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Three taken to ER after pit bull terrier attacks owner and 2 others in Claremore, Oklahoma

Cydney Baron
The Claremore Daily Progress
Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:15 UTC

Three people were transported to the emergency room after they were allegedly attacked by a dog.

According to Rogers County Sheriff's Office, deputies were dispatched to a Highway 20 residence where a man was said to be "running around, waving his arms and acting distressed."

"Dispatch advised that the homeowner called in and advised that they were being attacked by their pit bull," according to RCSO reports. "When a deputy was making contact, the dog was still actively attacking it's owner. The deputy used a can of pepper spray on the dog and it didn't work."

According to the report, the deputy ultimately had to shoot the dog to get it off of the owner.

"Three people had injuries from the dog biting them, and they were all transported to the emergency room," RCSO reports. "

Comment: See also this report from a day later: Pit bull attacks 5-year-old boy in Manchester, Connecticut, drags him outside home

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gdpetti · 2017-09-25T21:44:31Z

Seems these owners only learn the hard way.

Servaline · 2017-09-26T02:36:19Z

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary is one of the major drivers and dollars behind this love the mistreated, misunderstood pit bull movement that ensnares untold families into adopting one of these mongrels only to find out that you just can't love 400 years of DNA and fight-to-the-death genetics out of them. Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, just another vile religious cult. [Link]

DactivateD · 2017-09-26T04:12:38Z

Ive never met anyone that has been bitten by a pitbull. I was bit by a Doberman, the big version. My broth was attacked by a german sheppard and a chow. My best friend was attacked by a Rottweiler a couple times. I was in the military, navy, for four years and I met thousands of people and not one attacked bt a pitbull. How would I know, because when you spend a significant amount of time out to sea, you kind of get to know folks on a more personal level.

Sure, people get attacked by the MONSTEROUS pitbull but its no epidemic.

Servaline · 2017-09-26T14:44:10Z

DactivateD, there's a big difference between a dog "bite" and a dog mauling. We're talking maulings and toe tags here, and pit bulls are responsible for over 70% of all the serious maulings and deaths in humans, their pets and livestock. These are statistics, not subjective drivel like I read over and over from the pro-pit bull community. Pit bulls are always charming, sweet, and loving, until they aren't.

A report by the CBC’s The Fifth Estate, “Pit Bulls Unleashed,” found that medical studies are sounding the alarm about child safety issues and pit bulls.

"Dr. Michael Golinko, director of plastic surgery at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock, cringes when he sees promotional material with children and pit bulls.

“Pit bulls and children are best kept apart,” he told The Fifth Estate, based on his studies. Golinko did his residency in pediatric plastic surgery at the children’s hospital in Atlanta a few years ago and was often repairing children injured by dogs. Severe injuries

“Almost every night we saw a dog bite and more often than not, the more severe ones were pit bulls.”

He decided to conduct a bite study and once he and his colleagues started looking into it, the data pretty much corroborated what they were seeing in the emergency room night after night. For the study that was published in July 2016, they analyzed four years of patient charts, which included 1,616 dog bite injuries. A subsequent bite study Golinko and his colleagues did in Arkansas looked at 540 pediatric bite injury cases and is currently under peer review. In the two studies, they found incidents involving pit bulls were 2.5 times more likely to involve bites in multiple locations on a child’s body than those involving other dogs. The depth and the severity of the bites as well as the number of tissue types injured was also different.

They found those incidents involving pit bulls could also involve bites that went through bone or ripped off a part of a hand or scalp.

In Little Rock, Golinko operated on a three-year-old boy who had part of his scalp ripped off by a family pit bull. It took four years and 21 surgeries to repair his injuries. One ear still needs to be rebuilt.

The Atlanta study also found that if a child required an operation, 50 per cent of the time it was following a pit bull bite.

‘Hyper-vigilant’ The Atlanta study and multiple other studies have found that children were bitten by family dogs or dogs known to the family in up to 85 per cent of the cases.

Golinko says he’s a dog lover, but even with his own dogs — a golden retriever and Great Pyrenees husky — he’s “hyper-vigilant” when they are around young children. “I know that they’re dogs at the end of the day, and that accidents can happen.”

Dr. Michael GolinkoDr. Michael Golinko, director of plastic surgery at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock, says ‘pit bulls and children are best kept apart.’ (CBC) But when it comes to children and pit bulls mixing, he says: “I think there’s too much of a risk from what I’ve seen to advocate or sanction that.” Pit bull advocates dispute Golinko’s conclusions.

They point to analysis done by the National Canine Research Council (NCRC), which is described on its website as a non-profit canine behavior science and policy think-tank, and is a subsidiary of the Animal Farm Foundation, based in Dutchess County, N.Y.

The Animal Farm Foundation says it is devoted to “securing equal treatment and opportunity for ‘pit bull’ dogs.”

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My comment: NCRC, AFF (Animal Farm Foundation) and BFAS (Best Friends Animal Society) are all in bed together and make $$ millions promoting these fighting dogs as safe family pets and spend even more $$ millions on propaganda and lobbying to promote these dogs.

Here's the Dunbar Bite Assessment Scale. The above organizations want to include dogs in the levels 4, 5, and 6 categories to be considered no-kill, rebrand them, and send them back to be adopted by unsuspecting people. [Link]
Level 4: The dog has insufficient bite inhibition and is very dangerous. Prognosis is poor because of the difficulty and danger of trying to teach bite inhibition to an adult hard-biting dog and because absolute owner-compliance is rare. Only work with the dog in exceptional circumstances, e.g., the owner is a dog professional and has sworn 100% compliance. Make sure the owner signs a form in triplicate stating that they understand and take full responsibility that: 1. The dog is a Level 4 biter and is likely to course an equivalent amount of damage WHEN it bites again (which it most probably will) and should therefore, be confined to the home at all times and only allowed contact with adult owners. 2. Whenever, children or guests visit the house, the dog should be confined to a single locked-room or roofed, chain-link run with the only keys kept on a chain around the neck of each adult owner. (To prevent children or guests entering the dog's confinement area.) 3. The dog is muzzled before leaving the house and only leaves the house for visits to a veterinary clinic. 4. The incidents have all been reported to the relevant authorities — animal control or police. Give the owners one copy, keep one copy for your files and give one copy to the dog's veterinarian. Level 5 and 6: The dog is extremely dangerous and mutilates. The dog is simply not safe around people. I recommend euthanasia because the quality of life is so poor for dogs that have to live out their lives in solitary confinement.

Levels 5 and 6: The dog is extremely dangerous and mutilates. The dog is simply not safe around people. I recommend euthanasia because the quality of life is so poor for dogs that have to live out their lives in solitary confinement.

When pediatricians and surgeons start telling the public that pit bulls aren't safe around children, it's time to listen. [Link]

Garrik0 · 2017-09-26T15:02:29Z

Servaline pit bulls are responsible for over 70% of all the serious maulings and deaths in humans, their pets and livestock. These are statistics, not subjective drivel like I read over and over from the pro-pit bull community. Pit bulls are always charming, sweet, and loving, until they aren't.

Kinda like black people

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