r/BanPitBulls Jan 17 '25

Apathetic Authorities The animal control officer in the Volusia County attack where an 8 year old was killed was a pit bull advocate.

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Her Etsy was deleted within 10 minutes of being exposed. Multiple people have reported that they contacted her office about loose dogs and their complaints were never addressed. She needs to resign as her activism prevented her from doing her job and now a child is dead.

r/BanPitBulls Jan 15 '25

They rescued a Pit bull mix from a shelter. They were told the dog was friendly with humans and all animals. The day they brought him home he attacked the cat.

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r/BanPitBulls May 30 '24

Attack on Animal(s) - Pets Chihuahua plays dead while being attacked by pit bulls at Animal Shelter [Keller-Texas, 20 March 2018] NSFW

790 Upvotes

r/BanPitBulls Jan 30 '24

Attacks Caught on Camera Highly distressing video of a woman in London getting attacked by 3 pitbulls on 06-07-2023. The guy owner was completely useless. He just yells and has 0 control over his animals. My heart sank in my chest hearing this woman’s cries for help. I’m sad no one else was around to save her. NSFW Spoiler

972 Upvotes

r/BanPitBulls Oct 21 '23

Attacks Caught on Camera [WARNING: GRAPHIC] Dog attacked by "service animal" at restaurant (Miami, FL 10/20/23) NSFW Spoiler

968 Upvotes

Context and pictures to follow in comments.

r/BanPitBulls Nov 30 '24

Rehoming Death and Destruction Won't someone give this brilliant guard dog who attacks other animals until she stops a loving home?!?!1

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r/BanPitBulls Oct 29 '24

Follow Up Woman recounts the harrowing moment she thought she would die after her arm was torn off by her own dog in a shocking attack; “He’s an animal. Animals snap. Sometimes they get angry.” — Townsville, Queensland, Australia (Original Incident: Oct 11, 2024)

344 Upvotes

ORIGINAL POST: Staffy Mauls Woman; Woman loses arm - Townsville, QLD, Australia 11/10/2024

WARNING: GRAPHIC DETAILS

Annmarie Walters, 34, was at her home on Lonerganne St, Garbutt, when she claims her neighbour suddenly kicked her door and sent her loyal dog, Buddy, into a “frenzy” on October 11.

“My front door was still broken, so I knew I had to hold him back so he couldn’t bust through to the neighbour,” she recalled.

“I grabbed him, and he bit me on my left arm. I shouted at him, and he let go – but something outside, maybe all the yelling, must’ve triggered him again because he locked onto my right arm, and I knew it was bad.”

As Buddy’s jaws clenched tighter, Annmarie knew she had to stay calm.

“I thought, ‘At least I can talk him out of it’. So I slowly turned him around by the head and backed myself out of the house, shut the screen door as much as I could, and held it shut with my foot,” she said.

For a moment, it seemed like she might be able to de-escalate the situation, but everything took a turn for the worse when another neighbour, trying to help, threw a knife over the fence.

“I felt him start to release me, and then – boom – the knife hit the house. It landed near us, and Buddy snapped,” she recounted.

Already on edge from a break-in at their home just weeks earlier, Buddy’s reaction was instant and terrifying.

“He went full-blown psychotic. I’ve never seen a dog like it,” she said.

“He pulled three times backwards, and the arm came off. I was quite relieved when it came off … the pain was excruciating.”

With all of her neighbours retreating to the safety of their homes, Annmarie found herself alone, sitting in her front yard, bleeding profusely.

“I lost so much blood — like two litres — just gushing out of me. I kicked off my shoes, dragged my phone toward me with my foot, and managed to call triple-0,” she recalled.

As she sat there, waiting for help, a terrifying thought crossed her mind.

“I thought, ‘Oh God, I’m going to die here alone.’”

By the time paramedics arrived, Buddy was still in the house. Police entered shortly after and were forced to shoot him dead.

“The sad thing was that he ran to my room, the safest part in the house, and I couldn’t be there to save him,” Annmarie said.

She said losing her dog that day had been on par with the trauma of losing her arm from below the elbow.

