another strike...........PIT BULLS
When will people learn the real dangers of owning these dogs..hope this never happens to you or yours..Loko[V][:(!]
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Sure, lots of folks have been "nipped" by chihuahuas and yorkies, but how many of those require a trip to the emerency room, hospitalization and reconstructive surgery? I'd be willing to bet that pile of $$$ that there aren't many gravesites of victims put there by chihuahua or yorkie attacks. [:p] (Note the top entries in each column of the graphic below. You don't even see yorkies on the list.)
Would you tell anyone you got bit by a yorkie?? I sure wouldn't. Same goes for a chihuahua.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Ramtinxxl 
Having been interviewed by animal psychologists and pet psychics, every single one of the poor pit bulls (aka radical, fundamentalist canine Americans) listed above reported their reasons for their savage attacks on humans: being traumatized by kittens!!!
FACTS are facts, Bitbulls are nuts, only nut would have one.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Ramtinxxl
[black]And there are STATISTICS that say otherwise.Due to a multitude of variables, stats from a single county aren't worth quoting.
I don't have the numbers in front of me, but if you Google it you'll find that nationwide the majority of reported dog bites each year are actually by mixed breeds.
It's true that Pit Bulls, Chows, Rottweillers and German Shepherds together are involved in about half of all serious bite incidents, but mixed breed dogs are primarily responsible for the other half of reported cases. No single breed comes close to their likelihood of involvement.
Annual stats show that the leading breed of dogs involved in bite incidents changes due to breed popularity and also varies greatly by location, but the figures for mixed breed bites stays fairly steady across the board.
It lacks the drama, but actually the most likely dog to be involved in a bite incident is an unspayed/unneutered mixed breed dog that's kept on a chain. Probably has a lot to do with how such dogs were raised.0 -
hey, my 5 pound chihuahua can do some serious damage... to a finger 0 -
Everyone should have a pit. More to shoot. 0 -
I also hate these dogs. Its the only thing they are bred to do and you cant get it out of them. They may be fine for years and then one day they snap. There just like coyotes and wild pigs to me. The season is open year around. 0 -
I don't want to kill the dogs. I want to punish the wannabe macho men who think they just have to have the baddest dog on the block. Trouble is, Ramon across the street has one too. So does Tyrone down the block.
How about this? Want to own a pit bull dog? Post a $5,000 surety bond with the state. The bond will be returned when the dog dies and is not replaced with another. Proof of the dog's death would be required. If it just disappears, runs off, get stolen, etc, sorry, no refund and you post another bond to get another dog.
I could live with this, and so could any responsible pit bull owner.0 -
quote:Originally posted by nunn
I don't want to kill the dogs. I want to punish the wannabe macho men who think they just have to have the baddest dog on the block. Trouble is, Ramon across the street has one too. So does Tyrone down the block.
How about this? Want to own a pit bull dog? Post a $5,000 surety bond with the state. The bond will be returned when the dog dies and is not replaced with another. Proof of the dog's death would be required. If it just disappears, runs off, get stolen, etc, sorry, no refund and you post another bond to get another dog.
I could live with this, and so could any responsible pit bull owner.
Txs says the stats I posted aren't worth noting due to "variables." Okay, I reckon he may have a point. Our locale is definitely over-saturated with "Tyrones" who want to be bad-a$$e$ with bad-a$$ dogs...way TOO MANY of them both.
An inmate in a local penal facility was recently overheard to boast of owning FORTY-SEVEN pit bulls--and that he frequently fought them in a nearby jurisdiction. Was he accurate or not? Who knows? But the fact remains--many of his "brothers" are enamored with the vicious beasts and when given the chance, those beasts KILL!0 -
the sky is falling! the sky is falling! 0 -
I do believe it is both nurture and nature. There are a few good dogs in the breed, but i don't think i would necessarily trust that dog alone with my kids. I didn't see my britney on that list of dog biters. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by mbsams
Wake up folks - it's in the genes - it's nature, not just nurture. This bread should be extinct and soon. Just how many attacks does it take? Ever hear of a Lab killing anyone? or a golden retriever? WAKE UP!
What do you have against bread.........? Hitler tried exterminating a breed, I guess retards think alike..........0 -
Also, how many of you idiots who are saying "I have heard of countless pit bulls that just snapped one day" have owned one or seen it happen? If you have'nt seen it with your own two eyes shut up! Its all of this gossiping and scumbags like Vick that are giving the true american breed a bad name. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Raupleminze
Also, how many of you idiots who are saying "I have heard of countless pit bulls that just snapped one day" have owned one or seen it happen? If you have'nt seen it with your own two eyes shut up! Its all of this gossiping and scumbags like Vick that are giving the true american breed a bad name.
