Those Whose Names Shall Not Be Mentioned

This seems like a dark exercise, to create a list of  names of

dogs that killed humans.  The intent is certainly not to stir up

unpleasant memories for those who mourn, but rather, stir

up any molecule of reason for those who really think THEY

are different, because THEY love their pit bulls.   Most of

these dogs were loved, treated like family.   Most on this list,

killed the hand that fed them, or a vulnerable family

member.  In most of the media reports of the attacks, all that

remains to be said of  the dogs is perhaps gender, or breed

description, or some other kind of description…a large

brindle dog weighing 65 pounds….it looked to be some kind

of pit bull type of dog.   Pit bull advocates would like to keep

it just like that, sans breed. 


There may also be a horrifying

testimony of the scene encountered in the aftermath.

Perhaps the owner will make a  statement, on how surprised

that their dog (nameless now) has never once so much as

growled, they were beloved members of the family, but now,

we will not utter their  names.  Or, they will have recalled and

shared in retrospect, that their dog had been aggressive,

perhaps biting a family member, attacking or killing other

animals, and no red flags had been raised for the dangers that

these incidents had foreshadowed.


  Of the names that could be found, you

will find most of them were not given the kind of

stereotypical pit bull names such as Killer or Monster or

Barracuda.  No, they had sweet, affectionate  dual syllable

monikers, like those of the pooch laying at your own feet right

now.  The only thing  different, their owners thought they

were just like the ordinary pooch laying at your own feet, but

they were pit bulls.  Until then, sweet, harmless cuddly-

wuddly curs, then just once,  they went game. 


Here are some of their names.  

Achilles

*Baby,family dog, killed  Ramani Virgil,
BatonRouge, Lousiana, 4/19/2000.

Bane and Herra

Buddy

The Beast

Boosie

Briggs


*Brownie and General Chico killed Jah'Niyah White,
Chicago, Illinois,  12/7/2013.

Brutus

Brody



*Butch killed his owner Michael Cook, who didn’t survive the double amputation.

Tuscon, Arizona, 8/23/2011



*Buster killed Darius Tillman, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2/19/2011

Coca, Noah and Athena

*Cooper

Diesel



*Dozer, the family pit bull, "snapped" and  killed
Isis Krieger while playing with the child.
Anchorage, Alaska,  9/18/2008

 Just before the incident, the Michael Naglee was being held by Louisa Farmer, Michael's maternal grandmother, while she sat on the couch. After Michael began squirming, she placed him on the floor. He then "ran across the room to *Duncan," according to Michael Farmer. The dog responded by knocking the boy down and attacking him and three adults who intervened. The couple got the animal at a shelter about four years ago. The dog, a 135 American Bulldog Mix, was shot dead on scene by responding deputies.Oregon City, Oregon,  4/3/2011.

FatBoi

 The dog named *Foolish , owned by the babysitter’s

boyfriend,  had "slipped its collar" and chain and entered into

the owner's home. The dog quickly attacked the toddler,

Destiny Marie Knox,  who had not been left unattended as

previously reported. Investigators found no signs that the pit

bull had ever been mistreated. Chief Deputy Jimmy Whitten

said, "This dog was very healthy, very stout. It was well-kept,

well-groomed."  The owner owned four other pit bulls, and

even had a memorial to one of his pit bulls painted on the

window of his pick up truck. New Albany, Mississippi, 11/6/2009.

Grady

*Gunner

 * Honey killed Joseph Hines, 58, , who had rescued him five years prior, Burnettsville, Indiana, 12/5/2011.


2-year old TayLynn DeVaughn was viciously attacked and killed by a family pit bull-mix named  *  Jake, while visiting her aunt's home on Fleetwood Drive in West Mifflin, a Pittsburgh suburb. The pit bull belongs to her aunt's boyfriend. 

West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, 2/22,2015.

Kissy Face

* Kane killed his family member Tori Whitehurst, Phoenix,

Arizona, 11/05, 2007.

Kava

King

Mafia Lee and Passion Maria

Martel

Thumper and Max

Mica

*Molly, a supposed pit bull/Airedale cross used for hunting pigs, killed Vincent Scardina, Carmel Valley, California, 3/1965.

Nico

Patrone

Penny and Bosston

Polar

Polo

*Prince

*Rebel and Thor

*Rocky

Russia

Shadow

Sheeba

Shipper, Road, Two-Face and Satan

Sidon

*Smoke

Spike

*Tas

Taz

*Toby

*Tyson

Clara and Xeno

*Zeus

Zulu

* No photograph could be found of the named dog.


All of these dogs are innocent, because they were only doing what they have been purposely bred to do.   Nearly every one  of them paid for the crime of being promoted as family pets, most humanely euthanized and their heads cut off to discern if there was rabies.  Not one of them had rabies, but every single one of them had something as deadly called gamebred D.N.A..   Some of them were shot or stabbed by police, a neighbor or even a family member.  All of them had more humane deaths than the ones in which they had just participated.   Please remember the people who owned these dogs when you utter the phrase, "it's all how you raise 'em". 
It's the bloodiest lie spread by the pit bull advocacy.
Who are the real killers, what are their names?  You will know them by the misinformation they spread, racking up more and more victims, more and more dead.  They call themselves pit bull and animal welfare advocates.  We don’t need to mention their names, you know them well.

Psalm 69:28 “Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.”

New Age Pit Bull

  There are more editorial cartoons to be found at Pit Nutter Circus.

