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Boris
12-02-2003, 03:14 PM
killer pit bulls (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2003/12/02/national1055EST0510.DTL)

To be perfectly honest I'm surprised nobody shot these dogs before the poor woman had to die. On the other hand we could just ban shotguns and have the local sherrif protect us from harm. lol.

12-02) 07:55 PST DENVER (AP) --

A woman was killed in a gruesome attack by a pack of pit bull dogs that residents say had been a roaming menace for months. Another man was injured but escaped after his son shot at the dogs.

Authorities began weighing charges Monday against the owners of the dogs.

Jennifer Brooke, 40, was killed early Sunday when she went to a barn to care for her horses, officials said. A friend worried about her, Bjorn Osmunsen, 24, was attacked when he went to look for her.

"It's a gruesome thing; it's kind of hard to deal with," Elbert County Undersheriff James Underwood said of Brooke's injuries. "Even the fire department and the rescue personnel were having a hard time dealing with some of it."

One dog had allegedly mauled a neighbor earlier this year, and officials said the dogs were well known in the rolling ranch land near Kiowa, southeast of Denver.

"The people in the area had their own sort of emergency phone network to warn each other if the dogs were loose before they would go out," Rattlesnake Fire District Chief Dale Goetz said.

After fatally mauling Brooke, the dogs moved on to a nearby home and attacked Lynn Baker when he stepped outside.

"One was leaping for my throat as one was dragging me down by my hand," Baker said.

He said he jumped into the bed of his pickup truck and screamed for family members to call authorities, and for his 16-year-old son, Cody, to grab a gun.

Cody Baker fired at the dogs with a shotgun, blinding one, knocking one down and disorienting the third. The distraction allowed his father to climb into the cab of the pickup and drive close enough to his house to scurry inside.

"I came out and shot the big one twice but it hardly slowed him down," said Baker, whose son also was attacked but was not injured.

"They were monsters. And they don't run away. They come at you, even when you are shooting at them," Baker said in a telephone interview. The dogs were eventually killed by Cody Baker and a deputy. Both Lynn Baker and Osmunsen were treated for their injuries and released.

The dogs' owners, one of whom was identified as Jacqueline McCuen, could face charges ranging from a misdemeanor to negligent homicide, said Mike Knight, spokesman for the district attorney.

There was no comment from McCuen; her telephone number is listed as disconnected.

Resident Tom Nichols said his wife, Diana, was mauled by one of the dogs in April. He said she suffered several bite wounds, including a bone-deep gash that took two months to heal.

After that attack, one dog was impounded and McCuen was issued a summons for having a vicious animal. The case was dismissed because there appeared to be no applicable ordinance, but the case has been reopened, District Attorney Jim Peters said Monday.

Grover Henderson said the dogs chased his wife, Linda, into their home on Oct. 4. "A few weeks earlier, they had come to our house and bared their teeth at me, and I called McCuen and told her I would shoot them if they came back," he said.

Zeno
12-02-2003, 03:49 PM
Dogs in packs are especially dangerous. People still view them as "pets" but a pack of dogs has instincts to attack and kill, even dogs that otherwise may be friendly alone. A dog pack will kill sheep and other animals quite regularly.

The owners of said dogs are idiots. But the nearby residents should have shot the dogs long before any of what transpired in the article occurred. Dogs are capable of being extremely vicious, especially if roaming in a pack.


Reminds me of a true story. Someone I know and his girl friend moved into a rural area in Oregon and immediately warned their neighbors that they regarded their dogs as dangerous and that they would protect themselves. The Girl friend then, about a week later, killed one of the neighbor’s dogs with a 357 magnum. The State police were called but no action was taken that I know of. Great way to introduce yourself to the neighborhood.

Run down and get that Mossberg while the sale is still on.

-Zeno

Boris
12-02-2003, 04:03 PM
wolf info (http://www.ualberta.ca/~jzgurski/endanger.html)

I've always wondered why domestic dog packs can be so vicious. I hesitate to call it instinct. Wolves and coyotes rarely attack humans and when they do it can almost always be attributed to rabies.