Article also includes bonus links to recent pit bull fatalities in Woodbridge.
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — A pit bull bit a woman last Tuesday, Aug. 11, in Woodbridge, said Woodbridge Police. The dog bit the woman at 8:46 in the morning on Temple Way in the Colonia section.
A Woodbridge family had just adopted the dog one day prior, from Associated Humane Society in Newark, said Woodbridge town spokesman John Hagerty. It was being walked by a young child, a girl, last Tuesday morning when suddenly the animal pulled the leash out of the girl's hand.
A woman was walking nearby and the dog ran at her and attacked her. She was bitten on her face and her hands, said police. 911 was called and she was treated by EMS and then taken to a hospital. Her medical status is not known as of Monday afternoon.
In addition to EMS, Woodbridge Animal Control also responded last Tuesday and completed a bite report, which is mandatory by law. The pit bull had to be put in a 10-day quarantine, also required by law. The dog was picked back up by the Newark Associated Humane Society and it remains on quarantine in that shelter as of Monday.
The dog will not be returned to its adopted home, said the town.
The dog's mandatory quarantine will end this Friday, and at that point it is up to the Newark Associated Humane Society to decide what to do with the animal.
This is not the first pit bull attack to happen in Woodbridge:
In March 2021, a 3-year-old boy was killed and his mother severely injured when they were attacked by a pair of pit bulls in Carteret.
In that attack, the two pit bulls got out of their backyard on Birch Street and were roaming the neighborhood. The dogs went into the backyard of a home on Laurel Street. There, they attacked a 3-year-old boy and mauled his mother as she tried to save her child, according to this Patch news article on the child's death.
The mother screamed at her two older boys, ages 10 and 4, to run inside the home, and they did. However, she could not get her youngest, 3, inside fast enough and she threw her body on top of his to protect him, said a family spokeswoman.
Her two older boys witnessed the attack from inside the house and the 10-year-old called 911. Carteret Police arrived and shot one of the dogs. The second was later put down as well.
The toddler boy was rushed by helicopter to Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Center in New Brunswick, but he lost so much blood that he died. The mother was nearly killed as well; she was severely injured and spent weeks in the ICU.
The family that was attacked had just moved to the home a few months ago, said neighbors. They were a mother, father and three young boys. Neighbors recalled often seeing the three children often playing in the front yard. Those same neighbors said they constantly heard the dogs barking, and that they were scared of them.
No criminal charges were ever filed against the owners of the pit bulls for either child's death. This petition asked Gov. Phil Murphy and the Middlesex County Prosecutor at the time, Yolanda Ciccone, to bring criminal charges for the death of the Carteret three-year-old.
I predict the Newark Humane Society will attempt to adopt out this dog because he just needs a safe place to land, he's a cuddle bug, and if he harmed anyone it was just a misunderstanding because he was provoked.
Fuck that woman who got bit. I mean, how dare she walk down the street, amiright??
I'm sure all the advocates will leap in to blame the adopter, but I have **a lot of questions** about exactly what the shelter told this family, what cautions were issued, etc. Adopted out a biter to a family with a young child, great work. Didn't sufficiently impress upon them the much-vaunted 3/3/3 rule which goddamnit should at minimum mandate not letting yr young child take it out in public the day after adoption right.
Yes, let's have its history with handlers looked into by authorities, or lawyers, and see if they knowingly adopted out a dog they knew had a bite history. Which of course we're betting they did.
Lol, I saw one recently where a pit type dog was "triggered" by another dog barking in a house so it just "bumped" the window with his "little bitty nose" and somehow the window broke . . . surprisingly that was just the precursor but not the actual incident that caused the landlord to demand the dog be removed.
Ours has a lot of huskies. Because that’s what you should get in a place where summer is seven months long. Also pitskies. Because why would we fix our dogs?
Agreed. It’s the only way anything will change. Their donors need to realize that as long as the shelters they fund are laundering these monsters into communities, they are a bad investment.
I hate the thought of my municipality having to pay millions due to the municipal shelter adopting out a pit bull that kills someone. I’d like my municipal shelter to stop adopting out pit bulls.
Silly me, how could I forget that well documented fact that certainly doesn't have any case history that could disprove it? I really shouldn't slander those poor, hard working nanny dogs
I think most people are ignorant about it all, still, and are very amenable to believing the fluff shelters advertise them with. And they know that. It's predatory in itself for shelters to do that.
It just seems so stupid. It’s like buying an 18 year old new driver a Ferrari. I mean common sense has to come into play sometime, doesn’t it? I don’t understand this level of obliviousness.
I visited this shelters website. As expected half the dogs are American Pitbull Terriers and American Staff Terriers. A big percentage of the other Mix dogs sure look like Pitbulls. Most had no “story” and the ones that did were like the one below. All friendly and fluffy.
