Well here we are with another Death and Excuses post. I hope it is the final one of the year but this blog will continue with Death and Excuses posts until the deaths stop and/or pit bull advocacy gets the message to the masses and the outrageous comments stop. The only appropriate remark on the mauling death of a human is "I am so sorry for your loss."
In that spirit, this post will begin with one of the most outrageous comments I have ever seen. This comment was directed to the grieving father of a toddler killed by a baby sitter's pit bulls. For more information on this sad death please click
here. The individual making this comment is James Barry, a proud, unemployed resident of Sheffield England, here are his thoughts.
James Barry · Works at None
Jeff Borchardt Maybe if you had made better choices in YOUR life. You were not so weak, hence the alcohol and drugs you have consumed over the years and generally had to tried to live your life like a decent, honest upstanding member of the community. You would have had better friends than the low life YOU chose to babysit for your child that day. A choice YOU made of your own free will. I hope and pray to god you NEVER have anymore children, you do not deserve them. Or else, what would you blame the next tragedy on? It appears to me and anyone reading your postings that you have great difficulty taking responsibility for anything. Weak people make poor choices, look up the statistical data on that one. And put this on your crappy blog, it is sad and pathetic that you grasp on to any little thing to try and absolve yourself from taking any responsibility for YOUR actions.
The quote came from this article from THV11.com titled
Animal control officers look to curb dog vicious attacks. Any spare time might be spent reading additional comments from breed specific advocates. Mr. Barry is not alone and that is frightening.
Today would have been Dax Borchardt's second birthday. The parents of Dax Borchardt have asked that balloons be released today in remembrance of their son who loved balloons.
OK now, we will get on to the most recent dog mauling deaths.
11/4/2013
Kernersville N.C.
Twenty five year old Katherine Atkins was killed by two pit bulls that belonged to her boyfriend and that she helped raise.
Katherine Atkins
Ms. Atkins was feeding the dogs when they attacked her, she was found dead in the dog's enclosure. In the classic summation statement in the article it is reported that there was no history of violence from these pit bulls.
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11/5/2013
Spanaway WA
Nga Woodhead, a 65 year old woman who normally walked six to seven miles per day was attacked by two pit bulls on October 30th while on her normal morning walk. Good Samaritans stepped in to help Mrs. Woodhead. The
account of the attack made by one of the rescuers is below the photo the pit bull owner. Please read this man's statement and picture the dogs as Beagles or Poodles. Doesn't work does it? Deputies at the scene of the attack shot both dogs.
Mrs. Woodhead suffered a fatal heart attack as she was nearing discharge from the hospital on 11/5/2013.
It was determined that Mrs. Woodhead's injuries from the dog mauling caused the fatal heart attack. Chuck Woodhead was at his wife's bedside at the time of her death. The couple met in Viet Nam in 1970 while Mr. Woodhead was in the Air Force. Nga Woodhead died one day short of her 42nd wedding anniversary.
Nga Woodhead
Santiago Quezada, owner of the pit bulls, lived just down the street. Mr. Quezada stated that he "feels awful about the attack" and "we're going to fix things, you know." He also stated that
"They're really nice dogs" and he doesn't know how they got out. How might anyone "fix" a death?
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Santiago Quezada, pit bull owner.
Below is the statement given to police by a rescuer. WOW!
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11/8/2013
White County AR
Four year old Levi Watson was killed by a pack of five pit bulls as he and his mother were visiting a friend.
Levi Watson
Levi entered a fenced enclosure where the pit bulls were kept, there were two adults in the home at the time of Levi's attack.
The pit bulls were owned by Justin Corbit.
Pit bull owner Justin Corbit poses for a selfie. Does anyone think this individual has insurance to cover the hospital bill and final expenses for Levi Watson?
No criminal charges were filed against this pit bull owner. The dogs were euthanized. The investigation is
complete.
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11/21/2013
Hot Springs Village AR
Seventy five year old
Joan Kappen was attacked by a dog reported to be a Bull Mastiff as she was walking in the gated community of Hot Springs Village. Mrs. Kappan died of her injuries.
