California: "One year ago we lost our fun and loving dachshund Necco"... killed in his own yard by the next door neighbor's Pit Bull

CALIFORNIA -- Jonathon Caithness shared a memory on Facebook — feeling sad. July 13, 2017 ·

One year ago we lost our fun and loving dachshund Necco. The day we were going to pick him up from my sister in laws house after our apartment flooded. Oreo was scared of big dogs for months after this happened. She is better now though. We now have Boston and Oreo but Necco had a unique personality.

Kentucky: After asking people for money to help pay vet bill after Chihuahua is attacked by a pit bull, two women scold people for daring to say that the pit bull should be euthanized

(Thread from July 2016). What starts out as a request on the Facebook page "Louisville Lost & Found Pets Advocates" for donations for veterinary care after a Chihuahua was attacked by a pit bull turns into a scolding to those who dared suggest the attacking dog be put to sleep. I guess they just want your money but not your opinion...

KENTUCKY -- Swag was attacked by a pit bull around 7 pm he is a 4 yr old black and white chihuahua his vet bills are expensive and i am working part time and do not have a lot of money. The vet will not let me take swag home until he is stable and has surgery, as of so far he has a catheter, head and back trauma a broken rib and a hole in his lung, he is currently at Jefferson animal hospital (502-966-4104) , any vet donations are appreciated, he should be under swag Mattingly or Dylan Mattingly or Sarah Melton, (my brother and his fiancé are the ones that took him to the vet ) swag is struggling the last thing he needs is to be stuck in a vet for months because we can't afford to get him out. Please help God bless. Any questions call me 5022243383 please no calls after 10pm

 

 

 

Stephanie Roby Please post pics of the baby also

Like · July 10 at 11:43pm

Hannah Jae Mattingly I did

Like · July 10 at 11:47pm

Sarrah Yeager Following. I can't help, but I'm sending lots of good vibes his way. Please let us know what happens Hannah Mattingly

Like · 2 · July 10 at 11:59pm

Hannah Jae Mattingly I appreciate it!!! Any good vibes are helpful also!!

Like · 3 · July 10 at 11:59pm

Natalie Jean Good luck to you and to your sweet pup.

Like · 3 · July 11 at 12:01am

Mandy Lindsey-Matthews I'll send something in the morning. Won't be much, but I hope it helps a little.

Like · 1 · July 11 at 12:40am

Stephanie Roby Was the dogs out unattended? Some dogs are just pray driven. My dogs bark at any and everything. Pit bulls are made out to be bad dogs that's not the case. Could just be prey driven.

Like · 4 · July 11 at 1:20am

Melly Moonbeam My pit mix has a very high prey drive and he will go after other dogs. Because of that, he is NEVER out of my sight/control. We were walking in our neighborhood and 2 yorkies were going nuts, barking at us, got out of the fence, ran up and started attacking us. Yes, the yorkies started it. Bear (my dog) had one of the yorkies by the neck before I could blink. I've worked with Bear on "soft mouth," so that he doesn't bite hard. I had to pick Bear up and hold him upside down to get him to release the yorkie. Thank goodness he didn't bite hard and the yorkie had no injuries. It's scary how some dogs just act on instinct. Pit bulls, and other terriers, were bred to find and kill small animals like rats and rabbits. Pits are great, but, you just need to take precaution if you need to.

Like · 3 · July 11 at 7:51am

Hannah Jae Mattingly Yup..

Like · July 11 at 1:21am

Suzie Gafford Bright Oh, poor swag ! How is the puppy patient this morning? I will be glad to help any way I can ! First , a thought is, apply for credit care at the Vet, then you will have time to pay payments with no interest , while you get money from the pit owner ! Also, if possible , change Vets, Jefferson Animal Hospital , is higher than a cats back, if Swag is stable , move to Elk Creek , or Rescue One, they will take payments over the hone, and except credit care, I believe , Praying <3

Like · July 11 at 11:13am

Hannah Jae Mattingly We don't know if we want to move him, the price is high yes, but he isn't in not condition to be moved, he's stable but he's in shock.

Like · 1 · July 11 at 11:14am

Suzie Gafford Bright Maybe Dr. Alan, with Rescue One will go pick the pup up ? $2000-$3000 seems high , send the bill to Rescue One and have them look at it, and send you what they will charge .

Like · 2 · July 11 at 11:16am

Andi Edwards He can be transferred it happens all the time

Like · 1 · July 11 at 11:47am

Andi Edwards If you don't have that kind of money transferring to a place that can be affordable may be your best chance at saving him no vet works for free

Like · 1 · July 11 at 11:48am

Leigh Beccia Fowler 🙏

Like · July 11 at 11:48am

Suzie Gafford Bright Yes ! Get some more estimates, starting with Rescue One, because Dr. Alan can pick him up ! :)

Like · 2 · July 11 at 11:59am

Suzie Gafford Bright And, apply for credit care, or if your credit is not that great maybe have a family member apply .

