around me, nipping at my hands, and shouldering me. The shepherd circled and joined the barking. I crossed my arms like I was going to jump on an airline emergency slide, and just kept a steady pace, and yelling NO - to no effect. When I'd walked a lot or two past the empty lot where I picked them up, they went back - I was probably skirting their perceived territory.
I was unharmed, but I was concerned that things might escalate. My watch showed that my heart rate had spiked a little right then.
I'm of sturdy build (hence the increased walking) so their shoulder nudges didn't have much impact. But if I was a skinny person, they might have. I don't know what they would have done if I had shown signs of panic or tried to hit them. I think if they knocked someone off their feet, it would get ugly fast. I feel like these dogs were starting playfully, but prodding, poking, looking for a reaction. I'm a dog owner - that may have helped in interacting with them.
That's my short story for the day.
Reason #37 to carry a ball bat when walking [Reply]
Yeah that was on either my MSN or Yahoo scrolls a few days ago, just an absolutely unbelievable amount of damage they caused... now just imagine what that would do to an arm or leg [Reply]
