This.

nope, they'd be dog food

Thats terrible...These dogs are vicious. They're known for eating their prey while the prey is still alive. Hopefully the little boy didn't suffer much. :(

:D I'm guessing you don't have kids?

What would give you that idea?

That kid was a goner the minute he hit the ground. I'll bet the poor little kid was shredded in about 20 seconds. 11 of those dogs? Good luck with the "Hey, let's go save this kid from 11 African wild dogs! Oh wait... there goes his bowel... Woa! kind of bloody... Are you guys ready? .... Never mind. He's already being defecated out by two of them.

I commend you fools who would go in. I would also commend you for not needing 6 people to be your pall bearers as they carried your (happy meal) sized coffin to your plot.

I see your point. There's no way I could know that.

LMAOLMAO

Painted Dogs are the loving family Pitbulls of Africa.

Really, it is just the owners fault those Painted Dogs are so aggressive.

they just get a bad rap.

And yet Matt Cassel lives.

Well, there were "only" 3 at first, and I doubt they were all hanging out directly below the kid... of course you could find yourself in a completely different situation 5 seconds after you land, but if I only saw a couple in that instant, I probably wouldn't spend a second trying to figure out how many were around.

chuck norris would get his ass kicked by 11 of those "dogs". Regardless of whether or not anyone would try to save their kid, the fact is, the child died by neglect of it's parent and she will now suffer the rest of her worthless life.

Her husband probably said, "Remember to feed the dogs" and she misunderstood.

Husband should sue teh wife.

I bet ol roy is filing for divorce.

I understand. It's Fight Or Flight" and if a parent didn't go in, they'd probably kill themselves from the guilt.

But those dogs are probably from 40-80lbs. The second that of them makes a squeal, the rest of the pack is there to shred the carcass. They feed that way because bigger, nastier animals will snatch their kill. Although they don't have many natural enemies.

It's too bad there weren't some parents there exercising their right to carry concealed weapons.

Why? The kid was dead. Probably before the dogs got to him.

Or do you mean on the mother?

Heres another mom of the year winner:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/young-child...2#.UJgq6MXA-So

And a nanny of the year winner:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/nanny-held-...5#.UJgrJMXA-Sp

Who the **** are you? I mean WTF could possibly be going through your head on this one. Protect the ****ing dog when it's just mauled a 2 year old to death or near death and won't get away from the body? Stupidest post I've ever seen.

Yeah any animals that just ate a kid need to be shot on general principle.

Why? They were doing what wild predators do. They are also endangered.

I don't have a good explanation for you. All I can tell you is if I saw an animal eat a kid and there was a gun to hand that animal just had his last meal.
No way I'm alone on this.

Just awful.

I bet the mother feels absolutely terrible( as she should). Horribly irresponsible.

I wonder how much more incited the dogs got by the hysteria and screaming of the crowd. Not that they would have been gentle and playful. No, just wondering if they were reacting to the energy they may have riled up faster and faster as more people screamed in horror. Any animal behaviorists have an opinion this.

Simply one of the most preventable horrific deaths I have ever heard.

Listen to the above poster...she knows.

African Painted dogs den in her uterus.

I mean, I agree. I would do the same thing.

As for going back and killing the dogs later for revenge or whatever, no. In the moment to try and rescue the child, definitely.

So what happens when you get down to the ground?

Super Hero Dad toss your kid back onto the platform in which they fell from?

Die with your kid.

I would probably actually want to if I was in that exact situation. (putting my child on a fence and letting them fall)
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For some reason I get a scene of Super Hero Dad jumping down and trying to use his super dad human strength to try to toss his back onto the platform in which they fell.

And of course the kid would be 3-4 inches short.

No shit...I see CP machismo is going in full effect here.

Fending off < 20% tippers and African Painted Dogs since 2000.

For those who want to see what a mother ****ing golden retriever does to a human, here you go. NSFW or if you can't handle seeing tissue.



Now look at these ****ing teeth. http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...95466209_n.jpg
http://www.patriciamcconnell.com/the.../awd-teeth.jpg

If you think that you're going to be able to do anything against 11 of these guys, then you deserve what happens.

LMAOLMAO

Why should the dogs die because of following their natural instinct. Not to mention that they are wild animals being held prisoner. They would be slaves if they were human caged up like that. They are also property. Revenue generating property and that Zoo is entitled to damages IMO if they were destroyed.

This. This. This.

Eh? You must be new here.
Kill a wild animal for acting like a wild animal? As it has been discussed, it's very unlikely the child would've survived the fall to begin with.
I do understand where the parents are coming from in this thread - however, nuking the zoo from orbit doesn't fix the mother's reerunation.

+rep.

I think short of being some kind of backwoods- harden-dual knife welding-hunter-badass that you have no chance to survive a pack of 11 dogs. Fight or flight...so who knows how one would really respond

Those dogs would have been backing off looking for cover when I dropped down there, One Primal scream and they scatter.

