(08-11-2011, 05:58 AM)Duchess Wrote:

I'll take the Basset Hound!

(08-13-2011, 09:30 AM)thekid65 Wrote: Believe me..once you hear it bay...you'll change your mind.

That's one of my favorites parts of them. I'm very familiar with the baying of hounds. I've had beagles my entire adult life. I like everything about them, they are my favorite dog. The only reason I don't have a Basset right now is that I'm not paying 600-800 for a dog and they are difficult to find in a shelter.

(08-13-2011, 09:34 AM)Duchess Wrote:

(08-13-2011, 09:30 AM)thekid65 Wrote: Believe me..once you hear it bay...you'll change your mind.

That's one of my favorites parts of them. I'm very familiar with the baying of hounds. I've had beagles my entire adult life. I like everything about them, they are my favorite dog. The only reason I don't have a Basset right now is that I'm not paying 600-800 for a dog and they are difficult to find in a shelter.

(08-13-2011, 09:48 AM)thekid65 Wrote: I forget where you live, Duchess, but if you're really interested, perhaps try this

I actually used to look there daily. They have a couple right now but they are seniors. I know they need love & a home too but I don't want my heart broken in a year or two, I would be willing to invest several years though.

(08-13-2011, 10:33 AM)sally Wrote: My Basset hound only bays when he goes for a walk, the dumb bastard.

Maybe he's expressing his delight with the walk or greeting his 'hood. He's very cute, I remember his photo.

A four-year-old girl has been mauled to death inside her suburban Melbourne home by a neighbour’s escaped pitbull-mastiff cross, renewing calls for the aggressive breed of dog to be banned.

Police Superintendent Graham Kent said the dog ran into the home, where Sudanese refugee Ayen Chol was watching TV with other children yesterday evening, and attacked.

A five-year-old girl and a 30-year-old woman were also injured. Chol died at the scene.

Chol’s cousin Daniel Atem said the injured woman was outside the house when the dog chased her inside.

Atem said the dog then attacked the five-year-old. As Chol’s mother intervened it turned on Chol, who was clinging to her mother’s leg.

He said: 'It pulled the child from the mum... the daughter died. The dog left the child and then the owner of the dog came after that and took the dog out.'

(10-19-2011, 09:57 AM)Nina Wrote: Pit bulls escape, kill horse

Two pit bulldogs remained in quarantine Monday, a week after escaping from their home and attacking and killing a horse in a Forsyth County pasture.
The two dogs were still attached to the horse, including one clinging to the horse's mouth, when deputies arrived at the bloody scene, according to Lt. David Waters with the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office. The horse had numerous puncture wounds from the attack and later died, Waters said.
"I've never seen anything like this," Waters told Channel 2 Action News.
The dogs' owner, Melissa Andrews, faces two misdemeanor charges for failing to contain the dogs and was also cited for failing to have one of the animals vaccinated, Waters said. Andrews has a court date set for next month.
But Andrews may not be able to get the dogs back unless she purchases a $50,000 surety bond for each animal, due to a dangerous dog ordinance recently passed in the county.
The horse's owner declined to discuss the incident.

this is one of 4 similar reports i have read recently. not each in U.S.



1/2/12
Fox
CHICAGO – A Chicago man was left in critical condition after two pit bull terriers attacked him as he jogged along the city's lakefront Monday morning.

The 62-year-old man was running in the city's South Shore neighborhood at approximately 6 a.m. when the mauling occurred. He sustained bites all over his body, including on his face.

"They were just going after the man like he was a piece of steak," Stanley Lee, who swung a baseball bat at the dogs in hopes to free the jogger, told MyFoxChicago.com. He went on to say the dogs went for the jogger's throat, face and arms, and called the attack was the worst thing he's ever seen.

Police officers found the dogs a short distance away from the site of the attack and fatally shot the animals as they attempted to attack them, department spokesman Officer Robert Perez said.

Neither officer was injured, he said.

Perez said the attack happened on a path in Rainbow Beach Park on the city's far South Side.

Another area resident said she ran outside, as another resident called 911 to help the man after hearing and seeing the attack from their window.

"He was yelling, `Somebody help me, please help me," said Debra Plummer.

"One had the man by his arm and the other had him by his leg and they just had a lock on him (and) they wouldn't let him go," she said. "I couldn't believe what I was looking at."

Ultimately, she said, police pulled their guns and shot the dogs multiple times.

"They had to open fire," she said.

She said one indication of how powerful the dogs were was what happened after they were shot: One ran across a path before it fell and another ran in circles for what seemed like minutes before it, too, finally fell to the ground.

The man was rushed to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where a hospital spokeswoman said late Monday morning he remained in critical condition. Police have not released his name.

Perez said officers had not identified the owner or owners of the animals, saying that while the dogs both had collars, neither had tags. He said animal control officers were dispatched to the scene to take the carcasses away.

The dogs were large, heavily muscled male pit bulls. Neither had identification microchips embedded in them and neither had been neutered, according to Cheri Travis, executive director of the city's department of animal care and control. She said the dogs wore identical collars, suggesting they could be owned by the same person.