CECIL ELLIOT WAS ATTACKED BY A PIT BULL 2 years ago and has come forward to share his story after hearing of the
PIT BULL MAULING DEATH OF NELLIE DAVIS. He hopes his story helps change state law. He wants to make sure it never happens again!!!
Elliot was walking through his neighborhood when he was attacked. Nellie Davis' death has brought back memories of his experience. He says the Pit Bull hit him like a "FOOTBALL TACKLE" KNOCKING HIM DOWN AND THE PIT'S FANGS RIPPED TISSUE AND LEFT LIFE -LONG SCARS AND EXPERIENCING A PIT BULL ATTACK FIRST HAND CHANGES YOU FOREVER. He thinks Pit Bull owners should have a special license to own one and he believes there should be tougher punishments for people who let their Pit Bulls run loose.
" I THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE A RIGHT TO OWN A PIT BULL DOG. I'M NOT SAYING THAT YOU DON'T, BUT THE DOG HAS A PROPENSITY TO BE MORE AGGRESSIVE BY NATURE."
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ENTERS THE PIT NUTTER (MALE RESCUE ANGEL??) WITH HIS USUAL PIT NUTTER SPEAK !!!!!!
* PIT BULLS ARE NOT NATURALLY AGGRESSIVE TO HUMANS.
* IT JUST BREAKS MY HEART THAT WE GOT A BLACK EYE...THAT SOMEONE DIED.
* THE IDEA THAT THEY'RE JUST BAD IS WRONG.
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MY COMMENT: I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO READ MORE ABOUT YOUR ATTACK MR. ELLIOT BUT INSTEAD WE GOT TO HEAR ABOUT A THUNDER STORM CAUSED THE PIT TO ATTACK AND KILL NELLIE DAVIS AND HOW MUCH THE MALE RESCUE ANGEL LOVES HIS PITS. I GOOGLED IT BUT COULD NOT FIND ANY MORE INFORMATION ON YOUR ATTACK. NOW I WOULD LIKE FOR SOMEONE TO EXPLAIN TO ME HOW HAVING A SPECIAL LICENSE AND TOUGHER PUNISHMENTS FOR PEOPLE WHO LET THEIR PIT BULLS RUN LOOSE WOULD HAVE SAVED NELLIE DAVIS ????!!!!! OR SAVED MOST OF THESE HUMAN BEINGS -------
1. JAN 14 - MONTGOMERY CO TX - JACE PAUL VALDEZ - 16-MO-OLD - ATTACKED AND KILLED WHILE IN THE HOME OF HIS GRANDPARENTS BY A "FAMILY PIT BULL" - DON'T THINK THERE WAS A THUNDERSTORM HAPPENING AT THE TIME !!!
2. JAN 30 - OAK GROVE KY - UNIDENTIFIED - 6-YEAR-OLD BOY - KILLED BY A "THERAPY DOG" THAT HE WAS PLAYING WITH IN THE BACK YARD - A GERMAN SHEPHERD - AT A FAMILY FRIEND'S HOUSE WITH HIS PARENTS AND FRIENDS AROUND.
3. FEB 16 - MCKEESPORT PA - 2 DAY OLD BABY- HOWARD NICHOLSON - LEFT IN A BABY CARRIER ON THE FLOOR IN A HOUSE WHERE MAMA WAS A "RESCUE ANGEL" - 2 OF HER DOGS A PIT BULL AND A HUSKY WERE LOOSE - THE HUSKY GOT BLAMED --IT WAS SUCH A DRAMA...WHO KNOWS ????? RESCUE DOLLARS SAVED THE HUSKY'S LIFE AND I BELIEVE THE PIT GOT RETURNED TO THE RESCUE ANGEL...---- NO MONEY WAS USED TO HELP SAVE THE NEWBORN BEFORE ALL THIS HAPPENED!!!!
