Dog dies 4 days after pit bull mauling

[Separation]

65. Had to get 3 pits off of a lady.

Me and my best friend had a night flight and we both lived off base. We decided to ride our motorcycles in. We turned down the road and saw 3 pits attacking what looked like it had been a Scottie, it was dead and two were fighting over it when the third turned on the lady.

Me and my buddy stopped at the side wall jumped off our bikes, my buddy had an asp in his bag, I didn't have anything other than my leather flight jacket. My friends proceeded to wail on the dog that was attacking the lady and I grabbed the other two by the collar (big mistake).

By this time another guy who lived across the street came out and helped us out. He grabbed one of the two that were now on me, and I managed to get the one I had pinned.

Another 5 minutes go by and EMS & LEO roll up. The cops wanted to shoot the dogs but by this point the owner was out and screaming and making the situation even more stressful. Animal control showed up and got the pits and terriers. One of the pits died during the altercation as well.

If we hadn't be there when we did that lady would be dead. If that guy hadn't come out when he did I would have been severely injured.

My first dog in 94 was a pitbull that I found in a dumpster. He was all black with a white stripe down the middle of his back. Turns out the breeder dumped the runts in the dumpster and hoped they would starve before anyone noticed them.

He was skin and bones and me an my wife bottle fed him for 3 weeks. Named him Skunky. I don't know if he realized I saved his life, but he loved me unconditionally, he would go into depression whenever I deployed, not eat, and my wife would have to take him to the vet.

When he passed, it felt like my heart had been ripped out. I took two days leave, had a private cremation and was never able to pick them up.

With all that said, I probably will never own another pit.