Regina F. Graham Daily Mail Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:42 UTC
A disturbing video shows the shocking moment a pit bull attacked an unassuming toddler in New York on Thursday.
A disturbing video shows the shocking moment a pit bull attacked an unassuming toddler in New York on Thursday.
The three-year-old boy is recovering and has been released from the hospital, WABC reported.
The footage shows the toddler playing on a sidewalk with other children outside of a Spring Valley home when the dog runs across the street and charges at him.
The boy, who is wearing bright yellow pants, is immediately attacked by the pit bull and dragged across the ground for a few seconds as the other children run away out of fear.
A few adults jumped out of vehicles that were passing by to help the boy and seize the dog.
A photo taken after the attack shows the left side of the little boy's face with several bite wounds.
A photo taken after the attack shows the left side of the little boy's face with several bite wounds.
The pit bull was reportedly returned to its owner and the Spring Valley police department is looking into the incident to determine whether the dog has a history of violence, the New York Daily News reported.
The toddler, who has not been publicly identified, is a young Jewish boy, according to the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council (OJPAC) of Hudson Valley.
The OJPAC claims the pit bull's owner has let the dog outside without a collar on numerous times in recent weeks.
'Neighbors say they have called the Spring Valley PD (sic) about this multiple times but little action has been taken,' the council said on Twitter.
DactivateD This site reports dog bites (all dogs, just so happens that pits are greater than 60% of all of the cases) to humans resulting in death. You can also do a media search on all dog bites (just so happens that pits are greater than 70% of all of the cases) to humans resulting in level 1 through 6 trauma. MOST of the dogs are well-socialized, trained, well-loved family dogs. It's NOT how they are raised. With pit bulls it's genetic. These dogs have been bred for hundreds of years for blood sport and attacking without warning. Pointing dogs are likewise bred to point and do so from early weeks of life, as goes for retrievers, and herding dogs. It even applies to bucking horses and bulls. It's in the breeding, not the raising. Until people understand this, there will be innocent victims. Dogsbite.org is a great start if you want truth.
Well this dog has a history of violence to the level of killing a human now. If it was not stopped by people intervening the child would likely have suffered even more serious injuries. I love dogs, own dogs, and agree that bad behavior by a dog is usually the owner's fault, but when a dog has attacked a child, unprovoked and in such a serious manner, it should never be trusted again--and the owner should never be allowed to own a dog again while living in this area.
shellycheval Yes, the problem is the breed who have been bred for this behavior and the same with its owner, who seems bred to breed these dogs... both are the problem, but the dog type seems easier for us to deal with by banning them and placing severe penalties on owners who don't comply. This is a no brainer.. or should be... but illustrative of our dumbed down our society has become... the lesson repeats until learned.
shellycheval Here we go again, dog owners throwing other owners under the bus when there is no indication that the owner was any more irresponsible than another dog owner, especially another pit bull owner. Pit bulls are in the news daily, usually multiple attacks daily, just like this one, but most aren't aware of it. These attacks on humans that are covered by media are just the tip of the iceburg. Pit bulls kill other pets and livestock to the tune of nearly 50,000 (that's thousand) annually. Pit bulls, there's no mistaken identity or conspiracy going on, these dogs were bred to do just that and their usually good owners are blindsided when they do what they were bred to do.
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