Post by: wmenorr67 on July 24, 2008, 11:57:10 PM
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(SAO PAULO, Brazil) An 11-year old boy is in Brazil's media spotlight after sinking his teeth into the neck of a dog that attacked him. Local newspapers reported on Thursday that Gabriel Almeida was playing in his uncle's backyard in the city of Belo Horizonte when a pit bull named Tita lunged at him and bit him in the left arm.
Almeida grabbed the dog by the neck and bit back biting so hard that he lost a canine tooth.
Almeida tells the O Globo newspaper: "It is better to lose a tooth than one's life."
Stonemasons working nearby chased the dog away before it could attack again.
The Folha de S. Paulo newspaper said the boy received four stitches at a local hospital while the dog was taken to a pound and may be killed.
Almeida grabbed the dog by the neck and bit back biting so hard that he lost a canine tooth.
Almeida tells the O Globo newspaper: "It is better to lose a tooth than one's life."
Stonemasons working nearby chased the dog away before it could attack again.
The Folha de S. Paulo newspaper said the boy received four stitches at a local hospital while the dog was taken to a pound and may be killed.
Good for him. How many others would have thought of doing that.
Post by: RaspberrySurprise on July 25, 2008, 12:10:39 AM
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Almeida grabbed the dog by the neck and bit back biting so hard that he lost a canine tooth.
"Man bites dog, loses canine. More at eleven."
Post by: seeker_two on July 25, 2008, 01:59:00 AM
Post by: alex_trebek on July 25, 2008, 03:58:58 AM
Post by: Firethorn on July 25, 2008, 04:29:25 AM
I bit my friends cat once. Don't know if I would do it to a pit........
I have my doubts that even a full bore bite from an adult human is going to cause enough pain/damage to a pit to make it think it's being attacked.
Post by: MicroBalrog on July 25, 2008, 04:31:25 AM
I bit my friends cat once. Don't know if I would do it to a pit........
I have my doubts that even a full bore bite from an adult human is going to cause enough pain/damage to a pit to make it think it's being attacked.
Your jaw is the most powerful muscle in your body.
There's recorded cases of people biting each other's finger's off, so I bet you could injure a dog.
Certainly not my preferred method of self-defense against raging pit bulls.
Post by: Balog on July 25, 2008, 05:02:08 AM
Post by: alex_trebek on July 25, 2008, 05:18:51 AM
I bit my friends cat once. Don't know if I would do it to a pit........
I have my doubts that even a full bore bite from an adult human is going to cause enough pain/damage to a pit to make it think it's being attacked.
Your jaw is the most powerful muscle in your body.
There's recorded cases of people biting each other's finger's off, so I bet you could injure a dog.
Certainly not my preferred method of self-defense against raging pit bulls.
Yeah, a handgun is much better. Less fur in the mouth.
Post by: MicroBalrog on July 25, 2008, 05:22:21 AM
I bit my friends cat once. Don't know if I would do it to a pit........
I have my doubts that even a full bore bite from an adult human is going to cause enough pain/damage to a pit to make it think it's being attacked.
Your jaw is the most powerful muscle in your body.
There's recorded cases of people biting each other's finger's off, so I bet you could injure a dog.
Certainly not my preferred method of self-defense against raging pit bulls.
Yeah, a handgun is much better. Less fur in the mouth.
Handgun? Handgun? Ha!
Nothing is better than a select-fire subgun.
Post by: alex_trebek on July 25, 2008, 05:25:10 AM
I bit my friends cat once. Don't know if I would do it to a pit........
I have my doubts that even a full bore bite from an adult human is going to cause enough pain/damage to a pit to make it think it's being attacked.
Your jaw is the most powerful muscle in your body.
There's recorded cases of people biting each other's finger's off, so I bet you could injure a dog.
Certainly not my preferred method of self-defense against raging pit bulls.
Yeah, a handgun is much better. Less fur in the mouth.
Handgun? Handgun? Ha!
Nothing is better than a select-fire subgun.
Thermonuclear warhead?
Post by: Firethorn on July 25, 2008, 07:07:57 AM
I bit my friends cat once. Don't know if I would do it to a pit........
I have my doubts that even a full bore bite from an adult human is going to cause enough pain/damage to a pit to make it think it's being attacked.