Like · July 11 at 11:59am

Stephanie Roby Not placing any blame at all but was both dogs off leash? Was your baby in your yard? Are they fenced in? Or was you all walking your dog on a leash?

Like · 1 · July 11 at 11:56am

Stephanie Roby I'm so hoping little swag is going to be ok

Like · 2 · July 11 at 11:57am

Stephanie Roby 😰

Like · July 11 at 11:57am

Stephanie Roby I'm wondering if a rescue can be found for the other dog? Sounds more like the owners fault. But putting the other dog down because he is prey driven sucks. There are precautions that can be taken to make sure that never happens again.

Like · 1 · July 11 at 11:59am

Stephanie Roby We are a animal advocates page and don't mean to sound unsympathetic by no means because I can't imagine if that would have been one of my babies but we don't advocate to have another dog put down because of bad owners of the other dog.

Like · 3 · July 11 at 12:11pm · Edited

Thanks Stephanie Roby for telling people what they can and can't talk about.

Stephanie Roby Is the owner mean and vicious or prey driven? If taken out on a muzzle or a high fence would this have happened. Probably not. Has the dog bitten a person badly?

Like · 2 · July 11 at 12:20pm

Hannah Jae Mattingly I hope they don't put her down. Just need her away from my house or they need to build a taller fence sometimes they leave her tied up out front

Like · 1 · July 11 at 12:23pm

Donna Okeefe Yes they need be more responsibile. I have a mean dog but he doesn't get anyone either. It's called a leash its not that hard.

Like · July 11 at 12:25pm

Donna Okeefe Metro will make them keep her in. If they can't keep the dog in then they take the dog. See how it's behavior is....

Like · 1 · July 11 at 12:27pm

Donna Okeefe Please tell u neighbors to get training.

Like · July 11 at 12:27pm

Stephanie Roby Tabitha Pickens

Like · July 11 at 12:35pm

Tabitha Pickens We don't need any discussions about the dog being put down. Everyone has their opinions, but in the end, Animal Control and the County Attorney will make that decision. This post and the comments should be kept to the discussion of getting the dog healed.

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Tabitha Pickens thinks she is Hall Monitor and takes it upon herself to start telling people what they should and should not discuss. 

Tabitha may want to remember that it's not a good idea to piss people off when you're asking them for money. It's also funny that she admits "everyone has their opinions" while telling them not to give them...

 

 

Arizona: Scott Brister and Rhonda Romine arrested in animal cruelty / bestiality case

ARIZONA -- An Arizona man and woman are facing felony charges after they tried to set up a sexual encounter with a dog, authorities said.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said Scott Brister, of Tempe, placed an ad on a bestiality website looking for a dog to have intercourse with Rhonda Romine, of Phoenix.

Brister's ad, according to the MCSO, read "My slave and I are looking for a dog and owner for her first time. We want her mounted and she will also take care of the owner (male or female). Just shoot me a message."

 

The MCSO said Brister planned on videotaping the encounter.

An animal crimes detective responded to the ad and offered up a dog for the couple. Romine and Brister were arrested Friday, July 22, when they met up with the undercover detective at a Tempe hotel.

Brister, 45, was booked on a Class 3 felony for arranging the sexual encounter between while Romine, 26, was booked on a Class 6 felony on charges of conspiracy to commit bestiality.

The MCSO said both Romine and Brister admitted to the crime and the dog was not injured.

"Once again, this is bestiality case No. 11 for my office," said Sheriff Joe Arpaio said in a news release. "These investigations are becoming more difficult because of the 'Zoosexual' community checklist found online. You can be sure, we will continue to make arrests in cases just like this one regardless of their attempts to outsmart my detectives."

“I’m going to keep enforcing these animal cruelty laws as long as I’m the sheriff,” Arpaio said. “Everybody needs to know that if you’re going to abuse animals in Maricopa County, you’re going to get busted.”

(Tucson News Now - July 25, 2016)

(July 2016) New Hampshire: Joanie Osgood to appeal Northfield animal cruelty case to state Supreme Court

NEW HAMPSHIRE -- A Concord woman convicted of neglecting three horses at a farm in Northfield remains free on bail pending her appeal to the state’s highest court.

 

The appeal to the state Supreme Court will be the second time Joanie Osgood, 59, has asked a higher court to review her case.

