It is because of it's potential for damage. I consider dachshunds to be meaner, but even the meanest is fairly harmless.
Here's proof
Posted on 04/11/2010 6:06:39 PM PDT by Chet 99
Memphis Girl Mauled by Pit Bull: Family Wants Dog Euthanized
Reported by: Kevin Holmes Email: kholmes@myeyewitnessnews.com Last Update: 7:58 pm
SHELBY COUNTY, TN – A Memphis child was mauled by a pit bull while inviting her friends to her birthday party. The 8-year-old girl is recovering at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center, as authorities decide what should happen to the dog that attacked her.
Shelby County Sheriff’s Deputies say the dog was chained to a tree in a front yard on Northdale Drive when it got loose.
Hailey King has undergone several surgeries to repair her hands, face, legs and shoulder. Late Saturday, April 10, 2010, she was unable to move one arm and her mother Eileen says she can barely move the other one.
Kim Shreve managed to help free Hailey from the dog.
“When I looked down in the cove," Shreve tells myEyewitnessNews.com, "there was a little girl and she was balled up in the fetal position and a large brown pit bull was on top of her and mauling her. She was covered in blood.”
After this attack, Eileen King wants the pit bull to be euthanized, but there’s a chance that won’t happen. Right now the one-year-old pit bull is under observation at the Memphis Animal Shelter.
If Shelby County Health officials consider the dog not to be vicious, it will be returned to its' owner. And that's an option that angers both Shreve and King.
“It’s not like you can tap the dog on the hands and tell it not to do it again," says Shreve. "The dog drew blood."
King agrees. “This is vicious," she says, "and that dog needs to be put to sleep.”
The dog’s owner, LeToya Redwing was cited for having a loose dog. The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office says this incident is still under investigation. Additional charges could follow.
It is because of it's potential for damage. I consider dachshunds to be meaner, but even the meanest is fairly harmless.
Here's proof
Well you might want to be packing heat. Pitbulls are usually accompanied by thugs or trailer trash carrying a weapon of some sort.
I apologize in advance for the broad brush but that accounts for at least 90% of pitbull owners.
No, it’s because doggie has big history.
>>I apologize in advance for the broad brush but that accounts for at least 90% of pitbull owners.<<
I agree. Interestingly though, if you look up “pitbull attack” on youtube, nine out of ten will be of someone showing their dog playing with their children, thinking their anecdotal story somehow proves their dog is harmless. For crying out loud, I believe many of the ones that attack have had such moments.
When my wife’s first husband died, he left a very cute and loyal doberman that the whole family loved. She had three children all of single digit age. One day the doberman snipped at her. She immediately had it put down.
“I will never understand being so scared of a breed of dog... I mean, really... is it because doggie has big teeth?”
Just watch these videos.
Animal control officer feeling that pitbull lovin’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd5uvK8TfOA
Pitbull turns police car into big chew toy!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2480658/posts
Woman’s arm almost severed in dog attack
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2477556/posts
LA reporter rushed to hospital after bite from pitbull (while doing story to show pitbulls are safe)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2475856/posts
Great-grandma mauled by Lynn family pit bull
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/pitbull/index?tab=articles
Boy attacked by pit bull; Child remains in hospital
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2473499/posts
Hardin County Teen In A Coma After Pitbull Attack
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2472680/posts
and many, many, many more!
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/pitbull/index?tab=articles
Now where did those vicious, ankle-biting pack of feral chihuahuas run off to?
“Before Lassie, another dog, Petey, starred on the children’s series, “Lil Rascals”, and brought popularity to his breed. Petey was a purebred, UKC registered American Pit Bull Terrier, a breed well favored for their intelligence, courage, and gentleness with children. In Britain, they were known as the “nanny dog” because they could be trusted to be gentle with, as well as protective of, children. In fact, Theodore Roosevelt had a pit bull in the White House and Cooledge had two.
Except for a few victimized bulldogs who, in recent years, fell into the hands of an irresponsible, unsavory crowd seeking a macho image, these valuable dogs are proving their true nature in many ways.
Weela, the Ken-L-Ration Dog Hero of 1993, was a pit bull who saved the lives of 30 people, 29 dogs, 13 horses, and a cat when the Tijuana River Dam in California broke during a flood. She led the people to safety, finding the safest crossings through the floodwaters, and later braved a raging river while towing food to stranded animals.
It was a pit bull terrier, named Sebastian, who responded when a Rottweiler attacked a 6 year old child. He, unhesitatingly, attacked the Rottweiler and kept the dog away from the child until his owner, an off duty police officer, arrived. Ironically, this incident resulted in a “dangerous breed ban.”
Read more at Suite101: WHEN HEROES ARE THE PITS http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/extraordinary_animals/89234#ixzz0kqUuDYeM
Odd, aint it? There’s a `dog bites man’ story every day
in this country of 300 million.
The dog holding more working titles than any other dog in the world is a pit bull named Bandog Dread. This intelligent, loving dog also inspired his owner, Dianne Jessup, to write the novel, "The Dog Who Spoke With Gods".
Surely the article is mistaken...this must have been a Golden Retriever as I have never seen a previous post about a pitbull killing/mauling a child....this would be an unprecedented occurence. LMAO at the stupidity.
He looks like a Staffordshire terrier. A good dog if he has a good master, and vice versa.
I have an American bulldog. He’s a good boy, but only 4 months and a little wild.
“Someday I hope to be the man my dog thinks I am.” Unknown
You rock! It’s funny how the good stuff on these pups rarely gets noticed. There’s good and bad with everything, and propaganda everywhere.
"Although "Stubby" is widely regarded as the Grandfather of the American War Dog he was not the first by any means. Dogs were commonplace during the Civil War as companions for the soldiers and during the Spanish-American? War, "Jack Brutus" became the official mascot of Company K, First Connecticut Volunteer Infantry."Old Jack", as he was known, was considerably bigger than STUBBY and fortunately the Connecticut soldiers never got the chance to try to smuggle him anywhere since they basically spent the War encamped at various places here in the states providing coastal defense from Maine to Virginia. "Old Jack" died of spinal troubles and constipation in 1898."
I don’t know about your maltepoo, but my baby thinks every dog he sees will love and play with him. The bigger the better. When I walk him and see any large dogs- especially pit bulls- approach, I pick him up above my head( if necessary). Once I picked him up by his harness so fast he was swinging in the air( he weighs 9 lbs). Any dog would have to go through me to get to him- and any dog that attacked him would have me go Katrina on them. I would make Mel Gibson-in Braveheart with the blood all over him- look like a harmless fuzzball.
I have been told, repeatedly, that attacks like this are rare.
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