Thank you Consequence

Alanis Morissette, amazing singer, incredible songs...

Check out the lyrics to "Thank You", its a powerful song to have in the background while typing this one...man, she put her soul into this song...

and I'm going to post a link to the song for the soul who sent me the story of her son...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOgpT5rEKIU

But perhaps the title of this entry should be "Thank You Terror"

Yes, I'll post this story, for those who stop by to read...and I kept one of the lines for me in...I'll explain after your story...

"No problem. I hope people will learn from my mistakes.

It was a week before Christmas when my neighbor had to take her 9yr old son to the hospital because he suffered from seizures. After her being stuck at the hospital for a day and a half I was worried about her pitbull named Buddy because she had no one to walk and feed him. So I talked to her and told her I would take care of Buddy at my house until she got back. I had no fear about having him there with my 6yr old son because he lived with two children around my sons age and I would see her little grandbabies crawl and sit on Buddy and he would just lay there. The first day Buddy was at my house and everything went fine. Buddy would follow me everywhere. On the second day Buddy and I were laying in my room and I desided to go see what my son Justen and his friends were doing. So I walked out to the livingroom and Buddy followed. Justen and his friends were kneeling at the coffie table playing with legos. Buddy and I were standing about 2ft. behind my son when without warning Buddy jumped on Justen knocking him to the ground. Within seconds Buddy started ripping into my sons head. I did the only thing I could do and grabbed his thick collar and just pulled with all my weight. Buddy was so strong and after about a minute which seemed like a lifetime Buddy let go and I lost my grip and fell backwards. Then Buddy latched onto him again and once again I pulled on his collar and it took another minute for him to let go. My son jumped up and locked himself into my bathroom. Once I got Buddy outside away from everyone I went to find Justen. He was so scared he didn't want to open the door. But finally I reassured him that Buddy couldn't get him and he opened the door. My sons white polo shirt was completely soaked in blood and I saw he had a 2"X 3" chunk of skin on his temple that was gone. He also had some deep laserations on his scalp. The ambulance came and took us to the hospital then he was tranfered to childrens hospital where a plastic surgeon came in and closed his wounds. The doctor who did the surgery asked me what kind of dog was it. When I told him it was a family pitbull he said to me,"Pitbulls are not family dogs". Buddy was euthanized. I truely believe Buddy would have killed Justen had not by some miracle I was able to stop him. My son was lucky to live but is scarred for the rest of his life because I believed people when they would say only the trained to fight pitbulls attack. And my son is not the only victim that day because his little friends witness his attack. I have nightmare all the time so I can only imagine that they do too. My neighbor (Buddys owner) was very sorry to my face but to others she would say that my son must have prevoked Buddy. I would like people to learn from Justens pitbull survival story. Don't listen to the excuses, It's just not worth the risk. Thanks for helping to bring awareness."


Mistakes...we all make them, but most of the ones we make won't almost kill someone...but the mistake my friend, isn't yours...what you did was trust..nothing about what happened to your bright little boy was your mistake to bear. I simply can't allow you to have that word in your vocabulary when referring to yourself, and that situation. You trusted a pitbull owner, one who like all the others, time and time again force their version of their right onto all of us, our children and all the other innocent lives stolen or marred by their mutts.



You hit a nail hard on the head...it's just not worth the risk, why did your son, mine and all the others have to be a risk they took???


And as a PS: The owner of the pit that got Little Man King, his girlfriend was sorry to our face, we never heard from the owner...still to do this day...FUCKING COWARD!!!!! In the van on the way to the hospital, that piece of shit asked out loud "I wonder what he did to provoke ***ch?"


Thank you for trusting your story to me...thank you for standing beside me, while I stand beside you...our sons, their stories, their scars have to make a difference...

Just when you think, you got me figured out The season's already changing...

I think it's cool, you do what you do And don't try to save me...

Meredith Brooks...Bitch...I'm going to listen to this song while I blog...

