Lilly Belle Davies-Tight
Ohio Law: Pit Bulls Now Allowed In Senior Residences
Who proposed and passed that law? Once again putting seniors with wheelchairs, walkers and canes at risk of injury. HIGH RISK.
Don’t seniors fall enough already without being startled by out of control dogs? Two occasions, back to back. Now Steve takes a cop stick and mace every time he takes Lilly for a walk which is twice daily. I won’t walk her, because I don’t stand a chance against any pit bull with Lilly on a leash. This is while we’re walking on the property, where we’ve lived for 15 years. Never had this problem.
Pit bulls have to be leashed, under the control of a handler, muzzled, but tenants don’t abide. No demands on vaccinations either, so if someone gets bit they could get sick in addition to injured. Even those who do abide? Once the office leaves for the day all bets are off.
All of a sudden we wake up one day and the building is flooding with pit bulls. One lunged at Steve when the elevator door opened when he tried to get on.
Another, who was unleashed and unmuzzled, went after Lilly Belle, our small dog who was leashed, out back in the garden area. He nipped her, but didn’t draw blood. The owner went postal and started calling Steve an EM-EFFER at the top of his lungs. I could hear it on the 7th floor without the window open. The guy and the dog were out of control. All of a sudden all these people come out, circle the guy with the pit bull, coddling him – it was disgusting to watch, like Lilly was at fault.
He ties his pit bull up in the middle of the community garden, then leaves so nobody can tend to their garden – who would with a pit bull there?
So some lady goes up to Steve and says it looks like a pit bull but it isn’t, like that should make a difference. It’s some other name. The dog ran and lunged on Lilly nipping her hind quarters, while Steve is trying to get between the dog and Lilly.
No one, Senior or not, should have to go through this, and certainly all who know Lilly knows she didn’t start anything.
The guy was still screaming vulgarities at Steve even when the manager came out. Nothing happened. Notice after notice goes out about muzzling “bully” dogs, yet twice in a week Steve gets confronted by out of control owners with out of control dogs.
Who’s next? There’s a bully dog on our floor and the owner walks the dog right by our door, just to take the dog for a walk on our end of the hallway, so if I were to open the door with Lilly on the leash and his dog walks by anything could happen.
Before it was “we aren’t safe in this building being caucasion”, now it’s “Lilly isn’t safe in this building being a dog”.
Even Seniors without wheelchairs, walkers and canes don’t have the walking stability of young people, so they can fall easier, especially when confronted by predator dogs, on long leashes or off the leash. Seniors can be distracted easily and get nervous, so their mobility worsens. Even muzzled dogs could do a lot of damage. These aren’t expert handlers; they’re ghetto handlers, which means their dogs stake out their territory for them, scaring all the tenants.
Reverse that bully dog law now, forbidding them in Senior residences.
So again, who sponsored a bill to allow pit bulls in Senior residences? Like I said, there are pit bulls everywhere. Calling that dog who lunged at Lilly by some other name to excuse the behavior, which was the result, is like comparing a brit to a scot to a mac – they all come from the same swamp.
People are afraid in this building – and rightly so. Just another worry to pile on Seniors with everything else they have to contend with – living at Kirby Manor is a full-time job as it is. Every time I open my apartment door now or the door of an elevator opens I have to be prepared mentally for a bully dog confrontation.
I’m not going to take that risk on Lilly’s behalf. First opportunity and we’re OUT OF HERE. Let the ghetto have the building. National Church Residences made a big mistake to turn SENIOR LIVING over to HUD.
Now again, who thought they were being discriminated against because they wouldn’t allow pit bulls in Senior residences?
CRIMINALS, that’s who. Activists sponsored a bill on the behalf of criminals. Who else would do that? That’s who now occupies what used to be a beautiful senior living facility. Till they showed up and started bossing everyone around, claiming to be black lives matter yelling at everybody “if they tow a black people car they’d better tow a white people car too”. How does one tell the difference? Cars have skins?
I had to guide a caucasian aid out of the building as this ‘matter guy’ went off on her, forcing this aid to listen to his rant by blocking her exit, while she was trying to leave the ground floor to go to her car.
Well, they picked on the wrong family and the wrong dog to mark their territory. It’s WAR.
This better be handled and handled fast. Mayhem waits for no one.
Something horrible is going to happen. Judging by the number of pit bulls and the frequency of violations, and the resistance to compliance, it’s just a matter of whose little dog or person is going to be attacked.
Seniors are living with terror. This all could have been prevented.
We’re moving first chance we get. Lilly isn’t going to be sacrificed for any person claiming rights over her life, for any group, for any reason.
Was this Mike DeWine’s (Republican Party) bill or sanctioned by Mike DeWine?
Change it. One person has a pit bull, lots of people copy that. Even the maintenance guy who lives here, just got one. Where’s it going to end?
What happened to Lilly Belle’s rights? Lilly Belle is our daughter; she’s also a service dog
sldt – ready for press
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Most sane people agree; it’s just too risky, especially when their handlers openly disregard the rules.
Pit Bulls or people who behave like Pit Bulls do not belong in a senior residence.
Do your fighting someplace else. Show some common decency!