Pit Bull Problem

Nope, if there is no shelter or water, the animals can be seized and the owner fined...

 

And from what Heini's described, they're tethered without shelter.

 

i feel bad for the dogs, but, if i were concerned about my kids' safety, well, the heartbreakers win every time.

 

I have slept in the same bed with a pit bull. It was my ex's baby, and she raised it right. I loved that damn dog -- and the feeling was mutual. And as it often happens, there were plenty of days when I was more excited to come home and see the dog rather than come home and see the girl.

I really, really despise anti-pit bull legislation. But I hold a special hatred in my heart for pet "owners" who don't raise their dogs -- or any animal -- in a loving environment.

 

Not all Pit Bulls that bark are bad.


Hero pooch saves 7-year-old Queens girl


BY WARREN WOODBERRY JR. and ROBERT F. MOORE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Posted Sunday, July 8th 2007, 4:00 AM


Heather Fretes with her dog, Bleu, whose barking alerted her to a pervert next-door trying to sexually assault a 7-year-old girl. Together, the owner and her dog drove off the attacker.

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A barking dog and an alert woman scared off a pervert in Queens after he lured a girl into a backyard by promising to show her worms, police and witnesses said yesterday.

"Mommy! Daddy!" the 7-year-old girl screamed as she fought off her attacker between two garages about 7:45 p.m. Friday. "Help me!"

Her cries for help startled a dog on the other side of a fence. Bleu, a mixed pit bull, began barking incessantly, which brought his owner, Heather Fretes, to the window.

"He was going wild barking," Fretes said. "I looked out and I saw two people. The girl was screaming."

Fretes ran outside and yelled at the man, who witnesses said had been watching the girl and her friend before the attack. The suspect tore down part of a fence to escape the backyard on 171st St. in Flushing. The girl wept as she told Fretes about the attack.

"He took my hand and led me back where he tried to pull down my pants," the girl said, according to Fretes.

"Everything is fine," the victim's uncle said late yesterday. "She's okay. As long as she's okay, we're fine. She wasn't hurt."

Paramedics took the girl to a nearby hospital, where she was examined and released. She was shaken up, but not injured. No weapon was used, police said.

A police source said detectives interviewed the girl again yesterday in hopes of putting together a sketch of the suspect.

Cops described him as a white man, in his late teens or early 20s, with sandy brown, spiked hair. He was wearing blue jeans and a blue shirt.

"There's no indication at this point that it's part of a pattern," the police source said. "Obviously, we're checking that out, but it's early in the investigation."

Neighbors said the suspect was sitting on the steps of a nearby home, watching the victim and her 10-year-old friend as they rode their scooters. He then got up and approached the girls, telling them he had a bird and liked animals.

"My sister didn't like what the guy was saying to her, so she went in the house," the 10-year-old's sister said yesterday.

 

I can remember hearing about a dog that was fed gun powder. I have no idea what the chemical compound is or what it does to a body, but I know the dog was crazy and was eventually shot six times before it went down when it was trying to attack its owner. It's crazy the things some people do to animals.

 

Well it does make a police matter then. The police are required to go knock on annoying neighbors door at 2 am and tell owners to bring dogs in the house.