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Nearly two years after a shooting ended his NFL career, Steve Foley has turned himself into police in Texas on charges of attack by a dog.
The charge is a felony and carries a punishment of two to 10 years in prison. Foley’s two pit bulls are accused of attacking his neighbor who was heading back to her house after another block resident shouted to her that the dogs were loose. Twana Schulz suffered bites to the face and arms and a puppy she was carrying was killed by Foley’s dogs. The two pit bulls were destroyed by authorities following the incident.
It’s not the first time Foley’s gotten caught up with the law. The shooting that ended his career came as a result of one of the messiest, wrongheaded all around situations we can remember. An off-duty cop, out of jurisdiction in an unmarked car, followed an extremely drunk Foley until he pulled over. When Foley finally stopped, his companion drove the car at the policeman while Foley made his way toward him on foot and got shot three times. Just a big bowl of wrong and it appears that Foley’s found his way into another one.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
How tried to fight a cop while his friend tried to kill him? Let’s not focus on the past, that’s behind us. I’m sure he’s “changed” and learned his lesson(s). If we can forgive Jerramy Stevens past, we can forgive anybody.
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June 4th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
“The two pit bulls were destroyed by authorities following the incident.”
Wow, that sounds reeeeally brutal.
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June 4th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Combine inbred dogs with someone of the like, you have this . . .
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June 4th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Oh, by-the-way: How did you forget that he was also a former Bengal. You must be slippin’ or just getting soft.
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June 4th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Pits are instinctively evil. I had one and he was a sweet boy. Then my stupid stepmom came over and she was muenstrating (And no Brick from Ron Burgandy, it was not part BEAR) and the pit wanted to kill everyone in the house. He was one. I took him to the pound. I am sure he wound up getting one behind the ear.
The truth is every time this happens the owners say their dog has never acted like that. I like the laws making the owners responsible for the dogs actions. The owners feel it is their right to own the loaded gun of a dog. SO they should be responsible when it goes off. Enjoy Jail Foley. How do you like those dogs now? Biatch.
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June 4th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
What a sack of crap Foley is. Can we petition to put him to sleep?
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June 4th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
What a sack of sh_t. We should sign a petition to get to put Foley to sleep.
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June 4th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
This just in….Steve Foley contacted by Bucs…film at 11
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June 5th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Just another reason to get a Boxer. They look similar and the worst thing they’ll do is lick you to death. You could break into my house and all my dog will do is wag his tail and show you where all the stuff is.
Pretty tough to blame a dog that was originally bread to keep bulls about 30 times their size from running away for being aggressive…
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June 5th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Pit Bulls should be banned as pets. They serve no domestic purpose except to hurt innocent neighbors and mangle young kids. Foley is an **sweed for letting them loose and should pay the price.
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June 5th, 2008 at 10:09 am
There is absolutely nothing wrong with Pit Bulls. Like all other breeds, they are generally only as good as their owner. Treat them good and they’ll usually be good dogs. Treat them like crap and they’ll usually be bad dogs. The problem is that most people that get Pit Bulls are idiots that do it to look macho and don’t really give a damn about the dog. Banning Pit Bulls is terrible idea because it punishes thousands of good owners & good dogs for the actions of a few bad ones. A better move is passing laws that punish the idiots that don’t know how to be responsible dog owners regardless of what breed their dog is.
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June 5th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
You would think these guys would learn their lesson after all the trouble Vick got himself into with the dogs. Perhaps the authorities should have euthanized Foley along with the dogs, since he is probably less likely to be rehabilitated than they were.
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June 5th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
I agree with DarthJay regarding boxers. I have two and they’re just big loveable slobber/fart machines to everybody. I’ve seen toy poodles you wouldn’t want to cross. Poodles and dalmations can be mean as hell.
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June 5th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I’m with notkrisroe’s statement. There’s one more animal that should have been put down.
Like boxers, American Bulldogs are great pets too. You get the looks and the strength, but no killer instincts, and no chopped ears and tails.
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June 5th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
You guys are completly wrong about pit bulls.