The attacking dog is owned by Emily Coy but was in the care of her mother at the time of the attack. Coy's mother was injured as she tried to regain control of the dog. Coy's dog was euthanized.
Mrs. Kappen's son has filed a suit in civil court. He is asking for 2.5 million dollars in damages from dog owner Emily Coy and Brande Coy, Emily's mother. Here are the charges.
A two and a half million dollar lawsuit has been filed against the woman authorities say owned a dog that killed a Hot Springs Village woman. 75 year old Joan Kappen died after she was attacked by a bull mastiff November 25th while she was on her morning walk. The suit was filed in Saline County Circuit Court and claims that Brande Coy, acting on behalf of the dog’s owner, Emily Coy, was negligent in failing to restrain and control the dog. The suit also alleges that Emily Coy harbored a dangerous animal, failed to warn people of the presence of a dangerous animal, and left it in the care someone who could not control it. The dog has been euthenized.
Mrs. Kappen's husband has become an outspoken spokesperson for breed specific legislation.
He demands breed bans.
Public Facebook photos of Ms. Coy and her dog.
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12/8/2013
Chicago IL
Two year old Jah'Niyah White was mauled to death by two pit bulls owned by her grandfather. The child died at Jackson Park Hospital , the autopsy report found that Jah'Niyah had been neglected and that she died as the result of injuries suffered during the dog attack. Her death has been ruled a homicide per the Medical Examiner's office.
The family reports that both attacking dogs were pit bulls an adult female and her puppy.
Jah'Niyah White
For related video please click
here.
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12/10/2013
Columbus OH
Three month old Mia Gibson was killed by family pet dogs, two Shiba Inus, as her parents slept. It was reported that the baby, a tiny preemie, may have been sleeping on the couch with her father and fell to the floor where the dogs attacked her. Neither of the parents reported hearing any sound of the attack.
In his massive and comprehensive report, Dog Attack Deaths and Maimings, US and Canada 1982 to the present, Merritt Clifton notes
zero prior fatal attacks by this breed of dog. This tragic death was truly a freak occurrence. An Ohio Shiba Inu breeder Clova Wide gives her opinion on
how dangerous is a Shiba Inu,
"They're quiet, and they very seldom bark," Wide says she's been raising them for 17 years. She said was shocked to hear Inu's were responsible for the death of the baby.
"A big dog in a small body," is how the website YourPurebredPuppy.com refers to the breed. The website recommends the dogs be kept on-leash, as they typically have a high prey drive and will pursue anything that moves.
Wide said that what she heard about the incident is not typical in her experience.
"That is absolutely in my opinion not typical of a Shiba Inu,"
Per breed standards the Shiba Inu is a 17 to 23 pound dog and is expected to mature at 13 1/2 to 16 1/2 inches tall at the shoulder.
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Shiba Inu
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12/13/2012 Valencia County NM
A Valencia County woman was mauled to death by one of her twelve pit bull dogs as she was caring for them. Per reports, 41 year old Michal Nelson went into an out door pen and was breaking ice out of a water bowl when she was attacked by one of her pit bulls. Her son arrived home to find his mother dead with the pit bull close by, he shot the dog. Nelson may have been a breeder but there is no indication that the dogs were bred for dog fighting or were kept for that purpose. There will be no charges in relation to this deaths since the victim was also the owner of the pit bulls.
Ms. Nelson was the 106th American mauled to death by pit bulls since President Obama took office and the tenth pit bull mauling death since he made a
public statement opposing breed specific legislation in August of this year. How many deaths will it take until elected officials turn away from the well funded and well organized breed specific lobbyists and consider simple public safety? The president's statement was a shameful sellout to a special interest.
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Now we get to the comments made by pit bull advocates. If anything, they are getting worse. Lets step into the bizarre world of pit bull advocacy. How could any sane person think that comments like these would give a favorable impression of pit bulls or their owners?
