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Wednesday, April 30, 2008


Pit Bull Attacks, Kills Woman’s Peekapoo

Judge Orders Attacking Pit Bull Euthanized
UPDATE 04/30/08: We bring you back to the case of Diane Donahue, 70, who was viciously attacked by a neighbor's pit bull as she walked her peekaboo dog on a leash outside her home. Donhaue suffered intense injury, nearly 60 puncture wounds, and the loss of her dear dog Gigi. Nearly two months later, Municipal Judge Billy Cook has ordered the attacking a pit bull to be euthanized.

This story is a perfect example of how "dog justice" works, at least in Alabama. Even after a vicious attack that causes severe injury to a human being and kills a dog, the attacking dog is not euthanized automatically. Instead, the dog gets a hearing in a court of law (our tax money pays for this). In many states, after a judge finally orders euthanization, the dog owner can appeal the decision.

02/10/08: Pit Bull Attacks, Kills Woman’s Peekapoo
Decatur,  AL - Diane Donahue, 70, watched in horror as a pit bull attacked and killed her 1-year old peekapoo as she walked it in her side yard on a leash. She suffered cuts and puncture wounds on both arms and hands trying to protect her dog, Gigi. She fell down face first, blackening her eyes, cutting her face and forehead. But she would not let go of the leash and the pit bull dragged her.
"I’ve got 27 puncture wounds on one side and about 32 on the other. They did X-rays and nothing was broken. But my little girl was torn apart."
The pit bulls belong to Christopher Allen Johnson, 23, of 388 Shelton Road in Madison. Jeff Cato said the dogs were at his residence in Decatur on part of the 7 1/2 acres he rents. He said Johnson could not keep the dogs in his Madison townhouse. Cato said the dogs have been on the property about five weeks and the female has four puppies that are a month old.
"I don’t understand why she would leave her puppies unless maybe another dog provoked her. We took all precautions in keeping the dogs up."
Donahue’s daughter, Kelly Cooney, distributed fliers in the neighborhood, asking residents to call city officials. The dogs have a history of running loose. The dogs will be quarantined for 10-days and Johnson will pay the $600 fee. Cato insists the adult pit bulls will not return to his property but he will keep the puppies for now because he is hand-feeding them.

According to the pit bull owner, walking your dog on a leash, on your own property sufficiently "provokes" a loose pit bull to attack. Pit bull owners stop at nothing when it comes to refusing accountability.

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Anonymous Anonymous  |  2/10/2008 10:40 AM  |  Flag  
Not only did this perp not get charged, he gets to sell the pups sired by two human aggressive Pit Bulls.

As barbaric as thy were, the 18th century dogmen would have culled them.

Anonymous Anonymous  |  2/10/2008 12:12 PM  |  Flag  
Another reason for mandatory spay and neuter of pit bulls....take the financial incentive out of owning them. If owners can't breed them and sell the puppies to the miscreants that want them, they are worthless.

Anonymous schultz  |  2/12/2008 4:41 PM  |  Flag  
“I don’t understand why she would leave her puppies unless maybe another dog provoked her,” he said. “We took all precautions in keeping the dogs up.”

what the f*ck is wrong with you people?!
you are completely blind to the possibility that your pits can be dangerous.
this guy is not fit to keep these puppies.

Anonymous Anonymous  |  2/12/2008 9:18 PM  |  Flag  
It puzzels me as to why people breed these dogs except for fighting, its not as though they are the gentle family pet you bring home to your kids.

Anonymous Anonymous  |  5/01/2008 5:42 PM  |  Flag  
Infuriating! AGAIN!

We can't change stupid people. Stupid is forever for those stricken with stupidity. But I will not contribute or support the campaign of any legislator that puts the desires of stupid people ahead of public safety. Negligent legislators are not forever and will be changed.

Ban them NOW!

Anonymous Dee  |  5/01/2008 7:04 PM  |  Flag  
Where were the dogs for these two months!? Did they get sent back to the owner? Were they held by animal control? If the latter is true, WHO PAID? It better not be tax payers dollars. The problem with this story is that the pit owners likely don't give a darn the one dog was put down. THEY HAVE PUPPIES!

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