(Why no, I haven't seen your dog.)
Posted on 12/17/2009 8:07:08 PM PST by Chet 99
Jail the negligent owners.
A shotgun will solve the problem if the dogs enter the victim’s yard again.
idiots. Keep your dogs in your own yard.
Which ones?
I'm no pit bull proponent, but the pit bulls were in their own yard...the other dogs went into their territory. Sad story, but not the pits owner's fault, IMO.
The negligent owners are the ones that had dogs die.
looks like more than just negligence. the story indicates that there is no feasible way that at least one dog got into the yard... suggesting it may have been coaxed/forced there to be killed. Pit Bull owners get their jollies off that sort of thing.
The yard houses vicious animals with a shoddy broken up fence. It could just as easily have been a child.
But it wasn’t a child. It was a dog. There’s no law requiring children to be on a leash.
Maybe Buddy levitated into the yard?
I wondered about that...
How the dog got in there...
For crying out loud, the pit bulls tore up the wooden fence that separated the two yards!
It's odd that two dogs, one of whom was definitely afraid of the pit bulls, somehow ended up in the pit bulls' yard, on the same day. Almost seems like they were being baited into it.
Nevertheless, my attitude towards pit bulls is simply this: if they come into my yard and attack me, my family, or my dog, they WILL be put down. The only choice is between 12 gauge or .40 cal.
Both dogs were labs, if one got in then why couldn’t the other get in. Most labs are around 70 lbs or more, I think. Maybe he jumped the fence. My sister’s dog can jump a four foot fence if he wants to.
We have two large Weims (70 and 90 lbs), and the neighbor’s little tiny mutt is allowed to run wild and comes into our yard sometimes. My dogs go nuts because the little dog is not neutered, and thinks he’s “king of the world”, LOL. He charges them and barks at them.
Fortunately, my dogs are under voice control, and at least up until now, I’ve heard the commotion and called them in. But to them he’s about the size of a squirrel and if you’re a Weim, you catch and kill squirrels (cats too for that matter.) I’m afraid that someday their prey instinct might take over, and I’ve asked the neighbors to keep their dog on a leash or in their yard (even gone down when the dog was in our yard and informed the neighbors, but they refuse to care or to call the dog home...he’s so little he can slip into our fenced yard.)
(Why no, I haven't seen your dog.)
Any of them that caused dogs to die.
LOL, yep that’d work. To tell you the truth, if I called animal control, they’d probably give me one and tell me to catch the dog since he’s allowed to wander without a leash (these folks have a fenced back yard, but they never put the dog there...they just open the front door and let him run.) He runs across the street sometimes, chases birds on the golf course (for a little dog he’s lightning fast), goes in the lake...sooner or later he may be gator bait since I saw about a 6 foot gator sunning himself the other day near our property and if he’s stupid enough to charge a 90 lb dog, he might be stupid enough to charge a gator. Trouble is, he’s not friendly toward other humans, and won’t come to me when I call him, so it’s always a matter of me removing my dogs from the situation, never of sending him home.
This can to be settled in so many ways...
“Pit Bull owners get their jollies off that sort of thing.”
I assume you mean those who are fighting them? Please be aware that many owners of pit bulls are responsible - not all, unfortunately. It is irresponsible to lump all pit owners in one group.
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