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15-year-old recovering from 100 puncture wounds after pit bull puppies attack
Khou ^ | July 10

Posted on 07/10/2013 10:15:58 PM PDT by Arthurio

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To: Greysard

You asked.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/10/01/pit-bulls-used-as-service-dogs-for-wounded-veterans/


21 posted on 07/10/2013 11:45:53 PM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: Undecided 2012

Good job tending your dogs but you seriously need help with picking names.

:D


22 posted on 07/10/2013 11:47:19 PM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: Mastador1

“Dogs were bred to serve man”

It’s a cookbook, you know.

:)


23 posted on 07/10/2013 11:48:05 PM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: Arthurio
The two pit bulls are now in quarantine at Harris County Animal Control.

Send them to Washington, D.C. President You Didn't Build That can have his cooks turn them into soup.

If YDBT happens to be in a mood for more refined delicacies, maybe someone could drop off the puppies at Planned Parenthood. I assume murdering babies is much more emotionally rewarding than killing puppies, but perhaps some "choice" lover is anxious for something to slaughter while waiting for her baby to cross the 20-week mark.

24 posted on 07/10/2013 11:49:37 PM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: Salamander
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/10/01/pit-bulls-used-as-service-dogs-for-wounded-veterans/

Thanks for the information! So far all I see is that it's just one person doing what she thinks is right. Let's give them a few years and see if these, better trained dogs buck the trend.

25 posted on 07/10/2013 11:54:29 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: Salamander

yea but she got her name 9 yrs ago. Sadly I have a 5 yr old grandaughter who hasn’t yet learned that’s a bad work.
I’m not sure how I’ll explain that one away. I guess like always, I’ll speak the truth and tell her how she got the name and explain that people don’t say that word in public.


26 posted on 07/10/2013 11:56:56 PM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: Undecided 2012

Start calling the dog “Smitty”.

The dog won’t notice and your little girl won’t yell out her real name in public, some day.

;D


27 posted on 07/10/2013 11:58:32 PM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: Salamander
FYI, the *only* breed ‘created to attack people’ are Dobermanns.

All these years my understanding was that Dobies had been bred to be obedient to their master's commands. That did not necessarily include attacking people (although it might).

I have had three sitting shoulder to shoulder, all doing the "innocent look" with a word. Great breed.

28 posted on 07/10/2013 11:58:57 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Greysard

That’s just one of *many*.

Didn’t know you wanted them all listed.

They’re big in search and rescue, service/support dogs, bomb/drug dogs, the cops are using them now and many are helping -truly- rehabilitate convicts.

Pits from the pound are given to the prisoners and they become totally responsible for the dog’s training and care.

The recidivism rate for the guys who are in the program is remarkably low.

Love them or hate them, there’s no way around the fact that “pits” are incredibly smart and easily trainable dogs.

[too bad the moron owners don’t take more advantage of that]


29 posted on 07/11/2013 12:03:31 AM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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And the biggest trouble makers I have had to deal with are small dogs that start fights, not the Pit Bulls.

Little dog syndrome?

30 posted on 07/11/2013 12:06:44 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I don't always vote, but when I do, I SURE AS HELL DON'T VOTE DEMOCRAT!)
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To: Salamander

Sal, u right, I read that too.
Pits really can be good dogs.


31 posted on 07/11/2013 12:14:37 AM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: Smokin' Joe

They’re were cobbled together by a tax collector who had a lot of enemies.

One of the reasons that the police have stopped using them is that they are too independent.

Yes, they are very obedient..but not blindly so like other breeds.

You cannot tell one to run through a wall of fire just because you say so.

They “think” and if they think their owner is asking for something stupid or lethal, they won’t do it.

In a personal protection dog, independent thought is invaluable.

Suppose I think somebody is a good person but the dog knows otherwise?

What good is the dog if it only obeys my commands when I’m incapable of judging the true intentions of somebody ‘bad’?

I have had this exact scenario occur several times with my dogs.

The last was with Odin in WV and a dapper old man who, later, proved to be creepy and sinister.

I apologized for Odin’s ‘bad behavior’ at first but 5 minutes later, I understood why the dog was wanting to eat the old creep.

In 1980, I was sitting on the hood of my car eating fast food in a McD’s parking lot with my friend when a guy in a car pulled up.

All he said was “Hello, ladies” and my Dobe who was leashed to bumper lunged right into the guy’s window, snapping his pricey chrome martingale collar into pieces and going Cujo on him.

Totally freaked me out because the dog was highly trained and ‘bullet proof’.

The guy took off like a bat out of hell with the dog stull chasing him.

The next day, were talking to a local cop and found out that a guy matching his description was cruising the area, snatching girls out of parking lots and raping them.

I certainly didn’t know that about him...but the dog did.

They are the best breed, ever.

:)


32 posted on 07/11/2013 12:16:03 AM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: Undecided 2012

Every dog can be a really good dog...if they have a really good owner.

Most of the time, they can still be pretty good dogs in spite of having stupid owners.

:)


33 posted on 07/11/2013 12:17:48 AM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Oh, yeah.

My 20 pound Portuguese Podengo Medio is the boss of the house.

The 100 pound Dobe dances to her tune.

Normally he sleeps on my sofa and she on the other sofa but when she hops into “his spot”, he stands under my laptop cart with his head on my knee, pitifully moaning his misery to me in the hope that I’ll tell her to vacate.

He doesn’t dare try to inhabit “his space” when she’s occupying it.

:D


34 posted on 07/11/2013 12:20:59 AM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: Salamander

I wish other owners would keep and control their own dogs. I live in the country and many just let their dogs roam around plus out where I live seems to be a good place to drop their dog off rather than at the pound.


35 posted on 07/11/2013 12:26:19 AM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: Salamander

Sal, that was funny.
Is the little one older and was the dobie a pup around the little one.


36 posted on 07/11/2013 12:28:54 AM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: Undecided 2012

I live in the boonies too and rarely see dogs roaming.

People are respectful here.

[that, and we have laws that let people shoot any dogs harassing livestock...it makes you very “polite”]


37 posted on 07/11/2013 12:33:37 AM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: Undecided 2012
Funny you should ask that...Odin and his "mom"...:)


38 posted on 07/11/2013 12:34:55 AM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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To: Undecided 2012

I, also, think as a multiple dog owner my whole life, you pic up ques.

For example, if you just fed your dog some delicious mush, would you be stupid enough to get down on all fours and try to get a bite. I don’t think so

That very well could have been what happened.


39 posted on 07/11/2013 12:36:31 AM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: Undecided 2012

His origins...:)

http://dobermann-pinschers.com/odin-comes-home.php


40 posted on 07/11/2013 12:36:52 AM PDT by Salamander (.......Uber Alice!.......)
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