Posted on 06/18/2009 9:12:11 PM PDT by Chet 99
Kip is a certifiable idiot.
DING DING DING! We have a winner. Of course, he will never admit it...
I have a rescued Pit Bull right now that is a registered therapy dog.
I have friends that have family Pit Bulls that are great dogs.
I dont understand what makes anyone on this forum think it is their right to exterminate a breed.
Pit Bulls that have attacked only represent a very small percentage of the Pit Bull population.
For example: If 10 Pit Bulls out of 5,000 have attacked, that does not mean the other 4,990 will.
Also, have you ever sat down and thought about the kinds of people that sometimes own this breed? Did you ever think that bad owners are the reason that Pit Bulls are often in the news for attacks?
All I am saying is that people should really research a subject before spewing their ignorance, as most people are doing on this forum.
http://www.pawsitivepitbulls.com
This story is surely an allegory for the adoption of Barack Obama as president by the uninformed, uncurious people of the U.S.
I dress his little chihuahua butt up in his girlfriend Tinkerbelle's tutu and make him wear it all day. Humbles him RIGHT up. And no Zorro costume for a week.
Merritt Clifton, editor of Animal People, has conducted an unusually detailed study of dog bites from 1982 to the present. (Clifton, Dog attack deaths and maimings, U.S. & Canada, September 1982 to November 13, 2006; click here to read it.) The Clifton study show the number of serious canine-inflicted injuries by breed. The author’s observations about the breeds and generally how to deal with the dangerous dog problem are enlightening.
According to the Clifton study, pit bulls, Rottweilers, Presa Canarios and their mixes are responsible for 74% of attacks that were included in the study, 68% of the attacks upon children, 82% of the attacks upon adults, 65% of the deaths, and 68% of the maimings. In more than two-thirds of the cases included in the study, the life-threatening or fatal attack was apparently the first known dangerous behavior by the animal in question. Clifton states:
If almost any other dog has a bad moment, someone may get bitten, but will not be maimed for life or killed, and the actuarial risk is accordingly reasonable. If a pit bull terrier or a Rottweiler has a bad moment, often someone is maimed or killed—and that has now created off-the-chart actuarial risk, for which the dogs as well as their victims are paying the price.
The vast majority of biting dogs (77%) belong to the victim’s family or a friend.
Again, not breed problem, most likely owner problem. The shelter information CLEARLY indicated that the new owner lied about info on his app. (He said he had no other dogs, why would he lie? And what else was he lying about??) - The other dogs could have triggered the attack, or maybe MOJO was just a good judge of character and got the away from a bad situation!!!
Ahh, oops.
People are at fault here, people who abuse and neglect the dogs. Get them because they look tough and are muscular then mistreat them, never socialize,train or love them....yet these wonderful creatures remain loyal.
What is your experience with dogs and training or behavior that you can say the things you do? I have over 40 years experience with training & rehabilitating dogs that people have screwed up either by the way the raise them or breed the goodness out of them in puppy mills or back yard breeders.
But I guess if stealing is okay with you then so would killing off an entire breed of wonderful dogs because people have messed them up. What do you have to say to that Chet99?
I notice from that article that they followed the lead of other “illegals”, and moved from Dade up to Broward and PB.
;-)
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