Texas man arrested after 7 dogs mauled 71-year-old man to death

[Jilly_in_VA]

A Texas man was arrested after his seven dogs mauled a 71-year-old man to death while walking to a neighborhood store last week, authorities said.

The victim, identified as Freddy Garcia, was walking to the store around 1:30 p.m. on July 18 when he was attacked by the seven dogs in the city of Fresno, just south of Houston, the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. Officers arrived on the scene and Garcia was taken to a hospital in Houston, where he was later pronounced dead.

In a news conference, Sheriff Eric Fagan said Garcia was walking on a sidewalk and "did nothing to provoke the animals" and they attacked "for no reason."

"This is a tragic, tragic incident," Fagan said. "It was uncalled for. It was senseless."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/24/texas-owner-dogs-mauling-death/10139876002/

Sadly, more bad press for pitties, who are some of the sweetest dogs on the planet. But any dogs running as a pack will act wild if they have never been disciplined.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

1. The problem with "Pitties"

Is they seem to attract the stupidest owners. In my opinion if he made those dogs mean it's premeditated murder.

[Farmer-Rick]

2. Not sure about pit bulls but some dogs are just naturally aggressive

Some dogs just like to kill things. It's weird but they sometimes can be great with people but small or equal sized animals are their victims. Or sometimes they turn their aggression to people.

I had a mutt that looked like a Rottweiler but his mother was a Labrador. He was smart, well behaved with me, and would stop on a dime when I said No. I loved that beautiful animal. But I had to turn him over to animal control because he killed every animal near him. (They re-homed him to a family without any animals.)

He killed sheep, groundhogs, rabbits, ducks, chickens, racoons, skunks. If it was in his reach, he'd kill it, though he was great with people. I couldn't have him constantly killing my livestock and fighting with my livestock guardian dogs to get to the livestock. He was worse than the Coyotes around here.

But his sister was the sweetest shy lab that ran away from the chickens.

[ratchiweenie]

3. Sadly, the problem with pitties is that they are the sweetest dogs on the planet, until they aren't.

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. Just like any dog

The worst bite attack I ever saw not resulting in death came from a chow chow that had never attacked anyone before but took a sudden dislike to the child across the street. I had to take her and her mom to the ER because her mom was too hysterical to drive. That kid was all chewed up.

[Sneederbunk]

5. Pit Bulls have more than a rep, they have a record.

The Pit Bull is responsible for the most fatal attacks in the U.S. by far, killing 284 people over a 13-year period - 66 percent of total fatalities. That's despite the breed accounting for just 6.5% of the total U.S. dog population.

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. That's because

we don't have enough Cane Corsos here yet. Down where my daughter lives there was a guy in the next county who had 3 of those running loose (apparently he was a drug dealer and marijuana grower) and they killed a young woman and critically injured two men, all of whom were just walking by, in three different attacks. The men have both required many surgeries since and one lost an eye. Meanwhile, the guy has been arrested on drug charges but for some reason they can't/won't charge him even with manslaughter...although DNA from the woman was found on one of the dogs after it was caught and killed. Two of the dogs were caught. One was killed while they were trying to catch it and the other was euthanized. The third has not yet been caught.

Irresponsible or deliberately evil people make dogs mean. Period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_Corso

[LeftInTX]

7. If you want to adopt a dog in TX, healthy young, pit bulls are always available at any city shelter

They have large litters and many have irresponsible owners who refuse to spay or neuter them...They get these big dogs, then turn them lose or let them roam the neighborhood after they realize they are too much work. Meanwhile the dogs mate and more pit bulls and mixes are out there.

The shelters are not rescues, they don't do background checks on future owners and their fees are minimal compared to rescues.

There are not many other healthy breeds available at shelters except for lab/pit mixes and a few German Shepherds.

[Jilly_in_VA]

8. We get lots of pitties at our shelter in NW VA too

At any given time it's hard to tell whether we have more of them or medium-large hound mixes. Those seem to be our frequent inhabitants. Occasionally we'll get a pit who has a problem like resource guarding, but more of them are just undisciplined kids who need some training. Most of our "bite holds" tend to be shepherd mixes, Rottweilers and Rott mixes, and assorted small dogs, mostly terrier types--does that surprise you?

[Midnight Writer]

9. Guy near me had multiple pitties, trained them to attack using homemade dummies.

He kept the dogs on chains in his yard, and hung human shaped dummies on ropes with pulleys that he used to make the dummies "attack" the dogs.

Guy was about what you'd expect, dirty biker with a yard full of beer cans and liquor bottles. I used to make regular service calls at his shack of a house and those dogs scared the piss out of me. He'd get those dummies flying in at the dogs and they would go nuts, jumping up and clamping onto them while he laughed and shouted "get'em".

He'd have parties with his biker buddies (they had patches and colors, like a gang). They'd build a bonfire in their yard and drink and blast loud music and you could hear those dogs barking in a frenzy from a mile away.

He had a sad-looking, emaciated wife (I never heard her speak a word) and a gun collection he was very proud of.

I don't know how many dogs he kept chained up there, but I always believed that if they got lose somebody was going to get killed.

I think it is the same mentality of men wanting the meanest, scariest guns that want the meanest, scariest dogs.

[Jilly_in_VA]

10. It's people like him

that are the cause of mean pitties and are mostly responsible for the reputation they have. Them and the dogfighters, although apparently a lot of the dogs from Michael Vick's operation were successfully rehabbed and are good family pets.