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17 thoughts on “2024 Dog Bite Fatality: Kansas City Man Dies After Being Attacked by Vicious Dog Pack While Riding his Bicycle

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  1. Its a damn shame that people can’t even go outside to ride bike without dangerous pitbull killing you if the dogs was pitbull if that the case.imagine the horror he felt dying by dogs.imagine the horror she witness and her surviving this attack. I’m sorry Chris you have to died because America values dogs life over yours.

    • The KC Pet Project failed the community. I bet they hesitated to seize the dogs because doing so would traumatize the beasts. It’s always dogs above people with groups like that.

  2. Oddly enough, from his sister’s FB page it looks like he may have been a backyard breeder of pitbulls. The dogs responsible for his attack were not his. They were pits, though, according to comments from his family on FB.

  3. How sad! Is animal control waiting for a few more people to be killed by dogs?
    One of my questions is why do pitbulls create packs and kill people? Why don’t they simply kill each other? Since they were bred to kill dogs, why can’t they be happy killing each other?

    • What animal control? In Kansas City they have a “Pet Project”. Cute name, ineffective at serving the community. “Our mission is to promote pet retention, enhance public safety and create a healthier, more humane Kansas City through community empowerment and progressive services.” Pet retention and community empowerment: we’re not taking your dogs, you can deal with the problem yourselves. “Humane” seems to mean concern for non-human animals ONLY.

      • I’m from KC and actually used to live a couple miles from where this totally preventable tragedy occurred. Out of curiosity after reading about this went to look at KC Pet Project’s “adoptable dogs” page. 90-95% pits. There was one border collie-type dog, and the rest were Huskies or elderly chihuahuas. So this is who is running KC Animal Control now?!?!

  4. I think they were bred to kill anything and everything but they arent brave and courageous like google claims
    They are actually cowardly and obviously often triggered by a life they know is smaller or weaker than themself like babies children elderly and the thousands of smaller or non aggressive dogs (which is almost all other dog breeds ) and cats and livestock

  5. Oh my god, that 2023 article about KC Pet Project is absolutely infuriating. I hope they get sued into bankruptcy by a wrongful death suit from the Culbertson family. All the injuries, and now death, in the wake of KCPP’s contract with the city are a powerful indictment of the entire “educating pet owners” pretext of people who simply don’t believe in enforcing animal control laws. And Kansas City actually gave the contract to an organization that doesn’t even accept the spay/neuter ordinance in the city?!?! Madness. Sheer madness.

    But I also wonder if the Culbertsons are now reconsidering owning their own pit bulls. I suspect not. This whole episode lays bare the utter moral, ethical and public safety bankruptcy of the “educating pet owners” scam.

    • KC Pet Project started as a no-kill shelter, bolstered by BFAS, that provided animal sheltering services to the city. Prior to the establishment of KCPP in 2011 (and after), the founders advocated against BSL, mandatory spay/neuter laws and “pet limit” laws, the guiding principals of no-kill BFAS policies. This is why they do not support the mandatory pit bull spay/neuter law. When the city awarded KCPP the animal control contract, everyone who follows this issue shivered. It was well known to us this could end in disaster. By the end of 2020, pit bulls were inflicting bites over 5 times more than any other dog breed. In 2016, the founder left KCPP and started working for full time for BFAS. What was wildly interesting to us, is that it was an NPR affiliate that did the 2023 investigation. That was the first time in over a decade an NPR affiliate had uttered the words “pit bull” in the context of “dangerous animals” not being seized, and actually highlighting a violent pit bull attack. The typical protocol of NPR+affiliates is to “victimize” pit bulls and to ignore human victims of violent pit bull attacks.

  6. 6 days after the attack the dogs were seized. KC pet protect is incompetent and dangerous to this city. Unconscionable! Contact your council people and insist they not continue our city’s contract with them. Our family was the victim of a dog attack in May and we have been lied to and ignored.

    • I am shocked someone else didn’t die in the almost a full week it took the doggie social workers to do their job.

      I could maybe see letting a nonprofit run a shelter. Letting them be animal control is insane.

      So they even have any legal authority?
      What happens if the dog owner says “get off my property”?

      Animal control primarily means being dog cops.
      That’s why the job used to be called Dogcatcher.

      It needs to be a position staffed by law enforcement.
      Ideally armed LEOs should do the job.
      Personally, I think they should have rifles and be allowed to use them when the situation calls for it.

      They need to have the mindset that they are there to protect the public from dogs at least as much as they are to protect dogs from the public.

      The way it is now AC cares way more about “the poor widdle puppers” than the people in their jurisdiction.

      That must change.

    • Did KC pet project ever take possession of the dogs? In the new update, it says that the dogs disappeared. Were they found?

      • Our understanding (that I am now questioning) is the dogs were seized the Friday (Nov. 8) after the attack on Nov. 2. It sounds like, when police/KCPP returned with a search warrant on Nov. 3, the dogs were gone, except for two. Chris died on Nov. 6. The related KSHB report (Nov 14), says that “KCPP would not comment on the dogs’ location or status.” That comment, at the time, indicated to me the dogs were in custody. Police are not releasing information, so confirmation is impossible. Clearly, the owner took off with his breeding dogs and puppies so they could not be confiscated. It’s unknown if police have caught up with the owner. He could have crossed state lines as well, complicating the investigation.

        The attack happened just before 10:00 pm. For whatever reason, they needed a warrant (possibly because the dogs’ owner was uncooperative and refused to turn over the dogs). By the time they got the warrant the next day, the dogs were gone.

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