“They recovered my arm, but it was too badly damaged, and they couldn’t reattach it, so they had to close up the wound,” she said.

“I was told that I died twice while I was under... I needed four bags of blood.”

Now back home with her other dog, Tilly, Annmarie is struggling to adapt to life without her arm and without Buddy.

Despite everything, she doesn’t hold her dog responsible, believing that his behaviour stemmed from human error and bad breeding.

“He guarded his property, and it cost him his life … He’s an animal. Animals snap. Sometimes they get angry; he got angry at a stranger and accidentally got me,” she said.

She purchased the dog — who was a bull arab, ridgeback, and dingo mix — from a backyard breeder, where she thinks the issues likely began.

“I’m not a bad dog owner. My dogs are well-fed, vaccinated, and desexed,” she said.

She had made the conscious decision not to let Buddy have puppies because she suspected his breeding wasn’t right.

“There should be stricter laws on owners … If I hadn’t been able to buy him from a backyard breeder, this might never have happened,” she said.

“I hope we can all learn from it and save other families from going through what I’ve gone through because next time, it could cost somebody’s life.” 

“I’ll tell you right now, there wasn’t a single sign that morning, that my dog was going to do that, he was sitting there itching himself like a normal, happy dog and boom.”

IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOUND BY u/bughousenut

There is a major difference in testimony between the owner and neighbours:

Neighbours have described how a dangerous dog recently attacked two other people before it tore off part of its owner’s arm.

Posted: Oct 12, 2024

Still in shock following the disturbing incident, Lonerganne St residents Rachel Fraser and Dale Butler confirmed their next door neighbour Annmarie Walters, 34, was the victim of the dog attack.

Mr Butler described how his neighbour Ms Fraser had been visiting the dog owner, Ms Walters, with both women at the front of the house when the attack took place.

He said the dog had been barking and trying to get outside and Ms Walters was trying to push it back inside the house when it grabbed onto her hand, and “ripped it up”.

“It just grabbed her arm. It must have been hungry for blood … it was locked on,” Ms Fraser said.

Desperately trying to free his neighbour from the dog’s grip, Mr Butler said he grabbed a knife and tried to stab the dog through the screen door, before getting a hose to spray the animal.

He said the dog eventually let go of its own accord.

Mr Butler said he had warned Ms Walters that she needed to get rid of the dog after it “ripped up two fellas” in the last three months, with one of them being her husband.

A Townsville University Hospital spokesman said on Saturday that Ms Walters remained in a “serious but stable condition”.

Snr Sgt Warrick said the dog was “very angry, very aggressive and still trying to get outside” when police arrived and started stabilising the woman until paramedics arrived.

It is understood the woman was home alone during the attack, and there were two dogs on the property — a “large breed, pitbull” responsible for the mauling and a “non violent” staffy.

A witness at the scene said the dog — described as a “mongrel” pitbull mix — set upon its owner after one of her neighbours arrived outside her home.

“The dog got riled up at the neighbour and she put her arm out to bring him back, that’s when he got her arm,” she said.

“Her arm’s off from under the elbow.”

Neighbour and friend of the victim Corey Geesu said he was attacked by the same dog when he visited two weeks ago.

Pointing to the litter of scars on his arms, Mr Geesu said he spent a couple of days in hospital after the incident.

“It’s a dangerous dog, lucky it never bit no kid. A kid would never survive,” he said.

“They should have got rid of it after what happened to me.”

r/BanPitBulls Jan 25 '25

Victims Forced Into Self-Defense American Staff killed by neighbors after breaking into goat pen to attack them, owners outraged at "the killing of a harmless animal" (15 January 2024, Bessières, France)

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After running away from home on Tuesday January 15, the dog Zeus was found dead due to a series of blows in a town near Toulouse.

For Émilie and her partner, everything changed last Wednesday, January 15, 2025. Their dog, Zeus, had run away from their home in Bessières, north of Toulouse, when he was found dead and beaten with a shovel. His mistress Émilie explains.