Your jaw is the most powerful muscle in your body.
There's recorded cases of people biting each other's finger's off, so I bet you could injure a dog.
Certainly not my preferred method of self-defense against raging pit bulls.
Yeah, a handgun is much better. Less fur in the mouth.
Handgun? Handgun? Ha!
Nothing is better than a select-fire subgun.
Thermonuclear warhead?
From orbit - it's the only way to be sure.
Post by: MicroBalrog on July 25, 2008, 07:36:24 AM
I bit my friends cat once. Don't know if I would do it to a pit........
I have my doubts that even a full bore bite from an adult human is going to cause enough pain/damage to a pit to make it think it's being attacked.
Your jaw is the most powerful muscle in your body.
There's recorded cases of people biting each other's finger's off, so I bet you could injure a dog.
Certainly not my preferred method of self-defense against raging pit bulls.
Yeah, a handgun is much better. Less fur in the mouth.
Handgun? Handgun? Ha!
Nothing is better than a select-fire subgun.
Thermonuclear warhead?
From orbit - it's the only way to be sure.
Nothing beats a relativistic bomb.
Post by: French G. on July 25, 2008, 08:30:33 AM
I don't really fear any one dog since if I can control their head they can't hurt me. Several dogs? Not my idea of fun. Now for biting dogs, that's what happens when one takes a nip at me. Choked, dropped on the ground on it's back, and bit hard on it's ear while growling. Mimics a dominant dog laying the smackdown pretty good.
Post by: Ex-MA Hole on July 25, 2008, 09:12:46 AM
It's about a "friend" of mine....let's, for the sake of ease, call him "Mark"....Mark had a dog that was the sweetest little ball of fur in the world....Especially when she wasn't biting someone....She was a Wheaten mix....She liked to bite. A lot....many puppy classes, advice from peers, internet research, etc, could not solve this biting problem....Great dog, just sometimes liked to snip to try to establish dominance.
Well, one night, this guy we're calling Mark had a rough evening. He had spent a good portion of the day and evening helping to clean out the liquor cabinet....there were just WAAAAAAY too many open bottles of different things....Mark was nice enough to finish a few bottles to make room for new ones. It was tough work, but Mark was just the man for the task.
Needing a break from all of his hard work, our hero limped out to the back deck to light a cigar...He was sitting, while, actually, it was leaning, and the dog jumped up and bit him in the leg...she was playing....our hero was much to tired from all of the work to play, so he was bit a second, and a third...
On the way by Mark to go and bite someone else, the pup was swooped up in the air, spun around and was promptly, and very firmly bitten in the ear. Once the pup winced, a bit stronger pressure was applied, and then a tearful yelp emitted from said pup.
The pup was then put down....and, for some reason, never bit again....
Post by: seeker_two on July 25, 2008, 10:06:56 AM
I bit my friends cat once. Don't know if I would do it to a pit........
I have my doubts that even a full bore bite from an adult human is going to cause enough pain/damage to a pit to make it think it's being attacked.
Your jaw is the most powerful muscle in your body.
There's recorded cases of people biting each other's finger's off, so I bet you could injure a dog.
Certainly not my preferred method of self-defense against raging pit bulls.
Yeah, a handgun is much better. Less fur in the mouth.
Handgun? Handgun? Ha!
Nothing is better than a select-fire subgun.
Thermonuclear warhead?
From orbit - it's the only way to be sure.
Nothing beats a relativistic bomb.
A thought bomb does... (if you get it, then you know how to find it on Wookiepedia....)
Post by: Azrael256 on July 25, 2008, 10:08:09 AM
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I have my doubts that even a full bore bite from an adult human is going to cause enough pain/damage to a pit to make it think it's being attacked.
Yeah, but the idea is not to kill the pit, but to make him think "Gee... this little human thing is a bit more of a badass than I thought... maybe I should leave now..." Which appears to be what happened.
Post by: Stand_watie on July 25, 2008, 12:14:12 PM
Whether or not he could HURT the pit bull with his teeth is irrelevant...if he could keep his teeth fastened to the dogs neck, the dog can't get IT's teeth around to fasten on the child's neck...which I think should be the primary objective for an 11 year old being attacked by a pit bull. The tiger by the tail analogy so to speak. HOLD ON until help arrives.