- Jan 8, 2006
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my sister who is 14 was walking her 4 month old peekapoo (very small fluffy dog) around the block when a pitbull got away, ran across the street and literally bit down on my sisters dog around the head and picked it up. my sister began punching the pitbull in the face until it dropped it. she ran home crying as the dog is bleeding all over the place and they rushed the dog to the vet. the dog came out ok, but has few broken bones in the face. my dad and sister filed a police report and the dog is going to be put down. here is my question...
we are not the type of people who sue other people at any possible moment. i feel like that has gotten way out of hand in this country. but anyway, is it right to pursue the owner of the pitbull to cover the costs of the vet? i won't know how much the bill will be until tomorrow but i feel like that is just. any thoughts?
edit/update* the vet bill is going to be around 500 dollars and maybe more for future check ups. some asked, neither dog was on its property. it happened on public sidewalk block away from each house.
the cops showed up to impound the dog and the owner refused to give it up. tomorrow the cops will have a warrant and the owner is going to get charged with extra fines for not cooperating. this leads me to believe they are punks.
just to clear things up, i think pitbulls are amazing dogs and just have bad reps. it also comes from the demographic of people who buy pitbulls, that doesn't help either. btw i also found out that this pitbull has already attacked another dog and a person and the judge let him off previous times.
yeah my sister got off lucky even though we were up for a break...considering my older sister was attacked by 3 dogs and got 12 staples in her head, tons of stitches, barely missed her jugular, and quite a few scars. yeah she got a ton of money.
we are not the type of people who sue other people at any possible moment. i feel like that has gotten way out of hand in this country. but anyway, is it right to pursue the owner of the pitbull to cover the costs of the vet? i won't know how much the bill will be until tomorrow but i feel like that is just. any thoughts?
edit/update* the vet bill is going to be around 500 dollars and maybe more for future check ups. some asked, neither dog was on its property. it happened on public sidewalk block away from each house.
the cops showed up to impound the dog and the owner refused to give it up. tomorrow the cops will have a warrant and the owner is going to get charged with extra fines for not cooperating. this leads me to believe they are punks.
just to clear things up, i think pitbulls are amazing dogs and just have bad reps. it also comes from the demographic of people who buy pitbulls, that doesn't help either. btw i also found out that this pitbull has already attacked another dog and a person and the judge let him off previous times.
yeah my sister got off lucky even though we were up for a break...considering my older sister was attacked by 3 dogs and got 12 staples in her head, tons of stitches, barely missed her jugular, and quite a few scars. yeah she got a ton of money.