Osgood was convicted in 2015 of three counts of animal cruelty and first appealed the misdemeanors to Merrimack County Superior Court, where she was granted a new trial.

In May, a jury heard the case and found her guilty.

 

Paradis testifies to the judge to the condition the
horses were in when she received them.

Osgood was back at the Concord courthouse Tuesday to be sentenced. The defense argued for no jail time, while the state recommended a sentence of 90 days in jail – 60 more days than a circuit court judge had initially imposed in 2015.

Ultimately, Judge Diane Nicolosi didn’t side with either party and upheld the circuit court sentence of 30 days to serve.

The remaining 11 months of Osgood’s 12-month sentence are postponed for three years on conditions of good behavior.

Osgood is also prohibited from owning or caring for horses during that three-year time frame.

Nicolosi ordered Osgood to pay a total of $34,126 in restitution to Live and Let Live Farm, an animal rescue facility in Chichester where the horses were taken in June 2014. The money is for the horses’ boarding and medical expenses between that summer and October 2015, although those costs to date total more than $70,000, according to Assistant Merrimack County Attorney Cristina Brooks.

Brooks visited the horses at the Chichester farm this past weekend with her family and took photos, which she shared with the court to document what she called remarkable improvements in the animals’ health. Osgood abandoned the horses in 2011, Brooks said, but the abuse dates back to 2003.

Police reported in 2014 that the horses were severely malnourished, dehydrated and experiencing muscle atrophy.

The barn that the horses were locked inside.

Osgood was one of two people arrested that year and accused of neglecting horses at the property of Bert Southwick, an elderly Northfield farmer. Southwick, who has since died, was a fixture in the community, having delivered eggs for more than seven decades on a horse-drawn buggy.

The other owner, Harold Kelley of Laconia, pleaded guilty last year to two misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty. As part of a deal reached with prosecutors, he agreed to pay $6,000 to Live and Let Live Farm.

Trying to move horses out of the dilapidated barn

The rescue’s founder and executive director, Teresa Paradis, said the horses lived in deplorable conditions for more than a decade before police intervened.

She told the court that she first visited the barn in Northfield in 2003, when a young woman asked her to take the two Morgan horses she’d been boarding there for more than a year.

That was the first time Paradis had encountered a horse named Blue who she said “tore up my heart” and left a “soul-wrenching” impression on her.

Paradis asked the judge to impose three consecutive sentences against Osgood, rather than concurrent ones, because each of the three horses deserve justice. She said she didn’t care if each of those sentences was one week or one year long.

Public defender Timothy Landry maintained at sentencing, as he had during the jury trial, that Osgood had transferred possession of the horses to Southwick to make up for unpaid boarding fees totaling about $17,000.

“There’s just no evidence in this case that Joanie actively participated in this cruelty,” Landry said.

Nicolosi disagreed, saying she didn’t buy Landry’s argument.

Churchill and Patton, two stallions rescued from 
Joanie Osgood, run at Live and Let 
Live Farm. Photo: Nick Reid

“I accept the jury verdict in this case. The defense you raised that these horses were abandoned to Bert Southwick for nonpayment . . . was something presented to the jury and rejected,” she said.

Nicolosi then turned her attention to Osgood: “I believe you knew exactly the condition of this farm. You knew the ability of these people to provide care to these horses. These horses were your responsibility.”

Landry spoke at the end of the hearing of his intent to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. He specifically cited Nicolosi’s denial of the defense’s motion to dismiss, and what he called a lack of sufficient evidence from the state to support the charges against Osgood.

Teresa Paradis, executive director of Live and
 Let Live Farm, embraces Neptune, a stallion 
rescued from Joanie Osgood. Photo Nick Reid

(Concord Monitor - July 12, 2016)

Earlier:

• New Hampshire: Harold Kelley and Joanie Osgood charged for horse abuse
• New Hampshire: Trial delayed for Joanie Osgood, 58, accused of neglecting horses on Northfield farm
• New Hampshire: Jury still deliberating in animal cruelty case against Joanie Osgood
• New Hampshire: Joanie Osgood, 58, tried to convince a jury she wasn't responsible for the starving 5 horses. Jury said GUILTY.

United Kingdom: Cat dies after getting 'ripped apart' by pit bull

UNITED KINGDOM -- A Dundee woman has been left distraught after her cat died when a dog “ripped it apart”.

Linda Cochrane, of the Blackness area, was told the shocking news by a neighbor — her 12-year-old cat was set upon by what is thought to be a Staffordshire Pit Bull Terrier.

It was then dragged down Glenagnes Road, near her home.

The 57-year-old grandmother was in her flat looking after her granddaughter when the attack happened.

