Posted on 07/24/2014 4:30:50 AM PDT by marktwain
Dennis Williams, above, did not hesitate to intervene to save a man being attacked by three pit bulls. The event was reported on July 21, 2014, in Washington County, Wisconsin.
"I will never forget seeing that attack, or hearing the screams," Williams says. "It was one of the worst things I've ever witnessed. The dogs were on top of the man and his dog. They were not going to stop. I first tried hitting the Pit Bulls with a baseball bat, but they wouldn't relent. There was blood all over the ground."
The revolver used to stop the attack appears to be an Iver Johnson .22. Perhaps an alert reader can make a more positive identification. Guns are common in Wisconsin.
That’s what I thought, the dogs were bred to fight bulls in pits. Dogs continued to do what they were bred to do, herd, retrieve, hunt, point or fight. Some dogs were bred to sit on people laps and that is what they are best at doing. Why is anyone surprised.
Only if they're Second Hand Lions.
FMCDH(BITS)
I have a friend who was a missionary in Russia. He was told to immediately buy a bicycle chain and keep it up his selieve. He used it on human predators several times.
I had to use a 12 ga shotgun on two vicious dogs many years ago. I found the “birdshot because buckshot has too much penetration” to not cut it. I emptied the shotgun with no effect on them, and then used a .22 pistol.
I now keep the house gun loaded with 00 buck.
In addition to poop recovery tools, for my after supper dog walks I like to carry one of these:
Benchmade 580SBK Barrage Spring Assist Axis Lock (3.6" Black, partially serrated blade)
And one of these:
Surefire E2D LED Defender
Now that’s a flashlight!
Iver Johnson is the best bet, although the H&R revolvers used a similar “stepped” grip. Most of those though are top breaks and I really can’t see the release catch.
However, none of these 'pit bull' dogs were bred to fight bulls in pits.
Some were bred for bull baiting - including American Bulldogs and French bulldogs. That doesn't involve a pit.
Some were bred to fight other dogs in pits, such as the American Pit Bull.
The American Staffordshire Terrier is considered a 'pit bull.' At some point, bulldogs were bred to terriers. The result was the Staffordshire Terrier and the American Staffordshire Terrier. ASTs were NEVER, at any point during the breed's history, bred to fight bulls or to fight other dogs. From the beginning, the AST was specifically bred to be an affectionate family dog. However, it has a blocky head and a stout body, so it gets lumped in with 'pit bulls.' I am not now, nor have I ever been an American Staffie owner, but I know it's not an aggressive breed. I can't say the same for American Pit Bull Terriers.
"Pit bull' attacks rarely identify the breed; pit bull is used as a generic term based on how a dog looks, not what the dog breed is or was bred to do. I wouldn't be surprised if there were few or no purebred ASTs among the 'pit bull' deaths.
In fact, if you allocated 'pit bull' deaths among the specific 'pit bull' breeds actually involved, Rottweilers would probably be responsible for the most deaths by dog attack, or 'pit mixes.'
Another thing to consider is this is a current phenomenon, caused by backyard breeder looking for aggression and thug owners.
71% of the pit bull fatalities have occurred in the past 10 years; 42% in the past four years; 24% in the past two years.
Source: 30-Year Summary: Dog Attack Deaths and Maimings, U.S. & Canada, September 1982 to December 26, 2011 by Merritt Clifton, Animal People, 2012.
These statistics suggest it's certainly not just the breed- and even these specifics don't break out 'pit bulls' by specific breed.
How many fatal dog attacks are there in the US in a given year? I suspect that it is not a great number. A hundred?
Bred to fight in a pit or not in a pit........... they were bred to fight. What difference does it make?
They were certainly not bred to fight children or the elderly but that is where it has led.
My Jack Russells were bred to hunt rats and they love it.
I’ve never owned bull dogs and never will - actually, I’d rather not have any pets. Not even a pet rock.
But in my LEO experience, I never had any problems with Pitt Bulls, Dobermans, Shepherds, Mastiffs, Rottweilers — all the typically “bad” dogs except for one bull dog when I got too close to her new litter of puppies.
But if we are creating a list, I would add Dalmations, Chows, Collies (the Lassie type) and medium to large indeterminate mongrels as those were consistently agressive and/or attacked. And for the record, I never shot a dog. I knocked quite a few on the nose with a flashlight and they kept their distance after that. Maybe I was lucky...
Just my personal experience - opinions may vary.
Of course you are onto it. You see if, if Lefto-Science agrees with your conclusion, which of course they have in every other field, they might have to admit that there are ...gasp... like these "bad" people/dogs out there. Not only that, some human groups/dog breeds may even ....gasp ....have more "bad" people/dogs than others.
We simply can't have that
Your friend's son is the big goof, and Five Bucks says he has tattoos. Feed friendly Fido 15 minutes late and leave him in the room with a baby and you might soon see how sweet he is ... and be one baby short.
I keep telling you the difference. American Staffordshire Terriers were never bred to fight. The breed was always bred to be an affectionate family dog.
Because of the way that breed looks, it's lumped in as a 'pit bull' with American Pit Bull Terriers, Bull Terriers, American Bulldogs, the American Bully, and other breeds which were bred to fight.
Much less than a hundred. We’ve been consistently around 30 per year since 2005. Before that, the number was routinely in the single digits (which could be due to less attention by the news media).
I am sure your dog is fine. My brother got an American Staffordshire Terrier when he was in A&M Veterinarian School. He didn’t keep it very long because it showed vicious tendencies almost immediately.. He was not as fortunate as you are. He brought the dog to my house once and it had to stay in the utility room away from the kids, I never saw it again.
Of course, as pit bulls increase in number, the maiming and killings increase.
I've just been around enough dogs to know that there are big differences among the multiple breeds that are lumped into the generic term 'pit bull.'
If your brother had problems with an AST, it was probably because the dog was offended to affiliated with the Aggies and knew it wouldn't be buried in the endzone.
Be nice of you to post a chart. All this fuss over 30 fatalities a year? That is about as many children as die drowning in five gallon buckets!
True, I am sure there are many more maulings, but 30 a year is down in the noise level for deaths, which are about 2.5 million a year.
It makes a dramatic story, and reaches our primal instincts.
There are no statistics to show that each of the various breeds lumped in as 'pit bulls' have shown an increase in maiming and killing.
I'll wager there has been a dramatic increased in the number of deaths caused by American Pit Bull Terriers, but not by American Bull Terriers. Both are considered 'pit bulls.'
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