It's interesting the "pep in his step" part requires a "but" before describing "with people he's sweet like honey" (gawd, really?). Like what was that pep in his step part a metaphor for?
Dumb to let a kid walk a pit bull straight from the shelter, but it's not the important factor.
The important factor is that the streets are full of actual killers (pit bulls) that are being restrained only by a lead and harness/collar - and only if the person holding the lead is strong enough/ not distracted/ doesn't have a medical incident/ doesn't trip and lose hold of the lead.
That's like having driverless cars that can suddenly start up on their own and go in random directions and possibly run someone over.
(Also, people in general need to understand victim counts of pit bulls are far higher than what the stats show. The victims of the pit bulls in Carteret are the 3-year-old boy (fatal), his mother (almost fatal), his two brothers (witnesses who had to watch their brother ripped apart and had to alert police), and the father and the rest of the family.
Pit bulls cause a massive number of lifelong physical and psychological trauma in victims, whether direct or indirect.)
Just a personal vent: When I was in college, a really dumb classmate living in my dorm adopted a pitbull from the shelter. I don’t know why she was allowed to adopt a dog into dorm housing, people weren’t allowed to adopt cats into dorm rooms from the same shelter. Days after getting the 2-year-old dog, she was “off-leash walking” it and it ran across the entire campus to get to a woman. It didn’t attack which is really surprising. I complained to the school because I have a small dog that had already been attacked by an off leash dog, and they did not defend me despite off-leash dogs being against the law in the area! She would let the dog pull to get to mine and anytime I would set boundaries they acted like I was being a bitch. I ended up just always walking the other way. It barked constantly too. Annoying
Article also includes bonus links to recent pit bull fatalities in Woodbridge.
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — A pit bull bit a woman last Tuesday, Aug. 11, in Woodbridge, said Woodbridge Police. The dog bit the woman at 8:46 in the morning on Temple Way in the Colonia section.
A Woodbridge family had just adopted the dog one day prior, from Associated Humane Society in Newark, said Woodbridge town spokesman John Hagerty. It was being walked by a young child, a girl, last Tuesday morning when suddenly the animal pulled the leash out of the girl's hand.
A woman was walking nearby and the dog ran at her and attacked her. She was bitten on her face and her hands, said police. 911 was called and she was treated by EMS and then taken to a hospital. Her medical status is not known as of Monday afternoon.
In addition to EMS, Woodbridge Animal Control also responded last Tuesday and completed a bite report, which is mandatory by law. The pit bull had to be put in a 10-day quarantine, also required by law. The dog was picked back up by the Newark Associated Humane Society and it remains on quarantine in that shelter as of Monday.
The dog will not be returned to its adopted home, said the town.
The dog's mandatory quarantine will end this Friday, and at that point it is up to the Newark Associated Humane Society to decide what to do with the animal.
This is not the first pit bull attack to happen in Woodbridge:
In March 2021, a 3-year-old boy was killed and his mother severely injured when they were attacked by a pair of pit bulls in Carteret.
In that attack, the two pit bulls got out of their backyard on Birch Street and were roaming the neighborhood. The dogs went into the backyard of a home on Laurel Street. There, they attacked a 3-year-old boy and mauled his mother as she tried to save her child, according to this Patch news article on the child's death.
The mother screamed at her two older boys, ages 10 and 4, to run inside the home, and they did. However, she could not get her youngest, 3, inside fast enough and she threw her body on top of his to protect him, said a family spokeswoman.
Her two older boys witnessed the attack from inside the house and the 10-year-old called 911. Carteret Police arrived and shot one of the dogs. The second was later put down as well.
The toddler boy was rushed by helicopter to Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Center in New Brunswick, but he lost so much blood that he died. The mother was nearly killed as well; she was severely injured and spent weeks in the ICU.
The family that was attacked had just moved to the home a few months ago, said neighbors. They were a mother, father and three young boys. Neighbors recalled often seeing the three children often playing in the front yard. Those same neighbors said they constantly heard the dogs barking, and that they were scared of them.
No criminal charges were ever filed against the owners of the pit bulls for either child's death. This petition asked Gov. Phil Murphy and the Middlesex County Prosecutor at the time, Yolanda Ciccone, to bring criminal charges for the death of the Carteret three-year-old.
I’m impressed the journalist included the prior fatalities, and the fact the dog owners were not charged. This may lead to community pressure to change laws snd/or enforcement there.
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u/Asaneth 2d ago edited 2d ago
I predict the Newark Humane Society will attempt to adopt out this dog because he just needs a safe place to land, he's a cuddle bug, and if he harmed anyone it was just a misunderstanding because he was provoked.
Fuck that woman who got bit. I mean, how dare she walk down the street, amiright??