A pair of marauding pit bulls emerged from the edge of the bayou beyond New Orleans as the floods receded. Bred as fighting animals, their bloodlust had been sharpened by starvation. The dogs, which were wearing collars, had survived for more than two weeks but food was scarce.
The two pit bulls take turns attacking the bull They stalked towards their prey, a lone bull: a massive beast more than 10 times their combined weight. Like a wrestling tag team, the bitch and the dog attacked with awesome ferocity, leaping at the bull's head and latching on to its muzzle.
The stricken bull repeatedly shook the dogs off, flinging them up to 15 feet in the air. But they took turns to keep up the attack, exhausting the bull which was by now smeared with blood. Even after the bull trampled the bitch, leaving it dazed, the dog stepped up its attack.
The terrifying assault highlighted the US military's concern that pit bulls would form packs and could attack or even kill soldiers.
It was too dangerous for an unarmed witness to intervene but The Sunday Telegraph flagged down a National Guard truck. Seeing what was happening, a soldier shot the bitch in the head.
The dog paused before resuming the attack. It took two bullets to stop it dead.
anotherben [email] said at 12:51 AM 09-21-2005: sometimes when i was going to work early early in the morning i would see packs of 10 or more dogs hanging out on carondelet.
Emmaleigh said at 12:55 PM 09-22-2005: I used to see a pack of dogs late at night running up Washington. I think they were eating the garbage at Commanders.
brandonA [email] said at 3:26 PM 09-19-2005: google reveals:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/18/wkat418.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/09/18/ixhome.html
myriam [email] said at 3:18 PM 09-19-2005: omg, I wonder if these are from that set of 4 pit bulls that were marooned on top of a car roof for days--they were featured in many many photographs, probably still on the nola site somewhere... crazy.
In that corpse link someone posted there were a couple pics where you could see what looked like a dog chewing on a corpse. (Unsurprisingly.)
NathanK said at 3:18 PM 09-19-2005: In a way it's nice to see that not all animals have been domesticated to the point where they can't survive on their own.
myriam [email] said at 3:21 PM 09-19-2005: yeah, actually... kind of refreshing in a weird way. How much you want to bet we won't see packs of roving kittycats doin this though
meredith [email] said at 5:11 PM 09-19-2005: We won't. Partially because cats aren't pack animals by nature. Nor bred to herd/take down animals larger than themselves.
josh [email] said at 9:03 PM 09-21-2005: Here is a link to the news article (found by Brandon) that it comes from... if you need some proof there, trooper... why do you think it's staged or fake?
josh [email] said at 9:11 PM 09-21-2005: Also, tell the folks in the forum you came from that in photo 3, the dog is not leaping in the air... it looks as if it has just been thrown by a twist of the bull's head, trying to shake it off. Haven't you ever seen a bull toss a whole PERSON at a rodeo? A person weighs a hell of a lot more than a dog.
loveabull [ url ] said at 9:03 AM 09-29-2005: I'm not really supprised that a pair of PIT BULLS attacked a BULL, and not for the reasons stated in this article. The whole 'bloodlust' thing was BS (sorry). They ARE bred from BULLDOGS... bulldogging (doing EXACTLY what they were doing in the attack: leaping up and grabbing the nose to tire the bull out) is what a pit bull was ORIGINALLY bred for BEFORE they were used for fighting. Find out more: www.loveabull.org
josh [email] said at 9:42 AM 09-29-2005: which is exactly why the "thatsa photoshop! im a journalist!" dude on the forum you came he from is so silly...
loveabull [ url ] said at 11:29 AM 09-29-2005: umm... what? Your post is a tad incoherant. I've seen larger versions of those pictures, and it's definatly not a photoshop job, but the tiny pictures posted here do look a tad... odd. *shrug*
kiche [email] said at 3:59 PM 09-30-2005: i totally believe that the guy who claims to be a journalist on that page you link to has a paid job as a journalist.
loveabull [ url ] said at 5:18 PM 09-30-2005: ahh...right. I wasn't trying to deny or hide where I came from, just so ya know... :) Have you checked back on that topic recently? Now that everyone has seen the large versions of those pictures, almost everyone seems to agree that the pics, at least, are real. Everyone has their silly moments... apologies. I really just came here to say the pit bulls weren't being 'vicious beasts' like the article said, but they were actually just doing what they were first bred for.
ed [email] said at 5:29 PM 09-30-2005: I agree, and even though I am not fond of pitbulls or any other dogs that were bred to be inherently aggressive, the pictures do not appear to show "starving" dogs. The dogs appear fit and healthy.
