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Post by Graveyardbride on Oct 11, 2022 11:55:15 GMT -5
Infant, Toddler Killed by Family Pit BullsOn Wednesday, October 5, law enforcement officers and paramedics were called to 740 Sylvan Road in Millington, Tennessee, where they walked onto a bloody scene with two pit bulls mauling a woman, a 2-year-old toddler and an infant. The dogs, without provocation, initially attacked 5-month-old Horace Bennard, and shortly thereafter, or at the same time, pounced on Lilly, the baby’s 2-year-old sister. Kirstie Bennard, 30, the children’s mother, attempted to stop the attack on her children and suffered serious injuries in the process.
Both children were mauled to death on site and Mrs. Bennard was transported to a Memphis hospital, where she was listed in critical condition.
Both Kirstie Bennard and her husband, Colby Bennard, a 34-year-old assistant manager at Bumpus Harley Davidson in Colierville, are/were what is commonly known as “pit nutters,” i.e., dog freaks who champion the ownership of pit bulls as family pets. Such people believe the manner in which a dog is raised and trained determine its temperament and the fact pit bull-type dogs were created for the purpose of fighting and are genetically wired to attack and kill is irrelevant.
Colby Bennard posted photos of the two family pit bulls, Cheech and Mia, on his Facebook page (now removed) and made it clear he and his wife were both supporters of “the breed.” (“Punish the deed, not the breed,” is a favorite slogan of pit bull advocates in the U.S. and Canada.) In one of his comments, Bennard wrote, “I can assure you, nobody will take Cheech and Mia from myself and Kirstie Jane Satterfield. Ignorance is no excuse to take so many ‘best friends’ out of this world.” (Bennard apparently had a change of heart because the day after his beloved “pitties” murdered his two children, both dogs were euthanized.)
Kirstie Bennard was as much a pit nutter as her husband. Colby Bennard obtained Cheech (pictured above left), the male dog, around 2014, before he and Kirstie Satterfield married, and got the female, Mia (right), a few months later. For a time, Kirstie Bennard used a photo of the two pit bulls as her Facebook cover image. Both dogs had been in the home for years before the Lilly and Horace were born and apparently, there had been no problems with the animals prior to the day they attacked and killed the children.
Commenting on the attack, former Memphis pit bull breeder Marlo Matthews said, “I know how loyal pit bulls can be. I know how loving they can be, but I also know how dangerous they can be. You are playing with your life when you have those in your house. Something may never happen, but when it does, will you then be like ‘I should have gotten rid of this problem?’ Something has to be done,” he insisted, “A mandate, an ordinance, something has to be enforced to train these parents that these animals are far too dangerous to take the gamble [of having pit bulls] around small children.”
Approximately 4.5 million people – mostly children – in the United States are bitten by dogs every year, and the killing of the two Bennard children is just one of thousands of attacks that result in catastrophic injury and sometimes death. Thus far in the calendar year 2022, 44 individuals in the U.S. have been killed by dogs and hundreds of others have been critically injured. In one such attack, Kyleen Waltman, 38, a South Carolina woman, lost both arms, part of one leg, part of her colon and suffered numerous other life-altering injuries following an attack by three loose pit bulls in March. In addition to having arms, legs, hands, etc. torn off, people also are scalped and eviscerated and pit bull-type dogs do the most damage.
The most recent fatal dog attack death in the U.S. took place Friday, October 7, in California when Soon Han, age 80, was killed by two Dogo Argentinos, which are pit bull-type dogs. Of the 44 deaths-by-dog that have occurred in the U.S. so far this year, 37 (84 percent) of the dogs involved were of the pit bull variety.Sources: Autumn Scott and Stuart Rucker, WREG; WBBJ, October 6, 2022; People Magazine; Amanda Shaw, WCSC; and The Associated Press.
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Post by catherine on Oct 11, 2022 12:52:20 GMT -5
It's bad enough that so many people today are so filthy they share their homes with stinking, ass-licking dogs, but to expose children to an animal that can kill them with a single chomp is child endangerment of the worst kind. No one should feel sorry for these negligent, pit-nutter parents, they both should be prosecuted for involuntary manslaughter at the very least.
