www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/a-dog-called-liberty-finds-a-human-leg-in-washington-state-owner-bill-flowers-93-buries-it/story-fni0ffnk-1226758780290
Washington state - pit bull mix brings home a human leg. Owner, 93, doesn’t know what to do with it and buries it (the leg, not the dog).
At least it wasn’t fresh.
that’s good dog’s bury meat to let it rot and tenderize. a caring pet owner.
It’s a pity they couldn’t be bothered to list what the rest of the mix was. Once they saw that it was a PIT BULL!!!11! that’s all they needed for their headline.
True, the pit bull father probably turned to his bitch and said, “You know, that comes from your side of the family.”
Actually, the headline just calls it “A dog called Liberty”…then identifies the color and breed in the first paragraph of the story.
As an owner of two pit-bull mixes (Shar-pei and GSD, for the record), I tend to be aware of sensationalism when it comes to reporting of the breed, but I don’t see any here. And as far as “what the rest of the mix was”, it’s quite possible the owner either doesn’t know or didn’t care to state.
What a beautiful girl.
The article doesn’t say, or even imply, anything unflattering about the dog.
Okay, the thread title, then.
Well, at least it didn’t have sex with it.
Is that a leg?
Really, he’s 93 and is worried someone’s going to accuse him of murder? Does that make you think of dementia? If I was his daughter I’d be looking at a home for him.
PS I think the dog is a boxer mix. The ears could have been cropped. That makes him look like a PB.
Looks like a classic pit bull head shape to me.
And yes, the breed or mix is not germane to the story of the human leg…unless the breed was some sort of retriever, heh.
I’ll be the first to say it, though: if the man’s dog is finding body parts in the woods and bringing them home, the dog is off-leash and unfenced, with all the dangers that implies (being hit by cars, tormented by teenagers, chasing someone’s cat, and so on). Not appropriate, and not good breed stewardship if one is looking after a pit bull.
Maybe the dog was trying to bring the person back for treatment, but couldn’t carry a whole person; maybe this is a really resourceful dog. 
From the look of that daughter I’d wonder if two rooms might be in order.
Not that I intentionally pointed out its breed, here’s what the Herald Sun posted on their Facebook page:
Anyone remember Lassie 90 from In Living Color? The most relevant part starts about 1:30, but the whole thing is good for a laugh.
I saw this story, and it really surprised me. I would have thought all dogs would be attuned to living with humans enough to…not treat a leg like a branch or something.
I think most dogs would try to get a human back to where they found the leg/body. Or, at the moment they found, start barking, rather than dragging it home. Or something.
Rescue dogs get sort of battle fatigue in situations where they find dead body after dead body, rather than living humans.
This dog was weird.
Lassie would have.
I’d like to read about that. Have you a cite, by any chance?
Most dogs probably wouldn’t care.
Years ago I recall hearing about a couple who purchased a home in the Santa Cruz mountains that had been built by a missing Drug “Entrepreneur”. One morning their dogs came home with a human head…
One of Mrs. Plant’s (v.2.0) dogs brought me a deer head. “This guy is really sick, you’ve gotta help!”
I’m somewhat surprised a certain someone hasn’t tried to claim that the dog was responsible for severing the leg.
Nope! Looked for one. Can’t find a good one. I remember when the Oklahoma City bombing happened, there was a report that lots of the dogs there were balking at reentering the building after a while, because they were used to finding live people in training, but found mostly dead bodies.
But I can’t find anything like that now, and, even if I could, my googling revealed that search-and-rescue dog recruitment and training has changed a lot since, and because of, the Murrah Building bombing. Now FEMA owns lots of formerly shelter dogs that are entirely fixated on finding hidden things, to the point of being Asperger-type dogs. Also, they get praised when they find their target - dead or alive.
Or maybe I can’t find anything because I’m misremembering!
So never mind.
Dogs in general, though, just don’t seem to be so detached. I would think a typical dog would recognize that a found human leg was important.
Do you have a cite for that?