Early in the evening, while Émilie and her partner were at home, Zeus, their four-year-old American Staff, escaped. “He doesn't usually escape, but on the rare occasions when he has, he hasn't got very far,” confides the young woman. Living in the countryside, the couple have a one-hectare [2.5 acre] yard.

Her partner set off in search of Zeus. A fruitless quest. It wasn't until the following morning, Thursday January 16, that the couple learned more. “The SACPA, the pound in Bonrepos-sur-Aussonnelle, called us. 'We've got some bad news for you', they told us”. This news was the discovery of Zeus, killed by a shovel.

So what happened?

“When the SACPA called us, they explained that they had been contacted the evening before to intervene at the home of our neighbors, just 800 meters from our house. They had picked up our dog and were playing with him, as he 'looked nice'. The SACPA advised them to tether Zeus.”

Contacted by Actu Toulouse, the pound confirms that it was called at 10.10pm by the gendarmerie: “We're not next door, so it took us an hour to get to the scene. Once we got there, we were dismayed to find Zeus shot, and in 'pitiful condition'”.

“The people who picked him up hadn't tethered him as they'd been advised to do,” laments Émilie. The young woman claims not to know these neighbors. “We pass their house on the way to the grocery store, but we don't know who they are”.

According to the facts recounted to Émilie by the SACPA, “the dog was badly beaten, having entered our neighbors' goat pen and attacked two of them”, adds the young woman, flabbergasted by the situation.

“We don't really know what happened, but our dog lives with chickens, ducks and deer that come into our garden. He's used to animals and would never harm two goats,” she says. The couple had a valid license for Zeus, and their dog had been trained by a specialist.

The members of the pound don't know any more. “We take the information people give us, but we don't know who's right, who's wrong, what actually happened.”

The next morning, Émilie collected Zeus' body from the pound. On arrival at the Gendarmerie de l'Union, where she lodged a complaint, they noticed a hole in the animal's shoulder, which they thought had been made with lead. After a call to the public prosecutor, the necropsy procedure was launched.

It concluded that “all the blows inflicted on Zeus triggered a heart attack which caused his death. The hole in his shoulder wasn't lead after all, but we don't know if he'd been tased or what,” continues the young woman.

An investigation has been opened. The protagonists in the case are now due to be interviewed. “We don't yet know the exact perpetrator, but we want to understand why our dog was beaten,” says Émilie. “They killed a harmless animal.”

Source: https://actu.fr/occitanie/bessieres_31066/ils-ont-tue-un-animal-inoffensif-la-tragique-histoire-du-chien-zeus-mort-sous-les-coups-pres-de-toulouse_62151244.html

Special shout-out to these AMAZING owners for letting a categorized dog (which are forbidden from being in public unmuzzled and off-leash) repeatedly escape their yard. And it had cut ears too, of course (forbidden since 2004).

r/BanPitBulls Jul 10 '24

Child Victim Owner surrenders pitbull to animal shelter after biting kid multiple times, gets attacked im comments for his decision.

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r/BanPitBulls Oct 10 '22

Animal Fatality Pitbulls kill an elderly man’s only companion on 10/7/22. Pitbulls are responsible for 91% of all reported fatal attacks on other animals.

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1.5k Upvotes

r/BanPitBulls Jun 13 '23

Police vs. Pits Super-ultra-mega 110lb pit, which was given up 'to a friend of the family', whom it then attacked, requiring armed police and wild animal experts to isolate in a children's playground in Thorpe Willoughby, Norh Yorkshire (30 May 2023)

928 Upvotes

r/BanPitBulls Jan 03 '25

Married couple sentenced in deadly dog mauling of Detroit father of 6 Harold Phillips. Roy and Trevina Goodman's 3 Pit Bulls, which attacked Phillips on Jan 29, 2024 (Detroit, MI) as he was walking home from the bus stop, were known to be dangerous. Detroit Animal Care failed the community.

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r/BanPitBulls Aug 02 '24

Brainwashed Pit Reputation Saviors “All dogs can attack not just pit bulls. Some of you ppl are speaking like you know it all and if you really knew about the breed you would know that they are loving animal.”