When we first got into this whole mess, the nanny dog myth seemed to be the first thing the pit Taliban (thanks anon) pulled out of their pockets...even one very, ahem special radio hostie type let it ooze out of her mouth when I did some radio two days after Little Man King's attack...her and I were friends, oh  where the sun don't shine now...

But anyways...

As much as it pained me out to go back to Bad Rap's Facebook page, I guess I had to...they have done one thing right...I sent this to the "evening" time ex buddy radio show voice...

BAD RAP shared a link.
20 May

It's Dog Bite Prevention Week. Did you know that there was never such thing as a 'Nanny's Dog'? This term was a recent invention created to describe the myriad of vintage photos of children enjoying their family pit bulls. While the intention behind the term was innocent, using it may mislead parents into being careless with their children around their family dog - A recipe for dog bites!
Of course, in regards to pits, we aren't talking bites...we are talking life altering, at times life ending lethal attacks...

Now where am I going with this...oh yeah...

ok, so the nanny dog crap doesn't show up nearly like it used too...I hope I'm right and I'm not just glossing over that...but now, what they constantly pull out of their asses, is the "its all how you raise em"

Thanks for this Opposing Views...Jason admits it's their instinct...so should other pit owners...give those not involved in this movement a fighting chance...we all know to avoid these potential killers, stop, give them a chance to make an informed choice to stay away from that pit you say wouldn't hurt a fly.  Jason says it best," it's their nature, don't be alone with the dogs"

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/animal-rights/2-pit-bulls-attack-25-year-old-california-woman-samantha-williams

"Jason White, who owns the dogs, blames the attack on the fact that Samantha was alone in the house. He told reporters he “felt bad” about the attack by the Pit Bulls; however, he had warned her not to be alone with them, he said.

He described the nature of his dogs, "I can't help that. That's their natural instincts. I didn't train them to do that." He said animal control had impounded and dogs and he hopes to have them returned to him in 10 days."

I'll never understand the lack of synapse firing that must go on in the brains of pit idolaters.  I'll never grasp why they think its ok to take the chance...why does that matter more than their own flesh and blood children?  Isn't being a mommy to their babies more important than being a fur mommy?  That statement makes me want to throw up in my mouth.  It's so fucking degrading to parents...

and for the record, I hate memes...but this is an interesting line of photos...from the fur mommy's, then a couple fur mommy's killed by their babies, to some innocent women in the wrong place at the wrong time...

Riding' Through This World, All Alone, God Takes Your Soul, You're On Your Own

Ah, the imaginary world of Jax, Gemma, Clay, Oppie and Juice...those fine upstanding folks that live in the mc ruled town of Charming...

Mr. King started watching Sons of Anarchy months ago...and so hoped I'd watch with him...at first, I thought, egads, motorcycle gangs, drug/gun dealers, porn, too many cigarettes being smoked...but alas, I relented...

Am I ever glad I did...what a show!!  The writing is perfection, the story lines are detailed, the actors, for the most part are amazing, and there are some hotties (maybe you and I will have a Charlie Hunnam night instead of Colin Farrell my friend, wink wink...does Charlie have many movies out or will we have to do Sons)

Anyways...I digress a bit...this is not a review on the Sons of Anarchy...what this is, is an observation.

So, the last episode of Season 5, I'm watching in stunned silence...as the dog fighting scene unfolds on my high def screen!!!  My emotions run between disgust for the scene, sadness for the brutality of being reminded of what it is these dogs do, horror and relief for what didn't happen to Little Man King, and sadly, anger directed at Mr. King not warning me.  Then, after the fight scene, is the scene where one of the bad guys locks another bad guy (from a different type of gang) in a van with a pit, that immediately hooks on to that bad guy's arm, and doesn't let go.  

I'm "blessed" to have a quick to boil point, which simmers at high for a long long time...thank goodness I'm also blessed to have a man in my life that has learned how to function with my one flaw  ;-)  Without him saying a word, I was able to process a whole lot about that scene...which I'm not sure if I would have if he had warned me it was coming....if he had, I wouldn't have watched it, and had not arriving at the dubious obviousness of that scene.  Which in today's pop culture, is SIGNIFICANT!!!  This show is a HUGE HIT!!!  

