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After almost all of these cases, someone claims the dog or dogs never got out before, never were aggressive, and that they never have bitten anyone either. Almost every time that you read follow up stories, all of that is a lie.
The two most prominent cases I’ve researched in news stories, one involving animal attacks/killing, another with a repeated pack attack on a young man, where the animal was ‘saved from death row’ by the rescue on Animal Planet were full of lies by the owners. The news stories in the local media documented repeated attacks in both cases.
The show interviews with the owners were full of the usual lies by negligent owners of aggressive dogs. The neighbors of both owners told very different stories of the animals’ histories, and the attacks. The California case didn’t mention that a member of the film crew was actually attacked by one of the dogs that was later put down. There were animal control reports that were very different too.
I’m sick of the ‘reasons’ for a violent attack, and the lies that try to make an attack the victim’s fault.[/QUOTE]
It is the difference with something scaring your horses thru a fence and they get on the highway and someone hits one and dies in the wreck, compared with horses that keep getting out because of substandard care and fences, there are reports of them wandering the highways repeatedly and eventually someone hits one and gets killed.
Should we ban all horses because there is that risk horses may get out and someone hit one and die?
That is where we are today, even here plenty of posters insist they can let their dogs roam because of xyz, you name it, even if we all know roaming dogs are at risk themselves and any other they may come in contact with.
It is those people that don’t manage properly for avoidable situations roaming horses or dogs that make it hard, when something happen, to explain and/or excuse why those animals were not managed better.
Some times, it truly is an accident and others, definitely negligence.
I think determining that is where we should look, not jump on bandwagons to ban this or that.
Some can make the case that people should not have pit bulls, killer dogs, because they can do much damage when things go wrong.
The same can be said about horses by those that don’t think people should have horses, those dangerous, big beasts.
Society is going to have to decide if the millions of pit bulls and horses out there that don’t cause problems should not exist because there will be the time that, if the conditions are right, someone mismanage or by mere accident, tragedies as this one happen …
… or if we want to keep trying to educate better how to manage pit bulls and horses so everyone is as safe as we can make them from those, while letting those that want to have them do so.
No easy answers there, for anyone …
