[Chet 99]

[Chet 99]

A pit bull mix named Chaos was shaking Nathaniel by the head. The dog belonged to a friend of Nathaniel’s parents who had left it chained to a runner in their back yard for about a month.

Keeping a pit bull chained up for a month will just make it even more aggressive/unpredictable. Even the best of dogs can be made bad if they're habitually chained.

[library user]

Wrap an M-80 in some lunch meat and then throw it into the dog’s mouth.

[DemonDeac]

There is no reason to have a dog with that kind of jaw power and tenacity and especially no reason to have one around children. Sure most pits are fine enough but why risk it? How often do you hear of beagles or labs ripping somebody’s face off? Sadly those least able to care for such a potentially dangerous animal seem to be drawn to pits.

[ConservativeMind]

I’m sorry for the child and family. The animal should be put down, but this is not indicative of dogs in general and I believe dogs of all breeds can make fine pets.

[Mr. Silverback]

Poor kid. Prayers up for his healing.

Well, the anti-pit brigades will show up now to tell us it doesn't matter that the kid was improperly supervised, in the wrong yard and (according to his own parent) almost certainly doing something to the dog that should not be done to any strange dog.

It doesn't matter because the magical power of pit bull genes compelled the kid into the yard, dontcha know.

I'd also like to know where the information that he's a pit mix came from. Given the photo, I suspect there's less to that aspect of this story than the text would indicate.

[null and void]

[scottdeus12]

Chet - you should just start a I hate Pitbulls website and get it over with...seriously.....

[Frogtacos]

I had a pit bull in my yard the other night (caught it there when I returned home from the store - it ran as soon as we pulled into the drive.) This dog, which will meet my .38 if I ever see it on my property again, was assumably trying to get ahold of one of my cats, did about $500 worth of damage to my husbands truck. It completely chewed the wiring to one of his headlights and chewed both sides of his bumper cover damaging it enough that it needs to be replaced.

I dont care if the dog is someones beloved pet or if they think it is the nicest dog in the world. It comes back onto my property it will be a dead dog. If I cant get close enough with my .38 the .30-06 will do nicely.

[familyop]

They should start naming their pit bulls Crow Snack, Swiss Cheese, Oil Lamp, Carrion, Decay, Putrescine, Botulinum, or Fertilizer. And if they try too hard to get in the way or protest too much,...

[familyop]

Let’s see... So far, pit bull worshipers in the thread have offered one statement of epistemological relatism, one lie of semantic obfuscation on the breed, one false analogy, two statements of blaming a four-year-old kid for being mauled by the pit bull, three claims of “hate” against their pit bulls (victimology tactic born in radical feminism), one call for censoring negative news about pit bulls, and one statement of generalizing common behavior in pit bulls to all other dogs.

...fallacies brought by radical liberalism, liberal use of mind-altering substances or both?

[familyop]

...epistemological relativism, even. :-)

[familyop]

Oh, and after their arguments are shown to be so flawed, they usually resort to name-calling and other blowfish behavior.