Here's a couple of pics of my POWERDOG PITBULL doing what he was bred to do....
Posted on 05/24/2006 8:42:10 AM PDT by rawhide
Cecil Wallace awoke about 4:30 a.m. Saturday to the bawling of cows and the howling of dogs. The Buford farmer grabbed his shotgun and went running out the back door.
His son and next-door neighbor, Kenneth Wallace, also jarred awake — also carrying a shotgun — joined him. Father and son ran toward the pasture...
...Reaching the pasture, the Wallaces saw a cow, bloodied and torn, its calf standing nearby. As they approached the animal, according to reports, two dogs came running towards them.
Kenneth Wallace raised his 12-gauge. Boom! The larger dog hit the dirt, howling. Wallace fired again, and the dog was quiet.
The female kept coming. Kenneth Wallace fired a third time, the blast echoing along the darkened reaches of Bart Johnson Road.
The Wallaces dragged the dogs' bodies aside and tended to the cow, Betsy. She looked bad — right ear torn off, the left shredded like paper. Her nose was ripped and torn. Two teeth were knocked loose. Not long after daybreak, Cecil Wallace took Betsy to a Cumming veterinarian, who prescribed painkillers and antibiotics for the Angus/Hereford cross.
"She's still in bad shape," Cecil Wallace, 73, said Tuesday. "She tries to eat, but she can't; her mouth's too sore."
Animal control officers have cited one dog owner with failing to have the animal on a leash.. They also charged the owner with violating the county's vicious-animal ordinance, which requires owners of a dangerous dog or cat to have it muzzled whenever the animal is off the owner's property.
Meghan Martin, who lives near the Wallaces, said she is the owner whom officers cited...p>
When I went to sleep, my dog was in bed with me," she said. A roommate let out her dog, plus a friend's pit bull, Martin said...
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
Post 72:
"The track record of them being friendly just isn't there"
Duh! That's because YOU have been reading the paper. For all those people out there that rely on FACTUAL INFORMATION instead of the news, there's a wealth of information about pit bulls doing great things. There are service animals, therapy dogs, drug dogs (some of the Canadian banned dogs are now working with the New York police), and hunting dogs, all of which by the way, seem to be doing the job better than the breeds originally intended for them. But every time someone gives you a source, you either ignore it or conveniently forget it.
"On a thread where the Pits let go of the cow and charged the humans.."
I LOVE how the word "charged" is used in reports on pit bulls doing the same thing that Labs do (running up to people) but when it's a report of a lab attack, somehow the wording changes to something like "the lab ran up to greet my dog" or some bull. Just because the dogs were killing a cow (what they were originally bred for) doesn't mean that they were running up to the people to do the same thing.
There will never be any proof that they were human aggressive, because they never reached the people. Just the other day, a lab/sharpei mix was shot for "charging" at someone who THOUGHT it was a pit bull. Turns out, the dog was very friendly, and was probably going up to "greet" the guy before his IDIOCY took over. The guy was in his fenced yard, by the way, and actually had to take the time to go inside his house to retrieve and load his gun. During this time it never occurred to him to call animal control, or even give the dog a second look to see what it was all about.
Post 78:
"The fact that a normally placid pit will, frequently, snap and start mauling..."
That is flat-out FALSE. The REAL fact is, according to their population, they are one of the LEAST LIKELY breeds to attack. Do not confuse this with their ability to do damage. Even though they DO attack less frequently than MANY of the most popular breeds, their sheer strength (and the media) do them a great disservice, making it seem like as a breed they are somehow more vicious. If they represent almost ten percent of the dog population, but only represent two to three percent of all attacks, there is NO WAY to deny that they are not the monsters the media and PETA would love for you to think they are.
Post 83:
"..evidence is reaching the point of being nearly overwhelming"
What evidence, exactly? The two pit bulls that have killed someone this year compared to their population of four to six million is somehow meaningful?
Post 87:
"...finally found a case where some labs killed someone..."
Before I saw this very recent story, labs were still on the death list. It isn't like this was the first time. A great dane also killed a woman about a month ago. That's two for two. But again, these stories NEVER get the same attention pit bull stories do. Were the people killed by labs and a dane somehow LESS killed than the victims of pit bulls??
"If all those problem owners had greyhounds, poodles, spaniels, etc. there wouldn't BE a problem."
Out of the sixty people reported by the CDC to have been killed by rottweilers and pit bulls over the past 30 years, there are one hundred and forty that weren't. If we're going to look at deaths, then there's about 30 breeds we need to ban, and not all of them big. After all, those people killed by dogs other than pits and rotties were no less important. The fact is that with a stronger dog, the chances of serious injury or death is greater than that of a weaker dog. That doesn't mean the chance is Zero for those other dogs, otherwise one hundred and forty two more people might be alive today.
I own a Staffordshire. This breed is noted for its love of people and is one of the most popular breeds in this country. They are certainly not classed as "pit bulls", which are not allowed into this country. However, in Canada and the US the lovable Staffy and American Staffy are classed as "pit bulls" and are part of the dog genocide. Lovable and friendly dogs should not be banned simply because they had a distant ancestor used for fighting. Afterall, all dogs are descended from the wolf. However, if a dog is clearly aggressive and unfriendly, there is a case for banning it, irrespective of the breed. In other words, BAN THE DEED NOT THE BREED!
Don't get me wrong. The point you make is good. In the city where I live, all people are obliged to keep their animals fenced on their property and if they don't the dog catcher is soon onto them.