Damn to the Good Samaritain

The owner of the unlicensed pit bull that had recently whelped a litter of puppies, grieves in his idyllic suburban garden.    He is outraged at the gross negligence of the police who responded to a plea to help a seventy-two year old woman who was being dragged by the dog.  The police shot the dog when it turned on one of them.  The owner plans to press charges. 
"Those officers committed a serious crime here.  They deserve to be punished."

It seems these days, the intentions of helping in the line of duty can bite peace officers in the behind.  

B.S.L. advocates don't want to regulate the kind of people who can own pit bulls.  This is their collateral damage....there's a litter of puppies and plenty more where that came from, in plenty more idyllic suburban gardens like this one.  The cycle continues ad nauseam.




 

Confessions

These are  examples of some true confessionals, representations of candid moments of truth from pit bull advocates, taken from the facebook page Confessions of a Pit Loving Wackjob.  Great work of finding relevant artifacts!

The Plague

Just when you thought the menace of pit bull genetics was enough of a plague, we learn that the BUBONIC PLAGUE  has returned to the U.S.A, the first case of a canine transporting infected fleas to humans in 90 years.  GUESS WHAT KIND OF DOG TRANSMITTED THE DISEASE?  TA DAH!



MOOD MUSIC


An outbreak of plague that affected four people and a dog in Colorado might be the first instance of person-to-person transmission of plague in the United States in 90 years, officials said Thursday.

It started with a sick pit bull, and its owner, two vet techs and a close personal contact of the dog's owner all ended up infected. The dog died but all four people were treated with antibiotics and are okay.

And while the Yersinia pestis bacteria that causes plague is usually passed along in flea bites, the pneumonic form that infects the lungs can be transmitted by little droplets in a cough or through other close contact.

"We know that he got it from the dog."

"Although human plague is rare in North America, it remains a public health concern in the western United States where Y. pestis circulates among wild rodent populations," the researchers wrote in a report circulated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The dog got sick last summer, and was euthanized at a veterinary office after it coughed up blood and became very weak. No one suspected plague until its owner got sick too. He was initially diagnosed with another bacterial infection, but later tests showed he was infected by Yersinia pestis -- the same bacteria that wiped out 25 million people in the year 541 and tens of millions more throughout the Middle Ages.

It's still seen from time to time around the world and in Western states -- about eight human cases a year, on average. "Plague is virtually always confined in this day and age to rural regions in the West," Dr. John Douglas, director of Colorado's Tri-County Health Department, told NBC News. "That is because the vector of plague is typically the prairie dog although there are other rodents that can transmit as well."

The last documented case of human-to-human transmission of plague in the U.S. was during an outbreak in Los Angeles in 1924.

When the Colorado health officials got the report of plague, they started investigating. The first human patient was very ill, in the hospital and intubated, so he couldn't talk. But officials learned the dog had been sick. They tested tissue samples at the vet's and found plague.

"We know that he got it from the dog," Tri-County's Janine Runfola said. "He was coughing up blood. That is likely when some of the cases got infected, including the index patient." When patients with pneumonic plague cough, particles of infected blood and mucus spread and other people and animals nearby can breathe them in and become infected.

It's the most dangerous form of plague because it can spread this way, and it's the only way plague is transmitted from human to human.

Separately, two veterinary technicians who treated the dog got respiratory infections. They treated themselves with antibiotics. After the dog owner was diagnosed with plague, they were checked and put on extra intravenous antibiotics to be certain they were cured of the infection.

But the two technicians never became seriously ill -- something else that's new and good to know, said Douglas. Doctors usually assumed that pneumonic plague patients become very seriously ill. That could suggest that sometimes people get infected and don't know it, Douglas said.
       

But the most troubling case is the fourth one, a close female contact of the dog owner. Health officials are trying hard not to identify any of the people involved to protect their privacy.

"She also had contact with the dog and also had more intensive contact with the patient when he got sick," Douglas said. Both the man and the dog were coughing up blood, so either could have infected her. But the timeline makes it look more likely that the man infected her.

"There's no way to be sure that she also didn't get it from the dog," Douglas notes.

"Don't let your dog run around where the prairie dogs are."

Either way, the case is unusual and serves as a warning to doctors and vets alike to be on the lookout for plague when animals or people have unusual respiratory symptoms and have been in possible contact with rodents such as prairie dogs or squirrels.

In 2012, a 7-year-old Denver girl caught bubonic plague from a dead squirrel.

The good news is that all forms of plague can be treated with antibiotics. But it must be diagnosed properly.

"If you live in the West and you live in places where there are rodents or you are hiking … you need to be generally aware," Douglas said. Pets should get flea treatments and be kept away from wild animals.

   

"Don't let your dog run around where the prairie dogs are. Wear insect repellant and socks," he advised. 

And of course, if you own a pit bull, wear Kevlar and keep the break stick handy.  Flea bites are bad, but so are pit bull bites.  The CDC is very concerned about this outbreak which has thus far caused the death of four people.  The 30 or so deaths caused by pit bulls, not so much.  In fact, they don't track the breeds that cause canine related fatalities any longer, and they claim there is no such thing as a pit bull.   

Time Report

Washington Post

NPR

ABC News

CDC

Natural Justice?

An artifact found on facebook.

Consider this in the light of the controversy the pit bull advocates are stirring up with insurance companies. 

Is is "Justice" for everyone else to have to pay for risky choices...be it for the public engaging in the mere act of walking down the street, for taxpayers to pay for pit bull carnage and chaos, and for every homeowner pay  to higher insurance premiums to make it "fair" for those riskier choices?

What remedies do the stewards of these dogs choose...isn't it nothing and fun chance games for the rest of us?

Is this a threat to release the hounds?