Jogger Kills Dog with Bare Hands - Real Headline

Mrs. M wrote:

I would venture to say 100% of dogs are territorial, so the owner was a dumbass for leaving her dog outside unattended/untethered.

This is true. My dog ignores other dogs and people when on trails or in the park. It can be off leash and stay right on heel. But if a stranger enters the yard or another dog gets near. Barking, raised hair, more aggression.

There is a reason mail carriers and UPS get bit. They enter a dog's territory on a daily basis then leave. It piles up but old fido can't get to the intruder. The dog gets more and more frustrated. Until that day when they dive through the screen door.....

That father was smart in going after the dog. Most likely the dog would have targeted the boy as he is smaller.

As a dog owner to a Pit Bull as well as someone who has been attacked by a few dogs - including a rotty whome I compound fractured his front leg and thus it was removed during an altercation - I have this to say.

Human life is more important than a dog's. If a dog attacks a human at any time for any reason the human has every right to KILL the dog on the spot with no questions asked. It is the owners responsibility to keep any and all potentially dangerous dogs in the confines of their house.

I love my pit bull as he is very loyal, but I would have zero hesitation to killing him if he ever attacked any human other than one breaking into my house.

My gf has a Whooty! wrote:

As a dog owner to a Pit Bull as well as someone who has been attacked by a few dogs - including a rotty whome I compound fractured his front leg and thus it was removed during an altercation - I have this to say.

Human life is more important than a dog's. If a dog attacks a human at any time for any reason the human has every right to KILL the dog on the spot with no questions asked. It is the owners responsibility to keep any and all potentially dangerous dogs in the confines of their house.

I love my pit bull as he is very loyal, but I would have zero hesitation to killing him if he ever attacked any human other than one breaking into my house.

You're a peice of shit.

a d2 runner dude wrote:

You're a peice of shit.

Please don't talk about your self that way. If you get some counseling, it may help you overcome some of these feelings that you have shown throughout this thread. Good luck!!!

a d2 runner dude wrote:

You're a peice of shit.

Is rational behaviour non-existent in the 2nd division?

Astro wrote:

a d2 runner dude wrote:

You're a peice of shit.

Please don't talk about your self that way. If you get some counseling, it may help you overcome some of these feelings that you have shown throughout this thread. Good luck!!!

EVERYONE LET IT BE KNOWN, I HAVE BEEN TROLLING THIS THREAD FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.

Idiot Police wrote:

Looks like you're at the head of the idiot class.

yer both dum wrote:

You're both idiots. Anyone who believes anything to be obvious--whether it is the guilt of the man or the bad intentions of the dog--based on a short blurb in a newspaper is an idiot. The dog's intent is not known. Whether the man did the right thing or not is not known. You're both wrong.

Yeah, it is certainly stupid to point out that two people arguing on a message board about an event they read a blurb about might not be in the best position to make definitive statements about who is at fault. The truth is that no one here knows a damn thing and there is nothing idiotic about pointing that out.

goodjob to him

txRUNNERgirl wrote:

When they came at me, I used a different approach, which I continue to use. No more "nice doggie." Instead I use the tactic I learned on letsrun and run at the dogs, screaming and yelling like a crazy person. So far, this works every time and scares the dogs off.

I have been using this technique successfully for 25 years. Once I was attacked by a pit pull on an isolated rural road. I charged the dog screaming which works 95% of the time, the cowardly dog retreats. This one did not so I kept charging and kicked it as hard as I could. No one to help it was either him or me. I kicked the hell out of it but it kept coming. Finally I threw a fistful of sand in his face and it it blinded him and I kicked it to unconsciousness. Hopefully it died, but I never ran that route again.

dad, "I think I broke his freakin neck!"

son, "I think he broke his freakin neck!"

officer,"I think he broke his freakin neck!"

dad, "Told you I broke his freakin neck!"

I'd beat the f*** out of you.

I'm fat

I ate a dog for dinner.

That's why I'm fat.

yer both dum wrote:

Idiot Police wrote:

Looks like you're at the head of the idiot class.

yer both dum wrote:

You're both idiots. Anyone who believes anything to be obvious--whether it is the guilt of the man or the bad intentions of the dog--based on a short blurb in a newspaper is an idiot. The dog's intent is not known. Whether the man did the right thing or not is not known. You're both wrong.

Yeah, it is certainly stupid to point out that two people arguing on a message board about an event they read a blurb about might not be in the best position to make definitive statements about who is at fault. The truth is that no one here knows a damn thing and there is nothing idiotic about pointing that out.

You continue to be the biggest idiot on this thread. Nobody is taking this serious except you.

gamer wrote:

Finally I threw a fistful of sand in his face and it it blinded him and I kicked it to unconsciousness. Hopefully it died, but I never ran that route again.

I really don't get this. You defended yourself from the dog. That's all fine and good. But why then do you feel the need to kick the thing into unconsciousness after you're already safe and follow up with "hopefully it died"? That goes well beyond self defense and into the territory of just being plain violent for the hell of it.

If you're defending yourself, you do what you have to do and get away. If you're simply bloodthirsty, you kill even if it is not necessary. It is one thing to shoot a robber who is in your house. It is another thing to shoot a robber who is in your house and then track him down as he runs from your home to finish him off as he runs down the street a block away. What you did was analogous to the latter. You say that you blinded the animal before kicking it. Once you've blinded an animal, it can't do a damn thing to you an you're free to be on your way. Why stick around to beat the hell out of it? Just for fun?

Rabbit slayer wrote:

big ticket wrote:

Nope - true. I had to get him neutered, put up an invisible fence, cage him whenever people come over, and my girlfriend still wants to put him down. He is on a "short leash" but hasn't done anything like this since.

Put him down because he killed an animal???? That makes no sense whatsoever. Just because a dog still has instincts to hunt down prey doesn't mean they will be aggressive toward people. Hell, my mixed breed, VERY submissive mutt has left a few rabbit carcasses in our yard but she sure in the hell doesn't try to maul anyone. She isn't even aggressive with any other dogs she meets.

Did you dog start acting aggressive to people after that? What breed?

This was my reaction. Having a dog that could take down a deer is something to cherish not neuter.

You don't get this because you were not in my shoes. A pitbull can kill you. It was a life or death situation, heart racing, adrenalin flowing, wondering if I was about to die out there on that lonely road and leaving my wife and kids behind. I repeatedly kicked the pit bull and it kept coming over and over again. That is what pit bulls do, they will fight to the death. After I threw the sand in his face I had about 0.1 seconds to determine if it were effective or not and kicked it again before I found out it was not effective. I kicked it until I knew it was no longer a threat and with this dog, unconsciousness was the only way of knowing that. Yes, I hoped it was dead so it never got the chance to attack anyone else or God forbid, kill a defenseless child. I have never hurt another person or animal before or since other than kicking a few dogs that charged at me and which quickly retreated. You had to be the one attacked by the pit bull fighting for your life to understand and clearly you don't understand.

My apologies. You're right, I was not in your shoes and did not understand. With this explanation, I realize that I have misconstrued your previous post. So, yeah, I take it back.

dog owners are completely irrational about their dogs and never to be trusted. the police need to enforce leash laws as a result and runners should inform them when the leash laws are not respected. why should we have to stop running for a few steps and put a hand out to get safely past unleashed dogs in a public park or swerve to avoid being bitten by a leashed dog on a path or defend ourselves and/or our children against unleashed dogs while the owners do nothing and then blame us for defending ourselves?