In a message dated 7/15/2004 6:09:58 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
nory@buffnet.net writes:
the pit bull next door
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Well, I guess I'll have to tell my pit bull story.
A few years ago, I was sleeping in a little on a Saturday morning. I was
awakened by my wife getting up and walking out of the bedroom to our patio in
the
back yard. I was just about back to sleep when I heard her screaming "STOP
IT! STOP! STOP!"
This was immediately followed by a series of gunshots. POW, POW,POW,POW, POW,
POW..10 OR 12 rapid shots.
Needless to say, I jumped out of bed and ran out into the yard, in my
underwear. She was at the back fence looking into the neighbor's yard. In my
neighborhood, all the back yards are separated by a 4-5 foot rock wall (code in
El
Paso and NM).
When I reached the fence there were two more shots, and then my neighbor
walked over to us, holding a .22 rifle. Three pit bulls had jumped the fence
into
his yard and attacked his Doberman. The Doberman was one of the gentlest
dogs I've ever known and always came to the fence when we were out for a pet.
The neighbor had killed one of the pits, thought he wounded another, and then
had to dispatch his dog because of the severity of it's wounds. The pits had
torn the poor Doby up badly.
We all talked a few minutes and then I went inside and got dressed while my
wife called the Sheriff. I went driving around the neighborhood looking for
the two other pits. I found another neighbor whose dog had been attacked, but
not severely hurt, and another who knew the dogs as they had threatened his
wife. Finally, a couple of blocks into the neighborhood I found a woman
walking
the street, looking a little frantic, searching right and left, and weeping.
I stopped the car, rolled down the window and asked her if she had lost a dog.
She said "yes, two of them" and I said "if they were pit bulls I know where
one is". I gave her a ride back to the neighbors so she could identify the
dead one.
The lady told us they were her husband's dogs and he had trouble keeping them
in.
I have two grand children and four of my own dogs that I would not have
wanted to be in danger, so to say the least, I was a little perturbed about all
of
this. She got a ticket from the Sheriff, and the neighbor got a friendly
"warning" about discharging a firearm in a neighbor hood. Before the Sheriff
got
there, her husband blazed by in his truck without stopping (after she called
him on a cell phone) and I am reasonably sure he had the other dog (dogs?) and
was taking them elsewhere. The Sheriff asked about them and would have taken
them if they had been at the lady's house. He had the dead dog picked up for
testing also.
Almost everyone knows I am a believer in the citizens right to keep and bear
arms, but even I don't think you should have to keep a loaded gun near the
door to protect your yard!
Robert Houston
Texan in New Mexico
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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