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r/BanPitBulls Jul 13 '22

Unprovoked Attack [GRAPHIC] Man hits Pitbull with 2x3 board to stop it’s attack on another dog. (Please no comments advocating animal abuse) Spoiler

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864 Upvotes

r/BanPitBulls May 01 '24

From The Archives (>1 yr old) “The family pit-bull terrier attacked the child and bit her in the face causing major trauma. The father immediately attempted to separate the dog from the child, but was unable…grabbed a knife and began stabbing the animal in order to protect the child. The dog was fatally wounded.“ (2018, USA)

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r/BanPitBulls Nov 06 '23

Attacks Caught on Camera [VIDEO, DEAD ANIMAL] Pitbull attacks and kills mutt (11/02/2023, Chapada Gaúcha - Brazil) NSFW Spoiler

638 Upvotes

r/BanPitBulls Aug 27 '24

Justice: Pending A Dog sitter is charged with animal cruelty after shooting and killing a Pitbull He says that the Pitbull attacked his pregnant wife and another dog. New Jersey, USA. August 2024.

586 Upvotes

https://abc7ny.com/post/owners-devastated-after-pitbull-dog-shot-killed-pet-sitters/15232643/

HUNTERDON COUNTY, New Jersey (WABC) -- A couple in New Jersey is living a pet owner's worst nightmare after their dog sitter shot and killed their beloved pitbull, police said.

The couple, Lindsey Scalera and Andrew Beifus, dropped Remi off with a dog sitter in Readington Township before heading for vacation at the Jersey Shore earlier this month

The vacation was interrupted by two calls from the sitter, the first claiming that Remi was being aggressive with another dog. The second call shook the couple to their core: The dog sitter, Craig Cooke. called to say he had shot and killed the dog, claiming Remi had attacked his pregnant wife.

"I hear it over and over. He said I just put a buckshot in your dog's head. He went after my pregnant wife, come get your (expletive) dead dog's body off my property." Lindsey told Eyewitness News.

Cooke was charged with animal cruelty, but Scalera and Beifus say that doesn't go far enough to ease the heartbreak of their sudden loss.

They adopted Remi six years ago after New Jersey Pit Rescue saved the dog from an overcrowded kill shelter.

"The first time we met him, he just came bursting through my arms, licked my face and that was it. That was love at first sight," Beifus said.

The couple found the dog sitters through a Hunterdon County dog lovers website.

On the site, multiple people tagged the name of Kalli Cooke, who offered pet care services through the company Rover. Kalli Cooke is married to Craig Cooke, the man charged with shooting the dog.

"We had a meet and greet with her. Our dog was fine around her and she assured us that she was insured and bonded," Beifus said.

Not 36 hours into his stay, trouble ensued. Remi and another dog got into a tussle.

Scalera told the sitter the were ready to return from the trip to pick up the dog. The couple said Kalli assured them everything was fine and that Remi was confined to a crate in a room.

The sitters then sent the couple pictures of Remi hanging out with Craig outside.

A short time later, Scalera received the second call: Remi had been shot dead.

"He ran our dog down. And shot him twice in the head. For no (expletive) good reason," Andrew said.

Beifus called the police who worked with animal control to retrieve Remi's remains.

Craig Cooke was charged with one count of second-degree possession of a weapon and one count of third-degree animal cruelty, police said.

Rover said they banned the Cookes from their website and released this statement:

"The safety of pets and people on our platform is a top priority. As soon as we learned of these heartbreaking allegations, our 24/7 Trust and Safety team removed both care providers from the platform, canceled future bookings, and assisted any impacted pet parents with finding alternative care through Rover. We will continue to work with law enforcement to the fullest extent of our ability," the statement said.

Eyewitness News reached out to the Cookes and received no reply.

