Police: Officers shoot, kill dog attacking horse in Old Sac

[The Straight Story]

Police: Officers shoot, kill dog attacking horse in Old Sac

SACRAMENTO, CA - Sacramento police officers were forced to shoot and kill a vicious pitbull after it attacked a horse pulling a carriage in Old Sacramento Tuesday afternoon, according to authorities.

The attack happened around 3:45 p.m. on 2nd and J Streets when witnesses said the pitbull went "crazy" and attacked horse passing by, said Sacramento police spokesman Sgt. Norm Leong. Several Good Samaritans in the area tried to intervene when the dog latched onto the horse's face, but to no avail, said Leong.

"The carriage driver was shouting at the owner of the dog saying 'get it to stop, get it stop,'" said Steve Bauer, who witnessed the incident. "You can't stop that thing, there was nothing you could do."

When officers arrived, Leong said they had no choice but to shoot the dog. The carriage driver said everything happened so fast, he didn't have time to react.




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[newfie11]

1. and why was the pit not on a leash.

another owner that cannot control his dog.

[safeinOhio]

2. Another, dog smarter than owner

story, and owner too dumb to know it.

[FreakinDJ]

3. another Fuck-wad who taught his pitbull to attack

good enough reason alone for gun ownership

[teenagebambam]

4. A pit bull attacked my beagle last year

Jumped it's fence and came after my beagle (who was on a leash). If I'd had a gun i would have used it.

[northernlights]

5. legitimate shooting

If someone's dog attacks my horses in my pasture, I have a legal right to kill them.

Same thing if my dogs attack anybody else's livestock in their pastures.

Another stupid owner who had no business having a dog.

There was some fuckhead visiting Camden a couple years ago that walked around with their pitbull off leash. We have leash laws for a reason. They actually went into a restaurant and ate dinner with their dog sitting outside the restaurant waiting...off leash.

I don't care how fucking well-trained and well-behaved your dog is. Shit happens -- any dog could potentially get set off. My perfectly wonderful lab-cross once spied a squirrel or something in the corner of his eye and tried to bolt across a busy street. Thank god for good collars, or I could have lost him.

Leash laws exist for a reason, and they exist for *everybody.* Stupid fuckheads.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

10. That's exactly what I told the woman who let her Rot mix run up to me and my dog yesterday.

It fucking pisses me off to no end. Her un-leashed dog runs up to mine on leash and she yells "is your dog friendly" as if it wasn't too late. I said, "no, like many doges, when she is on-leash and walking with their owner, she can be leash-aggressive if approached too fast by a strange dog - just like this. It's one of the MANY reasons we have leash laws, asshole."

You should have seen the look on her face.

[TheMadMonk]

6. Problem is more than irresponsible owners. Even as it falls right back on them.

The many, many breeds of dogs have been selected for a plethora of traits from the frivilous physical features of pekes, chihuauas, to the length of the dachshund (which makes it impossible for the dog to turn in a badger's set and forces it to fights).

Like it or lump it, the fanciers of the breed do need to acknowledge that the PIT bull was bred for the dog fighting PIT. This does mean that it has traits which are in fact ideal for a family pet/guardian. They ARE incredibly insensitive to the worst that can be dished out by the average two year old or even twelve year old budding psychopaths. However, in addition to the insensitivity bred into them (as a breed) is a "fight to the death switch". That little something which turns a tug of war between toddlers into a bloodbath, instead of a snarl, a snap and pair of screaming kids, one with a few holes in their hide and a dog either long gone over ther horizon, or cowering, waiting for and utterly accepting of ANY physical chastisement a human (of the "pack" at least) might choose to deal out.

It's not just pitbulls, to a greater and lesser degree, other breeds of dogs have their own traits which make theme less than ideal as family pets. Working/guard dogs make poor pets unless their instincts are catered for and subsumed in some way. The problem with pitbulls is at least one of the specific instincts which they were bred for. Lock on and worry (shake violently) until independent movement ceases.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. Am I to assume the poor horse is whinnying in a higher pitch now? Ow! -nt

[Canuckistanian]

8. Just an aside, but...

Do people accept their hometown being called "Old Sac"?

[XemaSab]

9. There's a neighborhood in Sacramento called "Old Sac"

It's sort of an old-timey, touristy area.

"Old Sac" is not the whole city. :P

[Throd]

11. It is short for Scrotumento

[Canuckistanian]

12. ...

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