Wenatchee woman attacked by pit bull in home

The pain of losing a pet to a vicious dog attack and the owner of the dog that is worse than the pit bull. Last Saturday my daughter was waiting for the elevator at her apartment complex when a pit bull jumps out of the elevator and killing a defenseless puppy Cavapoo. Now the owner of the Pit Bull Ben Wyatt created another victim of this disaster by acting just like the pit bull by leaving my daughter screaming and bawling, while the elevator ran up and down the floors, while everyone ignored her screams. Afterwards she left the elevator carrying her baby pup to her apartment hoping she would come back to life.

What do you do besides take a dead pup to the vet and hope they can bring her back to life! What is missing in this picture? Should she call the Police and claimed she was attack by a pit bull and her pup was just murdered, while she is screaming in a state of shock. Now with her on the phone with the 911 operator in her hysterical mood crying over her lost puppy the police will be force to respond, which they did refused to after the fact. Pleased call the police right away, because the pit bull could attack another dog or person.

Next call the Animal Control next after calling 911 because the owner of the dog could be more dangerous than the pit bull! They will then determine what to do next, which they will likely take the vicious dog and they impound the animal. Next the owner of the dog will be citied and given a set of instruction on how they are to respond to the incident. In my daughter case she was given a case number and who to contact to address her concerns. Suggestion for the Animal Control they should leave instruction to the victims on how to deal with the legal and personal grief’s of their lost.

What do you do next? Family members and friends need to help the victim with their lost but also follow up on the necessary paperwork on closing this incident.

·Police report would be the first requirement which means the victim calls 911 to get the police involved.

·Under these circumstances people act in a emotional manner, so any of the party members could respond in a violent manner just like the pit bull!

·The Police report will be need at a later date if the victim needs to file a protection order.

·Make sure you follow all the instructions that the Animal Control gives you and always follow up to make sure the Director knows your concerns about your pet’s death. If this was a case with a human the Police will be giving you proper instruction on who to communicate with on the lost.

·After the Animal Control Director makes his decision on the vicious animal faith you then acquire the owner’s insurance company name and file a claim.

·Now the owner might be uninsured contact your landlord and file a claim against their insurance, because in the rental contract there is a requirement that pets be insured in order to live in that complex. If you get no response from both parties get a lawyer.

·The lawyer will also need good information so complete your check list.

1.Why a dog owner must take action

2.How to proceed

3.Getting the facts straight

4.Essential concepts and terms

5.Liability

6.Defenses against liability

7.Compensation

8.Finding the "deep pocket"

9.How to make an insurance claim

10.Beware of the statute of limitations

11.Using Small Claims Court

12.Retaining a lawyer

13.Claims against the government and humane societies

·Keep tab on all cost including vet bills and hospital bill if the victim gets hurt. Please consider the trauma of losing your pet when considering the final bill.

·Next please don’t consider anything you did wrong if you are the victim and please follow up on reporting this incident. You just might save someone’s life.

Now I have nothing but good things to say about Seattle Animal Control for how they responded and handled the attack. The one thing my daughter should have done was call 911 because that event in confine quarters could have turned disastrous to her or to other people trying to enter that elevator. Vicious animals don’t belong in apartments and running wild on the streets and other cities need to adopt laws to keep the city safe from such animals. Remember many dog attacks go unreported and few claims are filed with insurance companies, which mean many more people will become victims. 

It is really amazing that people live with dangerous animals and when they kill another creature they go into a state of denial.

Last Saturday my daughter was waiting for the elevator when the doors open and a pit bull jump out and killed her puppy Cockapoo. This has happen in an apartment complex with about a hundred units. Now if a child had been standing there with a teddy bear that dog would have killed that child. The owner Ben Wyatt who lives in apartment W501 showed no emotion or gave no support to my daughter. The elevator went up and down while see cried that her little puppy was slaughtered by a pit bull out of control. The Seattle Police would not respond because the dog didn't bit her. The Animal Control did and pick up the pit bull and cited the owner Ben Wyatt.

 

Now here is the real rub without the police report my daughter can't get a restraining order against Wyatt living at 506 E Howell Street. The manner he responded to my daughter when they took his dog didn't set well with her family and her safety. The other problem everyone in that complex should be aware of the dog owner and the present of the dog both have problems. How safe would you feel if your child runs out the front door only to be killed with an out of control pit bull? $500k wouldn't cover the grief nor would it cover the fears people have to live with in such environment. Unless they decide that wild animals don't belong in city limits they just as well relocate cougars and brown bears into city limits until city hall use common-sense.

