It was a scene of terror and carnage at Willard Intermediate South School in Missouri on Tuesday afternoon.
18 students and 3 teachers were suddenly attacked by two pit bull mixes that had wandered onto the playground during recess, leaving many injured, some seriously.
Those brave teachers who stepped forward to protect their students from the dogs also ended up being hurt in the process.
It was an incident that no one there will ever forget – a harrowing reminder of how quickly tragedy can strike even when we least expect it.
The incident occurred in an unfenced yard with five and sixth graders outside when the two dogs began to attack them.
The teachers stepped in to protect the students from the dogs, yet they also injured themselves due to their bravery.
Jared Garza, a fifth-grader, told KYTV.
I heard someone scream as they fell to the ground, and their jacket was thrown off by a dog. Another one of my friends came up and kicked the dogs away, and then other people started getting attacked too.”
Out of all the injuries sustained, three teachers and three students suffered from bites or more serious wounds which required medical attention.
Most other students endured minor injuries from running away from the chaos. On-site school nurses provided care until emergency personnel arrived at the scene.
Animal Control officers inspected the two dogs and revealed that one was not vaccinated for rabies. At the same time, its owner could not provide proof of vaccination for the other dog.
Both animals were tested for rabies afterward; luckily, both canines tested negative for it. It was reported that after this information was determined, its owners voluntarily surrendered them to animal control and were euthanized soon after.
Willard Intermediate South had indoor recess on Wednesday (the final day before winter break) to ensure everyone’s safety. It is believed that most students returned to school on Thursday without any signs of distress; however, it is unclear if administrators have taken further precautions regarding playground safety following this event.
It was an extremely unfortunate situation for all those involved. Hopefully, lessons can be learned from this gruesome incident, so similar ones do not occur again in future years.
The brave teachers who put themselves at risk by protecting their students should be honored for their courage; meanwhile, our citizens must ensure that all pets are adequately vaccinated, preventing these occurrences in future scenarios.
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There is no living ‘Rabies test’. The head is sent to the state lab.
This breed of dog needs to be completely eliminated are they are good for is killing and that’s it I have personally seen this kind of dog turn on it’s owners a number of times I will no longer visit unless I am armed and I have told them that if there dog comes after me I will kill it.
And before that it was Rottweilers that needed to be banned. And before that it was Dobermans. And before that, it was IRISH SETTERS. Why? Because movies popularized the breeds and people that should not own so much as a tiny Pomeranian bought them for all the wrong reasons.
Worse, a certain culture in America loves their pits, and improperly teaches them to be aggressive. In a normal family household, a pit becomes a passive companion. BTW, the wrong people owning horses can result in deadly equines. People are the problem, not animals.
56% of all dog attacks are by pit bulls. Passive my a**!
That is due to the stats. TWENTY PERCENT of all dogs in the USA are Pitts or Pitt crosses. Unfortunately, the average owner is brain dead and they let the pet run them. We should require some basic owner training before they are allowed to have any dog.
I believed that BS too once until I adopted a Staffordshire Terrier against my better judgement. Ive rescued and owned many dogs, German Sheps, dobermans, included. That pit almost killed my other dog on 3 different occasions before I put her down, and she was raised lovingly, among the other pets, never beaten or taught to be aggressive, just bred with a high prey drive to attack something. The damn dog simply could not help herself, it was impulsive. You cannot even snap them out of it. My wife had to beat the damn thing off with a belt and was lucky to not be attacked too.
I suspect the belt was used from day one due to an innate, irrational, fear. You just don’t know how to train dogs. That is a common defect among those that “adopt”. This isn’t a kid. It is an animal.
A good guy with a gun could have stopped this in a hurry.
ALL pit bulls should be euthanized at owners’ expense.
Those demon-dogs from Hell should be banned from ownership and exterminated. When will this insanity be brought to an end? How many people need to be mauled and murdered by these dangerous animals before the stupid sheeple demand they finally be banned??? It’s mind boggling how stupid people are.
The last sentence seems to imply it was lack of vaccination that caused this. It is the nature of the breed that caused this! I know people that own pit bulls, and they haven’t experienced any problems. But the breed is unpredictable on its best day. And no other breed to my knowledge has this high of instances of attacking people.
The breed is entirely predictable. Look to the owners abortive attempts to agitate and train pits to be aggressive. Aggression is not their natural condition.
The breed was bred to be ferocious, to attack a BULL for Petes sake, grab hold of the snout and not let go for as long as possible while humans laid wagers on which dog could stay on the longest, like a dog rodeo. When that was outlawed the owners having no there outlet for their mean dogs, turned the sport into dog on dog combat instead. 400 years of breeding and selection cannot be trained out. A retriever retrieves, a pointer points, a herd dog herds, a fighting dog fights. PERIOD.
I thought guns were the problem today in America?
Does the owner have a history of keeping dangerous animals that get loose? That too needs to be considered.
Emulating their owners…
gawd what bad writing. who cares if the reporter thinks something is lucky or a teacher is brave? what a pretentious ass.
especially, after saying nothing several times, s/he says it’s ‘unclear,’ which is what bad reporters do nowadays to duck their responsibility.