To understand why this happens you have to understand that dogs, all dogs, were bred for a purpose. Pit bulls were bred to fight other dogs. Puppies who showed ANY human aggression were killed. Puppies who would not fight were killed. Breeders needed a dog that would fight to the death, and was built to withstand pain as well as dish it out. They mixed terriers (fiesty dogs, with no quit in them), with bulldogs (very muscular, strong dogs). After years and years of breeding for GAME pit bulls, they got what we see today. The American Pit Bull Terrier.
Human aggression and animal aggression are two different things. People have trouble distinguishing between the two. Pit bulls were bred with animal aggression in them. It’s the poorly bred, unstable pit bull (that would have been killed) that ultimatley bites humans. Dogs can be made unstable through bad breeding or neglegt and abuse. Pit bulls are extremely popular dogs. Unfortunatley a big slice of the population that loves these dogs, doesn’t have the moral or ethical standard of breeding sound dogs. Inbreeding and overbreeding are rampant. You shouldn’t breed a dog unless it fits the breed standard, in looks and temperment. What you have is people waaaaay overbreeding these dogs.
A sound pit bull is loyal to it’s family, and shows no human aggression. You can socialize the animal agression out of many pits, especially ones that aren’t game bred. All those dogs Michael Vick killed, were killed cause they wouldn’t fight, or they lost a fight. Not all pit bulls will even have the gameness that is desired by these idiots.
Game bred dogs have the gameness of the breed exaggerated through the breeding of game bred dogs with game bred dogs. (basically you get ultimate fighters, no quit in them, they will fight to the death with other dogs).
There is no need for gamebred dogs. As dogfighting is a vile and sick hobby. But to say that pit bulls should be banned as pets is totally ignorant and unfair to the breed. They are the most abused breed in America. Overbreeding, Inbreeding, neglect, and abuse cause so many unstable dogs that it’s giving the breed a bad rap.
Pit bulls are actually really versitile dogs. To the poster that said “they serve no domestic purpose” is totally off base. Farmers use them as catch dogs, they can herd and are very good working dogs.
They aren’t the best at any one aspect of what working dogs do, but they are very versitile in that they can do many things very well.
As to the “he was so nice his whole life and snapped”, that was an unsound and poorly bred dog. Many other breeds suffer the same fate. But an unsound beagle is gonna do less damage than an unsound pit bull. The answer is to never buy your dog from a backyard breeder. Buy only from reputible breeders who aren’t just pumpin dogs out for the little money they make on 13 pups. As to rotts, pits, german sheperds, dobermans, etc., I believe you should have a licence to own one and if a problem occurs involving your dog, there should be stiff penalties. Power breeds aren’t for the person that just wants a dog, they are for someone who will treat raising them like a hobby.
Pitbulls pass temperment tests a higher rates than labs. Good old farm dog labs. But labs aren’t treated and negleted like pit bulls.
The media creates more and more ignorance on the subject. If you look at statistics that paint pits in a bad light, notice they always say, Pit Bull type dogs. Thats because when a person is bitten by an american bulldog, a cane corso, a lab, or any pit bull LOOKING dog, the headline will always assume pit bull. First it was the german shepard, then the doberman pincher, then the rottweiller, now the pit bull. The media has had a craze with all of these breeds at one point or another. Instead of banning breeds of dogs, we should attack the source of the problem, backyard breeders, and people who abuse their pets.
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June 5th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
there are other dogs out there that can do serious damage, but most dogs are defensive in nature, and dont rocket into kill mode.
pit bulls are offensive in nature and i have only been involved with one other dog ever that could come anywhere near to the hair-trigger attitude pit bulls have.
why would players have them? makes em feel tough (er)? they have questionable dealings to protect from prying eyes? dogfighting?
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June 6th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Nugent said Foley kept two adult pit bulls and some puppies as pets. He said the pit bulls were “show dogs and pets, not fighting dogs” and had no previous history of attacks.
“It’s a tragic accident,” Nugent said. “Mr. Foley feels very sorry that it happened. He had no prior problems with the dogs.”
THis is what every Pit Bull Owner says after it is too late. It is funny how you don’t see labs, retrievers, boxers, …. killing people. Just blind DA’s. You will never learn the lesson until it happens to you. Hopefully, you would be held accountable too.
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