Pit bull backyard breeding Illinois-style: Making Man Eaters in Ledyland

Connie and Scott Ijams were delivering phonebooks to homes in Bloomington IL last October when a pit bull pushed through a screen door and severely mauled Connie Ijams and bit Scott when he tried to save her.

The pit bull, Bo, tore up both Connie's arms requiring many hours of surgery, a 10 day hospital stay, $73,000 and four months later she still has no feeling in her arms except for annoying itching that can't be scratched.  Connie and Scott are having a benefit to help pay for her $73,000 and climbing hospital bills.

Here is a video of the idiot owner, SHANIE DOSS, crying about how horrible it was that people were yelling at her while her pit bull engaged in a protracted mauling of a woman.  Despite SHANIE DOSS' whining and crying, she is being charged with a class 4 felony and various ordinance violations.

Would it surprise anyone to know that SHANIE DOSS is a backyard breeder, previously allowed her pit bull to escape, get hit by a car and break both its legs, and has a previous felony conviction?

And her husband, well, he pled not guilty by reason of insanity to running a red light, causing an accident and leaving the scene, I kid you not.  Yeah, he was found guilty.  He also owes the City of Bloomington $725 for ordinance violations.

You can find all the details at this link.  You will have to enter the names SHANIE DOSS and MICHAEL COSTIN.

After watching that video and photos, you'd think Bloomington Illinois was some kind of crappy hillbilly haven.  But, it's not just a refuge for abominable redneck buffonery.  Bloomington Illinois has been a college town for 160 years as the home of Illinois Wesleyan University an exclusive little liberal arts college established in 1850 that can be found on many "best colleges" lists.

The city is lousy with historic mansions turned into B&Bs, museums, and upscale apartments.  Bloomington is host to one of the most respected Shakespearean festivals in North America. And they have at least one church that bills itself as progressive, open and affirming.

Bloomington's median income ($58,662) is above the national median and above the illinois' median and has lower poverty rates than the nation and Illinois.  The second largest employer for Bloomington residents is Illinois State University located in both Bloomington and its twin city, Normal.

The largest employer is State Farm Insurance, the current insurance darling of pit nutters.  After Farmers Insurance announced it will no longer be providing coverage for pit bulls and rottweilers in California, many nutters in other states proclaimed they will be switching to State Farm because they haven't banned dangerous breeds yet.  Well, look out State Farm, gird your loins, look what's coming to you right outside you corporate headquarters.

SHANIE DOSS' breeding practices illustrate beautifully how man eaters are bred.  Bo, the pit bull who viciously attacked Connie Ijams had already been bred twice to the another pit bull in SHAINE DOSS's house before his DNA kicked in.  Bo sired some or all of the eight puppies their female had in October 2010.  They evidently had two male pit bulls that they  allowedto have at their female.  The other pit bull got the RIP facebook tribute.  Who knows why.  They  sold all the puppies from the second litter of seven by June 2011.  So currently running around Bloomington Illinois are as many 15 two and three year old pit bulls who may have inherited papa's proclivity for random shows of extreme man eating aggression.

Some of them may wind up on the upscale, progressive, enlightened, open-minded, inclusive side of town where rescue angels buy home owners insurance.  I'd stay away from any black and white or brown and white marked pit bulls in the Bloomington area for next few years.  There's about 15 of them that are ready to express their genetic heritage.  Is this pit bull featured on the Bloomington farmer's market and Artists' Alley facebook page one of SHANIE DOSS' man eaters?

And what is with Bloomington and her sister city Normal?  They are home rule cities in Illinois, so they can enact breed specific legislation despite the statewide ban on BSL.  People have been calling for regulation for years as attacks have become progressively more horrific in Bloomington.  Are they waiting for someone to die, because that is looking like an increasingly sure bet.  Bloomington should look to Pawtucket, RI for some answers.  Pawtucket is very happy with their ban which has been effective and practicable for the less wealthy but similar sized city.

fairy tales from the pit

okay, little game doggies. i promised, if you were good little grippers, i would tell you the story of your great great great great great great great great great great great great grandmaw spook, so gather round.

