Posted on 01/02/2015 6:05:59 PM PST by george76
Last weekend in Saanich, B.C., a 16-day old baby was mauled by her family’s pit bull-Rottweiler mix on the same day as an elderly man was attacked by two pit bull dogs outside a Langley, B.C. dollar store
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there are about three million pit bull type dogs in North America today, representing 6% of all breeds. But about 26 people die from pit bull type dogs in the U.S. every year (out of about 40 from all 400 breeds combined). Pit bull type dogs maul, maim, disfigure or dismember hundreds more. By no coincidence, when pit bulls were few in number — 200,00 before 1970, most clustered in marginal districts — dogbite-related fatalities in the general population were freakishly rare. In my youth, when middle-class neighbourhood dogs ran loose, and average families didn’t own fighting dogs, years went by without a single fatality.
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Pit bulls are now the second most popular breed of dog in America (Labs happily still rule). Criminals favour them
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pit bull type dogs are six times more likely to kill humans than all other breeds combined
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If Obama had a dog he didn’t eat.
Would make more sense if there was an actual technicial definition of what is and is not a pit bull.
Nuke the gay pit bulls!
Wouldn’t matter.
I don’t understand the love of the breed or the Russian roulette thinking of their owners.
| If I learned one thing worth remembering from my Jebbie education, it is to define terms at the outset of a debate. I note that some of the dogs in question are Rottweiler / Labrador and other mixes. Do we have any reliable numbers on the number of incidents caused by American Staffordshire Terriers? |
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Unless you’ve been around a lot of them you probably wouldn’t.
This is just one of those things on which people will never agree.
Pit bulls are trained to attack. They’d probably be nice family pets if left alone.
Chet? Is that you?
From what I can tell there are a number of breeds, a bunch of crosses and probably a few mutts all classified as pit bulls.
I concur. I’ve even let my sister board her pit bull at my house when she and my bro-in-law went on vacations. With the understanding that if their dog tried to bite me, I would shoot it in the head with my .357 magnum revolver. The same goes for someone’s chihuahua. Or my own Akita.
It is very likely that most people who condemn the breed have not.
This is just one of those things on which people will never agree.
Just as with guns, some people hear only the bad news surrounding them and therefore believe all guns are bad. And both groups would be wring.
One of my old friends had a Staff. She seemed to be a wonderful pet. She attacked him one day, and he almost died. They’re not stable. Their breeding shows up at awful times. Ditch the breed!
Canada?
They’ve got wolves, polar bears and mooses to worry about.
Terriers, eh? If they turn on you, just shoot ‘em.
I have known people who owned pits that were perfect family pets. I have known people who owned pits that were trained attack dogs. It wasn't the dogs' fault, it was the owner. But you wouldn't want to be near either.
Pit bulls are usually the only dogs available at the local shelters in my area—because only pit bull owners are irresponsible.
Sadly that leads to more families adopting them than would if they had more options.
I’m sorry, you have misinterpreted what I meant. My daughter has fostered a number of pits/pit mixes (rescues) while working with a rescue group. Some of which have stayed/visited at our house. I like them as a whole.
The subject is just not as black and white as people think it is.
That is what I meant when I said there will never be any general agreement on the subject. I have no axe to grind, nor am I particularly interested in changing anyone’s opinion. Simply stating my personal experience.
I will categorically state that there have been a lot of dog owners I have seen over the years that I would like to beat the crap out of.
| I would not have a pit bull, nor most other large dogs. Years ago, on an early morning run through the suburbs of Richmond, VA, I was attacked by a pair of black labs who had gotten out of their enclosure. It was interesting to see how they co-operated - one would distract while the other circled around and attacked. I ended up with a full-sized lab hanging from my upper arm and my flesh cut to the bone. My yelling woke the owner of the dogs. He came out and got the dogs in. He was really embarrassed that they got out - he was a good guy - drove me to the hospital, where I received treatment. Do I have an animus toward Labs? No - but I recognize that dogs are pack hunters. In the area around the headwaters of the Chesapeake - Cecil County, Maryland and upper Delaware there is a pack of feral dogs - not Pit Bulls, not Pasa Canarios, or any other breed - just feral dogs doing what they have done since the dawn of time. |
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“Pit bulls are now the second most popular breed of dog in America (Labs happily still rule). Criminals favour them “
Oh but pit bulls are so sweet. if they attack it is only because they haven’t been trained properly (sarcasm)
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