Question:
I love watching A&E. Especially their true crime shows. It's a joke amoung my friends, because it's the channel I watch the most, and it incites giggling when I start my sentence with "I was watching A&E..."

So...I was watching A&E's American Justice last week. And it was about this couple who owned a pair of Presa Canario's. Big, massive, brindle coloured (or so it looks to my eyes) dogs. Story is that their owner, or one of them, was bring them home to her apartment after their walk. Down the hall, a neighbour, was entering her apartment. Something happened, in which the male dog became aggressive towards the woman down the hall (although she had done nothing to provoke it and was only trying to get into her apt). The dog weighed more than 120lbs and the female something like 110 or so. The woman they attacked was only 110lbs and not very tall. She ended up dying at the hospital. When they found her, all she had left on was a sock. Just one. There was almost nothing left of her at all.

What got me about the story, because I know that sometimes these things happen, but...the couple blamed the woman. Saying she was wearing a perfume, or it was because she was carrying groceries. They claimed the dogs never had been agressive before. Then it came out that the dogs were actually very aggressive and had been so towards children adults of the apartment complex.

I can't remember the sentancing they got but they did do jail time.

Anyways...my point with all of this...is that this woman was brutally killed by these dogs. I blame the owners not the dogs. And I think it's cases like this, that get sensationalized and what-not and instances where people panic and judge all dogs by these dogs or similar dogs. Bottom line dogs are animals, and they can be capable of anything. I think it's sad what's happening with Pitties and dogs like them. I think the responsibility should fall on the people who own these dogs.

That's my ramble.

If you want the exact details I found this online about the case:
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/cr...noel-knoeller/


Answer:
They got 4 years jailtime...
This made huge headlines at the time.. I remember it well. Those dog owners were completely responsible.... and aggressive dogs don't just 'go off' .. they had ample warning that this would eventually happen (other tenants testified to them snapping & snarling at children & adults alike)..
They should have gotten alot longer than 4 years in my opinion.


Answer:
I agree. I forget if it came out that they didn't like that woman because she was a lesbian or not too. A lot of strange stuff came out of that case.


Answer:
I saw that one the other day too. Beautiful dogs!