What happened to Gavin?
My boyfriend Greg had a pitbull named Bexar for 6 in a half years. He raised him from a pup and Bexar was a VERY well behaved dog and listened to everything Greg would tell him. He and I got together over 2 years ago, moved in with eachother and Bexar came too. I instantly fell in love with Bexar. He was my "sweet boy". Would give u kisses for hours, even smiled at us everytime we walked in the door. I got pregnant in April 2011 and gave birth to our son Feb. 2012. Everyone in my family was very concerned about Bexar. We INSISTED that he would never hurt anyone, ever! (a person that is. Cats and other animals were a different story). Our son’s name is Trenton. Bexar was GREAT with Trenton. (as we just knew he would be). Trenton just started crawling in September 2012. We would let him crawl over to Bexar, pat him on the head, play with his ears, let Bexar give him kisses, ect. Bexar would even sleep in front of his crib. He had been around kids his whole life. Family, nieces and nephews, friends kids of all ages. Saturday November 10th, 2012 my mom came to my house to hang out and visit and brought my little cousin. (he is 5). Gavin has stayed with us MANY times and always loved to play with Bexar. Gavin was there all day playing with everyone, including Bexar. A few more people came over (probably about 10 total). Everyone was in the backyard socializing and Greg and I were inside trying to put Trenton to sleep. The backdoor was open and we hear everyone start SCREAMING. LOUD. Bexar lunged at Gavin, right infront of everyone and he had him by the face. There was about 8 people around, in arms reach. This fact is very crucial, bc I have talked to MANY people about this and a lot of the times they say that they would never leave their children “alone” with the dog. Gavin was far from being alone when this attack happened. It took 4 grown men to try and get Bexar off of him and they still couldn’t do it. Greg ran out there and pried Bexars mouth off of Gavins face and we are very blessed and grateful that Gavin is still with us today.
Gavin was rushed to the hospital, where he was transported to Texas Children’s due to his injuries being very serious. He has had MULITPLE surgeries on his face and jaw and will need more throughout the years. Bexar barely missed his temple, barely missed his eyeball, and barely missed the main artery in his neck. Greg and I took Bexar and had him put down that night.
We felt very strongly that Bexar would NEVER do this. EVER. We had been through MANY arguments about "it's all how you raise them" ect. I know a lot of you do feel like it is how you raise them and my goal is only to educate you a little bit more about the Breed in hopes that such a tragedy does not happen to one of your loved ones like it did us. I would not wish the pain that our family has gone through on my worst enemy, and most importantly the pain and suffering that it has put on our sweet Gavin.
I'm so sorry about Gavin. I also learned the hard way. My neighbor and friend had a pitbull named Buddy. He lived with her and her two children who were 6yrs and 8yrs old at the time. I would watch her little grandbaby crawl all over him and he would just lay there. Then one day my friend had to take her son to the hospital cause he suffers from seizures. I brought buddy to my house so I could take care of him while she was gone. Buddy was with me where ever I went in the house.On the 2cd day We were in my room when I got up to go check on my 5yr old son and his friends. When buddy and I walked into the livingroom my son and his friends were all kneeling at the coffie table playing with legos. His back was to buddy and I when out of nowhere buddy jumped on my son and started attacking his head. I grabbed him by the collar and pulled as hard as I could. After about a minute of choking him he release and I fell backward. The buddy attacked again. So I grabbed his collar again and I choked him into letting go again. My son ran and locked himself into my bathroom. Once I secured buddy I ran and had to convince my son to open the door. When the door opened I saw my son with the whole right side of his face and white pollo shirt soaked in blood. I also saw that a 2inX3inch chunk of skin down to the muscle was gone between his eye and ear. He also had deep laceration on his Scalp. He is fine but had to have surgery to close his wounds. A higher power must have helped me that day because buddy was strong. But it goes to show you a mothers strength when her child is in trouble. Thank you for sharing gavins pitbull survival story. Please continue to share it because if we can save even one child, animal or person then something good can come out of something so tradgic.
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