Attacking Pit Bull Shot in Animal Shelter to Save Life of Supervisor
Here is a terrifying example of the relentless nature of a Pit Bull attack. It was recorded on the kennel video in the Oakland County animal shelter and reported this week by the Detroit Free Press. The severely injured supervisor was a 25-year veteran of animal care and control.
The four-year-old Pit Bull involved, Roscoe, and had been surrendered after he attacked an adult and two children in the family that had reportedly loved and raised him since a puppy.
"When three Oakland County dog shelter workers couldn’t dislodge a raging pit bull mauling the kennel supervisor, a police officer shot the dog in the head, saving the supervisor. . . Yet, the 80-pound dog — after being shot “at point-blank range, between the eyes,” seemingly rose from the dead, the Oakland County spokesman said.
The officer returned to the hallway of the six kennels housing dangerous dogs and found that the pit bull had regained consciousness and "now posed a fresh threat."
“The officer saw it was now a wounded animal and the possible threat played through his mind, so he immediately ended its suffering” with a second shot that was fatal," the spokesperson said.
The report states that, even after the incident was conveyed to the family, the mother refused to give permission to euthanize the dog, blaming the serious attack on herself and her two children to the fact she had been "talking too loud."
Roscoe had also previously bitten a shelter worker who took him out for a walk
A man living at the house — not married to the children's mother, according to the police report — told officers who came to the house that the dog had “been aggressive before in the past and has bitten people/family members,” according to a police report.
A volunteer walks a dog outside the Oakland County A
The following day, Roscoe bit an Oakland County animal control officer in the back and leg as the officer tried to remove the dog’s leash inside the shelter’s quarantine kennel in Pontiac, according to the county’s news release. Yet, when shelter staff visited the man the next day and asked whether the county could get custody of the dog, as a step toward euthanizing it, the man refused, according to the release. Later, by telephone, the mother who’d been bitten also declined to surrender ownership of the dog to the county, the release said.
Is ‘No Kill’ Changing the Genetics of Pit Bulls?
Here is a terrifying example of the relentless nature of a Pit Bull attack. It was recorded on the kennel video in the Oakland County animal shelter and reported this week by the Detroit Free Press. The severely injured supervisor was a 25-year veteran of animal care and control.
The four-year-old Pit Bull involved, Roscoe, and had been surrendered after he attacked an adult and two children in the family that had reportedly loved and raised him since a puppy.
"When three Oakland County dog shelter workers couldn’t dislodge a raging pit bull mauling the kennel supervisor, a police officer shot the dog in the head, saving the supervisor. . . Yet, the 80-pound dog — after being shot “at point-blank range, between the eyes,” seemingly rose from the dead, the Oakland County spokesman said.
The officer returned to the hallway of the six kennels housing dangerous dogs and found that the pit bull had regained consciousness and "now posed a fresh threat."
“The officer saw it was now a wounded animal and the possible threat played through his mind, so he immediately ended its suffering” with a second shot that was fatal," the spokesperson said.
The report states that, even after the incident was conveyed to the family, the mother refused to give permission to euthanize the dog, blaming the serious attack on herself and her two children to the fact she had been "talking too loud."
Roscoe had also previously bitten a shelter worker who took him out for a walk
A man living at the house — not married to the children's mother, according to the police report — told officers who came to the house that the dog had “been aggressive before in the past and has bitten people/family members,” according to a police report.
A volunteer walks a dog outside the Oakland County A
The following day, Roscoe bit an Oakland County animal control officer in the back and leg as the officer tried to remove the dog’s leash inside the shelter’s quarantine kennel in Pontiac, according to the county’s news release. Yet, when shelter staff visited the man the next day and asked whether the county could get custody of the dog, as a step toward euthanizing it, the man refused, according to the release. Later, by telephone, the mother who’d been bitten also declined to surrender ownership of the dog to the county, the release said.
Is ‘No Kill’ Changing the Genetics of Pit Bulls?