From left: Victim Joyce Mitchell and her pet pit bull (with blood on its muzzle).
Owner Attacked
Cincinnati, OH - It was reported Monday that a pit bull in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Pleasant Ridge viciously attacked its owner. Police say Joyce Mitchell was walking her pet pit bull when she slipped on ice, thus triggering a violent attack. Neighbors rushed out of their homes with hammers and shovels to beat the dog off Mitchell. The woman tried to secure her dog to a phone poll but was unable. A police officer finally gained control of the dog.
"Billy Rogers is one of the neighbors: "And I looked around looked in the car got a hammer and came down here to help her, that's all I could do was try to get the dog off of her...looked like the dog was too vicious, and some other neighbors came and tried to help too...we got shovels and tried to get the dog away from her...but he was still attacking, then the other polices came and damn..."
Cincinnati reinstated1 its pit bull ban in 2003.
Mitchell's pit bull may or may not have been covered under its grandfather clause. Yet she chose to own a pit bull and has now suffered serious injury because of it. As spoken by Cincinnati victim Meredith Green last year, "I haven't really been an advocate of the pit bull ordinance until now. I used to feel badly for the dogs but I can see now that a pit bull is a huge responsibility and there's too much danger. Nothing was gonna stop those dogs. Nothing."
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09/10/09: The Pit Bull Bite: Pet Pit Bull Bites Off Owner's Hand
05/11/09: Animal Agency, PSPCA, Distorts History of 25-Year Old Pit Bull Problem
08/04/08: Triggers: What Prompts a Pit Bull to Attack?
06/06/08: Cincinnati Police Kill Two Pit Bulls in Separate Shootings in Same Day
On the plus side no kids or old people were hurt. Only an idiot adult who hopefully "knows better" now!
Pit bulls are specifically and selectively bred to behave in exactly this way.
They are specifically bred BY HUMANS to do these things, and to inflict the maximum amount of damage when they do it.
There is no other reason to breed pit bulls. This activity is their function, it's why they exist as a manmade problem and liability.
No matter what AKC "Staffordshire terrier" pit bull breeder may try to claim falsely about "therapy dogs" as they try to grease over and hide the fact of the FIGHTING DOGS they and their fellows are breeding
Certainly could have been worse. Can you imagine if someone's child had been passing the woman and her pit bull and had been the one that slipped on the ice?
The owners never see what they are doing to the dogs. Look at the dog as the AC are taking it away;
"What did I do wrong?"
Nothing. You were born that way. If this dog had never been bred, it wouldn't have to go through the sadness of being genetically compelled to attack. We see commercials all the time of sad litters of dogs that could have been saved misery if the mother's owners believed in spaying.
This dog was born with the misery of doing what it was bred to do, Hurt, maim and kill.