Fixed

Probably true. But as a father I could not see not going down with my child
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You mean the scream from busting your legs?

So I've been playing Assassins Creed 3. The character actually fights a pack of wolves. It's a confusing situation and that video game is contrived. Its not even real. I couldn't imagine what it would be like. I also would not put my kid on the rail unless that shit was FOOL PROOF. I am talking an achored rope with a harness. But that sounds like work. I could probably get a good idea of what's at the zoo from their website or a google search. Shit...I wouldn't even be at a zoo. Unless you're talking about work. Some days its a zoo. We call those days, weekdays.

As I said earlier in the thread, I'm not a parent, so I'm not going to speculate on what I would do in that situation.

All I'm saying is that against 11, there is no chance at all for survival.
None.

****, 1 man vs a German Shepard without a weapon is a loss for a human usually. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fh8XP7bTyb8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Oh yeah you would probably die too. But who would WANT to live after basically being the major contributing factor in your child's death?
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Someone with more than 1 kid.

Not me. Then again, I'm not a complete ****ing waste to society and wouldn't endanger my child like that.

The mom needs to be thrown into the pit IMO.

Or this I suppose. If I had several children, I probably wouldn't. But really, I have no ****ing clue. :)

Maybe. But then you have to look at your other kids knowing they know what happened
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I could take a couple of African painted dogs if it came down to it.

No joke.

The bottom line for the naysayers, who say that its all a bunch of bluster... if my ex had been stupid enough to do that... I'M GOING IN, the hell with bluster.

Grab the nearest thing you can find, a ladies purse, whatever... and go live or die with your baby child.

Who knows, an animalistic, raging, purse slamming display in front of a bunch of wild dogs, that are also well used to taking atleast some kind of direction from humans... might just save the day.

If not, die with your kid... or live the rest of your life in torment.

Nope. Coroner said dogs caused death today.

A simple SIT UBU, SIT! would have sufficed.

Did they say the extent of the injuries sustained from the fall?

Someone with more than 1 kid probably had enough of a scare with the first one that they wouldn't stand their next kid on a railing without an iron grip on them.

Did I say to kill all 11 dogs? There's a dog next to the kid's mauled body. Do they know for sure if the kids alive or not yet? Kill it if it won't move so you have a chance to save the kid. Also, this is an 11 foot drop, it's a ways for a little kid to drop but to say he died from the fall is a stretch. I guarantee he probably broke an arm or a leg and was probably hurt pretty bad but you do whatever you can do if there is any chance the kid's still alive. Any chance.

Oddly enough there was a reporter down at the bottom that asked the kid how he was doing. His reply was "I've never felt better in my entire life"

I agree. If I saw my child go in, I'm going in as well. Zero question about that. If it's someone else's child, I'm not sure. If I found a large weapon, sure. If not, I don't know.

Autopsies are wonderful things :)

They're knee-high and like 60 pounds with a mouth. They don't have claws like a lion..

I'd be stomping and booting their brains in if a small child were in the mix.

Bwahahaha

I've been trying to explain that all it takes is a set of balls and them dogs would have to be put down.

Bump for the internet bad-ass.

A pack of those can take down big game, I doubt 1 man could do much.

Them dogs are just frontin' on the webz.

1 man gets raped/eaten/****ed by an angry German Shepard and these TUF warriors think that they are taking out a group of 11 animals that routinely chase off/fight hyenas and leopards?

I mean, even BlackBob isn't dumb enough to argue this shit. LMAO

now I feel silly. trololololo

It's a process..... Your choice to be a ...Oh never mind.

Yeah, probably wouldn't kill them, but I feel like I'd have a decent enough chance to fend them off for at least a minute until help arrived.

Animals are a lot like people. If they realize they could get hurt, they'll back off. That's what I'd be hoping for anyway..

Seems to me you'd just need to make sure they didn't get a hold of your neck, otherwise you're ****ed.

ROFL, just spit chew out laughing at this.

I really need to stop chewing whilst visiting this site. :eek:

Oh god, you're serious. http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7ko53zcxv1qmsrb7.gif

Also, Wikipedia says their main meals are impalas and gazelles. Those things aren't fierce at all. It does say they hunt bigger game, like humans and zebra from time to time but their success rate isn't good. It says it takes a seriously coordinated effort in which the biggest male latches onto the nose while one hangs on the tail and the others try to dismember it.

I've seen videos of lions taking an hour to kill a wildebeest (they go for strangulation so it's a bit different, but still). If you could at least hurt a couple of them and make them think twice, you might be able to buy time for the trainers to get there.

Then I won't even mention anything about the right 53.

Yes, sir.

Obviously I don't know shit about how it would actually go down, but I'm sure stranger things have happened.