4. MAR 4 - ESCONDIDO CA - 59-YEAR-OLD MAIL CARRIER - DIANE JANSEN - DIED FROM COMPLICATIONS FROM A PIT BULL THAT CHARGED OUT A GARAGE DOOR AND CHEWED ON HER LEGS - LICENSES AND TOUGHER LAWS ON LOOSE DOGS WOULD NOT HAVE HELPED HERE BECAUSE IT WAS "NOBOBY'S FAULT THAT PIT GOT OUT THE DOOR AND RUSHED OUT ON THIS MAIL CARRIER - IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!!!!" SHE WAS JUST FINE AND DOING A DAY'S WORK 5 MINUTES BEFORE THE ATTACK.....AFTER THE ATTACK...SHE HAD A POSSIBLE STROKE SO HER LEGS BEING CHEW ALL UP WAS -----"JUST A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR"!!!!!!!!!!!!?????
5. MAR 9 - JACKSONVILLE FL - 17-MO-OLD BOY - DYLAN ANDRES - THE TODDLER'S MOTHER WAS GETTING GROCERIES IN FROM A CAR AND HE RAN FROM HER SIGHT AND THE ROTTWEILER-----CHAINED IN THE FRONT YARD NEXT DOOR!!!!!! CHOMPED DOWN ON HIS NECK AND HEAD AND IN SECONDS HE WAS DEAD ----- NO ONE THOUGHT TO SAVE THIS CHILD BEFORE THIS HAPPENED BY BANNING DOGS FROM BEING CHAINED IN THE FRONT YARD TO PROTECT LITTLE CHILDREN AND PASSERSBY!!!.
6. MAR 26 - VICTORIA TX - 4-YEAR-OLD BOY - KYLAR JOHNSON - WAS ALLOWED TO PLAY MANY TIMES OUTSIDE ON A RURAL PROPERTY AND HE WENT MISSING AND WAS FOUND THE NEXT DAY DEAD BESIDE A NEIGHBOR'S CHAINED PIT BULL - ONE OF 10 PIT BULLS CHAINED UP JUST FEET FROM ONE ANOTHER.----NO SAFE PLACE FOR LITTLE BOYS TO RUN AND PLAY ANYMORE !!!!!!
7. APR 9 - MEAD OK - 92-YEAR-OLD - JAMES HURST - ATTACKED AND KILLED BY HIS NEIGHBOR'S 2 PIT BULLS AS HE WAS WORKING IN HIS YARD CLOSE TO HIS FRONT PORCH -- COULD IT BE THAT THESE "RESPONSIBLE PIT BULL OWNERS" WOULD BUY A SPECIAL LICENSE AND PAY THE FINE FOR THEIR DOGS RUNNING LOOSE - BUT THAT STILL WOULD NOT HAVE STOPPED THESE DOGS FROM GETTING LOOSE AND MAULING THIS POOR MAN'S FEET NEARLY OFF KILLING HIM.
8. APR 20 - SUMMERVILLE SC - 2 MO-OLD BOY - AIDEN MCGREW - LEFT SITTING IN A BABY SWING IN THE CARE OF HIS FATHER AND LEFT IN THE ROOM WITH A RECENTLY ACQUIRED DOG SAID TO BE A - GOLDEN RETRIEVER MIX - BUT NO "DOG EXPERT" WOULD SAY EXACTLY WHAT THE OTHER BREED MIGHT HAVE BEEN ?????? EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE PICTURES OF THIS DOG.....LOTS OF DRAMA SURROUNDING THESE PARENTS.....BUT RESCUE ANGELS WILL SHOW YOU VIDEOS THAT SHOW YOUNG PARENTS PUTTING THEIR BABIES STRADDLE OF THESE DOGS - LETTING THEM RIDE THEIR BACKS ---PROVING THAT THEY ARE NOT HUMAN AGGRESSIVE AND SAFE AROUND INFANTS, BABIES, TODDLERS, CHILDREN AND ON UP TO THE ELDERLY !!!