To me, this scene was quite the statement.  No fluffy little wanna be rescue angels represented in the scene (unless you count Tig, but really, he's a fucking lethal, ruthless murdering biker) This scene takes all that represents the breed and plunks it in a place for the masses to see.  They are fighting machines, bred for the ring, to be cheered on and have money bet on them!!!  It's disgusting, violent, brutal and has no place in society...the dogs equal the sport, there should be no denying it.  People on mass were likely side swiped by the scene,  with its violent realism, but, the tying of the scene with "certain types" of people is what is likely understood and expected by most of society.  And that is what I realized once my anger subsided.  This scene spoke with brutality to all that is pit, including who people expect to be around the breed.  To align yourself with the pits, is aligning yourself with what that scene represented. For the sake of the breed, why fight against regulations, you are simply putting more dogs in real life scenes like the one depicted in Sons.

A writer on the Examiner says this

"A big thank you to Sutter for showing how loving a perceived banned breed like a Pit Bull can be by watching Tig interacting with one."

http://www.examiner.com/review/sons-of-anarchy-season-finale-is-proof-positive-that-kurt-sutter-is-a-genius

Yes, I say Sutter is a genius, for showing the truest nature of it all...including the brutality of the breed, and yes, in the end, an outlaw murdering, kill for whatever reason Tig ends up loving a pitbull...hmmm...interesting partnership...interesting statement...

I found this fun site..

http://www.buddytv.com/personalityquiz/sons-of-anarchy-personalityquiz.aspx?quiz=100000011

here are some snipits from some others...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Sonsofanarchy/comments/14aq1v/season_finale_discussion_thread_s05e13_jai_obtenu/

"I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who got bummed out. I didn't like it when The Wire did it 10 years ago, and I would be okay with not seeing dog fighting in any future TV series.


EDIT: I just saw the scene when he gets stuck in the mini van with the pitbull. I must have missed that last night. Sweet, sweet justice.


BARNABY_J0NES 33 points 6 months ago

But it's a very powerful image. I've never felt more disgusted by a television series than I did tonight; the dogs mauling each other and their poor corpses in the garbage bins made my stomach turn. It really drove home the point of how fucked up dog fighting is.

For the record, I am completely against dog fighting and have 2 dogs myself. Before tonight, I knew dog fighting=bad and that poor performers are executed (Fuck you Michael Vick), however it never felt real to me as it did watching it on tonight's episode. That scene underscored the sheer brutality of dog fighting in ways just watching/reading.

Sorry for the ramble.

TL;DR: Dog fighting scenes are sickening, but they send a powerful message.

ChexLemeneux42 9 points 6 months ago

Exactly. I found the scene with the dogs fighting not very hard to watch because it's clear the two pit bulls are just playing, the lack of blood flying and borderline rabid spit everywhere made it very clear these dogs were friends. A dog fight is brutal and looks nothing close to the scene in SOA. It'd be impossible to shoot a scene depicting real life dog fights. The fact that filthy Phil was able to just pick him up outside of the van without the dog snapping at him was a tell tale sign that was not a fighting dog. The painful to see in that scene was the garbage cans fulla dead dogs. That scene when the dog gets put into the kiddie pool and just before filthy Phil picked that dog up, was as real as SOA will ever be. Dog fighting is a terrible thing and if we don't talk about it or show how evil it is how will we ever change it? "

Nayalith 2 points 6 months ago

Upon watching that scene, I was really upset and could barely look at the screen. However, in a way I am glad about the way it was presented because it was made to seem (as dog fighting truly is) horrific and sickening. I hope it brings awareness to the problem or at least nudges people who otherwise didn't have much of an opinion in the direction of disapproval. Until it's considered terrible by everyone, dog (and other types of animal fighting) will go on.

Now back to me...

