{"id":530,"date":"2005-11-04T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T20:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=530"},"modified":"2005-11-04T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T20:32:09","slug":"another-dog-incident-in-dennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER Dog Incident in Dennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT is wrong with the town of Dennis and their police department?<br \/>\nThis is the THIRD incident in a little over a year in which a person has been attacked by dogs in Dennis.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe first two were in <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/archives\/2004\/10\/public_anger_an.html\" target=\"_blank\">October last year<\/a>, when a 200 pound dog bit one child and attacked another, a 9 year old boy so badly mauled that it was doubtful he would ever regain the full use of his hand.<br \/>\nThis past Monday&#8217;s attack, by two dogs, was on a 64 year old woman, who required six stitches and 33 staples.  The owner sent one of the dogs, a pit bull, out of state for its period of quarantine.<br \/>\nIn contrast, this past summer, a Sandwich dog owner whose South African mastiff had attacked her, then escaped for two weeks to wander around at large, voluntarily had the dog euthanized.<br \/>\nThe story broke in the same week that Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.<br \/>\nIn his weekly column, the editor of the local newspaper had this to say:<br \/>\n<em>Those of us who work on editorial pages in newspapers across the country are always surprised by the reaction of readers to certain stories. There could be a major hurricane that claims the lives of hundreds of people, a war overseas, the closing of a local military base, but if a dog is euthanized by its owners, then it&#8217;s time to become indignant. We received more letters about the demise of Draco, the dog that attacked its owners in Sandwich, than any other subject this week.<\/em><br \/>\nNo doubt, some of these must have come from the good citizens of Dennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT is wrong with the town of Dennis and their police department? This is the THIRD incident in a little over a year in which a person has been attacked by dogs in Dennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}