9. APR 28 - HENDERSON NV - EXACTLY 1 YEAR OLD BOY - JEREMIAH ESKEW-SHAHAN - IN THE CARE OF HIS GRANDMOTHER AND WITH HIS FATHER UPSTAIRS - AND JUST A FEW MINUTES AFTER HIS 1-YEAR-OLD BIRTHDAY PARTY - THE FAMILY'S 120-POUND MASTIFF/RHODESIAN RIDGEBACK MIX NAMED "ONION" THAT HAD KNOWN AND BEEN WITH THE BABY "ALL HIS LIFE" CHOMPED ON HIS HEAD SMASHING IT OFF - HE WAS DEAD!!!- RESCUE ANGELS COME FROM FAR AWAY STATES AND PUT UP TENS OF "$1000's - SAVING THIS BIG OLD MONSTER'S LIFE - NOT ONE DOLLAR DID THEY SPEND TO SAVE THIS CHILD'S LIFE BEFORE IT DIED !!!!!!!!
10. MAY 2 - SANTE FE NM - 74-YEAR-OLD MAN - CLIFFORD D. WRIGHT - WAS A BLOODY MESS AFTER HIS SON'S PIT BULL SHREDDED HIM - HE HAD CARED FOR THE SWEET FAMILY PET ALL ITS LIFE BEFORE IT TURNED ON HIM - IT WAS NOT OUT RUNNING LOOSE AND PROBABLY HAD ALL ITS LICENSES.
11. MAY 8 - LAS CRUCES NM - 15-MO-OLD GIRL - JASILYN MESA - WAS IN THE CARE OF HER GRANDMOTHER IN THE YARD WHEN THE FAMILY'S "NOT-HUMAN-AGGRESSIVE PIT" KILLED HER IN SECONDS. DON'T THINK THERE WAS A THUNDERSTORM OR LOUD NOISE OF ANY KIND HAPPENING AT THE TIME -----BUT THIS NOISE-SENSITIVE PIT MIGHT NOT HAVE LIKED THE LITTLE GIRL'S VOICE SO HE CHOMPED ON HER HEAD TOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12. MAY 12 - SURPRISE AZ - 73-YEAR-OLD WOMAN - MARYANN HUNULA - SHE WAS SITTING IN HER FRONT YARD WHEN HER NEW NEIGHBOR'S 2 PIT BULLS TRIED TO SHRED HER BODY INTO LITTLE PIECES ON OCTOBER 10, 2011 - HER NEIGHBOR'S TRIED TO HELP HER BUT THE "SWEET BABIES NOT-AGGRESSIVE-TO HUMANS" TURNED ON THEM - THESE 2 MONSTERS WERE FINALLY SHOT AND KILLED BY AN OFF-DUTY OFFICER BUT NOT BEFORE THEY HAD JUST ABOUT TORN OFF HER FOOT AND BOTH OF HER ARMS WERE RIPPED TO PIECES AND SHE WAS BITTEN ****ALL OVER HER BODY*** - MARYANN TRIED TO LIVE.........FOR MANY MORE MONTHS......BUT SHE NEVER DID RECOVER AND THE "RESPONSBLE PIT OWNER" MOVED OUT RIGHT AFTER THE ATTACK AND NOONE WAS EVER HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS MURDEROUS CARNAGE!!!!!!!!!! I WONDER IF IT WAS THUNDERING IN THE AREA AT THE TIME?????
