February 24, 2019

"Nancy Cherryl Burgess-Dismuke had been wrestling with her dogs outside a mobile home in South Carolina when... two of the dogs, both boxer-mixes, became 'aggressive'...."

"Neighbors helped pull her away from the dogs and call paramedics, who applied tourniquets to her wounds and rushed her to a nearby hospital.... Amber Greer, who called 911, told the Greenville News that, 'It went from looking like they were really playing to them really eating her alive.'... Authorities are investigating the death; the autopsy results, including the cause and manner of death, are still pending."

WaPo reports.

The second-most-up-voted comment is: "We have six working dogs on our ranch. It's a bad idea to get dogs worked up and aggressive, especially when they're in a pack (2 or more dogs working together). As smart and fun and amazing as they can be, dogs are animals with powerful instincts that can be greatly magnified by pack behavior."

Meanwhile: "Video of Ocasio-Cortez being lovingly attacked by a dog goes viral after #NationalLoveYourPetDay" (The Hill).



Lovingly attacked... just remember that phrase as you emulate AOC.

50 comments:

rhhardin said...

St. Bernards carry brandy for drunken orgies after they devour fallen skiiers.

tim maguire said...

Anybody who’s seen dogs play knows that fights can break out at any time. Still, I’ve never feared wading in to dog fights where I know the dogs to break them up. It’s scary that she couldn’t break them out of it before they really hurt her.

mezzrow said...

Dogs are dogs. Sometimes, so are men.

Beware. Be wise.

Bob Boyd said...

The pup was trying to mentor AOC

MayBee said...

She's starting to remind me of the blond guy who ran against Kevin Spacey in House of Cards. Everything for the camera.

stevew said...

Current most liked comment: "The bleeding hearts will disagree but the dogs should be killed.
If the dogs will attack their owner then the dogs will attack other people."

Dogs, and dog people, they're everywhere.

Howard said...

AOC reminds me of Miley Cyrus

exhelodrvr1 said...

A burgess-burger

mockturtle said...

The stock photo shows a purebred boxer, not the actual dog which looks like part pit bull.

gspencer said...

The Pack Instinct works in dogs just like it works in mobs.

Ya know, like the lunacy of the Democrat Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds

As an example, The 1634 Tulip Mania.

iowan2 said...

dogs are animals with powerful instincts that can be greatly magnified by pack behavior

Dogs are domesticated, but still just one small trigger from reverting, for a short time, to wild pack animal.

Disney is FANTASY. Parents really need to rear their children with some simple truths of life.

iowan2 said...

She's starting to remind me of the blond guy who ran against Kevin Spacey in House of Cards. Everything for the camera.

you mean Swallwell?

NotWhoIUsedtoBe said...

From the Greenville news, linked from WaPo:

Neighbors described what happened as being like a scene from a horror film.

Whiteside grabbed a blunt ax while roommate William Long grabbed a drive shaft beside a vehicle. They both began beating the dogs to free Burgess-Dismuke.

"When they finally got the dogs off of her, and finally got them to go, she threw her body over the fence," Greer said. "She didn’t jump; she threw her body like you never seen before. They were eating her."

Whiteside said he expected Burgess-Dismuke to survive and was shocked to hear that she had died. He wished he could have done more, he said.

"She was already so far gone. One arm was already bit completely off, the other arm was barely hanging on by a piece of meat," Whiteside said. "It was the longest 10 minutes of my life."

Once on scene, deputies applied tourniquets to Burgess-Dismuke's arm in an attempt to stop the bleeding, Flood said. She was taken by ambulance to Greenville Memorial Hospital, where she died about 10 p.m. Thursday.

The Sheriff's Office described the dogs as boxer mixes. Greenville County Animal Control took control of the two boxers, owned by Burgess-Dismuke, and took them away from the scene, Dill said.

The dogs were scheduled to be euthanized Friday, Bob Mihalic, spokesman for Greenville County, said.

MayBee said...

iowan2 said...
She's starting to remind me of the blond guy who ran against Kevin Spacey in House of Cards. Everything for the camera.

you mean Swallwell?