Laura Atkinson · SC Governor's School for Science & Mathematics
Humans can and do throw out their pets like garbage. As we speak, tens of thousands are being put down in shelters all over the country. Humans can and do torture animals for fun. Dogfighting, crush videos, what happened to Puppy Doe...Humans can and do rape and murder toddlers and the elderly. Given the choice, I'd choose to go bowling with the meanest pit bull on earth before I'd go bowling with any of those lowlife humans who would do any of those things. If you want to generalize an entire breed based on the actions of a few, then humans are long overdue to be banned. Just saying.
Tucker Crissman · Greensboro, North Carolina
A very tragic day my condolences to the individuals involved. Bad dogs are not acceptable. I got my first pit putll when i was 14, i am now 51 and i still have one. If you dont have one you don't know what you are taliking about. The media has used the breed to sell stories and turned you into breed biggots. Breed biggots. Why dont you go find something else to hate and stop blaming my dog for something another dog did.
Clay Hundenshire · Top Commenter · Virginia Tech
Pit bull is the most misunderstood breed, because many mutts are referred to as pit bulls. It is a generic name for the look of a dog. You don't know this, neither do most people. Go ahead, and take a DNA test of this guys dogs, and see if they are American Pit Bull Terrier. Over 95% of dogs identified as American Pit Bull Terriers that have been DNA test are not real pit bulls. Pit bull as the generic term goes, still makes the dog the most abused dog as well. There is direct correlation with abuse and behavior, even in humans. The most crime comes from ghettos, so does that make a particular race of humans bad. The most terrorist actions and threats come from which religion? Does that make that religions bad or all people of it. Please understand the entire picture before being so short sighted. Too many people are too quite to not rationalize and blame a breed, when most pit bulls are not real pit bulls, but many different breeds, and mainly mixes/mutts. I have a bull terrier/hound mix. What do you think he looks like? Bingo!!
Clay Hundenshire · Top Commenter · Virginia Tech
It has been scientifically proven, by DNA evidence, from many well trusted sources, that most dogs that are referred to as pit bulls are not American Pit bull terriers. They were proven to be mutts, and many were bulldog, mastiff, rottweiler and even lab mixes. So, unless you can prove against DNA, you should accept the best science we have science, which is 99.99999999% accurate. Any canine expert can tell you this. understand the subject before jumping the gun.
Tesa Rushton Zanotelli · Court Specialit II at City of Lakewood
When will people wake up and realize it is not the breed?? Any animal will bite! I have a pitt and a chihuahua and my chihuahua will bite before my pitt. It is the animal not the breed!
Bob Cronk · Top Commenter · Grants High School
XXXXX... so all pit bull type dogs are the same... just like people named patricia.. there all dumb.
Another media gag. This lady died from a heart attack, which means she had a bad heart. Poor health. Pit bulls didn't kill her, but her health or medical malpractice did. So sick of the ignorant blaming pit bulls, yet all they do is advertise pit bulls to scumbags, because they make pit bulls the scary dog. Anyone that has ever even took the time to meet a pit bull knows that they are great dogs and it totally depends on the owner. Since the pit bull is todays trendy bad boy dog, because the ignorant advertise them as that, which makes them desires to scum, it is the most abused dog, and in every case of an attack, we can clearly see negligence. We can sit there and say that one race kills at a higher rate than other races, and I think you all know which race that is, but, it doesn't make that race bad. it is what dogs are taught, just like people, that makes them either good or bad. Besides that, most pit bulls are mutts; not real pit bulls. I seriously doubt that this guy had real pit bulls, and they are actually pretty rare, and pit bulls (generic term for a look) are incredibly popular. Besides that, this attack happened in Spanawaste. Think about that. It not a very nice place at all.
John Gramazio · Top Commenter · Orlando Culinary Academy
Put the parents down, not the dogs.
More from John. He apparently thinks that the dog warden shares work space with the coroner and that the dog warden will have the very latest news. John is disturbing.
John Gramazio · Top Commenter · Orlando Culinary Academy
Here is my phone call with the Franklin County Dog Warden this morning. He confirms that not only has an autopsy NOT even been completed yet, but that the original EMT reports were all wrong as well. If you want to the truth, GO TO THE SOURCE, and stop acting like you know everything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3qYWUJBSqI
John Gramazio · Top Commenter · Orlando Culinary Academy
Lucinda Harris I think Pitbulls can be so sweet. Its the bad parents that give any breed a bad name, its not any dogs fault.
