Pit bull attack claims life of family's beloved dog

KOMOTV.COM ^ | 9/13/07 | Eric Schudiske

[SIDENET]

Please enlighten us on the “usual spin”.

[NapkinUser]

I don’t like it but, what if it had been a child?

Yes, yes, what about the children?

People need to be responsible, for both their dogs in their kids. If you own a large breed dog and it escapes and kills someone, it's your fault. And if your kid goes wondering onto someone else's private property unknown to them and gets killed by the family dog, it's the parents' fault, not the dog owner.

Banning is hardly ever the solution.

[Realism]

Pit bull deterrent, actually it would probably work on pretty much anything.

Too bad it's illegal to have one as a pet.

[Inyo-Mono]

“If on the same day in a small town a pit bull kills someone and a bullmastiff kills someone, the media is going to talk about the pit bull-related death. That’s the way it is. Kind of like when the media drummed up “shark attack” fear a few years ago in a year that shark attacks were way down but the media had nothing better to talk about.”
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[NapkinUser]

Thanks for further proving my point about media-made fear.

[org.whodat]

>The owners of the quarantined dogs face fines of up to $1,000 for letting his pit bulls run loose.

Should be about five years in jail and a $100,000.00 fine.

[org.whodat]

And if your kid goes wondering onto someone else's private property unknown to them and gets killed by the family dog, it's the parents' fault, not the dog owner.

Wrong, having an unfenced dangerous animal is the same under tort law as having an unfenced pool. You cannot expect kids to make adult decisions.

[NapkinUser]

Wrong, having an unfenced dangerous animal is the same under tort law as having an unfenced pool. You cannot expect kids to make adult decisions.

And this is why the law is an ass. If a kid goes onto someone else's property unknown to the owner, and the dog kills that kid, or the kid falls and drowns in a pool, or jumps on a trampoline and falls off and hurts himself, it's the kid's and the parents of that kid's fault.

[org.whodat]

it's the kid's and the parents of that kid's fault.

Have always believed in the old saying that good fences make good neighbors.

[Ditter]

I guess what I am referring to is when a bird dog fetches birds and a blue heeler herds cows he is doing what he was bred to do and when a pit bull rips another animal or human to shreds it’s because he has a bad owner. That kind of spin.

[Citizen Soldier]

One was a woman sleeping when the pitbulls came into her house and attcked and killed a dog and injured her and her dog in Tacoma, WA area. Then two pitbulls are still on the loose near Seattle in a rural area that killed about 6 of a farmer’s sheep. He said they just went for the jugular on them. This area was notorious for meth labs, and still has drug problems, so hence the need to keep “guard” dogs. I say quit breeding such potentially dangerous dog breeds.

[lula]

Personal Responsibility!!....but if we don’t have that than I’m all for banning vicious breeds. As someone in an earlier post stated you don’t hear about a cocker spaniel killing. I’ts always a pit bull. I once had a Irish Setter we “rescued” Dumb dog took down a fawn. We returned him. Won’t have a problem dog. We also took back a lab that bit my daughter once. We love our pets but will not tolerate irresponsibility.

[metmom]

Have they given up?

Maybe... especially after the last couple threads we've seen here.

[metmom]

Thanks for further proving my point about media-made fear.

Media made fear? This isn't global warming we're talking about.

Two people are dead and you're talking like it's alarmism? How ridiculous. It's no wonder pitbull owners and defenders have no credibility.

[NapkinUser]

Two people are dead and you're talking like it's alarmism? How ridiculous.

How many people are killed each year by pit bulls? About the same as people killed each year by falling coconuts?

[SIDENET]

Given up?

I'll never give up fighting ignorance.

[SIDENET]

Pit bulls were bred to kill people?

That's news to me. Pit bull-type dogs have been around for a long time. They certainly weren't bred to kill people.

Also, do you not think that irrespnsible owners of pit bulls are at fault?

[PAR35]

I have seen several threads about pit bulls killing and maiming folks and the pit bull defenders have not stepped forward with their usual spin. Have they given up?

There's a rumor floating around that the pit bull loving mod isn't a mod at FR any more.

[Ditter]

Pit bulls were bred to kill! With that characteristic in the breeding it is easy for them to slip over the line and kill anything. I have seen where responsible pit bull owners say repeatedly “he/she was the sweetest dog and never was vicious before (before it killed the baby/child/grandmother)”

These dogs have an inbred uncertainty that should give people pause before they bring that puppy home.