Dogs Attack and Kill Mail Carrier in Florida, Officials Say

[Anonymous]

Agressive dogs kill a postal worker--and the dog owner gets slapped on the wrist with misdemeanors.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/us/florida-mail-carrier-dog-attack.html

Pamela Jane Rock had been out delivering mail when her vehicle broke down in Putnam County, Fla. Then, five dogs attacked her, the authorities said.

Mary Campbell glanced out the window of her Florida home on Sunday afternoon, trying to figure out where the muffled cries for help were coming from. She heard them again, this time a bit louder, though clearly coming far from her house: “Help!”

A few minutes later, she saw an ambulance and sheriff’s deputies drive down the rural dirt road that makes up Walker Drive in Putnam County, and park beside the house where five combative dogs lived, she said.

Soon, neighbors learned the grim details of what had occurred, according to the authorities: A mail carrier whose vehicle had broken down had been attacked by five dogs. She died the next day.
“They’re all aggressive,” Ms. Campbell said of the dogs.

The owner of those dogs, Colonel Wells said at the news conference, was charged with misdemeanors related to the dog attack.

[Anonymous]

Owners of aggressive dogs:
Why do you do it???
I don’t understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Owners of aggressive dogs:
Why do you do it???
I don’t understand.

Article said the owner is pretty old and there have been complaints about the aggresivity of his dogs in the past but that the owner brushed them off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Owners of aggressive dogs:
Why do you do it???
I don’t understand.

"But my rescue pitbull mix would never hurt anybody, which is why I don't understand why parents get so squeamish when I let him run off-leash by the playground."

[Anonymous]

Pit owners exist in a whole other universe of crazy and denial.

[Anonymous]

But they are sweet little pitties that would never hurt a fly...

[Anonymous]

Interesting that the NYTimes is only referring to them as mixed breed. Is that their editorial spin or the Florida sheriff's? Tragic.

[Anonymous]

I cannot think of a more horrible way to die than being mauled by animals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cannot think of a more horrible way to die than being mauled by animals.

+1. That poor woman. What a terrible way to die. I will never understand why we tolerate people collecting pit bulls and leaving them in yards like ticking bombs.

[Anonymous]

The owner should be charged with manslaughter or equivalent.

[Anonymous]

I don't trust pit bulls. What a horrible way to die.

[Anonymous]

All pitbulls should be culled

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
The owner should be charged with manslaughter or equivalent.

+1 Especially given the prior complaints. They're culpable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The owner should be charged with manslaughter or equivalent.

+1 Especially given the prior complaints. They're culpable.

They're getting charged with misdemeanors. That's the truly ridiculous part. Just a slap on the wrist.

[Anonymous]

Remind me again why pitts are still legal pets? They need to be allowed to die out as a breed. Mass sterilization. I mean seriously.