I hate when I hear people say how dangerous Boas are and how they will eat small childeren etc.. when they are just talking about something they really do not know anything about.



However... those same people usually have dogs as pets, and they are MUCH friendlier right.. dogs dont hurt anyone, Boas do all the hurting. Found this in my local paper today.... when was the last time you seen a boa take down a horse??



Pitt bulls kill family's horse



Wed, Apr 13, 2005





Dogs maul pets as 14-year-old twin girls attempt to intervene





By MELISSA DONLEY



The Brunswick News



A Nahunta family is still in shock after four pit bulls attacked its two horses, killing one and seriously injuring the other.



"They just demolished Gracie," said Mary Hinson of one of the horses.



Hinson is the mother of the two girls who witnessed the attack last Thursday.



The family's two horses, Gracie and Whitey, were in a fenced area with her twin 14-year-old daughters when the dogs got out of their own fenced-in area next door and attacked the animals.



"My children witnessed it," Hinson said. "They went out and tried to get the dogs off. One went after (one of the girls), and she started hitting it with a stick."



Gracie was killed by the dogs. Whitey is currently receiving care from a veterinarian for injuries to the stomach, hind end and legs.



The Hinson Family has had Whitey, 5-years-old, for 21/2 years and Gracie, 16-years-old, for a year.



The Brantley County Sheriff's Department said it has charged the owner of the dogs, 32-year-old Nahunta resident Robert Sizemore Jr., with cruelty to animals in the second degree. Sizemore is Hinson's neighbor.



"They knew it was (Sizemore's) dogs because there was blood everywhere," Hinson said.



Hinson was told that Sizemore destroyed the four dogs, but she said Tuesday that she wants proof.



Her girls, Kathleen Quinn and Tracy Quinn, have not gotten over the incident.



"It traumatized my kids because they saw it and tried to save their horse," Hinson said. "My kids are really going through a lot."
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