They're just doing what that breed was "shaped" to do.
Which is why I dislike that breed... but I don't blame the dogs in the slightest.
Fatbrain said at 4:16 AM 10-08-2005: Back in the 50s Cocker Spaniels were an aggressive breed, but they were bred out of the behavior. It should be done with Pit Bulls. I feel sorry for the dogs.
mikefromLA said at 9:27 PM 02-08-2006: They should have been shooting all those worthless niggers who were looting, raping, and murdering. But instead they give them new homes and spending money. America is a sick country.
brandon [email] said at 9:32 PM 02-08-2006: You're a sick fuck and fucking liar. Dumbass. We're all from fucking Louisiana, moron. We know what was going on in NOLA and outside of the normal shit, there weren't any 'worthless niggers' raping and murdering. As far as looting goes. Whites did an equal share. Should we have shot them, too? No, and you know why because dumb, inbred, trailer-trash, dogfighting, fucks like yourself are too fucking stupid to think outside the superficial confines of race as skin color. Fuck you.
brandon [email] said at 9:36 PM 02-08-2006: Sorry, my bloodpressure went up. I didn't flesh out my thought:
"You know why you you can't comprehend that..."
Most of the recipients of FEMA assets are whites, idiot. And nobody's getting new fucking homes, except those who were insured, the rest are wading through bureaucracy - unless you're talking about the trailer parks in Baker and Livingston, which are being run like slums. But hell, for fucking piece shit like you, I imagine living in a 12x 20 trailer would be a step up.
ed [email] said at 9:35 PM 02-08-2006: Ahhh, Miguel, Mi'jito... Are you jealous that all these "niggers" got here by being chained and thrown in boats, instead of swimming across a river or crawling across a desert?
brandon [email] said at 9:42 PM 02-08-2006: Racist motherfuckers like this piece of shit are probably responsible for a lot of the delays in recovery insofar as the effect of racism or perceived racism on governmental aid and efficiency is real, though unquantifiable, but it's there. If you're a black worker and you run into this kind of attitude, how eager are you going to be to speed up processing of forms and such on your end. If you're a liberal and work in the government, or just someone who doesn't have an irrational hatred for other people, and you know that for the most part, with the poor evacuated from the city, that your efforts are aiding assholes such as this, how much effort are you going to put into expediting matters? Sure it's unethical. But we humans do passive/aggressive shit like this all the time, in all aspects of our lives. This piece of shit continues the idea of the South as a haven for toothless rednecks.
brandon [email] said at 10:28 PM 02-08-2006: Yeah, pardon me!
I do know a lot of white people in Metairie, including family, that had little damage, but continue to receive "assistance" and still have jobs. One spends it on hookers, not shitting you. That's not to say that people in Metairie didn't lose jobs, weeks of salary or houses. But abuse is endemic and it's not the "only blacks" as racists like that fuck implies. It's probably "minority black" given the pop of metairie and kenner. Unless, you know, like that hotel manager implies, your idea of living it up is sticking your entire family in a holiday inn for 5 months. Only a step up from a car. Believe me. I lived on site at a campus hotel in Chicago for a month helping to turn over my position to the next person, and it fucking sucked ass. 5 months would have driven me nuts.
But arguing from anecdote is stupid. Racist fucks piss me off.
kiche [email] said at 10:38 PM 02-08-2006: mississippi is destroyed. seriously, destroyed. black, white, vietnamese, swamp thing. destroyed. neilbert pointed out to me that their were no birds when i was there. as soon as i noticed this, it clicked as to why it was so eerie.
don't get me wrong, i'm sure someone there was exploiting the system.
maybe they were stockpiling mres from the redcross.
also, i saw very few people in the lower ninth ward when i went there with rick and nelson.
brandon [email] said at 11:02 PM 02-08-2006: Yeah. However fucked New Orleans is. The storm nipped New Orleans: a love bite to make it moist and prepare it for a real fucking this season or the next. The worst there was the flood damage after the levees burst.
The stormed destroyed Mississippi. Flattened it. I know your parents lost their place. We spent a while pouring over satellite pictures right after the storm to help a lot of people here from Mississippi find out what happened in their towns, and it was just, nothing there.
Yeah. I know we do this all the time. I express incredulity at the shit stupid people say as if it were fact, and how I can never understand, and then you point out exactly how it is that people are genuinely, willfully, stupid, evil, annoying idiot fucks.
brandon [email] said at 11:12 PM 02-08-2006: Swamp Thing is cool though. He's in Louisiana. He just got his memories back and he and King Toad are about to bump heads - or may have already, I don't have the latest issue.