MY STFU comment was in reply to this post by you:
"Sometimes I wish we could just throw those people into a pit of pit bulls with a steak in their pants, just so they can see how nice their beloved breed is"
Since I am a pitbull owner, you made it personal.
You can't throw a bomb like that & expect no explosion.
I accept your apology.
That is really funny, because of all the dogs I have had the privelage to hand feed, pit bulls have been the most gentle when taking food. My lab would put her entire mouth over your hand and whatever ended up in there would get chewed. I imagine if you did put steak in your pants and were around normal pit bulls, it might be a much more pleasant experience than you can imagine. Not to be gross or anything.
My female pit will lightly bite the food offerred with her front teeth. She will not take it until you let go.....I did not teach her this. She did it in front of about 6 mothers at a garage sale once. A 2 year old tried to feed her a potato chip, but then decided he wanted to eat it....he did not let go ...so she released her end & walked away. The moms were very impressed & then "shocked" to find out my dog was a "vicious" pitbull.
In England, they were known as the nursemaid dog.....
I couldn't agree more. A genuine conservative is against unnecessary state intervention. They are also for individuals taking responsibility. In this case people who set out to keep savage dogs that will harm people are the ones that should be banned. I have no doubt that many dogs that savage people do so because they have been mistreated. BAN BAD DOG OWNERS AND NOT THE DOGS!
I think this site says it all:
http://www.dogbite.org/pages/dogsmostlikely.html
"Many small dog owners overlook their dog's behavior because they are small and/or think they cannot hurt anyone. The truth is, little dogs bite more than big dogs. There have been many cases involving dog bite attacks with smaller dogs such as the case involving a family Pomeranian dog and a 6-week old baby.
While there is no clear cut list in which all dogs can be categorized by levels of their dog-bite predictability, generally speaking:
Any dog, treated harshly or trained to attack, may bite a person. Any dog can be turned into a dangerous dog. The owner most often is responsible -- not the breed, and not the dog.
An irresponsible owner or dog handler might create a situation that places another person in danger by a dog, without the dog itself being dangerous, for example: leaving an infant alone with a dog.
Any individual dog may be a good, loving pet, even though its breed is considered to be likely to bite. A responsible owner can win the love and respect of a dog, no matter its breed. One cannot look at an individual dog, recognize its breed, and then state whether or not it is going to attack."
The Staffordshire is the only dog that I have encountered that you can take a bone from and it will not so much as growl. The breed is big here and you can go to a dog show and know you can approach any dog and it will welcome your attention.
And that can happen because of various factors:
1) Hunger
2) sickness,
3) Lack of attention ( being left alone, dog becomes insane)
4) Indepenedent conditioning unknown by owner ( eg. kids tease dog)
5) female in heat, male in rut
6) strange environment frightening dog
7) strange scent frightening dog
8) trigger of pack instinct when 2 dogs run together free
9) Unapprehended injury
And the list goes on. This is why the more aggressive a dogs potential is, the more time an owner/master has to spend with them. Dogs also live at a faster rate than humans, and their gestures are correspondingly fast, you have to pay close attention to those as well to understand them more thoroughly.
Re no. 4 above, years ago I had field trained a male Irish Setter. I kept him on a close line pully lead with a 20 foot chain during the day, with hundred foot run, with access to a large and comfortable heated dog house. Unbeknownst to me, the post man came five days per week and would walk up the edge of the drive way just a foot out of reach of the dog on his lead.
For months our dog would be barking at the postman approaching the house with mail, nearling strangling himself every day to stop the postman from getting to the house. I did not know about it, I was always at work during that time of day.
Then we went on vacation and the dog broke his lead chain, and I had to buy a new one, which was 5 feet longer than the old one.
We returned home and I hooked the dog up as usual.
The next day I got a call from our postmaster saying my dog had attacked the postman. I found out later that the postman had walked his usual route, and the dog was not barking, just quietly sitting at the edge of his usual running area on the edge of the driveway ( The dog knew he had 5 extra feet of chain)waiting for the postman. When the postman got next to the dog , the dog lunged, caught his ankle and pants and ripped his pants up to the knee, as the postman pulled back to get away.
I was not charged, because the dog was tied, and it is a case where an Irish setter, field trained, actually had outsmarted a human being.
I apologized to the postman, and told him it would be better if he walked on the opposite edge of the driveway, and threw our dog a biscuit each day,a supply of which I left in the mail box. Doggie then loved the mailman after a week or so, and never barked at him again.
True story.
Another friendly Pit Bull gesture mistakenly interpreted as "charging" by law enforcement.
http://ws.gmnews.com/news/2006/0524/Front_Page/002.html
Again, the fact that you serve as an advocate for the breed is proof that there is a problem. The breed is only a couple of hundred years old and was developed by animal torturing degenerates. Civilization can get along fine without them.
You keep throwing the lib card out there...Yet your position is similar to that of AIDS activists failing to address that promiscous unprotected anal sex is the cause of the disease.
You don't seem to acknowledge the poor decision making that leads to nearly every one of these incidents. Buying a fighting breed and trying to pigeon hole it into the normal household pet role.
Here's a couple of pics of my POWERDOG PITBULL doing what he was bred to do....
Bringin in the firewood!
LOL
POWERDOGS® don't just bring sticks...they bring the whole tree!! ;~D
How dare you introduce AIDS and anal sex into an issue concerning devoted pet owners and their much loved and devoted pets. Your argument reminds me of how the Nazis stereotyped the Jews.
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