Jogger Kills Dog with Bare Hands - Real Headline

because the dog lunged at him and took off part of his nose.

i would have done the same to the dog and then beat the shit outta the owner for endangering me and my son. kudos to the dad.

This should not have happened. It is in my opinion something that could have been prevented, but the dog should not have been killed.

The dog did not take a peice of his nose. You guys are making stuff up.

I run in a rural area with plenty of white trash and dogs off-leash. I carry a Stun Master Hot Shot, 750,000 volts. Used it twice. No problems.

Anyone saying that the guy should not have killed the dog probably doesn't have kids. If you feel your kid is in danger you are going to take the dog out without even thinking about it. I have a dog and if it left our yard going after a person I would totally understand if that person felt threatened and had to take action. It is the dog owners responsibility to keep the dog contained at all times. "He never has done this before.." is not a valid excuse.

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This should not have happened. It is in my opinion something that could have been prevented, but the dog should not have been killed.

Let's see, maybe keeping the dog behind a fence or having it tied to a chain could have prevented this. No, sorry, that would make too much sense, so let's just blame the poor guy who got attacked, this was all his fault. I mean really, let's just outlaw running and biking on public streets because it's too dangerous for unsupervised dogs that like to attack people.

I cannot believe it. In that news story, there is a link to a related story in which the owners are saying the victim should go to jail. If I was that guy, I'd make sure they went to jail, then I'd sue them for every thing they had. I would add all kinds of charges (punitive, pain and suffering, legal fees, medical bills) and get every penny, plus more. Take their house, cars, everything. The freaking nerve these a-holes have, he should go to jail? I hope he ruins their lives.

And if that were my kid you were strangling, I would find you wherever you were and break every bone in your body and make sure you'd die a slow painful death.

SLCsucks wrote:

I run in a rural area with plenty of white trash and dogs off-leash. I carry a Stun Master Hot Shot, 750,000 volts. Used it twice. No problems.

Can you go into more detail about this, type of dogs, what happened, how you used the device, how difficult it is to carry, is it dangerous to you i.e. could you shock yourself with it etc?

Is there anything else that would help to protect against pit bull attacks, other than guns or tasers?

someone wrote:

Anyone saying that the guy should not have killed the dog probably doesn't have kids.

The fact that they don't have kids does not mean that they are wrong. In fact, people who don't have kids can probably think more rationally than people with kids with regard to such matters. Parents are incredibly irrational when it comes to their children.

"Parents are incredibly irrational when it comes to their children."

And that is one of the reasons why homo sapiens have been so successful over evolutionary time - we are willing to do anything to protect our kids, regardless if it harms another individual or another species.

My sister was bitten while running two years ago and had significant damage to one of her calf muscles (owners response "I'm sorry, he never does that"), my daughter had the top of her ear bitten off by a neighbors dog this past spring (again "he never does that"). Well, your dog did it and it is unacceptable (duh). Makes sense this dog is dead - our county Humane Society has the same policy - if a dog breaks the skin of anyone for any reason, play or aggression, end of story, they are put down immediately.

The dog owner's fiance, John Malone, say Harris went too far.

"Once he grabbed that dog he would not let that dog go," Malone said. "He just wouldn't. It's like something happened to him and he just choked the life out of it."

Malone believes Harris should face criminal charges for killing the dog.

"He could've held that dog down, you know, without killing it," Malone said.

Malone says there was a relative there who had a leash and was willing to take the dog in the house, but Malone says Harris would not let her have the dog.

Malone says Sierra was not a dangerous animal and had never attacked or bitten anyone before.

http://www.cbs12.com/articles/killed-4730084-criminal-lucie.html#ixzz18OIQF9TR

nicedoglover wrote:

if a dog breaks the skin of anyone for any reason, play or aggression, end of story, they are put down immediately.

I think that this policy takes it a bit too far. To say that a dog should be put down if it bites a person for any reason is to say that people should be allowed to do whatever they want to an animal and that the animal cannot defend itself ever. I don't know what happened in this specific case any more than anyone else here, so I'm not going to comment on it, but generally speaking I don't know how a person could say that a dog is never justified in biting a person.

I've seen some cases of animal abuse where it would be incredibly satisfying to see the dog rip the face off of the scumbag who is mistreating the animal. By your policy, such a dog would deserve death. In my mind, such a dog deserves praise.

YOU mean the one side of the story???

Listen, I am a pet psychic and speak to people beyond the grave. So naturally I know the intentions of the dog. He apologizes, but did say that the child looked awefully tasty. He aslo states that his owner was a poor master so he decided to fend for himself. The dog also said that

"I hated my redneck master who only put cheap light beer in my dog dish!"

He also said he would like to attack a D2 runner for being D2... not only a sell-out for an even crappier scholarship than D1, but probably no better than a junior college drop-out.

Merry Christmas,

Pet psychic.

Are there really people out there who think that someone needs to go to jail for killing a dog (who was offleash, unsupervised, and charged) as a result of a good faith belief that the dog was attacking him (not to mention the presence of his kid)? You people need to do some reading on the insane amount of money wasted on our prison systems.

Bottom line: dog owners need to keep control of their dogs or be prepared to face the consequences.

"Bottom line: dog owners need to keep control of their dogs or be prepared to face the consequences"

I love how the other article says "He could have just held him down until someone came." That is a joke. Trust me you can not just "hold down" a 80-100 aggressive dog.

Even if the guy did let go of the dog when the owner came out with a leash (I'd like to know more on that. Did the owner just stand on the porch or did he run over and try to help the guy) the damage was already done. With out 02 for that long, there is a good chance there would have already been perminent damage, and tracheal damage that would have necessitated stents that may or may not have worked. And if he broke it's neck (much less likely in a dog that size) it would have been a lost cause.

In the end, it was the owners fault and he should have to pay all medical expenses.

If I had a dime for every time some genius said, 'I got him completely under control....', and then got my ass chomped, I'd own Donald Trump.

If this is true about the leash and whatnot, the man that choked the dog to death deserves to die... I hope he's smart enough to use google and find this.