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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Some people want macho dogs or dogs that look tough. Its a valid human desire.
But some people breed dogs to engage in illegal dog-fighting and that’s a recipe for disaster.
I have a big dog that looks like a wolf but my dog is strictly a family dog.
I’m against pit bulls.
Enough already with the murder and mayhem, there are plenty of other less lethal dogs to be adopted instead.
I do not give one good crap....no one tells me how or if I can protect me and mine. More to the point....I do not care if St Peter owned the dog...Said dog is dead !
Did you read what I wrote?
The dogs are not at fault so much as people who don’t take care to discipline their dogs and keep them at their side.
Bad dog owners give good dog owners a bad name through their actions.
And I’m sorry when an animal takes a human life. We need to hold dog owners accountable for their animals.
Not to worry, the Alaska Wolves of the world will be here to defend the cop for shooting a shih tzu, so it all balances out.
Of course it’s the breed. Those dogs that are bred for that sort of thing do that sort of thing. And a chihuahua, or various other breeds, couldn’t have inflicted that harm if it wanted to.
If these were my dogs, I would shoot the two Pit Bulls dead, then the owners.
Enough already with the murder and mayhem, there are plenty of other less lethal dogs to be adopted instead.
It also would not hurt to make the owners fully accountable for what they do. That alone would reduce the number, thought there will still be they young “it could never happen to me” folks that bring ‘em up mean. In a free country, you have to allow people to make stupid decisions. And when those decisions affect other people, they need to be held accountable.
Now, if half the pit bulls out there were doing this sort of thing, I’d take a different perspective. But this kind of thing really is pretty rare.
Something like this happened to me, but I don’t blame the pit - I blamed the owner. If you want a picture of an irresponsible owner this one nailed it.
It was a giant - way up to the end of size range -pit, unneutered (seriously - it had giant testicles that were the first thing you noticed ) wandering around loose. Then they sent their kid out to bring it home, which consisted of a little child chasing the dog around for hours screaming at it as it wandered on people’s porches and yards almost a mile from home. The people insisted they were moving and it was a rare chance it got out.
Several months after that dog killed my animal, I was in a vet and a woman was complaining that a pit had been wandering into her yard all the time and she was worried about her little dogs. Yep, you guessed it -same dog.
This one was not the dog’s fault, IMHO. If I were the law, I would have come down on those folks so hard they would seriously regret it. I made the woman aware of the police report. I’m going to follow up.
Most people who get a large powerful dog of any breed from an animal shelter is living blind.
You can count on the fingers of your hand the number, out of the thousands of shelters in this country, who have the time, the expertise and the resources to train the animal killing instinct out of the worse breeds.
I know this from many years of first hand volunteer shelter experience.
And is that really a valid human desire?
I volunteer at our local animal shelter and it constantly rains pit bulls. So many of them are sweet and good natured dogs and deserve a good home. that being said, they are overbred and sold for drugs and dog fighting. Because it is prevalent in the “gangster” culture and fear of offending the breeders nothing is done. People like me have to see many of the good ones EU’d when they could make someone a wonderful pet.
RIP to these sweet dogs. Nothing can bring them back and the owner of the pits should be held responsible and these dogs should be EU’d .
Not every one trains a pit bull for fighting. Or a Cane Corso or Dogo Argentino.
If you’ve seen “Pit Bulls & Parolees” on ANIMAL PLANET, you’d understand why they are not like the dogs reported on in the news media.
ANYTHING with teeth can bit. Man or tiger-choose. Pit bull or Yorkie...choose. That’s like saying people kill each other with their hands, and we all have hands, so we are equally dangerous.
Imagine Charles Manson with children and Mother Theresa with children- which children would be more likely to carry the insane gene and kill you? Anyone who says they wouldn’t distrust Manson’s descendants is a liar. Genetics is the main factor here-not raising. If raising trumped genetics pit-bull ‘babies’ wouldn’t turn, and rehabilitation and kindness would change serial killers.
Reading what you wrote will not alter the instincts bred into dog breeds over many centuries. We frequently have stories of pit bulls attacking and sometimes killing people. The breed is just too dangerous and the most responsible owners alive can't always prevent their dogs from getting loose and endangering someone.
The people who abuse these dogs to fight and kill - its more a reflection on them than on the breed.
And you’re right - many of the pit bulls are sweet natured and loving dogs. And for some people they make great pets! They not for every one though.
Tell that to the victims and their families.
The only time I enjoy a horror story like these is when the killer animal takes out his "adult" clueless, irresponsible owner. Unfortunately, that's rarely the case.
Of course not everyone trains pit bulls for fighting. Who suggested they did?
And a show about pit bulls and parolees doesn’t explain away the simple real world statistics that have already been quoted to you.
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