13. MAY 17 - ALLEN CO OH - 3-DAY-OLD INFANT - MAKAYLA DARNELL - THE BABY WAS IN THE SWING IN THE LIVING ROOM AND THE MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER WAS IN THE KITCHEN JUST FEET AWAY WHEN THE FAMILY PIT BULL MIX ABOUT 4 YEARS OLD ATTACKED AND KILLED IT - THEY NEVER HEARD A SOUND FROM THE DOG OR THE BABY - ***********IT WAS THE SILENCE ......THE SILENCE WAS TOO MUCH FOR THE SENSITIVE NOT-AGGRESSIVE-TO-HUMANS PIT TO HANDLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
14. MAY 24 - ROXBORO NC - 65-YEAR-OLD MAN - EUGENE CAMERON - HE WENT TO CHECK ON A FRIEND'S HOUSE THAT WAS OUT OF TOWN AND WAS LATER FOUND DEAD UNDER THE CARPORT WITH MASSIVE INJURIES TO HIS BODY ESPECIALLY ONE ARM - HE BLED TO DEATH - A NEIGHBOR'S PIT BULL WAS FOUND TO BE RESPONSIBLE WITH DNA TESTS -----LORDY, LORDY, IT MUST HAVE BEEN COMING A BAD STORM, OR A LOUD TRAIN WENT BY, OR A LOUD CAR, OR SOMEONE WAS TALKING TOO LOUD....IT HAD TO HAVE BEEN A NOISE THAT MADE THE PIT DO IT !!!!! OR IT COULD HAVE BEEN DEADLY SILENCE !!!!!!!
15. MAY 27 - MT. PLEASANT SC - 2-YEAR OLD BOY - JA'MARR TILLER - DIED AFTER BEING ATTACKED BY 2 DOGS THAT RAN AROUND OUTSIDE THE HOME HE WAS LIVING IN - THEY WERE SAID TO BE A FEMALE BLACK LAB/SHEPHERD MIX AND ANOTHER BRINDLE FEMALE LAB/SHEPHERD MIX BELONGING TO AN EXTENDED FAMILY MEMBER - THE BOY'S MOTHER LEFT THE HOUSE AND THOUGHT HE WAS SLEEPING AND IT IS THOUGHT HE GOT UP AND WENT OUTSIDE ON HIS OWN AND HE WAS FOUND LATER AND ATTEMPTS TO REVIVE HIM FAILED - I GUESS MIXED BREEDS ARE SENSITIVE TO NOISES ALSO !!!
16. JUNE 13 - ST. MARYS PLEASANTS CO WV - 2-YEAR-OLD BOY - JACK REDIN - THE CHILD HAD BEEN ENJOYING THE WARM DAYS OF SUMMER WITH HIS SIBLINGS AND OTHER FRIENDS AND HIS PARENTS WHEN HE SUDDENLY WENT MISSING - JUST MINUTES LATER HIS FATHER FOUND HIM DEAD IN THE NEIGHBOR'S YARD MAULED TO DEATH BY 2 PIT BULL MIXES THAT WERE CONTAINED BY AN INVISIBLE FENCE BURIED BENEATH THE GROUND WITH NO BARRIER TO KEEP THE TODDLER FROM WANDERING INTO THE DOG'S YARD - WHERE ARE ALL THE $1000's FROM ADVOCATES EVERYWHERE COMING IN TO WEST VIRGINIA FIGHTING AGAINST THE USE OF INVISIBLE FENCES FOR ANY BREED OF DOG CAPABLE OF DOING THIS TO A CHILD - OUR CHILDREN SHOULD BE PROTECTED AGAINST THIS HAPPENING TO THEM---BUT WAIT - PITS ARE NOT HUMAN AGGRESSIVE - SO IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE WEATHER THAT MADE THEM DO IT !!!!!! BUT WAIT--THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HUMAN AGGRESSIVE ?????
17. JUNE 14 - LEMON GROVE CA - 8-MO-OLD BOY - TYZHEL LATELLA MCWILIAMS - THE CHILD WAS ON THE FLOOR CRAWLING AROUND NEAR HIS MOTHER AND HER ROOM MATE WHEN THE DOG POUNCED ON HIM KILLING HIM WITH IN SECONDS - THERE WERE 3 PIT BULLS IN THE HOME AND IT WAS DETERMINED THAT ONLY 1 HAD ACCESS TO THE CHILD AT THE TIME - THERE WERE PICTURES OF THIS BABY SITTING RIGHT UP AGAINST THIS DOG AND THE DOG HAD KNOWN THE BABY SINCE HE WAS BORN - MUST HAVE BEEN THE WEATHER BECAUSE PIT BULLS " ARE NOT HUMAN AGGRESSIVE".
