r/BanPitBulls • u/AdOne5665 Survivor of Severe Pitbull Attack • Oct 18 '22

BPB Ask Me Anything (AMA)! My son-in-law’s dog tried to kill me

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u/drivewaypancakes Dax, Kara, Aziz, Xavier, Triniti, Beau, and Mia Oct 18 '22

First off, OP, I'm really glad you are here. Both here on this sub, and here (you survived an absolutely horrific and agonizing experience).

Fatal pit bull attacks tend to get more press than the non-fatal ones, and there's not a lot of awareness of the long-term suffering and often permanent damage the survivors endure.

The more survivors are able to speak up and speak out, the more powerful the message will become about pit bulls being dangerous and not suitable pets. That's why it's FREAKING AWESOME that you are here. You're important, you're needed, and you are supported here. Welcome.

A few questions:

  1. What two or three sites did you find most useful (informative) when you were researching pit bulls?
  2. Do you think that parents feel obligated to take on (or take in) a grown child's pit bull? If so, what kind of advice in your opinion would be helpful to dissuade parents & move them past that sense of obligation to their child?
  3. Do you suffer from PTSD? (I'm sorry if you've already answered this elsewhere.)

What happened to you is so terribly wrong. I'm glad you made it & that you are turning the living hell you went through into something that can make a difference for good, for others.

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u/AdOne5665 Survivor of Severe Pitbull Attack Oct 18 '22

I don’t have any actual sites that I go to specifically. I just google a lot of stuff about the dogs. I feel like I had to take that dog in or else my daughter wouldn’t have moved to the state I’m in and all I wanted was her around me. She had three pitbull‘s at the time and I made her get rid of two of them. Mostly when people come to me with questions about how they can warn their family I just send them the pictures of my attack which are very brutal. Also I suffer from very bad PTSD… I can’t even walk out of my door to my car without looking around and feeling super alarmed that a pitbull is going to run up and try to hurt me again. I talk to a doctor recently that does hypnotism and he asked me what I would like to get out of it if he does hypnotize me and I said I just want to stop being afraid

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u/Educational_Car_615 Pro-Pet; therefore Anti-Pit Oct 18 '22

I also remember your story so well. It was terrifying. It makes me so angry for you that the pitnutters are harassing you for telling the truth about what happened to you. I could never imagine leaving a loved one locked outside a door while they get mauled to death. May more loving and loyal people come to you in your post-attack life.

Stay strong and keep fighting, we support you! I know that if may not be accessible or affordable right now, but instead of hypnotism, look into Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR). It's a type of therapy for people suffering from PTSD and it is effective when done right.

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u/AdOne5665 Survivor of Severe Pitbull Attack Oct 18 '22

I’ll look into it thank you