Yesterday I wrote about the family pit bull that attacked and killed a 5-year old boy in Weslaco, TX.
Sadly, today the Sheriff’s office says that no charges will be filed against the dog’s owner (the dead boy’s uncle):
WESLACO, Texas — The Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office won’t pursue charges against the owner of a pit bull that mauled the man’s 5-year-old nephew to death, authorities said.
Investigators said they found no signs of negligence.
Sorry, but anybody who has children and pit bulls in the same home is negligent. Anybody who has children and pit bulls should be forced to choose one or the other.
Sadly, just as many owners would probably choose their pits over their children. Not smart people to begin with.
“He never does this,” said Pablo’s uncle, Isaac Hernandez, the pit bull’s owner. “All the time the dog is real nice, but this is the first time and the last time, too.”
Authorities also seized another dog the family owns that is part pit bull.
“I hate them. I don’t want to see no more pit bulls in my life,” he said. “I thought they would protect me and my family.”
Uh huh.
That’s what you always here in these cases — “real nice dog, never done this before…”
Sad that it took his dangerous dog killing his nephew to open his eyes.
No report of whether or not the dog is dead yet.
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Why wouldn’t it surprise me if the parents, who cared so little that they didn’t care for this boy themselves, will turn around and sue the state for placing this child in a home with pitbulls?
That is is unbelievable. They will just probably give the dog back, since he never did it before and there are no more children that young left.
Given the damage a pit bull can do in seconds, forget supervision……people shouldn’t allow kids near a pitbull at all.
No way to know how close any particular dog is to “snapping” (no pun intended) and in seconds it’s too late.
That pit bull rescue site I brought in awhile back mentions in the behavior section that pit bulls CAN react badly to excited behavior around them.
Also stated, FYI, while they may not start trouble with another dog, they Will be determined to Finish it, so they should never be taken out in public w/out a leash.
You’d think the kids parents, or other relatives would be insisting that the dog be put down !
I think what happened to this child was awful. It should not have happened.
I also think that people who make silly comments such as “people shouldn’t allow kids near a pitbull at all”, or, “anybody who has children and pit bulls in the same home is negligent” is uneducated about this breed.
I have owned this breed since 1988. Would I choose my ‘pitbull’ over my children? Absolutely not.
…but my pitbulls aren’t the ones you read about in the paper.
Unfortunately, those pitbulls were put into the hads of idiots. That’s what gives our breed a bad rap.
Do your homework on this breed.
This whole situation is horrible tragic in that it’s so formula….
Chained dogs used for protection purposes are never safe bets with kids. It’s discouraging to see this reduced to a ‘breed issue’ when in fact the family created a dangerous situation by allowing this child to have access to a dog whose sole purpose was to present a threat to people.
From the Humane Society United States:
“Dogs tethered for long periods can become highly aggressive. Dogs feel naturally protective of their territory; when confronted with a perceived threat, they respond according to their fight-or-flight instinct. A chained dog, unable to take flight, often feels forced to fight, attacking any unfamiliar animal or person who unwittingly wanders into his or her territory.
Numerous attacks on people by tethered dogs have been documented. For example, a study published in the September 15, 2000, issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association reported that 17 percent of dogs involved in fatal attacks on humans between 1979 and 1998 were restrained on their owners’ property at the time of the attack. Tragically, the victims of such attacks are often children who are unaware of the chained dog’s presence until it is too late.
Furthermore, a tethered dog who finally does get loose from his chains may remain aggressive, and is likely to chase and attack unsuspecting passersby and pets.”
I think that anyone who has such ignorant and unjustified hatred as the author does toward something he clearly knows nothing about shouldn’t be able to produce offspring or wake up and realize they’re in the 21st century and get an actual education.
Where are your facts? Where are your references? You have NONE.
You can rant and rave about your breedism toward Pit Bulls and your clear racism toward African Americans, but in this country that I’m sure you think you’re some kind of patriot in, THESE RIGHTS ARE INALIENABLE TO AMERICAN CITIZENS.
The land of the free? Not if you have your way.
If you have any regard for the Bill of Rights, then you’d realize your imposition of biased, false beliefs on others in regards to owning Pit Bulls is A VIOLATION OF THE RIGHT TO PROPERTY. If you tell me I can’t have a Pit Bull (whose temperament has consistently outperformed the rest of the general dog population–see the American Temperament Test Society page–you know, a page with actual facts) then I can tell you I don’t want you owning a gun (FAR more children die every year from guns than Pit Bulls). Let’s start up prohibition again, shall we? Or let’s take away freedom of speech while we’re at it-I hope yours goes first.
And if you don’t like Obama, and you obviously don’t reading through some of your other postings, get out of the country. Democrats had to take that nonsense about Bush for 8 years, and, yes, now it’s your turn.
IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, LEAVE IT!
You’re not a patriot. You’re just a pathetic bigot.