12 pound dog defends kids from pit bull

[The Straight Story]

12 pound dog defends kids from pit bull

FREMONT -- A pint-sized pup is credited with saving four little boys from a pit bull attack. The pit bull mauled the dog as it was trying to protect the children.

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"I had four boys out there and didn't know what was going on. I just could tell they were very frightened," Jackson said.

A pit bull had approached the boys, who were from 5 to 12 years old. With no adults in sight, it was Bear who tried to protect them.

"Bear saw what was going on and ran over there and started growling at the dog, and got between them," Jackson said.

Eight-year-old Kaleb said his older brother tried to hit the pit bull with a stick, but the boys watched as the pit bull shook their dog like a rag doll.


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[Swede]

1. Good job,Bear.

Glad he survived.

[damntexdem]

2. They need to write a love song for Bear: Oso lo Mio.

;-)

[Ghost Dog]

3. I suggest the Pit-Bull breed is a good candidate for controlled extinction.

And, perhaps, many of their "owners", too.

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. The Pit Boss is going to get you!

[VMI Dem]

4. Pit bulls: ban the breed.

Current owners grandfathered in. No additional sales.

[butterfly77]

6. +1

[TBF]

9. I agree with something along that line -

ban further breeding and maybe special license to own them (like other exotic pets). FWI,I'm a dog lover and I'm on my 2nd rescue Lab. I also love how the Best Friends Shelter took Michael Vick's dogs and tried to rehab them. Still, there are too many of these stories out there. Any dog has the potential to be violent, but you don't read stories every other week about other specific breeds having these issues. I know I wouldn't own one.

[shireen]

13. -1

blame the owners, not the dogs.

[Barack_America]

16. Incentives to promote spaying and neutering of pits...

...might be more effective and cheaper than enforcing an outright ban.

Outright cash payments would likely not be a good idea, but free veterinary care and pet supplies could work.

[flvegan]

19. Why?

Why the pitbull?

[Codeine]

5. That may be the most poorly written news story I've ever read.

Damn. Seriously, go read the whole story. Borderline illiterate.

[PVnRT]

15. Looks like a sixth-grader wrote it

I would call that a good article in that case. For a professional journalist that's just sad.

[HughBeaumont]

23. Damn.

That was clunky and painful to get through. Maybe English is her second language?

[Donnachaidh]

7. A mailman once told me it's not the big dog barking in the yard you have to worry about

it's the little one who comes up from behind and takes a chunk out of your behind you need to worry about.

As the owner of a little dog (chi-poodle) I can attest to the fact that these dogs think they are rottweilers, and will react if they think their people are being attacked.

Little dogs have huge hearts.

[Ghost Dog]

21. In my (ok, limited) experience, Rottweilers obey (eye-contact) orders

(even when I've gone into the midst of three of them (sorry, two: one Alsatian, all owned by Germans around here) to save a cat's life). And I'm basically a cat-guy.

The Pit-Bull, however, clearly, is something else.

[renate]

8. that pit bull may have killed TWO COWS? And Bear saved the kids from it?

Way to go, Bear! What a good boy!

This story is really touching. Thank you for posting it.

[riderinthestorm]

10. I saw my Jack Russell terrier get in between my daughter and a 95 lb Doberman

My daughter and her aunt were walking the dogs together. The dogs had no aggressive history towards each other at all when the Dobe suddenly lunged towards... my JRT?, my daughter? Nobody really knows to this day. But damn if that little 15 lb terrier didn't just take it and give it back good. He got his ribs broken from the Dobe getting his jaws around his body but the Doberman's entire face and ears were mauled by the savaging from the Jack. I'm convinced his ferocity is what saved him from getting his back broken as the Dobe finally just dropped him and tried to run away.

Most terriers I know are like that - they believe they are "big" dogs and absolutely do not understand or (dare I say it?) accept that they are small.

The article doesn't say the breed but I'm going to guess Bear was a terrier or terrier mix. Good dog either way!

[RedCloud]

12. That was a pup? My office partner could not bear to watch the video.

[geardaddy]

14. But what does this have to do with elections?

:eyes: :sarcasm:

Seriously, that dog is awesome. Our 12-pound Chihuahua mix would cower in fear.

eta: K and R

[flvegan]

17. If the dog was threatening the boys

(which, btw, this horribly written story doesn't say) then good job to Bear. If not, well, I'm glad Bear will be okay.

As for a pit bull killing two cows? Believe that when I see it (unless they were of the calf variety).

[GSLevel9]

18. great story...

dogs are so brave... and so devoted.

[Radical Activist]

20. The dogs were fighting inside Olive Garden while the children's mother was breastfeeding.

No word as to whether the baby is circumcised.

[The Straight Story]

22. Were the dogs smoking and forcing people to enter the olive garden too?

:rofl:

[OnyxCollie]

24. Get well soon, Bear. nt