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dude, post a link or something very sad news though..rip to her and her unborn...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/12/MNK21KMFEB.DTL

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PACIFICA -- A pregnant Pacifica woman was mauled and killed by a family pit bull Thursday inside her home and discovered by her husband when he returned from work.

Darla Napora, 32, was found by her husband, Greg, at their house at 588 Reina del Mar around noon.

Greg Napora told police that he arrived home to find one of the couple's two pit bulls standing over his wife's body. He was able to get the dog into the backyard before police arrived a few moments later, according to Capt. Dave Bertini, a Pacifica police spokesman.

Attempts to revive Darla Napora were unsuccessful, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

While the investigation was under way, Bertini said, the 2-year-old male dog got loose from the yard. Police fired three shots at the pit bull, killing it.

The family's second pit bull was not believed to have been involved in the attack, but was removed as a precaution by the Peninsula Humane Society, which provides animal control services for San Mateo County.

By late afternoon, police had left the scene and the house sat quiet, the front door slightly open. The only visible evidence of the horrific episode was a pool of drying blood on the gravel driveway near the front door.

Neighbor Kathy Carlson, 63, saw the distraught husband outside the house before the police arrived.

"He was in the driveway all frantic, yelling," said Carlson, who lives across from the white single-story home that the Naporas began renting last winter. "He had blood on his hands, blood on his shirt and blood down his pants."

Residents and visitors to the quiet block struggled to make sense of what had occurred.

"They are not barking dogs. They seemed friendly," Carlson said of the two pit bulls owned by the Naporas. "I have a pit also, and he's an absolute angel. It's just really sad."

A former neighborhood resident on the scene wasn't nearly so sympathetic to the presence of pit bulls.

"I'm scared to death of them," said Jeni Viny, 59, in Pacifica for a high school reunion. Viny of Nashville recalled being at a dog obedience class where a 4-month-old pit bull began attacking other dogs in the room. "I hate them."

The death of Darla Napora was not the first case in the Bay Area where pit bulls have killed members of the families that owned them.

In 2010, 2-year-old Jacob Bisbee was attacked by three dogs in his step-grandfather's Concord garage. The owner, Steven Hayashi, has since been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Five years earlier saw the death of Nicholas Faibish, 12, who was mauled by his family's pit bulls in San Francisco after his mother left them alone in the house with her son, who had a learning disability.

The most notorious mauling case locally involved Diane Whipple, a 33-year-old lacrosse coach at St. Mary's College who was killed in her Pacific Heights apartment building by a 120-pound Presa Canario. The dog was being kept by attorneys Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel, each of whom served prison time as a result of the death. Knoller is still in prison.

San Francisco passed a law in 2005 that pit bulls owned by city residents must be spayed or neutered. Pacifica has no such law. The dog found with Darla Napora had not been neutered, police said.


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Originally posted by macthizzle:
Sucks. I own a pit that will be 1 y/o on 8/21. i take him to dog parks,when i arrive people tend to leave. My dog is kid friendly and neutered. Just dont like how this breed is judged.

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Originally posted by DIRTY SALLY:
well she shouldnt have been talking shit

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Originally posted by SF Coupe:
Pitbulls are terriers. Terriers were bred for killing, specifically small animals. Some terriers can be triggered and their natural extinct comes out, which is to kill. This dog probably got confused somehow and something got triggered inside of him.

My dad used to hunt pigs with a pack of Airedales. Some of our neighbors decided to get them because they liked my Dad's dogs. My Dad knew these people had cats and warned them that it was a bad idea to have terriers and cats in the same house. The neighbors blew him off and said as long as you raise the dog with the cat it will be fine. What happened a few years later? The lady came home and found pieces of her cat in her driveway with blood all over the dogs muzzle. Something triggered that dog and he did what he was bred to do.

Having pit bulls is like keeping a loaded gun in your house with kids. Most likely nothing will happen, but you are increasing your chances of a tragedy.

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The simple fact that something can trigger this breed at any moment is reason enough for people not to be able to own them. This goes for every other breed out there who is capable of killing humans.

Owners talk about how you need to show the pitbull whos boss etc etc blah blah blah. The problem here is, how the fuck would you know who is actually doing that and even if done, the dog still has a chance of snapping. Most other breeds you don't have to show them shit because most breeds aren't capable of killing people.

RIP to the woman and her unborn. smh this is a damn shame

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Originally posted by Slowback67:
Sad story and even worse are the hatefull remarks made in the article about pitbulls

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WTF So the hateful remarks are worse than the actual HUMAN deaths themselves lol! WTF planet do you live on?

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Originally posted by CLEEN 50:
I love how when something like this happens, pitbull owners come out of the woodworks defending the breed. These dogs are natural killers, its in their genes. Lol @ the owners getting booty hurt cause people vacate the area when you and your dog come to the park. Are you worried about the dogs feelings or your own lol? Everytime I see one, I want to shoot it in the face . Sure theyre some really calm trained ones out there, but theyre only calm around the owners and family. On the loose they're wild animals and should be shot when seen

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Originally posted by macthizzle:
^^^^^ YOU MUST OWN A POODLE

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Originally posted by CLEEN 50:
I love how when something like this happens, pitbull owners come out of the woodworks defending the breed. These dogs are natural killers, its in their genes. Lol @ the owners getting booty hurt cause people vacate the area when you and your dog come to the park. Are you worried about the dogs feelings or your own lol? Everytime I see one, I want to shoot it in the face . Sure theyre some really calm trained ones out there, but theyre only calm around the owners and family. On the loose they're wild animals and should be shot when seen

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This has to be one of the most ignorant statements I've seen posted on this board and that's a bold statement. Pitbulls have been used in fighting rings they were not used to kill pregnant woman or children. It's so sad to see this happen I wish nothin but the best for the family of the attack. I can really care less if people leave the dog park when I show up with my pitty or walk across the street to avoid crossing paths, but when people start saying these dogs have it in their genes to be agressive is dumb. I'm Mexican and just because I'm Latino don't mean I like menudo!!

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Who cares what you think lol. First of all thats a horrible analogy and doesn't correlate at all. Look it up, they have been bred to have these aggresive traits, just like some breeds have other traits. Its not a hard concept to grasp. You're just another pitbull owner defending the breed, thats all. Don't get your panties in a bunch all over a pitbull dude, people died plain n simple. Humans > dogs

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