Sane people victims of dognutterism
A German Shepherd jumped a three-foot-high fence and attacked a person walking in front of the house next door to theirs. A neighbor helped the victim – whose name has not been released – to safety and called police. A responding police officer had to shoot the menacing mauler because it charged and behaved aggressively.
The dog survived its gunshot wound, unfortunately.
There’s no word on the attack victim. What did this person do wrong? Nothing. He or she was a victim of dog-owner stupidity, something that most of us fall victim to, whether we admit it or not.
How could this tragic situation have been avoided? For starters, the idiotic owners could have constructed a sufficiently high fence – three feet high (approximately one meter) won’t even contain small children – they can shimmy right over it. It sounds as if the fence was meant to be considered more decorative than it was an actual animal barrier.
The article linked below also stated the dogs barked a lot and were considered a nuisance by neighbors. “I don’t think they’re bad dogs,” said neighbor Tameria Houston. “They’re just territorial. … Everyone is scared of them.”
They’re not bad dogs….everyone is scared of them. It’s interesting how Ms. Houston contradicts herself. People falter when it comes to telling the truth about dogs.
The incident above represents typical dog owners, in my opinion. These idiots get a dog – actually, they had two German Shepherds, one of which did not jump over the fence – leave the dogs unattended all day, let them bark at and harass neighbors and passersby, and maul a person who was unfortunate enough to be proximal to a mutant mauler.
Sound like a typical suburban dog owner? It sure does to me.
Dog-owning idiots, don’t get angry when your mobile mauler gets shot after it escapes and attacks someone. I applaud everyone who shoots loose dogs – see, bullets can solve problems sometimes, can’t they? (hee hee hee – I can’t wait for the snipey comments on this one!) Too bad a HUMAN BEING had to get seriously hurt in order for this to happen.
I like some of the comments left on this story:
From Florida Foster Adoptive Parent: ”Are police going in backyards and shooting dogs? I certainly doubt it. Are they shooting little poodles, yorkies or golden retrievers? I doubt it. If the dogs are being shot, could it be they are loose, not on a leash, owner no where in site and they are acting aggressively? Dogs need responsible owners – blame the owners when aggressive dogs are shot.”
From Whydoesthishappen: “The city should bill the owner of the dog for the bullet.” (I swear on my children’s lives I didn’t post that comment.)
From mrapples11: ”Taking a big risk in shooting peoples dogs as often as they do. Some day they might shoot the wrong persons dog.”
And from Darby, in response to mrapples11: “Not if I’m on the jury.”
Gosh, could there be some hard-core dog-haters in Florida? Or is this just a garden-variety troll?
And finally, from lasc0909: ”These 2 shepherds are only a little over a year old. 1 they were renting this house and yes the fence is only 3 ft high. I own a large shepherd 3 doors down from them and i have a 6ft privacy fence. The day this happened, the dogs were left to roam in the yard with no one there to watch them. They have a large outside kennel that the dogs could have been placed in but weren’t. One of the dogs escaped the bit yard and bite a man walking down the road. this man threw down his book bag, got down on his knees and yelled at the dog,
k dog, its you and me now!: Sounds like a perfectly sane man – not. All
the cops standing around trying to contain the dog had their
tazers ready. It was Joe Macho cop that had to shoot him. That made me
sooo mad. I would have volunteered to catch the dog. They shoot way to
quick when it comes to dogs. My Bela weighs 100 pounds and sometimes
slips out the door to follow me to the mailbox or our truck, sh stays
right with us. Makes me wonder if the seen her out would they
automatically assume she would charge them and shoot her too. This
shooting was not needed.”I disagree with that last statement; otherwise, I agree.
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Incidentally, this situation reminded me of a similar one I wrote about in my neighborhood last year, in which some people renting a townhouse across the street from an elementary school let their German Shepherd run loose in the front yard. It used to get up off the front porch steps every time I rode by its house on my bike. This situation seems like a disaster waiting to happen. The loose dog is within 50 feet of children who play on the elementary school’s playground. I’ll see if I can dig up the picture.