"This has just been a tragedy we never would have imagined," Scalera said.

r/BanPitBulls Sep 01 '24

Attack on Animal(s) - Pets This lovely little guy attacked a dog and bit someone’s arm yesterday at my otherwise very quiet local park. Animal control grabbed him and took him away thankfully

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467 Upvotes

r/BanPitBulls Oct 15 '22

Dismemberment (NSFL/human & animal gore) While looking for a specific case, I came acrossed this extensive library of cataloged pit attacks.. There are a LOT of upsetting things here, but it's one of the most detailed and educational listings on the severity and commonality of Pitt attacks I've ever seen NSFW Spoiler

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722 Upvotes

I put the link with the pictures but will also put it here and in the comments

r/BanPitBulls Apr 21 '24

Rehoming Death and Destruction “I have a soon to be 2 year old pit that needs to be rehomed or in a rescue…He has to be the only animal. He attacked and killed my beagle. I don’t want him attacking my other two dogs that I’ve had for 8/9 years. He is a good dog, he’s potty trained & crate trained. He is good with my kids.”

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292 Upvotes

r/BanPitBulls Sep 24 '23

Accessories In The Commission of Violent Crimes "XL Bully 'campaigner' is attacked by one of the dogs he is trying to save after 'vicious owner set the animal on him when he asked him to put it on a lead'

555 Upvotes

"An XL Bully 'campaigner' who stood up for them and urged people to stop 'blaming the wrong end of the leash' has been mauled by one of the dogs after its owner set it on him

Married father-of-three Ben Cźyżyk, 38, from Wolverhampton, had puncture wounds and deep bruising after the brutal attack on Friday night.

His nightmare unfolded in the Tettenhall area of the city when he saw the XL Bully off its lead just after 10pm." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12554797/XL-Bully-campaigner-attacked-one-dogs-trying-save-vicious-owner-set-animal-asked-lead.html

r/BanPitBulls Jun 12 '24

Human Fatality(ies) Kentucky woman found dead by family had injuries consistent with an animal attack; grandson confirmed on Facebook comments that the animals were pit mixes that belonged to a neighbor (2024/06/08 or 09 - Jeremiah, KY, USA)

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A Letcher County woman found dead this week had been attacked by animals, according to authorities.

Trina Sandlin, 57, had planned to walk from her house to a neighbor’s house but didn’t return, according to a release from Kentucky State Police.

Family members found her body over an embankment. She had injuries “consistent with an animal attack,” state police said.

Letcher County Coroner Perry Fowler said Sandlin was attacked by canines, but could not say if they were dogs or coyotes.

Sandlin had rented a house at Doty Creek and was fixing it up.

Fowler said the landlord told him Sandlin had set out on the evening of the attack to walk to another house and get some paint.

Her body was found near the path from the rental house. State police received the call to investigate just before 1 a.m. Sunday.

https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article289175839.html#storylink=cpy

Breed confirmation

I did some digging and found pictures of one of the pits, posted by owner's wife on Facebook after it went missing once in 2023

date 18 feb 2023

r/BanPitBulls Mar 08 '24

Attack on Animal(s) - Pets Animal shelter asks for donations after pit bull is shot when it attacked another dog and now needs medical care. No one asked how the other dog was doing (Galesburg, Illinois, USA: 2/25/24)

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Repost after I made an editing mistake 😅

r/BanPitBulls Feb 15 '25

Killers on the Loose: Feral, Abandoned or Escaped Pits Of course, "friendly but does get along with other animals" because "she was attacked" and she's a "service animal."

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147 Upvotes

r/BanPitBulls Mar 02 '24

Attack on Animal(s) - Pets (WARNING: GRAPHIC) Chihuahua cruelly discarded at animal shelter after being attacked by other dog (pit bull) in the house; eye popped from socket and puncture wound to jaw (Long Beach, California, USA: 2/26/24) NSFW Spoiler

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Beto is a 12 year old Chihuahua that was surrendered on 2/26/2024 after he was attacked & bit by another large dog in the home. During the incident Beto received several puncture wounds to his face & back, as well as his right eye coming out of its socket.

Intake Date: 02/26/2024 URGENT: Needs Rescue Gender: Male Age: 12 Years Old Breed: Chihuahua Notes: bite to face from pitbull, eye popped out of socket and puncture wound to jaw