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Post by Kate on Oct 11, 2022 19:04:39 GMT -5
I know some people who know the Bennard family and people warned them to get rid of those damned dogs before the little girl was born. They supposedly argued that the dogs were as much a part of the family as anyone else and would show people pictures of the dogs lying next to the babies. One of the men -- I don't know if he was an EMT or a police officer -- who went to the house the day of the attack told a neighbor that the two children were so badly mangled that you couldn't even tell they were human. I've never understood why anyone would keep a damned dog in the house or expose their children to dogs.
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Post by serena on Oct 12, 2022 12:35:24 GMT -5
I know some people who know the Bennard family and people warned them to get rid of those damned dogs, or at least keep them outside, before the little girl was born. They supposedly argued that the dogs were as much a part of the family as anyone else and would show people pictures of the dogs lying next to the babies. One of the men -- I don't know if he was an EMT or a police officer -- who went to the house the day of the attack told a neighbor that the two children were so badly mangled that you couldn't even tell they were human. I've never understood why anyone would keep a damned dog in the house or expose their children to dogs. I hate dog freaks who try to pretend dogs are human and say things like "Dogs are part of the family." The damned dogs killed these people's kids and they had the dogs put down the next day. If one of their kids had killed the two dogs, do you think they would have put the kid up for adoption the next day? Of course not! So when they say a dog is part of the family, they're lying.
Why do people let dogs live in the house? I used to be part of a carpool and one woman had dogs in her house. When she got in the car every morning, she stunk like a kennel and had hair all over her clothes. We finally told her if she didn't do something about the dog stink and hair, she'd have to make other arrangements and she had her husband build a doghouse for the dogs. Before that, she and her kids were sick all the time with colds and other problems and she was always missing work. Once the dogs were out of the house, she hardly ever missed work and she admitted everyone was a lot healthier and happier.
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Post by pat on Oct 12, 2022 15:32:45 GMT -5
I don't know if he was an EMT or a police officer -- who went to the house the day of the attack told a neighbor that the two children were so badly mangled that you couldn't even tell they were human.
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Post by madeline on Oct 12, 2022 18:43:05 GMT -5
The family in Atlanta had the pit bull they called "Kissie Face" for 8 years when the monster bit off their 2-year-old son's head back in 2013. All the pit nutters blamed the mother because she had stepped into the bathroom and left the child alone with the damned dog for a minute or two. But if a dog decides to kill a child, the presence of an adult, or adults, won't stop it. From what I've heard, Kirstie Bennard was with her children and those land sharks when they attacked and killed the children and there was nothing she could do. A few years ago in Georgia, a woman was sitting on the front porch holding her newborn nephew when a neighborhood pit bull ran from the street onto the porch, grabbed the infant out of her lap and killed it. No human stands a chance against a pit bull unless he or she has some kind of weapon.
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Post by aprillynn93 on Oct 12, 2022 18:54:50 GMT -5
I used to watch a lot of court shows like People's Court and Judge Judy. There were a lot of dog bite/attack cases presented, and almost all involved pit bulls.
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Post by pat on Oct 13, 2022 18:24:01 GMT -5
Dog freaks are fast to blame parents, or whoever is looking after children, for dog attacks, and parents are to blame for exposing their children to dogs, although many kids, like these two, were attacked in the presence of a parent. I remember back in December of 2009, a 2 year old kid named Liam Perk, who lived in the Tampa area, was walking with his father, who was only a few inches away, when one of their huge Weimaraner dogs, jumped up and suddenly ripped the child's throat out before the father knew what was happening. He died instantly from blood loss and although that particular dog was euthanized, they kept their other Weimaraner.
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Post by catherine on Oct 15, 2022 5:32:56 GMT -5
On the same day the 80-year-old woman in California was killed, Rosetta Gesselman, an 80-year-old woman in LaGrange, Georgia, was killed by three pit bull-mixes. Her daughter, 48, was arrested and charged with reckless conduct and felony involuntary manslaughter because she knew the dogs were dangerous and had attacked before.
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