The State of New Mexico, through its failure to enact a dog bite statute of any kind, will have to answer to a little girl who today is in critical condition. Two dogs that were running at large pursued her into the street, where she was critically injured by a passing car. This state, however, […]
On December 15th, 57-year-old Dino Cerda of Del City, Oklahoma, reacted quickly when he heard a woman crying and yelling, “They got him. They got him.” Three pit bulls belonging to a neighbor, Antwon Moore, were mauling five-year-old Xavier Gomez in his grandparent’s backyard. “They were feeding on him,” Cerda said. “If I had got […]
A dog owner on Oahu, one of the Hawaiian islands, allowed her Rottweiler to run loose on the beach twice in one week, and two little girls were mauled, six days apart. You would think that after the first girl’s mauling, the dog owner would have prevented her savage animal from returning to the beach. […]
A one-month-old baby was mutilated for life by her parents’ pit bull in Bossier City, Louisiana, yesterday. The dog chewed off four of the infant’s toes while her parents were sleeping. The baby is going to a foster home and her parents hopefully will be going to jail. (For the news story, click here.) The issue […]
“I think they should be as illegal as owning a lion and they belong in zoos,” a Colorado judge said as he sentenced a pit bull owner on a criminal offense. It stemmed from an unprovoked attack upon a woman who knocked at the defendant’s door and was mauled by her pit bull. The judge […]
The discussion of breed specific laws requires us to understand what makes a dog “dangerous.” As I attempt to explain in the section of my website called Dangerous Dogs, the term “dangerous” can refer to a particular dog that attacked a person, a dog that belongs to an owner who repeatedly violates animal control laws, a […]