In my most humblest of opinions, until pit advocacy shuts the fuck up, and let regulations mercifully extinct the pit breed, they should wear the blood of pits in the ring like a Scarlet A...it's on your heads...you balk against the one thing that could save most of them...and that is simply not being born in the first place.

Who cares how loving they are after the match, the fact of the matter is, they can be what is in that ring, but instead of latching on to another pit, they latch on to children like Little Man King...why take the chance...Tig has a gun if his new doggy decides to "have a moment" 

For shits and giggles, I took the silly quiz...I'm Clay...

And now, back to real life...

SEO

With a couple brave family's coming forward, and sending their stories to grippingtruth, more are doing the same...good things indeed come to those who wait...

This time it's the Williams family, and what they found online.  Their story of the generosity of a clinic that offered up services to help the family heal, on a law/lawyer's blog...and all be it, not a word written into the blog about how this law services has no ties to the case, or helping the family receive the much needed assistance in getting the scars treated...also, no mention of how the law should/would apply.

Brandon and Tamie Williams:  "Advantage Body Clinic offered their services to our son because they saw our story, when we went public.  The personal injury lawyers of the Accident Attorney's group assisted us in NO WAY!  We have never been in contact with the group, and are appalled they would use our story without a quid pro quo stating we have never had anything to do with them.  Seems the victimization of  our son and our family continues past inappropriate comments from those who oppose BSL and carries right into the offices of at least one law firm looking to gain clients off the backs of those who suffer.  Exploiting the good deed showed to our family, under the loose guise of "how we can help you too" is inappropriate.  We are so grateful you have offered us this venue, seems far more fitting to call the law firm out then ask for retraction"

http://bestaccident-attorneys.com/blog/child-receives-procedure-after-pit-bull-dog-bite/

Now, thanks to many who have been in the "game" far longer than myself or the Williams, I learned about SEO...here is the definition according to Wikipedia...

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's "natural" or un-paid ("organic") search results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search, academic search,[1] news search and industry-specific vertical search engines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization

Too bad the law firm didn't state they had NOTHING to do with getting Zach some help.  So what now the Williams want to know?  I'm in unfamiliar land with this one...I don't know what to tell them...except that the slimey feeling they likely have is justified.  

Advice???  I'm guessing likely nothing can be done, this is what it is...just feels good to give a family a place to vent.  

Perhaps showing an example of how stories can and should be used in regards to the law, and that's what, oh yea, taking about applicable laws, not how "we can help you" when they didn't help in the first place...

http://www.injurylawyerinhoustontexas.com/premise-liability/dog-attack-cheektowaga-york-caught-video-2012/

Stand, You're Gonna Run Again

I wish I knew more about a DJ's style of music to pay better homage to your courage...

Lenny Kravitz - Stand

"You have the power to face your demons
No matter how they go or time
And rid yourself of your fear and weakness
So you can start to live your life"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSThNMcd38A&feature=youtu.be

Dax will save lives...with you in his corner, it's inevitable...

Heaven Sent and Heaven Stole

For all I've ever written, this one is perhaps one of the hardest...

Since that night, now what seems so long ago, I've, along with so many of you, read too many stories about attacks...most live through it, but some, as we know don't.

In March, the Borchardt family lost one to pit idolatry...a bright hazel eyed little boy...toddling Dax killed by the babysitter's pitbulls.

The following is with the generous and brave permission of Dax's father...

