Posted on 04/08/2006 4:37:43 PM PDT by Wristpin
Pit bulls on the loose went on a rampage Thursday and terrorized a southwest Philadelphia neighborhood. The dogs escaped from their backyard at 53rd Street and Cedar Avenue and ran several blocks through the neighborhood, attacking several people. Their rampage ended with a policeman shooting one of the dogs.
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People should not have sharks in their swimming pools, nor should they have pit bulls in their yards.
Pit bulls are land sharks.
I forgot my sarcasm tag. Sorry.
You think? Take the Latin lover. Fiery, aggressive, attentive, compassionate, but also more prone to abuse. Contradictory? Not really. Comes with the territory.
I think the same applies for a pitbull. They can be incredibly friendly. Aggressiveness can usually be halted with a simle, "No!" My pit/lab mix will stop as soon as he realizes that I think he's being too aggressive.
Or if they're abused, you're not going to get them to heed when you call.
I think there are several competing sides at play here. I think few would argue that pitbulls are less loving than a cat. But pits are also more likely to become aggressive than a cat. Nothing really contradictory about it.
I'm not really defending the breed. If it were my choice, I'd far rather have another type of dog than the one that we have, but it wasn't my choice, and I don't trust the breed that much, to be honest. But I don't demonize them, either.
In fact, about 99% of the insurance companies will cancel your insurance for owning one of several different breeds, or the rider will be so high you would wish to be canceled. However, drug dealers and users are not known for having insurance.
Only if you think that your gun can get together with another gun, and the two of them can go on a rampage through town all by themselves...
Has your gun ever gone off on its own with other guns and gone on a rampage?
Depends...
;)
Nah it's just plain common sense not to bring a dog genetically selected for killing into neighborhoods.
Some men buy them to compensate for their "short comings" though.
Probably had a moment of clarity and realized how much trouble those dogs are.
Pit bulls are the breed of choice for thugs, "gangstas" and "Joe Dirts" and like over-sized necklaces and baggy pants, they are also coveted by the "wannabees" as a status symbol. A lot of young people get pit bulls because it is cool for them to say, "I have a pit bull!" and they don't know the first thing about keeping such a vicious animal.
I see this a lot with some of the young navy guys I work with who are out on their own for the first time. They'll keep these dogs cooped up in their apartments while they go to work for 10-12 hours a day and then act dumbfounded when their apartment is destroyed.
Pit bulls are nice dogs. For years and years, they were culled by putting down any dog that looked wrong at a human.
I had a half pit, half labrador. Absolutely the most stable dog I ever saw. It could dig out from under the fence in half an hour, and jump the fence in half a second. It never even growled at one of the kids, and boy they were tough on that dog. She didn't seem to mind having ears pulled, tail pulled, or my daughter riding it like a horse.
Slept on my bed. So the answer is, watch your dog, and train it right. Be sure you teach it that you are the "head of the pack" when it is little.
And try to be as good a man as your dog thinks you are.
BWAAAAHAAAA!! Yep. Dogs with vicious jaws that can snap the neck of a small child are just angels!
Individual pit bulls MIGHT be good dogs, but there is simply no reason to risk a child's, your own, or another dog's life with these beasts.
They should be bred out of existence.
They were heading for Camden.
I'm not real keen on telling people what they can and cannot have, but I wish they would quit breeding these things. I *never* had to worry about them in all my years until the last 20 or so. All of a sudden there has been an explosion of them.
Some people are so stupid and irresponsible, not my dog, that all the punitive measures in the world aren't going to deter them. One female owner here whose dog tore half a woman's face off had been cited several times for animal violations before that happened. She had nothing to lose as she was a renter, didn't have any money. Owners should be held 100% accountable. I'll bet some who had the misfortune of having theirs euthanized or killed by cop (couple cases of that here in the last couple years) never replaced them.
But I have trouble that they can kill or change a child's life forever. Why wait for us to hit critical mass which we will?
The same could be said for guns, I suppose, but I don't see it quite the same way. When does society have a right to impose restrictions for the common good and when do they not? I can't have a horse or cow in my house, but I can have a pit bull and dangerous snakes. Hmmmm. I'd be safer having a horse or cow if they got out. They can injure too, but are not nearly as likely to.
They never did find my daughter's boyfriend's python when it got loose from the house.
If you were allowed the means for self defence, you wouldn't be so fearful, and you wouldn't have to restrict the freedoms of others.
If they don't let you have guns, then you want to have a big powerful dog, so the bad guys won't pick out your house. If you don't have a gun, then you get to be afraid of anyone stronger than you, or carrying a knife.
Better would be to have the means of self defense at hand, and all would have incentive to good manners.
If you were allowed the means for self defence, you wouldn't be so fearful, and you wouldn't have to restrict the freedoms of others.
If they don't let you have guns, then you want to have a big powerful dog, so the bad guys won't pick out your house. If you don't have a gun, then you get to be afraid of anyone stronger than you, or carrying a knife.
Better would be to have the means of self defense at hand, and all would have incentive to good manners.
Here's another incident where a Pit tears into a lady's dog in her own back yard. The owners claim it was an "accident". I don't see how it is an "accident" when the breed they chose is genetically selected for killing other dogs.
http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=174601
You can argue til the cows come home, but I'm afraid of them and most big dogs now because of what has happened. I'd have a chance at defending myself with the little yappers people used to have for pets. I don't understand the craze for big dogs. But I don't want to argue with pit bull lovers. It's futile.
If one attacks me, I'm going to have to hope there's a car I can jump on the roof (and the dog can probably lunge right up) or I'm going to have to try to gouge it's eyes out with my free hand if I'm not in shock.
Tell me, how do you breed something out of existence?
Perhaps we should breed the people who are afraid of dogs, and who refuse to carry the means of self defense, out of existence?
I have five kids myself, and quite a few weapons. I sleep well at night, and fear nothing. I recommend that to you.
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