This is probably a joke that is too deep for me, but I mean Conway.

MayBee said...

As for the dog attack, this would be horrible to experience and I feel so sorry for everyone involved.

Tommy Duncan said...

AOC loves the spotlight too much. Spotlight you much.

William said...
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William said...

A truly ghastly death. It's not just the attack, but the being eaten. And by her own dogs. Betrayals don't get more primal and savage. Et tu Fido. Sometimes you win the Darwinian Award, and sometimes you are the Darwinian Award........Still, it's a better death than that news announcer who stuffed crystal meth rocks up his ass and suffered fatal consequences. So many ways to die on this green earth.

John Borell said...

Find me this type of story with pure bred golden retrievers.

Pit bulls are not proper pets. Not are boxers.

Yea, I said it. Cause it’s true.

Bruce Hayden said...

The instance of dogs running in packs that sticks in my mind happened in Breckenridge (CO) in the mid 1970s. A bunch of people moved there for the outdoor scene. Kinda the outdoor hippie era. They all seemed to want dogs, so got them. Mostly big dogs, like Huskies, Retrievers, German Shepherds, etc. since they could run free all day in the great outdoors while their owners were at work. Except that dogs do like dogs do, got together as is their want, in packs, and those packs started terrorizing the country side. It was considered funny when they started taking the lap dogs of some of the tourists. But then they went after some kids, a line was drawn, the county passed a leash law, and a couple scofflaws faced summary execution. I knew some of the dogs involved, and they couldn’t have been nicer, when met at home, visiting their masters. But, as they said, get enough dogs together, and the pack mentality takes over.

Genetically, they are almost indistinguishable from the wolves we see now in NW MT, having been recently reintroduced, and causing significant heartburn with the ranchers there. Because of the overlap in range with brown bear, that are also returning, sales were hot last summer for 10 mm handguns, like the G20. When I am out of town, the active magazine is loaded with alternating hard cast bear rounds and hollow point for wolves, with the spare magazine being loaded with just hollow point, because, with bears, you will probably never have a chance to reload. Wolves, one on one, are somewhat dangerous. But you don’t meet them, one on one in the wilds. You meet them in a pack, so far, they are leery enough of humans that we haven’t seen very many attacks on us. As their population numbers increase, that is likely to change. Domestic dogs, their close cousins aren’t leery of humans, because they live with us. We keep them mostly safe by mostly separating them from other dogs, at least at night, and bringing them into our own packs, where their position in the packs keeps them subordinate.

Bob Boyd said...

My pits get to split a golden retriever once a week if they're winning for me.

Fernandinande said...

We had a Malamute that would get worked up, and later we heard that her grandpappy had gotten worked up playing with his owner and put two guys in the hospital.

The retard neighbors are funny -

"They were trying to kill Miss Nancy," Greer said. "They wanted Miss Nancy to die. I don’t know what their beef was with that lady, but they were trying to kill Miss Nancy."

Fernandinande said...

The husband of the Mayor of Gender of Golden, CO, was killed by his boxer dog when he tried to stop it from attacking his poodle.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne aka Doug Emhoff's Pimp Hand said...

Bob Boyd said...

The pup was trying to mentor AOC

I'm thinking there was another M-word involved...

tcrosse said...

My neighbor, and elegant lady in her eighties, goes for long walks with her foofy little dog. Because there may be coyotes about, she packs heat, although it is illegal to discharge a firearm within city limits. She had been a lifer in the Army, so she probably knows how to shoot.

Phil 314 said...

We have a Shih Tsu. Lap dog, indoor dog. When we take her out to poop or pee (in an iron fence enclosure) we have to watch out for coyotes who see her as a big, juicy, hairy rabbit. Yum!

As for the dog pack, sounds like a mob.

Ralph L said...

The best thing about FailArmy is the dog running up to help when someone falls to the ground.

Retail Lawyer said...

This trend to pretend dogs bred to be fighting dogs are just normal dogs that look tough is just not working out.

JAORE said...

AOC loves the spotlight too much. Spotlight you much.

So are spotlights allowed under the Green New Deal?

Big Mike said...