 

Prevent the deed, ban the breed.   If toys injured and killed as many people as pitbulls, they would be pulled from shelves years ago.   How many children died from Bumbo seats...2???? and the whole line was recalled.

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  If this little girls family members were smarter and chose a safer breed, she would still have both of her feet.

Wake up folks. Turn off the reality t.v. Those "stars" are PAID to promote pitbulls.. just like t.v. celebs promoted cigarettes for money for decades on the t.v. Wealthy dog fighters promote this fad because they don't have to worry about getting caught and can keep their barbaric sport going with pitbulls popularized. The it's the owner not the breed mantra sounds logical but it's not. This repetitive slogan is illogical. Other dog breeds owned in much greater numbers  have equal chances of getting neglectful and abusive owners, yet they adapt to human shortcomings and don't maul people or pets at anywhere near the rate that pitbulls do. Labs are routinely forgotten and chained in backyards and they are the most popular dog breed in America, Labs are not the top killers, pitbull are. Mortality, Maiming and Mauling by Vicious Dogs, Annals of Surgery, April 2011, is study of dog injuries in hospitals spanning the last 15 years. The study found that you have a more than 2500 times higher chance of dying if attacked by a pitbull. The statistics on pitbulls seriously harming  people  at a much higher rate than other dogs are overwhelming. You can't love out genes or untrain genes. Family owned and loved pitbulls can turn on a dime.  If you believe that pitbulls are just like any other dog, and regurgitate the false "its the owner not the breed mantra" you might of believed the world was flat, too Just because something sounds good doesn't make it true.

When will dog owners start being held responsible for their pets? I'm not saying just pitbull owners but ALL dog owners. If your dog attacks someone then you should be held responsible.

A pitbull bit someone????  Shocking.......................

I've got family members who are defensive of the pit bull breed, own one, and encourage people to adopt them. All I know, one will never be in my home or around my theoretical kids.

Another fine piece of work by those sweet and loving "nanny dogs".

I live here in Wenatchee and everything I have heard is that this was a 1 yr old pit that had never had aggression issues before.  I am a firm believer that any dog can be aggressive if not trained and handled properly.  I hope this woman will make a great recovery and not be fearful of dogs because of this. 

An awful lot of assuming going on here.  The article said basement, not dungeon.  Fight dog?  Oh, y'all KNOW this?  What WAS reported that is probably not disputable is that it was yet another Pitbull.  Every one of them needs to be exterminated.  period.  Want a dog?  Then get a dog, NOT a deadly weapon.  Don't even start!  Yes they are weapons, just waiting to go off.  Not if, but when.  There is not one good, logical reasonable circumstance that these dogs exist.  The owner of this dog needs to prosecuted for attempted murder, nothing less.

So true, another POS owner.  I am not a fan of Pitbulls, but no animals deserves that.  A caged animal fights usually out of fright.  This story and the one through the link anger me so much.

 

I am trying to find a puppy, or at least beginning a search. We lost our beloved dog to congestive heart failure. Crushed, broken, and empty we have tossed around the idea of a puppy.  Everything out there is a pitbull or a small dog.  Our baby we lost german shepherd and collie.  I don't want a small dog, and not a pitbull.

 

All the freaks on Craigslist want hundreds of dollars for mutts.  Sorry that's not going to happen.

 

Makes me sick to think of this poor dog, and thousand of others locked up somewhere, kicked, beaten, and starved that would love to lay on the bed with Mommy and Daddy at night.  Or get that special cookie just for being cute.

 

Grrrrrr, I'm so angry.

I want to hear more of why the dog was in the basement. Was it a fight dog? Was it being punish? Was it a new mom and was protective of her pups that she attacked anyone, and that was the safest place for her at the time? 

Sounds like another abused dog from a fighting ring. These people drive the dog mad and then it goes mad on probably someone that was innocent. Ick.

leaving any dog in the basement is probably not a good idea, just sayin'

It should be equitable and people should be able to own big friendly kiity cats too like Elsa the Lioness in the 1960's movie Born Free.

Time to "get rid of" all the dogs in the world.  People aren't safe.

The dog was in the basement?  Hmmm.... I think there's more to this story.  Animal abuse and fighting comes to mind.