I've never seen anyone molest a child or murder their parents. I've never seen WITH MY OWN TWO EYES a muslim blow himself up along with scores of innocents. I've never seen government agents confiscate guns from law-abiding citizens for no just cause. Since I've never seen these atrocities WITH MY OWN EYES, I'm supposed to pretend they never happen, to even bless them and give them my approval? [:0]
What a dim-witted statement or condition for expressing ones opinion.[V]
Yep, them little doggies are perfect angels--they just suffer from gossip and bad press. They need Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to get on board and do a lecture tour on their behalf. Next thing you know, they'll be the lap dogs of society, everyone's darlings. [:p][V][:0]0 -
quote:Originally posted by Raupleminze
Also, how many of you idiots who are saying "I have heard of countless pit bulls that just snapped one day" have owned one or seen it happen? If you have'nt seen it with your own two eyes shut up! Its all of this gossiping and scumbags like Vick that are giving the true american breed a bad name.
I have sat in the ER sewing up kids who had an encounter with a sweet innocent pit bull who "would never hurt anyone or anything". So, as one of those idiots who have never seen it with my own eye, but have seen the end results of the encounter. It might be a true american breed, but it wasn't ment to be a soft and cuddly dog. It was ment for another purpose.0 -
I wasn't there when the child was bitten so I dont know what happened. For all I know we could be talking about a kid that abuses animals and the dog finally snapped. I AM NOT IMPLYING THAT THE CHILD DESERVED IT!
For those with an open mind:
Pit Bull Saves Child From House Fire
A three-year-old pit bull named Marley is credited with saving a little girl in Alaska from a house fire in early December.
By Animal News Center (ANC), 1/10/2004
by Sherry Morse
A three-year-old pit bull named Marley is credited with saving a little girl in Alaska from a house fire in early December.
Marley, a black and white dog who looks like Pete from the Little Rascals television show, grabbed the back of six-year-old Autumn Marley's jacket to drag her out of the burning house.
Autumn alerted her mother who was cooking dinner that the entryway to the house was on fire. Julie Marley then forced open a seldom used back door so she and her two daughters could escape the fire.
As Ms. Marley left the house she turned to see Marley the dog pulling Autumn through the door to safety.
Jennifer Ingram, Marley's guardian, said that, "She's always been an awesome dog, but I didn't know she was capable of doing this." Ingram has raised Marley from a puppy.
Ms. Ingram was out shopping for Christmas presents when the fire broke out and arrived home to find Marley running loose in the midst of all the firefighters and bystanders.
She planned to take Marley to the vet to treat frostbite on her feet from being out in the snow.
Thanks to Autumn and Marley no one was injured in the fire, although the house was a total loss.
The Red Cross set up a place for the Marley family to stay, while Ms. Ingram and Marley the dog are staying with a friend.
2003 Animal News Center, Inc.0 -
The Great Dane was almot exterminated in the 1950's because it was a dog that could turn on the owner and could kill kids real fast. Breeders worked hard to breed the agressive nature out of them. We now have a rather docile dog in the Great Dane.
The Pitt's are another story altogether. They are bred by BAD breeders to use the fearsome weapons thay have (jaws) in an agressive manner. The breed should be exterminated IMHO.0 -
It is going to happen, because it has been happening. Cities are regulating "vicious dogs" and fining owners. Most are not specifying a breed, but rather labeling the dog "vicious" after it bites a human or another animal. Some cities are allowing owners to keep vicious dogs after the owner posts a bond and agrees to keep the dog securely restrained.
I like the idea of posting a bond, myself. Put up or shut up.
And I, too, don't have to actually witness an event to know it occurred, and that given the right circumstances, it can happen again.0 -
The idiots raising them these days are the problem.
As far as I know, none of these kids were ever eaten by their's.
Helen Keller even had one as her companion dog.0 -
here, everyone should get a shark instead:
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/attacks/relariskdog.htm0 -
Some dogs just have that instinct of fight in them. It would be the same as owning a tiger or something similiar as a pet. You can teach it and train it all you want, but in the end it is an animal with a instinct to defend at all defense. You do one thing wrong with that tiger, only one, and you may pay for it. You may not even have to do anything wrong, it may just snap on you someday(that is it's instinct). I personally would never own a pitbull or a few other dogs for that matter, but to each his own I guess.
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