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you cant be cereal.

if you are though I know a football player I could introduce you to.

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I agree, these are not animals to be housed they are not domesticated enough. What's next having lions, tigers, and bears has pets.

How many times do we need to read about this? Euthanization of all Pit Bulls is the only answer. Why isn't this a priority on a local level?

Jersey City woman, 70, in 'life-threatening but stable' condition after being mauled by pit bulls

By Sarah Rahman
The Jersey Journal
December 04, 2009


The front of the house at 15 W. 34th St. in Bayonne, right, is where a Jersey City woman, 70, was mauled by pit bulls. She was pinned against a pickup truck by the dogs.

A 70-year-old woman was critically injured this morning when she was mauled by two pit bulls that had gotten loose from their Bayonne backyard, police said.

Maria Zaldana, of Jersey City, was attacked at 9:11 a.m. outside the dogs' 15 W. 34th St. home, Bayonne Police Lt. Robert Deczynski said.

Part of Zaldana's scalp was torn off, he said, and she also suffered numerous puncture wounds and had skin torn off from her right knee and calf and the left side of her face.

Zaldana was just steps from the floral shop she's worked at for 25 years when she was attacked.

According to Deczynski, the dogs are owned by Jessica Manno, who was in Florida, and were being cared for by Manno's sister, Kristy Manno.

Kristy Manno told police she had let the dogs out into the yard and went back into the house to fill their water bowls when she heard screams from the front of the home. She ran out the back door and saw that the two chain link gates were open, police said.

She ran to the front and saw the male pit bull had pinned Zaldana against a Ford pickup truck, police said. The female was standing next to him and barking.

Kristy Manno grabbed the male and brought him into the house, and the female followed, police said.

When cops arrived, an ambulance crew was already working on Zaldana, who was lying in the street, her head covered in blood.

The dogs were taken to the Associated Humane Society in Newark.

Zaldana was brought to the Jersey City Medical Center in "life-threatening but stable" condition, police said, and was to be transferred to the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark.

At Say It With Flowers, at the corner of 34th Street and Broadway, staffers praised Zaldana as a hard worker and noted she is a slight woman, thin and perhaps 5 feet tall.

"She would do anything for you," manager Samuel Barnes, who has worked with Zaldana for seven years. "She's very into her church and family as a good grandma should be."

She is a flower trimmer but also the "anything we need to do person," he said.

"It's unfortunate that it had to happen to her," 20-year-old Daniella Bilak, who has worked at the shop for seven months, said. "Something like this doesn't deserve to happen to someone like her."

Jessica Manno was given two summonses for having unleashed dogs, police said.