Why the pit bull bans area touchy topic for me...(some graphic descriptions)
Hi, I'm pretty new here, and I think I've already made a few enemies b/c of my reaction to some pit bull discussion threads. I just wanted to take a minute to explain my somewhat complicated interactions with pit bulls. There are three main incidents.
Incident one:
When I was 13, I was attacked by a pit bull. While walking home from a camp fundraiser, I cut through a field that bordered a run-down house. Later, I learned that the house contained a meth lab that was protected by four pit bulls. Luckily for me, only one was loose that day. I was nearly back on the street when I heard panting behind me. I turned to see the dog (who never barked or growled a warning) just as he leapt from the ground and into the air. A passing motorist who came by later had to break the dog's spine with a bat before it would release me. I needed nearly 100 stitches in my chest and left leg and foot, 10 in my right hand, 16 to close up around my right eye, and more than 30 scattered around my left ear and scalp. 2 of the dog's teeth were broken off, lodged in my skull. The tip of one tooth was lodged less than an 8th of an inch from my carotid artery. In an extra special little twist, my body had an extremely bizarre reaction to that wound site/skull damage, and since then grows bony tumors there trying to strengthen that spot. I have had to have surgery at least once every year and a half to remove tumors from that area, due to the attack. Right now, there really isn't any better solution my doctors can come up with than that.
And that dog? He was put to sleep. You know what the vet found? Hundreds and hundreds of BBs inside him. His owner had, since he was a puppy, used a BB gun to make the dog more aggressive. He would torture and infuriate the dog by shooting them into him over and over again, and then leaving them inside him. That was,sadly, just one of the many tortures those dogs had to endure. All four had to be put down due to aggression.
