America's Lil Gripper

Idiot Dog vs Wooden Dog

A Wooden Dog Attacked By A Ferocious Bulldog



Wooden dog loses an ear and his tail.



Ugly AND dumb.



The Idiot Dog and his quarry.



The San Francisco Call, August 14, 1910

Crazed Pit nutters

Cellar Full of Bulldogs

Barricaded behind crates and garbage on her roof, Mrs Emily Miller today defied capture by the police for several hours. The police had been summoned by terror stricken neighbors after Mrs Miller, a widow, had fired a number of shots from a six shooter.

When the first shots were heard, every window in the neighborhood went up, every door opened and a score of excited people ran into the street to ascertain the cause of fusillade. The lady on the roof in the meantime had refilled her revolver and another rattle of shots sent the inquisitive scurrying indoors as fast as they emerged.

The shooting brought Patrolman Matheson to the scene. He approached the house and yelled to the woman to descend. Mrs Miller, whose gunnery practice was taken as evidence of insanity, replied to the summons with a volley which caused Matheson to flee precipitously.

The policeman then tried strategy. He eluded the watchful Mrs Miller and leaped hastily over the back yard fence. Then he leaped out more hastily with several ferocious bulldogs belonging to Mrs Miller, fighting for places of honor at his coat tails.

Undaunted, Matheson drew his club, reversed his revolver, scaled the fence and after strenuous battle, killed three of the dogs and sent the others howling. The patrolman opened the door and the second division of Miller bulldogs sprang at him. One was brained by the policeman's club and the others fled. Anticipating a strenuous battle when he reached the roof where Mrs Miller was bombarding the air and bringing in the police from outlying districts, Matheson cautiously advanced.

When he stepped out on the roof he was greeted by Mrs Miller with a pleasant smile. "How do you do officer. It was so good of you to take so much trouble to come here," said the woman with the revolver. "Certainly I will accompany you, but really this notoriety is most disagreeable. I wish you would call a cab."

Matheson called a municipal "taxi" and Mrs Miller is now in the detention hospital, while Matheson is preparing a requisition for a new uniform to replace the one destroyed in the performance of duty.

Daily Capital Journal, Salem, OR, May, 25, 1910




Edgefield Advertiser, Edgefield, SC, November 6, 1912

Early equine grippers

Dirt napping chain buster.

Arizona Silver Belt, July 9, 1896


BULLDOGS ARE DANGEROUS

A vicious bulldog is a dangerous animal. here is an account of a dog attack on a horse, taken from a San Francisco paper:

Charlie a large bulldog sprang at the nose of a horse attached to a Renown bakery wagon standing at Eddy street, near Market, yesterday morning and, fastening his teeth in the nostrils of the terrified animal, slung for several minutes. Superintendent A J Kopf and Special Officer C F Kidder of the Pacific Humane society finally succeeded in making the dog release the hold. Dr Edward Creely of 1818 Market street attended the horse, and said that it will probably have to be shot.

George O'Leary of 20th street and Potrero avenue, a dog trainer, held the animal in a leash at the time, and was arrested for cruelty to animals. The dog was also locked up in the cellar of the City Prison, and was subsequently sent to the pound.

According to the police Joe Pine of 22nd and Hampshire streets, is the owner of the dog and the animal is said to be on of the most vicious fighters on the coast.

The driver of the bakery wagon, whose name was not ascertained by the police, was so startled when the horse reared that he fell back and smashed a score of pies. A big crowd gathered while the dog swung from the horse's neck. The horse kicked with it's forefeet and neighed, a bartender cam out with a siphon bottle and squirted nearly a quart of seltzer down the dog's throat, another man held a lighted cigar to the animal's mouth. Nothing would induce the brute to let go his murderous hold until Kopf and Kidder hammered him with their clubs.

The Ogden city administration acted wisely when it passed an ordinance requiring bulldogs to be muzzled. The animals are instinctively a fighting machine and the most vicious of dogs and will set upon man or beast and persist in their mad fury until weakened or killed by clubbing. Running at large without muzzles, they are more dangerous than hungry wolves on a prairie.

Charging pit bull owners with animal cruelty when they attack other animals? What a novel idea!

The Evening Standard (Ogden Utah) August 4, 1911




JUSTICE HORSE!

The Washington Times, September 14, 1908


STICK TO YOUR AIM, THE MONGREL'S HOLD WILL SLIP
BUT ONLY CROW BARS LOOSE THE BULLDOG'S GRIP.



Singleton and others did all they could to keep the maddened dog from the horse and Mr Dickson knocked him down and out with a club, bu the dog came back again and again, until the excited horse in struggles to defend itself kicked the brute a thumping lick in the side and the dog was finally gotten away.

Daily Public Ledger, March 31, 1910

More maulings

The dogs are registered and among the finest of their kind in the country.

Deseret Evening News, June 21, 1910




One of those viscous collie attacks that the media ignores.

The Washington Times, May 1, 1911




The animal defied all efforts to drive him off and had his teeth sunk into the arm of the elder Ahert when he was killed with an axe. It was necessary to pry open his jaws from the arm of the victim, who had become unconscious.

New York Tribune June 29, 1909

Hanging clothes on a line provokes america's dog to attack

Mrs Lena Caswell was attacked by a stray bulldog on the roof of her apartment building as she hung her clothes on the line to dry. Neighbors came to her aid and when police arrived, the bulldog was still in a frenzy. It was shot and killed. No one knows where it came from or how it got onto the roof. ;-)

* Add hanging clothes to the list of pit triggers.


The Rice Belt Journal, April 15, 1910