Mississippi: Owners of vicious pit bulls that attacked man say they can't afford to maintain liability insurance on their maulers so they plan on shipping them back to the shelter they adopted them from - so they can be shuffled back through the adoption floor to new owners

MISSISSIPPI -- A Holmes County family is losing their pit bulls after they attacked a man.

Durant Assistant Police Chief John Smith said the two dogs attacked the man Tuesday outside a home on Hamilton Street. The man was walking down the street when the dogs rushed out of an open door and charged at him, police said.

"The victim is fine. Thank God it wasn't real serious. The skin wasn't broken," Smith said.

Lindsay Pace, the sister of the owner of the dogs, said the animals aren't aggressive.

"It's obvious that if she is barking at you and you go to swinging like he claims he was, of course they're going to get meaner," Pace said.

Police cited the owner for failing to have liability insurance for the family's four dogs, which is a violation of the city's dangerous animal ordinance.

"It's any dog that causes any kind of threat to a person or the environment that surrounded," Smith said.

The family said they can't afford to buy the required insurance.

"We are going to eventually give the dogs back. We have 30 days, and I don’t know what we're going to do. The kids have fallen in love with the dog. They are heartbroken that the dogs have to go back," Pace said.

Family members said they got the two pit bulls six months ago from a pit bull rescue shelter in Columbus. The dogs will likely go back to the shelter.

Um, no. How about they confiscate the dogs and euthanize them. Why send vicious dogs back to a shelter so they can change their names, write up a sad story about how they were found abandoned in California and send them home with a new unsuspecting family to attack again?

This is called NIMBY - "not in my back yard". It's when cities/towns send their problems somewhere else. They banish vicious dogs from their jurisdiction and the dogs get shipped off somewhere else, with no restrictions, no one in this new town knows anything about the dog's history... so when it attacks again and kills someone's pet or seriously mauls a child, everyone will say, "He's never done anything like this before. I'm so shocked!"

The dog's owner will go before a judge for the citation and could face a hefty fine.

(WAPT - April 17, 2014)