Watch This Pit Bull Tickle Her Human Baby Brother. Pure Giggling Joy Follows…

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[Hulka]

It is one thing to get nipped/bit by a Dashchund, Chihuahua and Jack Russel, it is quit another thing to be chewed on/mauled by a pit bull.

Not too many fatalities due to small dogs nipping/snapping.

Too many fatalities due to pit bulls being pit bulls.

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[Monkey Face]

Only because you don’t hear about the SMALL DOG BITES because the dogs are SMALL! They don’t inflict as much damage. I would never leave a baby or small child with a small breed dog. It’s inviting trouble.

And they can be much more vicious than the larger breeds because they are so often interbred for certain traits and have lost the qualities that were admired in the first place.

[Monkey Face]

Thanks, trisham!

[Monkey Face]

(And it’s just ‘Face!)

[trisham]

Sorry! I’ll try to remember in the future. :)

[Finny]

I wouldn't leave any human baby with any breed of dog unless I absolutely had to, and I expect that pioneer women had to rely on dogs to help with passels of human kids -- I remember that our own cow dogs herded us kids and kept us in order when we otherwise might have wandered off and gotten into mischief.

I sure as hell wouldn't leave any human baby with a breed of dog bred for the specific purpose of aggression and toughness.

[Monkey Face]

I have been bitten by small dogs, Daschshunds, collies and Chihuahuas, and I can tell you, the smaller bites were more painful and took longer to heal.

As I said before: a dog, ANY dog, is only as good as its training. If you are afraid of the breed, you have no business being near it because it will sense/smell your fear and that will upset it. When that happens, it gets nervous.

Nervous dogs are dangerous, no matter what their size. Did you ever read “White Fang” by Jack London?

[moovova]

"Babies are friends not food."

[Monkey Face]

...Monkey brain, you are thoroughly feminized with regard to dogs -- you view them in a nurturing woman-like way, as if they were the equivalent of human children...

I consider that a personal attack and unwarranted under the circumstances. Shame on you for allowing personal feelings to enter into a discussion.

[umgud]

My GF had a fleet of Schnauzers, very aggressive to strangers. kinda like a fleet of phirana’s. You are correct that some breeds are more aggresive than others and owners do affect their behavior. My work has had pits and rotties around for years. One of the pits was sweet and friendly, around for years, when it turned on one of the owner’s girls (10y/o) without provocation. The girl, who played with the dog went thru a few years of surgeries to correct the damage. This is a first person account.

I killed that dog with a pipe wrench.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

The three most aggressive breeds of dog, in order of aggressiveness are: Dashchund, Chihuahua and Jack Russel terrier.

Just told my dog he is Number 1!

[Cyclone59]

Thanks Perdog, but there are some folks who just will not accept pit bulls. Thirty or forty years ago, it was Doberman pinschers, and before that, German shepherds...and the list goes on.

The only dog breed that I don’t trust is the Great Dane.

[Monkey Face]

Other people have horror stories of small dog maulings and bites, but I have to consider each as an individual case and consider the circumstances. You did what you had to do. I can’t fault you for that.

[Perdogg]

My grandma had a polmeranian that ascended from the gates of Angband.

[Finny]

ANY dog is only as good as its training.

Pure, unadulterated horse manure. A dog is as good as its natural temperament and breeding -- training is a distant third. My dad had to put-down dog he raised and trained because the dog was a product of bad breeding with a horrible temperament, and the dog ultimately killed too many chickens belonging to neighboring ranches (the dog was too smart to kill his "own" chickens). My dad's other dogs, which he also raised and trained, helped make the difference between profit and loss on two working cattle ranches and lived to ripe old age. They had good temperaments and good breeding, and the SAME TRAINING.

My dad didn't feminize dogs like you do. He treated them with dignity and respect -- he respected their dog-ness. You insult dogs' dignity when you treat them like "adorable" little children and deny their dog-ness.

[vpintheak]

Nope, I grew up around big dogs of all breeds. I was never nervous around pit bulls until a friends of mine had one that snapped. Never mistreated it ever. It was his “friend”. It want bad, like they do too often.

[Monkey Face]

LOL!

I still have scars from the bites of a collie, a Dachshund and a German shepherd. But that doesn't mean they were bad dogs. It just means that they weren't ready for me and they did what dogs do.

[Finny]

My GF had a fleet of Schnauzers, very aggressive to strangers. kinda like a fleet of phirana’s. You are correct that some breeds are more aggresive than others and owners do affect their behavior. My work has had pits and rotties around for years. One of the pits was sweet and friendly, around for years, when it turned on one of the owner’s girls (10y/o) without provocation. The girl, who played with the dog went thru a few years of surgeries to correct the damage. This is a first person account. I killed that dog with a pipe wrench.

You, umgud, are a man by my definition. BUMP.

[Monkey Face]

What do you have against women, Finny? Are you so insecure that you have to act like a rabid dog and attack any woman who disagrees with your particular viewpoint?

When and where did I call dogs “adorable?” You seem to have a habit of putting words in my mouth and that is so uncomely of you. It suggests you are in fear of your manhood. Please forgive me if I don’t bow and scrape to your particular brand of “manliness.”