Shannon Dorton Baker · American Business & Fashion Institute
While I think the parents have suffered enough, it is a shame that the dogs will pay for their crime of ignorance.
Sima Greenfield · Works at Cheba Hut "Toasted" Subs - Albuquerque
This is so ignorant first of all pitbulls have the second best temperament of any dog according to a the new York times most recent study. Second of all in England pit bulls are called nanny dogs because they are so loyal and sweet and especially good with children.. Saying pitbulls are genetically prone to aggression is like saying all black people smoke crack and join gangs. It's prejudice, idiotic and neglects the natural tendencies of the breed itself and neglects the idea of nature vs nurture.
Jeanna Stout · UNM-Valencia Campus Los Lunas, NM
Pit bulls were breed as nanny dogs in Ireland, to take care of the CHILDREN and herd sheep, they were in no way shape or form bred for violence in any way. It is twised people that turn dogs vicious how about you do your research before you put your fingers on those keys bub.
These comments from Jim Reed who apparently is unable to identify a pit bull but quick to come to the defense of a breed he can't identify, and that do not actually exist.
Jim Reed · Top Commenter · University of Houston-Downtown
I would bet you 100.00 you couldn't identify a pit bull if it was sitting in your lap. Are you afraid of all muscular dogs with a blunt snout.
Jim Reed · Top Commenter · University of Houston-Downtown
Of course punish the owners and make them pay for having an aggressive, no one here is saying that they shouldn't be held responsible for what their aggressive dog does. I'm saying that you can't ban a breed that doesn't actually exist as a breed. Te so called Pitts are many different breeds and called pitts because of their appearance. What arm chair analysis, the only one conducting arm chair analysis is the people that want to ban Pitts but can't define a Pitt. How do you do that is it a Staffordshire Terrier mixed with a Boxer or and American Bulldog and what % of the mix would you ban. Think McFly, think!
Jim Reed · Top Commenter · University of Houston-Downtown
How do you ban a breed that doesn't actually exist. The term pit bull is a generic term used to describe dogs with similar physical characteristics. Usually a "pit bull" is considered one of several breeds including the American Pit Bull Terrier, the American Staffordshire Terrier, the Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Bull Terrier or any mix thereof. In some parts of the world, the American Bulldog and Dogo Argentino are also classified as a "Pit Bull-type" dog, despite major genetic differences. Any dog that is mixed with a "bully breed" may also be called a "pit bull" including those that are descended from the English Bulldog, French Bulldog, Boston Terrier and Cane Corso.[3] The pit bull is not a distinct breed which may make it difficult for experts to identify,[4][5][6] and while mixed breed dogs are often labelled a "pit bull" if they have certain physical characteristics such as a square shaped head or bulky body type,[3] visual identification of mixed breed dogs is not recommended by the scholarly community.[4]
But wait... Jim now states that pit bull IS a breed. The man can't make up his mind.
Jim Reed · Top Commenter · University of Houston-Downtown
That's right but you don't know how the Dam or the Sire was treated or if the puppies came from fighting stock. The problem is you and most of the others here don't have any idea of what you're talking about. Pit Bull is a specific breed in reality and 90% of what people call Pit Bulls are not pure Pit Bulls! You are talking from emotion not facts.
Billy E Rogers · Top Commenter · John Marshall High School
You people are the hate group. You base your hate on physical appearance. Short hair and a blocky head...automatic pit bull. That sir is the very definition of racist hate. You lump upwards of 25 breeds of dogs into the group "pit bull" in order to skew "statistics". Not much different than the tactics used by the Nazis prior to and during WWII.
Nancy Olin directs this comment to the sister of a victim.
Nancy Olin · Roselle Park, New Jersey
I still blame your sister. May she R.I.P. Give those dogs away to some who doesn't torture them (even if she didn't recognize it as such).3
Nancy goes on...
