Well done!!

[matty007]

Hounds tore my pet apart

Distraught Catherine Hodgson told a court yesterday how she lay on her terrier in a vain effort to stop a pack of stag hounds ripping it apart.

Mrs Hodgson, 59, said 30 hounds attacked 14-year-old Pippa after surging into her garden while on exercise in a country lane.

She added: "One hound got her by the throat and another got her back. They were shaking her.

Advertisement"I hit them on the head trying to get them to release their grip and shouted 'No! No! No!"

Mrs Hodgson, a magistrate, told Exeter Crown Court she was knocked flying by the hounds.

She added: "I fell to the ground. I thought the only way to stop them was to cover Pippa with my body and that is what I did."

Pippa was so badly injured at East Worlington, Devon, she had to be put down. John Norrish, 62, of the Tiverton Staghounds, denies breaching the Dangerous Dogs Act. The trial continues.

 

[severnmiles]

Isn't it funny how you can have hounds and terriers pre-ban on an earth until the hounds are told up top and nothing like this seems to ever happen...

 

[southgate1975]

Dont know what you're trying to say there....

... but it's interesting to read that a pack of hounds didnt kill a terrier instantly.

 

[k9h]

Well the owner was laid on top of the terrier

 

[southgate1975]

Given the order of events as described in the opening post, I'd assume that protection happened after the lady saw

"One hound got her by the throat and another got her back. They were shaking her."

and after she

"hit them on the head trying to get them to release their grip and shouted 'No! No! No!"

 

[Eagle_day]

Not guilty + £15,000 defence costs:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/6946203.stm

As the judge said:

"The situation here is that the hounds were regularly on that land without objection from the Hodgsons and what happened was something wholly out of character, unforeseen and unpredicted.

"Dogs will be dogs and what happened then was an exceptional event."

 

[southgate1975]

You miss my point. It has to be taken in context of *who* I replied to and *what* we have talked about previously.

 

[soggy]

Any one else there to witness this so claimed frenzied attack?

No? Thought not!

"By the time Tiverton Staghounds hunt staff called the staghounds off, Pippa was badly injured. She was later put to sleep by a vet.

One five-year-old staghound named Bracelet was destroyed on the day and the hunt paid £1,000 compensation, £450 for a replacement terrier and Mrs Hodgson's vet's bill.

Mr Norrish denied a charge under 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act of allowing a dog to injure a person while on land where it was not permitted.

He was awarded defence costs estimated at £15,000."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/6946203.stm

 

[matty007]

Well i think its absolutely disgusting how a bunch of hunters can allow their dogs to enter private land, savage someones pet dog and get away with it!!. The world's gone mad.

 

[matty007]

"Any one else there to witness this so claimed frenzied attack?"

So you think the lady in question did this to her own dog?.

 

[Eagle_day]

"Well i think its absolutely disgusting how a bunch of hunters can allow their dogs to enter private land, savage someones pet dog and get away with it!!. The world's gone mad."

The prosecution under the Dangerous Dogs Act failed because the hounds had always been allowed to enter the private land.

Get away with it? The hunt had already compensated the owners of the terrier.

 

[matty007]

So they bought her a new dog, Thats ok then!!!.

 

[RunToEarth]

I'm sure the huntsman wasn't meaning to hunt a terrier and a little old lady- bt never the less I am inclined to point out that in fact it is...nature?

 

[kirstyhen]

I would of thought things like this happen on a daily basis, dogs attacking cats, smaller dogs, each other, the only reason this is so well publicised is due to the fact the hunt is involved.
I am not saying that its makes it any less upsetting for the owner, but things like this get blown out of proportion by newspapers looking for a good story.
Completely off subject but rosiieposie I was flicking through an old issue of horse (or soething like that) was it your horse featured, sure I reckonised one of the pics in your signature, if so then I want him, he looks fab!!! Looks like youve done a really good job with him too!

 

[RunToEarth]

Ah thanks, yes the article was on my darling coloured- he fractured is tooth last year and had it all removed, but he is 100% happier now, I really do love him to bits

 

[kirstyhen]

He is lovely, although I do have a soft spot for coloureds! Could do with giving mine a few hedge jumping techniques, we got stuck in the middle of one a couple of years ago out with the quorn!!

 

[RunToEarth]

oooh not so nice! I must say I didnt like coloureds too much until I bought Oshk, but they have certainly grown on me. I bought Oshk to hunt, and he came from a very well established hedge and dry stone wall pack as a deranged and mannerless 5yo, so he knows how to tackle them, my problem is his speed, he is a nippy little thing, very pony like and nippy!

 

[kirstyhen]

Luckily my pony has the intelligence to sort himslef out, so just sat still and let him get on with it! Were not nippy but has such a long striding gallop were at the front before i know it heading for some ridiculous sized hedge and ditch!

 

[severnmiles]

Well the owner was laid on top of the terrier

That explains its death.... :-o sorry!

 

[Sidesaddle]

PMSL !!!!!

 

[SueD]

Several months ago in a park in Reading two dogs began fighting furiously. The smaller dog got it's head caught in the collar of the cross bred labrador it was trying to tear the throat out of.
One of the pet owner produced a knife to cut the collar.
Result? 1 dog dying of a slit throat on a sunny afternoon in a park surrounded by kiddies. Other dog severely traumatised & hopefully since destroyed. Laws broken? None.

 

[wurzel]

"So they bought her a new dog, Thats ok then!!!. "

Yes. It is absolutely ok and quite generous really.

Seeing as no offence was committed.

 

[Eagle_day]

Yep ... and paid her vet's bill and gave her £1,000 to boot.

 

[Eagle_day]

"Dont know what you're trying to say there....

... but it's interesting to read that a pack of hounds didnt kill a terrier instantly."

Why? They're staghounds.

 

[kirstyhen]

"Why? They're staghounds"
Thats exactly what I thought!

 

[severnmiles]

"Dont know what you're trying to say there....

... but it's interesting to read that a pack of hounds didnt kill a terrier instantly."

Not interesting in the slightest, they had some stupid clearly incapable woman laying on top of the damn thing...how many foxes have that sort of protection? A serious hindrance I'm sure you'll agree. I'm not being funny but even I can control hounds, they're like horses they can really take the mick out of muppets!

What I'm trying to say is I find it odd that we can have hounds and terriers alongside each other yet never lost a terrier, in fact my ex OH's will put the hounds in their place... Mind you to be fair to her, they were stag hounds...

 

[severnmiles]

"Why? They're staghounds"
Thats exactly what I thought!

You'll probably have to explain the difference to these antis... :smirk: :grin:

 

[kirstyhen]

Thought Id just keep quiet as I dont know enough about the difference to argue with some anti! Just thought Id wait and agree when the point came up!!

 

[southgate1975]

You're telling me that foxhounds wold have ripped the terrier apart straight away ?

 

[kirstyhen]

Dont foxhounds work by snapping the back, thus killing instantly, not by ripping apart.