"It's not the breed, it's how you raise them" is why our son was killed 3 months ago today....The baby sitter's own 2 pit bulls attacked the hand that fed them to murder a 14 month old baby....I want to clear this up right here and now....She was under strict rules to never have our child around those dogs, and they were kept in their kennels(kennel trained from pups) all day when he was there and when anyone went to visit....Dax had been there at least 30 times before while daddy was working a day job to make some extra $....Now, this is why I say "It's not the breed, it's how you raise them" line of thinking is what killed my son....Because I believed it and the sitter believed it too..these dogs were loved. They were not abused, mistreated, malnourished.(anyone that says they were, is talking straight from their ass)..If I would've known that she was doing it this way, it wouldn't have a big deal, but I would've said "You're not in trouble, but put him in another room while you let the dogs out to poddy.".....The kennels were at the back of the house with a sliding glass door leading outside to about a 10 foot area before another gate that lead to about a 1 acre fenced in area that they had to run....She dressed him, put his hat and coat on and was carrying him. She let the dogs out of their kennels, let them outside. In between the 10 foot area of the house and the gates is when they attacked her. They worked together to attack her. They bit her, jumped on her, then one knocked her down while my son went sprawling to the ground. Then one grabbed him while the other kept attacking her. She fought her OWN dogs for 10 minutes.(sending her to the hospital with injuries to her neck and arm) Kicking them, poking them, etc.....I will not go into further details but if you want the whole gruesome story, it's public record......I've had some people tell me that this is a very rare case. The detective even called it "a perfect storm"...but now that I don't have a sweet baby boy to take care of anymore, all I have is time to do research. Research to learn that this is FAR from a rare case. Did you know there has been 14 deaths by dog bites since Jan. 1st this year till now? IN ALL BUT ONE CASE, THE KILLER HAS BEEN A PIT BULL!!!!...That's 93%!!!.....Trust those monsters around your children if you want. But you are playing russian roulette with yours and your neighbours childrens lives!!....PS. You assholes that proceed to put pics up of your pits and your kids together in an attempt to convince me "See Bogart?...MY pits are good dogs. MY pits would never do that" should start going to church cause there is no hope for you."

He would like me to "hit it home" with  "14 Americans killed by dog attack this year alone, all but ONE the killer was a pit bull"

Maybe pit zealots, when they read his story, you will allow it to soak in...read it here, in a venue where you rebuttal isn't allowed, then read it again, and then again...let it into your soul, that you too, as you preach the "it's all how you raise em" contributed to this child's death, and the anguish and sorrow this family experiences now, and likely until they day they join Dax.  How does having that on your conscious feel?  Reading it here, where you can't publicly blame everything, anything and anyone else, does it feel more real???  Reading it here, where you can't join up in a collective with your fellow pit junkies, and in unison scream that your right to own a pit outweighs public safety, does it feel more real?

I know when Little Man King was attacked, I too had to "clear" up details...you know why?  Because nutters insist on muddying up stories to fit their agenda...here its truth...

The rights of a minority group of people who want to own a dangerous breed of dog should outweigh nothing...especially this story and all the others like it.

Take that and make it a nutty quote...

always yours 

Anne King

Molly's Lips...

Nirvana...Kurt Cobain, brilliant man...troubled, but brilliant...

You know who else is brilliant, the creator of this video!  You can watch this video in a couple frames of mind...(1)  get ready to laugh your ass off  (2)  once you are done laughing, watch the video again, take notes in regards to the questioning the host has for Molly.  What a great way to approach pit advocacy.  BRILLIANT!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDkmXv5GSwQ&feature=youtu.be

And you are so right Sputnik...and that's why I'm bumping your comments up to here:

Sputnik20096 June 2013 02:36
Sneaking a ban in all of a sudden is only an imitation of the tactics the nutters use all over the place -- sneaking in bans on BSL at state level as riders on bills about draining lakes and such.

Did you know that Cheri DiNovo is trying to get Ontario's ban lifted via a back door private members' bill? I think the Canadian public needs to know about this, so they don't get taken by surprise


Sputnik20097 June 2013 00:29
Right now, I'm mostly hoping a lot of Canadians read this great blog and see my comment -- and that they all write outraged letters to every single member of the House of Commons, demanding that DiNovo's bill be shot down.

Commenting here isn't enough. We have to write to politicians and let them know they won't get away with this crap

Tonight I'm writing my letter, along with sending Little Man King's photo (while we waited for the surgeon to sew his face back together).  

Folks can send their letters to me:

anneking0705@gmail.com, I'll make sure they get to the right place.