Nancy Olin · Roselle Park, New Jersey
Dogs have just as much right as humans to live without abuse and fear and such. I don't put the value of this woman's live above that of her dogs simply because she is a human being. As humans we have to get over ourselves and stop abusing dogs and thinking it's okay! Leaving them out in freezing weather was abuse and yes, I dare say she got what she deserved.
Ivy, the owner is dead.
Ivy Chavez Salazar · Follow
I'M SURE IT WILL ALL BE ABOUT THE DOG AND HOW THE DOG IS A PITT AND THAT'S WHY HE ATTACKED BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THAT'S WHAT "PITTS" DO S.M.H. HE WE GO AGAIN GIVING THE BREED A BAD NAME AGAIN PUNISH THE OWNERS NOT THE DOG
Crysta Heckman · Port Huron, Michigan
Amanda Jacobsen Smith Why is your human life more valuable than any other animal?? Humans kill sharks, mountain lions, and so many other creatures, many to the point of being extinct. Human life is no more valuable than any other creature, we are such self centered beings and it's going to destroy every other life on this planet. Hell, humans kill more humans than any other creature. Maybe we should start killing humans preemptively because of what other humans have done.
Colleen Lentz · Top Commenter
I agree, I hope nothing happens to the dogs either. It all comes back down to the parents not watching the baby. That's their job. It would be wrong to put the dogs to sleep. But that seems to be the answer to everything when trying to shift the blame/guilt.
Misty Schwen · Works at Logan's Roadhouse
the parents need to be charged with neglect. I am a single mother of three and every time they toss in their beds in a separate room I wake. Noise had to be made I don't believe the parents they were prob on drugs or something
Educate yourselves. Have any of you "experts" ever owned a pit bull? Or do you just own those evil little yappy dogs that bite everything and everyone?!
It's simple bad owner = bad dog! No matter what breed. She obviously left these poor dogs out in the freezing cold with frozen water. Sorry but I'd poetically get fed up and attack too. Plus if she mistreated them that could also cause the dog to not be loyal to her and just snap.
Owners are to blame in these situations put the info they are giving you together!
This is not true. Pit bulls are just the number one REPORTED dog that attacks people, and the media just hypes it up even more. It is not just pits who are aggressive, in fact the other week I was in Roswell and the Animal Control Officer was attacked by a bunch of chihuahuas. I have seen cute fluffy non pits almost rip out a persons throat, but because they are not a 'dangerous breed' nothing happened. Because people stereotype pits, they are the ones who are mistreated the most.
This blog spot ain't here to help with the grieving, sweet cheeks. It's to sound off about the various factors involved. I see you're new to this blogspot, but that's the way it is. You came to the wrong place if you're seeking only compassion. This is Babylon, baby. A real cesspool of human deplorability. Is it true she kept them in an outdoor kennel? If so, that's reprehensible and shows a deplorable lack of compassion. Not saying she deserved to be croaked, but kinda hard to blame the dog, huh?
It truly is a Christmas tragedy, but more so for the innocent pit bull that was killed. This woman who is reported as "lover of animals" could not possibly love the poor animals she kept CHAINED and NEGLECTED on her property. This pit bull was only 1 of the 12 other dogs this woman 'saved'. I'm sorry, but condemning an innocent dog to a life of neglect is by no means "saving" them. This baby boy was kept outside, chained in the freezing cold, shown no manners, no love, no care and was merely a lawn ornament. Bernalillo County has passed laws regarding chained animals, and other counties should also pass laws preventing chaining, as it is INHUMANE and CRUEL. If you're cold, the dog is cold. If you're hungry, the dog gets hungry. If you're thirsty, the dog is thirsty. The media makes it so much worse, always posting articles and news segments about how pit bulls are always the ones killing/maiming a person or another dog, blah blah, but it is never the humans fault, oh no, because blaming a human for something a dog did is completely outrageous, right? Well let me tell you something; Dogs are completely innocent and pure, until a HUMAN turns them into a monster. Condolences to the family, however I fully believe in karma, and, well...here's your sign
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