Pitbulls

You are the tool. If you can't see that Pit Bulls are dangerous dogs then you are just plain stupid. The statistics don't lie. Pits are bad animals and they should be banned.

not a pit bull fan wrote:

Well they still suck. They are mean dogs bred to fight and kill. They kill many children and bite innocent runners for no reason and they should be exterminated or at least confined to one or two red states.

I think you've been watching a little too much t.v. But you're right they should be confined.................. to responsable owners who don't portray their beloved family pets as a typical negative stereotype,("child killing" monsters) that way morons like you don't get the wrong idea. It sounds like you're a real expert in dogs so i'm 100% sure that you'd be able to tell the difference between a pit bull and just any dog that made you wet your pants so you just called them a pit bull right?

Did anyone catch this dog and destroy it? If a pit bull or any dog injured me so that I had to be hospitalized, I would return and kill it. I am human, it is a dog.

Problem is that dogs in general have become placed in some sort of god like category in our society. Owners refuse to take any reponsibility for the fact that they are ignoring leash laws or putting runners on edge when their large non- friendly looking animals run at you in a dead sprint and then(the owners) get bent out of shape when you try and protect yourself. They expect that in that 5 seconds that you have to decide whether or not the dog is friendly you can tell that their 100lb German Shepard just wants to play. I'm sick of it. Bear spray is starting to sound good to me.

steepler wrote:

You would have to be very brave or really stupid to let one of those things that close to a child!

Why do people have these dogs? They're not pets; they're bred to fight.

You should read the above post where i stated the fact about the dog from the little rascals was a Pit Bull. pretty sure he was around childred, ...alot. Do you have any idea what you're talking about?.....bred to fight?..that's like saying Asain people are "bred to fight" because some of them know various forms of martial arts as portrayed in movies and such.

God i have stupid people!!!

I don't watch TV. Just confine all pitbulls to barrios, ghettos, Red states and trailer parks and put a giant fence around them and everything is cool with me. They are the most dangerous dogs out there. Pit bulls are responsible for 1/3 of all humnan dog-related fatalities. That is more than enough evidence for me.

Strossy wrote:

You should read the above post where i stated the fact about the dog from the little rascals was a Pit Bull. pretty sure he was around childred, ...alot. Do you have any idea what you're talking about?.....bred to fight?..that's like saying Asain people are "bred to fight" because some of them know various forms of martial arts as portrayed in movies and such.

God i have stupid people!!!

Interesting. I am guessing with the mishandled inductive and deductive reasoning attempts that you might be someone who had a liberal education perhaps in the 1950s or early 1960s and is now unfortunately succumbing to an early senility. By any chance are you writing from a nursing home?

I get the same sense that you do--dogs (and pets in general, it seems) have definitely elevated in status in the past ten years or so. Witness the inexplicable rise of not one but (at least) two huge box-store franchises for pet care (PetCo and PetSmart, in other areas there might be others). Not only that, there are now psychoactive drugs being given to pets who are "depressed," or, laughably, "obsesive compulsive." Other personal stories:

1) Some time ago a man had committed a vicious crime against his dog. Lawmakers were considering making this specific behavior by owners a punishable offense with its own set of consequences. What was this unthinkable act? Leaving his dog on a leash outside for more than 24 hours.

I'm not old at all, but I can remember a time when dogs were outside more than in, most often on a leash. Now obviously such a great percentage of dogs live inside that it is considered abuse to keep them out. How did this happen?

2) I overhead a young veterinary student on the bus talking about animal abuse. She said that she did not feel as bad for children who were abused as she did for animals who were abused. Her "rationale" was that children could speak for themselves; animals don't.

I was flabbergasted when I heard this. Here, someone was openly admitting that they valued the well being of animals over human beings. Worse, the person she was talking to reacted as if this was normal.

I don't know how to explain this behavior. I suppose one could look to the erosion of the family, etc, but I'm not sure. It's amazing, it really is.

My running buddy, who has been a vet for over 25 years, says if you are attacked by a pit bull and it has latched on, go for the eyes. His reasoning is that the pain inflicted would cause the dog to let go. Then, you run like hell if you are able to.

I don't get it! When I posted what happened with my kids on their run some of you posted I was a troll and making the incident up because it was not on national television.

If I had not run over the dog i'm sure my kids would have suffered the same fate. By the way...the owners dropped the case. The owners of the Pitt bulls actually had complaints filed against them for two similiar incidents. Once my attorney found out this information the owners of the dogs changed their minds about the lawsuit.

I'm sorry for your incident with the dogs and I can truly say...I have compassion for you.

You sound like a troll.

No Pit Bull would take being kicked repeatedly without seriously tearing into you.

Trust me - if a Pit Bull wants a piece of your hide it will take a piece - and it wouldn't be any harder than me opening a can of soda.

according to you (from what you posted) a troll is someone who has experienced something you haven't. All incidents, situations, and responses are not the same.

Strossy wrote:

steepler wrote:

You would have to be very brave or really stupid to let one of those things that close to a child!

Why do people have these dogs? They're not pets; they're bred to fight.

You should read the above post where i stated the fact about the dog from the little rascals was a Pit Bull. pretty sure he was around childred, ...alot. Do you have any idea what you're talking about?.....bred to fight?..that's like saying Asain people are "bred to fight" because some of them know various forms of martial arts as portrayed in movies and such.

God i have stupid people!!!

you sound like a f*cking fool in every one of your posts.

Leaving a dog out on a leash for 24 hours is most certainly animal abuse. The man should have been charged.

Are you being sarcastic? If not, would you mind explaining the thinking behind this statement?

Again, not that I am an old timer, but I recall having a dog as a young boy that was almost always tied up in the yard. This was not an unusual thing at the time.

If anyone is bitten by a pitbull in a residential area, you can sue for a decent sum of money, especially if you are an athlete. I can help get you started if you give me an email at amosbrown@gmail.com. Uh, this won't work in California, Utah, Virginia, and Maine though, because of some pet legislation that has been passed there, making people who are in the residential areas totally liable. Glad to help, I hate those quite literally bitches

I remember in the 50's when blacks had their own schools, and their own bathrooms, separate from whites. This was not an unusual thing at the time.

Times change dude.

Things that seemed normal at the time are now deemed cruel. You now will ask why keeping a dog chained in the back yard is cruel. Tell me, when you were a little boy with your chained dog in the backyard, did you love your dog?

Sure, I loved him. I took him running with me almost every day. He enjoyed this immensely.

I should add that the primary reason why we kept him chained was that we lived around various farms, and he had a habit of finding trouble there. We were ordered by various disciplinary agencies to chain the dog. Our only alternative was to bring him inside, which we tried and he absolutely hated.

He never seemed to be upset by being chained up.

I understand that times change, but we're talking about something that was normal and very commonplace less than a decade ago being incomprehensible now. I think that even racial equity moved slower than that, which is depressing when you begin to think about it.

Pitbulls were NOT bred to be aggressive. They were bred for strength, tenacity, and dominance to be successful as a protector(or attacker back in the old days)

That said, there are some real idiots for dog owners. For them, owning a pitbull is like owning a gun. Only instead of just giving them the gun, we give them all the pieces to put the gun together themselves.

A responsible dog owner knows how to properly raise a pitbull, and it will NOT be dangerous and it is NOT an inherently vicious animal. Unfortunately, responsible dog owners are a dying breed. (pun intended)