09-02-2007, 01:10 PM
Beach,
I know you are an adimant defender of the Pit Bull. I was looking at your picture of Vick while watching the news here in Austin when this story came on. I cut n paste it for you but i'll add the link as well. Oh and as for dog fighting in the south; I live in a very rural area of TX and the only thing that they fight around here are Roosters. (yes it's illegal) The hispanics seem to be most attracted to it. Anyway here's your story about a Pit that has never fought of snapped. Dude...please be careful with your children.
'First time dog had snapped,' says boy's mother
10:32 PM CDT on Saturday, September 1, 2007
By BOB GREENE / WFAA-TV
Aaron Lambert/DMN
Warren doesn't ever want to see a pit bull again. Also Online
Dallas boy, 6, killed by pit bull
Bob Greene reports
Just hours before that law went into effect, a 6-year-old Dallas boy was mauled to death by his family's dog.
The mother of Scott Warren says they had had the pit bull since Scott was a baby.
She says last night was the first time the dog had snapped at someone.
But, she says, with a young daughter in the house, now her only child, it will be the last.
"It's going to be difficult from now on," said Kressie Warren.
She weeps, regretful she ever got the pit bull that took her son, Scott's, life.
"I don't want to never see another pit bull, never. Because he took a precious life."
The mauling happened just before 7 p.m. Friday night.
"We were sitting there in the room and all of the sudden the dog just jumped at him, grabbed at him," Warren said.
Her daughter was in the room with them.
"She was at the back, I was grabbing his mouth trying to get him loose but he was slinging him everywhere."
By the time they got the dog off, it was too late.
Scott eventually died at Baylor Hospital.
Six years old, he'd just finished the first week of first grade.
"I'm not going to see that little boy go back to school, I'm not going to see him play sports, graduate or anything. All because of a stupid dog," Warren said.
Warren is fortunate the attack took place yesterday and the dog was in a contained area.
Otherwise, under a new state law that went into effect today, she could have faced up to 20 years in prison.
Patricia Hughes, Warren's neighbor says, while she doesn't like the idea of having pit bulls and other dangerous breeds at home, she thinks that punishment is too harsh.
"I really think that's too severe. People have committed worse crimes and haven't served that much," she said.
Warren says she's already been given a life sentence.
"Learn from a single parent struggling to raise two children and now I'm down to one. Get rid of the dogs," she said.
Police say right now, they're considering this an accidental death, so they're not pressing charges against the mother at this time.
http://www.kvue.com/news/top/stories/090...b0c3e.html
Blessings,
dave
"Sometimes you're the bug and sometimes you're the windshield"
Edited by - Dave M on 09/02/2007 17:17:53
I know you are an adimant defender of the Pit Bull. I was looking at your picture of Vick while watching the news here in Austin when this story came on. I cut n paste it for you but i'll add the link as well. Oh and as for dog fighting in the south; I live in a very rural area of TX and the only thing that they fight around here are Roosters. (yes it's illegal) The hispanics seem to be most attracted to it. Anyway here's your story about a Pit that has never fought of snapped. Dude...please be careful with your children.
'First time dog had snapped,' says boy's mother
10:32 PM CDT on Saturday, September 1, 2007
By BOB GREENE / WFAA-TV
Aaron Lambert/DMN
Warren doesn't ever want to see a pit bull again. Also Online
Dallas boy, 6, killed by pit bull
Bob Greene reports
Just hours before that law went into effect, a 6-year-old Dallas boy was mauled to death by his family's dog.
The mother of Scott Warren says they had had the pit bull since Scott was a baby.
She says last night was the first time the dog had snapped at someone.
But, she says, with a young daughter in the house, now her only child, it will be the last.
"It's going to be difficult from now on," said Kressie Warren.
She weeps, regretful she ever got the pit bull that took her son, Scott's, life.
"I don't want to never see another pit bull, never. Because he took a precious life."
The mauling happened just before 7 p.m. Friday night.
"We were sitting there in the room and all of the sudden the dog just jumped at him, grabbed at him," Warren said.
Her daughter was in the room with them.
"She was at the back, I was grabbing his mouth trying to get him loose but he was slinging him everywhere."
By the time they got the dog off, it was too late.
Scott eventually died at Baylor Hospital.
Six years old, he'd just finished the first week of first grade.
"I'm not going to see that little boy go back to school, I'm not going to see him play sports, graduate or anything. All because of a stupid dog," Warren said.
Warren is fortunate the attack took place yesterday and the dog was in a contained area.
Otherwise, under a new state law that went into effect today, she could have faced up to 20 years in prison.
Patricia Hughes, Warren's neighbor says, while she doesn't like the idea of having pit bulls and other dangerous breeds at home, she thinks that punishment is too harsh.
"I really think that's too severe. People have committed worse crimes and haven't served that much," she said.
Warren says she's already been given a life sentence.
"Learn from a single parent struggling to raise two children and now I'm down to one. Get rid of the dogs," she said.
Police say right now, they're considering this an accidental death, so they're not pressing charges against the mother at this time.
http://www.kvue.com/news/top/stories/090...b0c3e.html
Blessings,
dave
"Sometimes you're the bug and sometimes you're the windshield"
Edited by - Dave M on 09/02/2007 17:17:53
Blessings,
dave
"It doesn't mean that much to me.. to mean that much to you." Neil Young
dave
"It doesn't mean that much to me.. to mean that much to you." Neil Young