Policing, a sad affair, nothing surprises me anymore.
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| Little Bella |
Today 6th June 2013. My 18 year old daughters
were happily walking their fluffy cloud, aka Bella, a lovely white Bichon Frise.
on her lead down the road, after their visit to their grandmas house.
What they had to endure next, in their young lives, will
change their lives for ever.
A Staffordshire bull terrier came out of its garden and
carried out the most vicious attack my girls have ever witnessed in their
entire lives. The bull terrier shook and shook poor Bella like she was a rag
doll, the bull terrier carried out its attack so viciously, Bellas blood was
pouring out of her everywhere, Bella was screaming and screaming in agony, the
staffy continued to Maul her even though adults were battering the staffy to
let go. Many people came to help my daughters, Eventually, the staffy let go,
then the owner ran off with it, shouting you’re not putting it down!!!.
A man, stopped his car in the middle of the road to help my
girls and phoned for his wife to come and help them. The Staffordshire bull
terriers neighbour rushed out to Bellas aid, wrapped her in towels and placed
her blooded body on a tray, she was lifeless. Another couple (strangers) ,drove
my daughters and Bella to the local vets where Bella was put on life support,
she had lost lots of blood and was in shock. At this point, the vets couldn’t even
tend to her wounds or assess the damage as they had to take care of the initial
blood loss first .
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| My girls |
Whilst all this was going on, people had phoned the police,
my daughters were on the phone to the police. My daughters are young
respectable hard working hard studying 18 year old girls, who have never needed
the police in their lives before. Sadly, this, their first time ever needing
the police for themselves, the police were not there for them, or their dog
Bella.
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| Little Bella |
Remember, this, a Staffordshire bull terrier, this, one of
the UKs most mentioned notorious breeds recently, this, the breed of dog that only
a few years ago, killed a little boy, a breed that has only recently killed a
teenage girl at her friends house, this, the breed that only two weeks ago,
killed an elderly gentleman on the door step of his own home, this, the breed
of dog that had just carried out this vicious unprovoked attack on my daughters
dog, is a dog pretty much feared and a breed that is well publicised for known
attacks, please note, I am not disrespecting all staffies or staffie owners, what I am
getting across here, when the police hear of this breed attacking, shouldn’t they
attend a call out?
My daughter, traumatised, making this call to the police,
was told by the police, sorry, it is nothing to do with us we cant do anything
because a human wasn’t involved, phone the dog warden! Now, can you, as a
compassionate human being, see the scene? Can you? Plenty of witnesses
shouting, and helpers, two screaming distraught teenage girls, one blooded
pavement and screaming red puppy now lifeless….. can you see that scene reading
this? Can you hear the noise all these people would have made, screaming
crying, beating the Staffordshire to let go, can you imagine the noise the dogs
made, one screaming for its life, one attacking with all its might? Can you
imagine the real life horror my daughters had to endure and them Samaritans that
helped them? Don’t forget…. All involved, will have to live with the sound of
that attack and the sights of that attack now, for the rest of their lives.
Just making sure you readers can see the scene.
Within that phone call, my daughter was told to phone the
dog warden and goodbye!!! The dog warden was phoned but I’m not too sure at
this point, who made the call. But what I can tell you is this, the dog warden,
said they can’t do anything at present and just to keep any receipts off the
vets! Ok, so that’s now two sets of people in authority that cant help my
children and their dog.
That staffy, has been ALLOWED to come out of it’s garden to
attack and maul my children’s dog to lifelessness.
With all the hysterics of this going on. Due to being told
by my daughter on the phone the police couldn’t do anything. My husband popped
to the local police station disgusted. To his surprise, the police station was
shut, it shuts at 6pm! He then drove all the way to the other end of the town
to be told by one of the fake civilian police we have, ooops, I mean the
community support officer, that it is true, they can’t do anything. They said,
if the dog was being walked along the street without a lead , then they could probably
do something? But because it had come off its own property, they can’t do
anything?
Remember everyone, this staffy, left its property, and went
onto the public footpath to carry out this attack.
It’s pretty ironic though don’t you think? Only two weeks
ago an elderly gentleman was killed by a staffy jumping over the fence into the
mans garden and that dog was shot without any hesitation. But because this
attack was carried out on another dog, ‘dog on dog, its what dogs do the police
said’ , that Bellas life is worthless, not even worth a call by the police to
the staffy owners, but if what the staffy attacks- is a human, then it can be
shot?
Where is the human compassion? What has happened to our
nation? What has happened to policing?
As a parent, do you know what is more heartbreaking in this
story … my daughters psychological aspect. The daughter on the phone to me was
traumatised and heartbroken crying her eyes out , this is a dog she has begged
for for years, she was devastated, most of all angry as she was told, no one
can help her. My other daughter has cuts and burns to her hands through this
attack trying to save Bella, she finds it difficult to write dues to the pain
in her hands and has told me numerous times this evening/night, she cant
concentrate as all she can see is Bella being mauled to death, she is worried
about college and her exams on Monday, she feels she cant do them now. My
daughter on the phone, crying, heartbroken said time and time again, she just
kept screaming she just kept screaming (Bella) and then there was nothing. I am
heartbroken as a parent as I wasn’t there to protect them. I am angry as a
parent and tax paying citizen , that neither was the police OR the dog warden.
If little Bella, who isn’t even one year old yet, pulls
through tonight, how is she ever going to recover mentally? She was just a
little playful dog on her lead, walking with her favourite human girls after a
lovely playful day and then shuck to virtual death. How is she going to
recover?
Who do you get to help you in these situations? Vigilante
groups? Take the law into your own hands? Who? You can’t follow any council or
government pathways to getting anywhere in help to deal with this, so where do
you go? Who do you turn to?
There is certainly a lot wrong with the Politics in policing
if a police officer can’t do a routine disturbance call. If they can’t call out
to two young girls due to the useless dog acts that are in force, couldn’t they
have called out as a disturbance of the peace just to help my daughters? Just to
show a little compassion and empathy to what they had to endure? Do police only
call out to traffic offences or shootings these days?
Not one officer has been to the dog owners address, so I am
sure they will feel their dog has got away scot free, not one officer has
phoned the vets, not one officer has asked for a statement, not one officer has
contacted the witnesses, not one officer turned up to help my daughters. Not
one officer has phoned back since the attack. What do you think this says to
two teenager girls? What do you think this says to the trauma the witnesses had
to also endure? We’re on our own perhaps?
Who is going to listen to this story? How many other un
recorded dog attacks are there? What do we do as ordinary folk, now?
It's now 01.55 in the morning, this is me, still heartbroken over my daughters having to be part of this awful event in their youthful lives, me , still angry at the authorities. How will I get through a full days work tomorrow?
