Pit Bull Protects Toddler Lost in Woods
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6 commentsA Texas family is celebrating the return of their lost daughter – and the dog who protected her when she wandered away and became lost in a local forest.
Thursday afternoon, Zoey Smith was playing in the yard at her grandmother’s house in Van Zandt County, Texas. The young girl told investigators she wandered away while following the family dog, Brownie, as he chased a raccoon. As word of her disappearance spread, search teams assembled and dispersed in an effort to locate Zoey in the forest surrounding her grandmother’s home.
Just after 7 p.m., about a mile and a half away from where she was last seen, Zoey was found with Brownie by her side. After staying with Zoey for over six hours, the Smith family said Brownie was so protective of their daughter that at first, the dog would not even let the strangers trying to save her get too close.
Myfoxdfw.com spoke Zoey’s mother, Stephanie Smith, who expressed tremendous gratitude for the efforts of local rescue volunteers, and the devoted pet who kept their daughter safe until they could find her.
They are great dogs, if they are kept away from the lowlife idiot population.
I agree, its great to hear a positive story about a pitbull..but let’s turn our attention where it should be- why was a toddler outside alone ? Seriously? It’s one thing if she let herself out the house..toddlers are smart little people. But they plainly stated that she waa outside PLAYING unattended. *Smh*
I agree. They said she wandereed away when the dog was chasing a raccoon, how did they know that unless they saw the dog leave? Sound slike a case of poor supervision and the dog showed them how it was supposed to be done.
Something doesn’t make sense.
I agree with Bob, it’s how u raise them and if u raise them to b mean then they will be. I raise my like he’s a kid with lots of love and he is the biggest baby, but he’ll protect his owners like he should.
why was the dog n child outside alone? No Fence to keep them both in and no adult to keep an eye on them?? Sounds like the parents need to be educated.
What I am finding out on this issue is truly a story of numbers let alone the facts of owner handling that can show it isn’t the Pit Bull that is the problem.
This one possibility of a factor some of you aren’t considering really speaks to me: Over time, with pit bulls popularity came a higher number of instances relating to bites. Any
There are more statistics with dogs UNKNOWN BREEDS that have been reported.
I did my homework… and to any of you that would like a quick, easy lesson on how to find THE TRUTH, use the key search tool “SCHOLAR” then narrow down what you are looking for in credible journals online. pshaw! Don’t worry, WIKIPEDIA can be credible too, you just have to check the sources cited in the actual article appearing in Wikipedia, then do a bit more research to see if it is credible.
I would like to find a statistical finding on how many pit bull pets there were in comparison to other favorite breeds during these times. It isn’t pretty, and yes, many pit bulls have bitten and killed; the only higher number of attacks are from UNKNOWN breeds and that could be even more pit bulls but NOBODY can say without the evidence of numbers of one breed compared to another rather or not there is a higher instance of pit bull attacks in general. They would have to know how many of each breed there were to rule in favor or not for or against the breed.
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/97/6/891.short
http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/m0047723/m0047723.asp
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00047723.htm
Here you might find the clues to how many pets were pits or other… but you’d have to subscribe to get the data:
Development of a Model for Estimating the Size and Dynamics of the Pet Dog Population
Authors: Patronek, Gary J.; Glickman, Lawrence T.
Conclusion: Although fatal attacks on humansappear to be a breed-specific problem (pit bull-typedogs and Rottweilers), other breeds may bite andcause fatalities at higher rates. Because of difficultiesinherent in determining a dog’s breed with certainty,enforcement of breed-specific ordinances raises con-stitutional and practical issues. http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreationalSafety/images/dogbreeds-a.pdf
I think this is check-mate.