Ban PitBulls

A DOG owner whose pit bull and American XL bully attacked a man in Worcester is due to be sentenced next month.

Matthew Smith's unneutered male bully, Kyro, and female pit bull, Sasha, attacked Christopher Buffrey while being dangerously out of control in Vivian Avenue, Worcester.

Mr Buffrey was left injured during the incident in September last year.

Smith pleaded guilty to having in his possession the fighting dogs under the Dangerous Dogs Act and also having dogs dangerously out of control.

The 26-year-old, formerly of Christine Avenue, Rushwick, who has now moved to Birmingham, was due to be sentenced on Wednesday (June 4) but failed to attend court.

His solicitor Jo Outhwaite applied for an adjournment citing Smith’s travel and accommodation problems.

She said the Crown Prosecution Service had also not filed an application for the destruction of the dogs and a disqualification from being in charge of dogs.

“It seems there are no draft orders," she said.

"These applications do need to be made. In light of that, I’m going to ask for an adjournment.”

Chairman of the bench, Susan Dowty, adjourned the case until Tuesday, July 1 at 10am when Smith will be sentenced at Kidderminster Magistrates’ Court.

Statistics show that the more serious an animal-related injury is at a hospital, the more likely it is that the culprit was a pit bull.

The blood-drenched statistics followed accordingly. Animals24-7.org, which publishes annual reports on serious human injuries and fatalities by dogs according to breed, says that between 2007 and 2015, “2,793 pit bulls and close pit mixes have attacked 1,067 children and 1,189 adults in incidents in which 208 people were killed and 1,891 people were disfigured.” Rates have only gone up. Virtually all dog bite–related fatalities of domestic animals (including horses and cows) are committed by pit bulls. I’ve stayed with the subject out of sympathy for the victims. It strikes me as preposterous that there are hundreds of websites that cater to pit-bull love—featuring endless photos of dogs dressed in tutus or posed with sleeping babies—but only one serious publication, Dogsbite.org, that is dedicated to giving a voice to the victims of dangerous dogs.

Pit-bull advocates present dogs as victims that need championing. They know the names of the dogs they believe deserve a second chance, but they usually don’t mention the names of the human victims. Often, incidents involve a dog that had never before showed signs of aggression. One of the most horrific was the case of Daxton Borchardt, a Wisconsin baby who was killed by his babysitter’s two pit bulls—dogs she had raised from puppyhood. The story is unusually well documented, and its particulars fly in the face of all the mantras of the pit-bull lobby: the dogs were “fixed,” they had never been abused, they were well socialized, they had a “good” owner, and there was no “provocation.” Still, they attacked.

STATISTICS SHOW that the more serious an animal-related injury is at a hospital, the more likely it is that the culprit was a pit bull—and the harder it becomes to believe that grave wounds are inflicted evenly across all big-dog breeds. Pit bulls represent 5 percent of the US dog population, but a five-year review of dog bite–related injuries in a Philadelphia pediatric hospital concluded that they were responsible for 51 percent of admissions. Rottweilers were responsible for 9 percent, and hybrids of the two, another 6 percent. The rest were the result of injuries inflicted by about thirty different breeds

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30851298

The cop said that he charged somebody else for their dog biting someone last week— around the same time he charged him. So, I don’t think that it’s his first rodeo of charges— the cop knows this guy on a first-name basis…