Someone check that poor animal to see whether he picked up a disease from his contact with the Congresswoman!

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

doesnt the Press schedule "snuggle ambushes" often with AOC?

Darrell said...

AOC's sex life should be private.

rcocean said...

If you're going to have a "pack of dogs" get 6 Golden Retriviers or Yorkies.

rcocean said...

Dogs are like Liberals they are complete conformists and always follow the pack leader. Just make sure the pack leader is your friend and you'll be OK.

StephenFearby said...

If AOC enjoys doing it with a (what looks like at least part) pitbull, she'd probably also enjoy it with dolphins...

Hapless tourist gets humped by frisky dolphin
February 8, 2019

A tourist in Varadero, Cuba, learned that swimming with dolphins comes with some surprising risks. She says security had to come over and remove the dolphin after it jumped on top of her and started getting frisky.

https://nypost.com/video/hapless-tourist-gets-humped-by-frisky-dolphin/

Unknown said...

First he licks his balls, then cleans his asshole, then right in AOCs mouth

https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/health/why-dogs-eat-poop/

There’s a scientific name for this habit—coprophagia (kop-ruh-fey-jee-uh)—and also both behavioral and physiologic reasons why some dogs view dung as a delicacy.

Fernandinande said...

I was trying to find an incident from several years ago wherein a little kid was killed by a litter of Golden Retriever puppies about 10 weeks old....instead:

"The baby was in a swing when Lucky, a golden retriever-Labrador mix, bit the child several times and tore off his legs, authorities[sic] said."

"During that time, ... a 9- to-12-week-old Lab puppy that was left loose in the house ate the 2-month-old victim," the document states.

mockturtle said...


A tourist in Varadero, Cuba, learned that swimming with dolphins comes with some surprising risks. She says security had to come over and remove the dolphin after it jumped on top of her and started getting frisky.


Looked to me like she was asking for it. Probably for the photo opportunity.

Wince said...

Lovingly attacked... just remember that phrase as you emulate AOC.

She ain't seen nuthin' until the DNC establishment attacks.

Yancey Ward said...

That dog is clearly a Russian Troll.

Yancey Ward said...

There are breeds of dogs that were initially bred a thousand or more years ago for their fighting abilities and instincts, including humans as targets. In today's world, I would never own such a dog- I think it is foolish to do so.

Yancey Ward said...

And you never leave small children with dogs- never.

mockturtle said...

There are breeds of dogs that were initially bred a thousand or more years ago for their fighting abilities and instincts, including humans as targets. In today's world, I would never own such a dog- I think it is foolish to do so.

Yes. Pit bulls were bred in Britain to fight another dog until one of them dies. Genetically, they are unpredictable and dangerous. It's not the dogs' fault but there should be a moratorium on breeding them. And pit bull 'mixes', as these dogs were, are equally dangerous.

Freeman Hunt said...

My husband was out walking recently when two pitbulls approached from down the street and split up to surround him. He jumped into the bed of a tall, parked pick-up truck and called animal control.

I am not a fan of this type of dog.

mockturtle said...

Freeman reports: My husband was out walking recently when two pitbulls approached from down the street and split up to surround him. He jumped into the bed of a tall, parked pick-up truck and called animal control.

I am not a fan of this type of dog.


You probably read about the UPS driver who had to climb on top of his truck to avoid the pit bulls. I personally know of toddlers mangled by the family dogs: Pit bulls or pit mixes. There have recently been several instances of adults killed by their own pit bulls, too, not just this one.

Sydney said...

The first face transplant was a woman whose dog ate her face when she was lying on the floor passed out. I don’t trust any dog.

mockturtle said...

A postal worker attacked by pit bull [video on FOX News]:
Pit Bull attack on Detroit Postal Worker

Oddly no one apparently had a gun.

mockturtle said...

Sorry the link doesn't work. But you can see the video on FOX News web site.

Narayanan said...

I recall Columbo episode with Dobermans.

Unknown said...

http://www.nbc12.com/story/21752552/chesterfield-woman-hospitalized-after-golden-retriever-attack/

There you go, John Borrell.