18. JULY 11 - AVONDALE CINCINATTI OH - 40-YEAR-OLD MAN - RONNEL BROWN - HE WAS KILLED BY HIS OWN PIT BULL TYPE DOG INSIDE HIS APARTMENT - HE WAS ABLE TO CALL 911 AND TOLD THEM HIS DOG HAD ATTACKED HIM AND HE BELIEVED HE WAS GOING TO PASS OUT - HE WAS DEAD WHEN HELP ARRIVED AND HIS LARGE DOG, AN ALAPAHA BLUE-BLOOD BULLDOG (OLD SOUTHERN WHITE BULLDOG/PIT BULL TERRIER CROSS) HAD TO BE SHOT SO FIREFIGHTERS COULD GET TO HIM - THESE DOGS ARE NORMALLY TOTALLY LOYAL TO THEIR OWNERS - SOMETHING, LIKE THE WEATHER, SPOOKED HIM AND MADE HIM DO IT.
19. AUG 15 - CHICAGO IL - 44-YEAR-OLD MAN - CHARLES HAGERMAN - WAS KILLED BY ONE OR BOTH OF HIS 2 PIT BULLS - HIS WIFE ARRIVED HOME ABOUT 8:15 PM TO FIND HIM ON THE FLOOR WITH ONE OF THE DOGS STILL BITING ON HIS NECK - HE WAS ALREADY DEAD - THEY MUST HAVE HAD A LOUD STORM IN THE AREA THAT NIGHT!
20. AUG 11 - DECATUR DEKALB CO GA - 23-YEAR-OLD WOMAN - REBECCA CAREY- A VOLUNTEER WITH RESCUE NETWORKS AND ANIMAL SHELTERS SHE HAD 5 DOGS LIVING WITH HER AT THE TIME OF THE ATTACK - 2 PIT BULLS, 1 PIT BULL/BOXER MIX, 2 PRESA CANARIOS (ONE ARTICLE REPORTS SHE HAD A MUCH SMALLER DOG ALSO)- THE DOGS WERE ALL TAKEN AND EUTHANIZED BEFORE IT COULD BE DETERMINED WHICH DOG OR DOGS KILLED HER - SOME FRIENDS REPORTED IN STORIES THAT SHE MAY HAVE BEEN TRYING TO BREAK UP A DOG FIGHT WHEN THE DOGS TURNED ON HER - BUT ALL THESE DOGS WERE BRED TO NOT BE HUMAN AGGRESSIVE SO THEY MUST HAVE HAD A LOUD STORM IN THE AREA THAT NIGHT WITH LOTS OF THUNDERING AND LIGHTENING THAT MADE THEM ATTACK HER.
21. SEPT 1 - TROTWOOD OH - 75-YEAR-OLD WOMAN - DAWN JUERGENS - SHE WAS FOUND DEAD IN HER YARD BY HER HUSBAND AT HER HOME - IT IS BELIEVED SHE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PUT THE FAMILY DOGS, SAID TO BE 2 CANE CORSOS THAT SHE LIVED FOR, BACK IN THEIR KENNELS AND THE DOGS WENT INTO A FRENZY - SHE AND HER HUSBAND RAISED THE DOGS FROM BABIES AND THEY WERE 2 1/2 YEARS OLD - A CORONER DID AN AUTOPSY AND RULED THAT HER DOGS KILLED HER - NONE OF THE ARTICLES MENTIONED ANYTHING ABOUT A STORM IN THE AREA.