Linda added: “The dog ran for my cat and ripped him a part. My cat was just sitting outside the front door when it happened.

“The dog wasn’t on a lead and it ran straight for him with the intent to kill. It ripped through his neck and his chest and dragged him right down Glenagnes Road.

“I was absolutely horrified when I heard what happened and I was left feeling disgusted when I saw him lying in the middle of the road.

“My daughter’s boyfriend took him and buried him in the woods at Tealing.”

The incident, which happened at around 2pm on Sunday, has prompted Linda to call for all dogs to be kept on leads when being walked through residential areas.

She added: “If the dog that did this was on a lead, my cat would still be alive. It was reported to the police and when they got here they said that it was in the dog’s nature to do what it did and there was no law to keep dogs on their leads.

“If that’s the case then I think there should be. That dog attacked my cat with the intent to kill it.

“Dangerous dogs like that should be kept on the lead at all times — especially when they are in built-up areas where lots of cats can be found.”

A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: “Anyone with information regarding an incident involving a dog being responsible for the fatal injuries of a cat in Glenagnes Road, Dundee, at about 2.40pm on Sunday afternoon is asked to contact Police Scotland.

“Police are keen to trace a man who was wearing a light blue hooded top with the letters NYC on it that was walking a terrier-type dog and another dog at the time.”

(Evening Telegraph UK - July 27, 2016)

Massachusetts: Man attacked by pit bull at Petco. You won't feel too sorry for him after you read his comments.

MASSACHUSETTS -- Found on Facebook feed.

There have been many stories of dog attacks at pet stores such as Petco and Petsmart. This pit bull apparently decided to attack him while he was shopping. According to the victim, the pit bull had been taken by its owner to Petco for obedience training classes.

   

 

Feel badly for this guy? Poor fella is minding his own business at Petco and suddenly this vicious dog attacks him. On top of that, he posts that he has to return to the doctor because some sort of infection has set into his arm. 

Well, read what he wrote below in response from one of his friends insisting "Pit bulls are not dangerous. It's the way they're brought up and raised!"

Victim: "Which is exactly why I DID NOT CALL ANIMAL CONTROL OR FILE A REPORT against the dog. [The pit bull] doesn't need to be punished for the incompetence of her owners or Petco!"

So this pit bull viciously attacks him in the middle of Petco and he feels sorry for the dog? And doesn't file a report. 

Filing a report doesn't mean they'll do anything... but it's on record that it happened. If you wanna blame the owner, fine, but if there are previous attacks, the authorities need to know this. If this dog is taken back to Petco next month and rips a kid's face off, they need to have known about this previous attack. God, I can't believe the morons running around today...

New Jersey: Unreported in the news, woman attacked by pit bull

NEW JERSEY -- Found on Facebook. 

"Ask me how I spent my Saturday. Sitting in CMC getting treated for a dog bite from a pit bull."

 

 

 

California: Man attacked by pit bull; no media coverage

CALIFORNIA -- Yet another dog bite that goes unreported by the media:

 

Maine: Woman can't get Animal Control to respond to pit bull attack on her and her dog

MAINE -- Found this posted on Facebook. This poor little dog was attacked by a loose pit bull while standing in their own yard. The dog, named Chico, was taken to the vet for his injuries and he had to get staples (stitches) to close his wounds. The owner was also bitten by the pit bull while trying to save Chico.

A neighbor told her that this dog has done this before. Is Animal Control going to do something about it? Doubtful since, when you read her posts, she can't even get them to respond to the attack to do the report - and the dog is still at its house rather than being in quarantine.

 

 

 

 

Ohio: Woman tries to stop pit bulls from fighting over food. Big mistake.

OHIO -- Trotwood Police said crews responded to a house in the 1400 block of Elaine Street for a report of a dog attack in progress this afternoon.

Police located a 32-year-old female victim, who was the homeowner. She was watching two other dogs, along with her own dog. The victim, who was alert when police arrived, said two of the dogs begin fighting over food.

When she tried to step in to separate the dogs, one or both of the dogs attacked her. She received multiple bites to her hands, arms, legs and to her head.

Four children were in the house at the time. The children, who belonged to another friend of the victim’s, were unharmed. All four of the children were locked in a bedroom, and one managed to make an emergency call to report the dog attack, police said.

 

The owner of the dog — not the victim — could receive a citation for not registering one of the animals. Officials have not determined if that will happen.

“We believe these dogs were fighting over food and when the homeowner tried to break it up, she got attacked at that point,” said Trotwood Deputy Chief John Porter.

Officials will continue to investigate the incident.

 

(WHIO - July 26, 2016)