3-Year-Old Mauled By Backyard Bred "Pit Bulls"

[gwynethfar]

Except they weren't Pit Bulls.Long story short: Family backyard breeds American Bulldogs and keeps them chained to a tree at all times. Their three-year-old was left untended and wandered into the dog's pen. The station that reports the tragedy (that has nothing to do with "vicious dogs" and everything to do with bad parenting and irresponsible

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[holidaylights]

Welcome to LJ!

[batty_gal]

This post here...

Also, poor kid. :(

[ailurus]

lol seriously, wtf?

[blasphemusfish]

So much media rageee. Fuckerrrssss

That poor little girl :C

[stormslegacy]

Looking at their website (had to internet archive it) it doesn't look like they were bybs. She was a rescue coordinator and stopped selling puppies to the public a while ago, in fact her "available puppies" page leads to her foster network and her dogs are titled working dogs. I think there's a lot more to the story.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080210182028/www.dreambulldogranch.com/index.html

[stormslegacy]

But how were they treated? I mean, there's nothing saying they were always tied up outside or anything else about their care. They had a dog in the house too. I'm not saying that I disagree--I mean, IF the dogs were left out 24-7 without human contact I would agree, but there is no evidence of that...her dogs had various awards as working dogs and one starred in a couple movies--I highly doubt that's the mark of an unsocialized monster.

[stormslegacy]

For all those attacking the owner for her byb dogs, I think that these people might also be the victim of poor reporting, their website doesn't seem sketchy, and they weren't breeding them for public sale, they were rescue coordinators, it looks like they stopped selling puppies a while ago.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080210182028/www.dreambulldogranch.com/index.html

[stormslegacy]

not saying their parenting doesn't suck. half the articles also say the kid got tangled in the chain--since that alone can do a lot of damage to a 3 year old, I wonder what really happened.

[gr_julian]

Conjecture, pure conjecture:

What if the dog was chained outside of the pen while they cleaned it, it saw the kid going onto its territory, and managed to break the chain trying to defend its turf?

I don't know. The whole thing is just horribly tragic.