once upon a time, in a swampy backwards hillbilly state west of the red clay, there lived a mean man by the name of FLOYD. he had lots of dogs and chickens. now he liked his dogs (and chickens) mean and skinny and inbred and living on heavy chains. for fun, he liked to throw 'em in a box and make 'em fight. the bloodier the better. FLOYD thought this was a good time but most everybody in town just thought it was sick. and it was. but he learned it from his daddy and his daddy learned it from his daddy.... anyway, cuz he always needed a fresh supply of meaner and tougher dogs, he was always breeding 'em. the meanest and the toughest to the meanest and toughest. FLOYD had a favorite dog that he liked to breed maybe a little too much named blind billy. blind billy was five of spook's great grandpaws. and little spook would grow up to become famous for producing one of the best pit fighters and man biters cherished far beyond floyd's yard. but first, spook had to survive the whelping box and survive she did. spook was born into a super mean, super tough litter that pretty much killed each other. just spook and a brother survived, beene's rebel. rebel didn't amount to much but spook made up for it. spook often wished she would have died instead of her siblings cuz she was tied up and bred to her father, her son and her half brother. but such is the life of pit dog. we're all related, some more than others. you get used to it. anyway back to spook. she produced a few puppies but one of them really stood out. his name was BULLYSON, and he was a crazy son-of-a-gun, he liked to sink his teeth into humans now and again too. can't say that i blame him. but the psychopaths would tolerate his aggression, like so many other pit fighters because we connect with them on a deep level. why, i remember this one time BULLYSON was acting up in the car and poor old RAYMOND HOLT had to fondle his testicles to control him! yep, BULLYSON was a legend. BULLYSON produced a few pups. some great fighters and some man biters. one of his daughters would become famous in her own right. her name was HONEYBUNCH. she was also a fighter and a man biter and she was my great great great great great great grandmaw. HONEYBUNCH was bred to an unrelated dog by the name of finley's bo. and they produced a talented pup by the name of JEEP. GR CH GAMBLER'S VIRGIL was produced three generations down from JEEP. VIRGIL was to become one of the all time great fighters and man biters. VIRGIL was also quite the ladies man, with 336 registered puppies! meanwhile BULLYSON was having some fun in his retirement too. that was the only real payoff for male pit fighters. BULLYSON was the great great great grandpaw of TORNADO, she was a man biter and the only double grand champion with 10 wins in 10 fights, 3 of them she killed, she even tried to attack one of those dead bitches! BULLYSON produced a daughter (x2W) and that 2xW in turn produced a daughter who gave birth to maybe the greatest pit fighter of all time, CHINAMAN! and he sired FRISCO. FRISCO didn't have the fighting reputation of his father or his relatives BULLYSON and VIRGIL, but mixed with another famous fighting man biter INDIAN BOLIO, FRISCO would hold the title of producing more great fighting pitdogs than any other in the history of pit fighting. FRISCO made a lot of money for TOM GARNER. a few more generations of inbreeding and voila! my "extremely human aggressive" parents (my mother was also my half sister) were born and eventually they produced me, another human aggressive pit but them yankee spinsters say that ain't fashionable no more, so we need to keep that to ourselves. then i was hooked up with your daddy and what do you know, his great....great grandmaw was spook too!

here's me and your daddy on our first and only date.



so there you have it little grippers, your proud pit bull family tree. if y'all were anymore inbred, you'd be sandwiches. now try to not kill one another before you're weaned and get a chance to prove yourselves. we have a fighting/man-biting, uh-er, i mean a man biters were culled legacy to preserve!



the DNA of lil bit's sire includes bullyson and bolio. i traced the pedigree of lil bit's dam (who was also the daughter of lil bit's daddy) back to bullyson, bolio and yellow john.
the dog that was bred to lil bit is webb's cannon and i found the same 3 man-biters in his pedigree: yellow john, bolio and bullyson.

* note that even though lil bit was bred and produced a litter of puppies, her offspring are not listed on her pedigree.


canine-chat has a fascinating 12 page public flogging of game-dog marty for breeding his unstable, tricky, unpredictable, human aggressive gripping dog lil bit.


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