I love that theory! Golden Retrievers are framing the Pit Bulls and then lying in the meadow, looking all innocent. Meanwhile Pit Bulls are going around trying to tell us "bitch set me up!" Those Golden Retrievers are devious creatures indeed.
Posted on 04/07/2014 8:27:42 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
Two pit bulls broke through a fence in a Nevada community, entered a neighbor's home through a dog door and killed three dogs inside while the residents were away, animal control officers said.
Jennifer, a resident of the home in the Reno suburb of Spanish Springs returned Friday to find Jill, a black lab, Gucci, a shih tzu, and Buddy a Pekingese dead inside inside the house on Reiger Springs Drive.
The dogs were seized and their owner is facing a citation, said Barry Brode, director of Washoe County Animal Services. The pit bulls could be euthanized if a judge orders it.
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Well played!
I love that theory! Golden Retrievers are framing the Pit Bulls and then lying in the meadow, looking all innocent. Meanwhile Pit Bulls are going around trying to tell us "bitch set me up!" Those Golden Retrievers are devious creatures indeed.
As it should be!
They’ve probably bought off the media, too, although they’d never admit it.
;-)
Just a bit late, but still timely enough.
It does happen, but so rare as to be statistically unimportant. Especially since Goldenseal are so much more popular than PBT-types.
Last October we went looking to rescue a dog and looked at our neighboring county animal shelter and ours. About 805 of the dogs were pit bull or pit mix. We found a nice dog that was in the minority of residents at our shelter.
A good friend of mine is the senior Animal Control Officer for our county. He told me most of the dogs he has to take or capture are pits and that most of them are either used for direct fighting or are owned by thugs or thug wannabe types to boost their “cred.” A lot of the hillbilly types around here own them because they are mean.
I would never even think of owning a pit or pit mix for any reason. Fighting and killing are a part of their DNA and no amount of love and tenderness will take that out of them.
No, I blame the owners. When you come down to it, a dog is just a dog. They do kill things, just like every cat I know will kill birds and such - and it is not the cat’s fault, because that is what cats do. Animals are not people, they don’t commit murder.
Part of being a pet owner is making sure your animal is contained, and if it isn’t, it is your fault. If you have a protection breed, akita/german shepherd/pit/rottie etc and you let it run loose because you are a lowlife whatever it does is your fault. And I can tell you for all the talk you hear dished out, until things happen people get by with unbelievable garbage. I mean, this dog is STILL running around. I think the owner got a $150 ticket!
“Some people want lions as pets, but we don’t allow it.”
I couldn’t quickly find the number for lions, but supposedly there are 10,000 to 15,000 tigers kept as pets or in private facilities in the U.S. That’s more than there are in the wild in the world.
http://exoticpets.about.com/cs/bigcats/a/bigcatsaspets.htm
How sad. Doggie doors are not a good thing, imho, unless they are the kind that requires a collar that sends a signal to open, and even then I’m not sure that they are fool-proof. Our neighbors breed mastiffs, and they are constantly getting out and into our yard. We have a chain-link fence, but I’m not sure that it would be strong enough to keep them out if they wanted to get in. It’s my dogs that I worry about.
This story is horrible. However, there is such a thing as a doggie door that only opens to the dog who lives in the house — not allowing other animals in. The owner dog has a chip in his collar that opens the door. Seems like a good investment to me, although I’ve never had a doggie door. Since I’ve always had big Golden Retrievers, any door that would allow him to enter would also allow a thief to enter unless it had that chip.
Can I ask why? I want to get one , are they mean? I plan to have a well trained dog, NONE of our dogs really know what a leash is.
Garbage breed for trashy people. Wonder who owns the most Pitts, meth addicts or gheeto gangbangers?
so many people in this thread who can’t use google.
Or are being disingenuous.
All the Mighty Dog Rambos here...
“pit bull type” dogs are not only strong, but ...have terrier instincts to keep going. They will easily exhaust a GSD or Malinois during play. And being strong it’s like a staple gun vs a 50cal when it comes to matching up with certain dogs or people. That’s why you see the number of deaths from “pit bull type” dogs.
You could easily find just as many people mauled and disfigured by retrievers. Deaths-no. Because they don’t have the terrier instinct, which is the deadly part IMO...
Again...plenty of examples on the web to be found, with pictures of kids and adults with ripped up faces from ALL dog breeds over 40 lbs or so... But since this is FR, no one will bother looking it up, they’ll just got bent out of shape and call anyone who disagrees with them a liar.
Hey, at least those tiger owners seem to keep them off the street and out of their neighbors’ yards!
This is the problem. They will not “let go”, mentally, which leads to the physical.
Pit-bull-dog types are tenacious. They don’t want to give up the fight. They were bred for that (long before terrier was introduced - it was already in the bulldog type; the T just added more surefire tenacity). That’s what the name is for - fighting bulls (the nastiest heavy animals you could find). Mere dog-fighting came later. Normal dogs will let you have it and then let go, unless you step in again for a fight. The dog’s “warning” didn’t work in that case.
It CAN be bred out of the types, but it has to be a concerted effort over generations. Original Bulldogs today and Bull Terriers and Boston Terriers have had it basically bred out of them. But their relatives kept fighting.
For now, PBTs and the same types are genetically inclined for these problems, as surely as they are for the particular head shape.
the only bully dog I think is really mellow almost all the time (ie every single day of every single one of their lives...) is the American Bulldog. Always really laid back - from what I’ve seen.
There seem to be more and more lab attacks, maybe its overbreeding.
Mellow is not the question. “English” Bulldogs are completely unlike their ancestors. Most important issues: not likely to snap, and not likely to hold on. Labradors are so hugely popular right now, they are likely to produce a few unstable nuts. Percentage is what counts.
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