Rockford - Lisa Jackson was attacked on March 24 by a pit bull.
Jackson said her 3-year-old pug, Daisy, was in the backyard and she was unaware of a freshly dug hole. Suddenly, she found her neighbor’s dog in her yard attempting to confront Daisy.
“Daisy is pregnant,” Jackson said. “I threw myself on her.”
Jackson kept Daisy from harm. She could not do the same for herself.
The pit bull sank its teeth into her left ankle. When she turned to flee, she stepped into a divot and injured her other ankle.
While on the ground, Jackson was mauled. Finally, she was able to grab a stick and forced it into the pit bull’s mouth.
“I wasn’t trying to pry his mouth open,” she said. “I couldn’t.”
Instead, Jackson said she forced the stick into the dog’s throat, hoping it would choke and release its grip.
“I tried to kill it.”
Jackson is scared because after escaping containment and launching an uprovoked, off property attack on a human, the pit bull will be returned to the owner.
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Jun 04, 2008 Machesney Park Police shoot pit bulls savaging a pug
Machesney Park - Two pit bulls savagely mauling a little pug were shot by police.
Pugsly the pug's owner said, "I mean it looked like hyenas attacking a bunny rabbit or something. She was on her back, she wasn't even touching the ground, and they both had her at opposite angles just pulling her apart."
State police sergeant Schroeder said, "My officers have been told that any time there's an aggressive dog in their proximity that could bite them or a citizen, if it's safe to do so, they need to dispose of the dog if that's their only option."
The pit bulls owner was due in court for a previous attack on an innocent dog when Pugsly was torn apart.
After Pugsly's horrific attack other Winnebago county residents wanted stricter laws regulating pit bulls. The Winnebago County animal services director said that something needs to be done about Illinois' horrible animal control act which prevents law enforcement from protecting people and pets from these pit bulls.
Another dog owner who tried to protect her dog from mauling pit bulls and was bitten herself says that she was just luck that her dog survived. She has to go to a vicious dog hearing and the worst the pit bull owner will get is a fine.
Debbie Heath says, "Pit bulls were bred originally to fight, to kill, that's where the name came from," Debbie says. "With an animal like that a fine is not enough. That animal has got to be caged so it cannot get out. A six foot fence with a top, concrete on the bottom."
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Aug 29, 1908 Rockford Pit Bull Knifed to Stop Attack on Pug
Attracts largest Crowd of the Season -- Huge Bull Attacks Inoffensive Pug and Nearly Kills It -- Separated Once by Attorney Nelson, Owner of Pug Slashes Bulldog With A Knife.
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Rockford - More excitement was shown at the corner of State and North Church Streets this noon than has been developed before along the street for many a day. A boy and a man were walking past the McNair drug store with a little dog, half pug and half dachshund, when a large white bulldog set upon the inoffensive canine and secured a strangle hold upon its throat. The screams of the little boy to whom the victim belonged attracted a large crowd and Attorney N.P. Nelson wrenched the larger dog loose. The owner of the pug, however, did not get his animal beyond reach and the bull was at him again in a second. The crowd hid the fight from view and the cries of the boy made it appear that a serious accident had happened.
The owner of the pug slashed at the bull with a knife and both dogs were finally parted bleeding profusely. The little dog had a badly chewed ear and an open gash on at the breast, but will probably not suffer serious consequences, while the assaulting animal got the worst of it after all. The sympathy of the crowd was entirely with the owners of the pug and they would have been better pleased to se the vicious animal killed outright. It is said that the white bull belongs to a man who has an office on West State Street over a store not far from where the fight occurred and that i is continually fighting with other dogs. That the animal is dangerous is the general opinion of those whose sympathies were aroused by the sorrow of the little boy over his pet.
Rockford Republic, Rockford, IL, August 29, 1908, p. 6
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Rockford - More excitement was shown at the corner of State and North Church Streets this noon than has been developed before along the street for many a day. A boy and a man were walking past the McNair drug store with a little dog, half pug and half dachshund, when a large white bulldog set upon the inoffensive canine and secured a strangle hold upon its throat. The screams of the little boy to whom the victim belonged attracted a large crowd and Attorney N.P. Nelson wrenched the larger dog loose. The owner of the pug, however, did not get his animal beyond reach and the bull was at him again in a second. The crowd hid the fight from view and the cries of the boy made it appear that a serious accident had happened.
The owner of the pug slashed at the bull with a knife and both dogs were finally parted bleeding profusely. The little dog had a badly chewed ear and an open gash on at the breast, but will probably not suffer serious consequences, while the assaulting animal got the worst of it after all. The sympathy of the crowd was entirely with the owners of the pug and they would have been better pleased to se the vicious animal killed outright. It is said that the white bull belongs to a man who has an office on West State Street over a store not far from where the fight occurred and that i is continually fighting with other dogs. That the animal is dangerous is the general opinion of those whose sympathies were aroused by the sorrow of the little boy over his pet.
Rockford Republic, Rockford, IL, August 29, 1908, p. 6
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