22. SEPT 7 - JEFFERSON CO AR - 45-YEAR-OLD WOMAN - DEBRA RENEE WILSON-ROBERTS - SHE OWNED 2 PIT BULLS AND IT IS BELIEVED THE MALE ZEUS WEIGHING ABOUT 100 POUNDS KILLED HER - HER HUSBAND CAME HOME FROM A NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE TO FIND THE PIT BULL PACING BY HIS WIFE'S BODY WITH HIS MOUTH, PAWS, AND NECK BLOODY - THE DOG LUNGED AT THE POLICE AND WAS SHOT - SHE HAD SEVERE INJURIES TO HER LEGS WITH POSSIBLY A SEVERED ARTERY AND MAY HAVE BLED TO DEATH - SHE HAD BEEN ATTACKED BY HER PIT BULLS PREVIOUSLY AND HAD TO GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM FOR TREATMENT.
23. SEPT 11 - HERTFORD NC - 10-MO-OLD BOY - JAMES HUDSON - THE BABY WAS KILLED BY THE FAMILY'S PIT BULL MIX WHILE IN THE CARE OF HIS GRANDMOTHER - IT WAS REPORTED THAT HE WAS PLAYING IN A BEDROOM ON THE BED WITH OTHER CHILDREN WHEN THE DOG ATTACKED HIM AND WOULD NOT LET GO - THE GRANDMOTHER ATTEMPTED TO GET THE DOG OFF HIM BUT COULD NOT - THE DOG HAD PREVIOUSLY BITTEN AN OLDER CHILD IN THE HOME AND HAD ACTED AGGRESSIVELY TO NEIGHBORS.
24. SEPT 20 - LEEDS AL - 83-YEAR-OLD MAN - DONALD THOMAS - A KOREAN WAR VETERAN - HE WAS WALKING TO HIS MAILBOX TO GET THE MAIL AND WAS KILLED BY NEIGHBOR'S 2 LARGE ROTTWEILERS THAT WERE OFTEN SEEN RUNNING LOOSE - HIS WIFE CAME HOME FROM THE GROCERY STORE AND FOUND HIM AND ATTEMPTED TO WARD OFF THE DOGS BUT COULD NOT AND SHE HAD TO LEAVE HIM TO GO INSIDE THE HOME TO CALL FOR HELP - OVER 30 ROTTWEILER-TYPE DOGS WERE TAKEN FROM THE NEIGHBOR'S BACKYARD.
25.SEPT 24 - BURLESON TX - 3-MO-OLD BABY - RAYDEN BRUCE - POLICE WERE ALREADY AT THE HOUSE IN CONNECTION WITH A DOMESTIC DISPUTE BETWEEN THE BABY'S PARENTS WHEN THE MAULING TOOK PLACE - THE BABY FELL ASLEEP AND THE GRANDFATHER TOOK IT TO A ROOM AND PLACED IT ON A BED AND THEN MUST HAVE LEFT THAT ROOM AND THEN HEARD A NOISE AND WENT TO CHECK AND FOUND THE BABY ON THE FLOOR IN THE DOG'S MOUTH - IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE BABY'S FATHER HAD 2 PIT BULLS AT THE HOME AND THE MOTHER HAD RECENTLY HAD RECENTLY SEPARATED FROM THE FATHER - SHE HAD JUST TOLD ANOTHER NEIGHBOR THAT THE REASON WAS THE AGGRESSIVENESS OF THE PIT BULLS AND SHE WAS AFRAID FOR HER BABY.
26. SEPT 26 - OKLAHOMA CITY OK - 60-YEAR-OLD WOMAN - NELLIE DAVIS - SHE WAS LIVING WITH HER GRANDDAUGHTER WHO OWNED 2 PIT BULLS - THE GRANDDAUGHTER RETURNED HOME TO FIND ONE OF THE DOGS HAD BROKEN THE LOCK ON ITS CRATE AND ATTACKED AND KILLED HER GRANDMOTHER - AN OFFICER SHOT THE DOG WHEN IT COULD NOT BE CONTAINED.