Posted on 04/08/2009 1:05:40 PM PDT by Chet 99
This week, NPR had a story out of Texas about an entrepreneur who's built a massive hangar-sized indoor dog playground, so pet-owners can drink lattes while their canines romp around in air-conditioned comfort. She's even hired four guys to break up dog fights. The story isn't particularly interesting — just another tale of childless yuppies fawning over their animals as if they were baby boys or girls. But I was fascinated by one particular detail: The dog-loving staff who run the place have banned pit bulls.
This is significant because many of the pro-pit-bull types — who complained noisily when Ontario's Dalton McGuinty moved to ban pit bulls way back in 2004 — have argued that ignorant politicians and other assorted non-dog-owners just didn't understand how cute and lovable their pit-bull puppies are, trotting out statistics showing that 4 out of 5 pit bulls don't go ape-crap and tear off people's scalps on the drop of a hat, or whatever.
Well, now we see that bona fide dog lovers — with a capitalist, profit-seeking motive to allow any and all dogs into their facility — have chosen to ban this awful breed. What's the fang lobby going to say to that?
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Now just look at the difference in those numbers and the ones cited in the previous “report”. Sixty-nine fatal attacks over a twenty year period as opposed to over a thousand. According to this study you are 95 times more likely to be struck by lightning (329 strikes reported in 2008 * 20 years / 69).
The other report was for Canada and the United States 1982 to 2006.
The one I posted was just for the U.S. 1979 to 1998.
I am very partial to Labs, but I will make an exception for the Jacks, those little guys are the coolest little dog there is.
I had a friend who adopted a pit bull that was kicked out of the back end of a van in front of them one day in traffic that they got patched up. It was obviously being used for dog fights.
That dog is about the sweetest dog I have ever met.
Pit bulls don’t kill people, pit bull owners do. This whole mindset of banning dogs because criminals turn some into monsters is the same deranged logic used behind banning guns.
A pit bull is only as good as it’s master. The laws should focus on making sure animal abusing freaks and punks can’t get animals as a posed to taking out on these poor dogs.
See post #38 or just google fatal dog attacks.
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