Don't Bully My Breed

http://dontbullymybreed.org/ ^ | Aguust 28, 2010 | Me!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Did you know....

...3.)
Approximately 150 people are killed every year by falling coconuts. Therefore, you are more than 60 TIMES MORE LIKELY to be killed by a PALM TREE than a Pit Bull.

[Brad’s Gramma]

This is true...perhaps I’m going to do the same thing.

Food calls!! See ya!

[Darnright]

>You mean like men who’d like to meet some woman offline and beat her up?<

Er, well, yes (says I, after reading a bit at the end of this delightful thread). So anyone who defends people’s rights to responsibly own whatever dog they want gets called out behind the school building now? Nice. </ S>

[CharlesWayneCT]

There are many ways to make sure the people who live in your neighborhood don’t own pit bulls. After all, this entire thread is based on the notion that people are working hard to pass laws to prevent people from owning pit bulls.

And if you made a law that nobody could own pit bulls, it would pretty much guarantee that people in nice neighborhoods wouldn’t have their children killed by pit bulls.

I could also move into an HOA neighborhood where they ban pit bulls. Or I could buy a house where there are no neighbors.

The point is that the comparison was stupid, because people avoid being killed by Coconuts by avoiding trees with coconuts — and the pro-pit-bull people here are arguing that we should NOT be allowed to acheive the same result against pit bull attacks, by preventing pit bulls from being near us.

it has nothing to do with being a dictator. It was a simple statement of fact. I never said I would ban pit bulls. I said that banning pit bulls would prevent the death of many innocent children and pets.

I leave it to others to decide where on the risk-reward chart banning pit bulls falls. It seems that, for those who don’t already own pit bulls, banning pit bulls is really of little consequence, given the large number of other types of dogs you could purchase. But it certainly is a burden.

Is it a good thing we are not neighbors? Well, the last time I had a neighbor with dogs they could not control, I exercised my rights to not have angry, dangerous dogs running into my yard and attacking my children — I moved to a different neighborhood.

I’d hate to think that you are a pit bull owner, because in a thread where the anti-pit-bull crowd is arguing that pit bull owners are people who threaten their neighbors, it would be a shame if you were an example of said threats. Unless you simply meant that your dogs would rudely awake me with their incessant barking.

Mostly, I just find it silly to try to argue against the facts about pit bulls. It is clear there is a substantive difference in certain breeds of dogs; when my heighbor’s dog was brutally murdered by a pit bull, that owner had never trained their pit bull to be a vicious attack dog — it was simply in the nature of the pet.

[Darnright]

>Sadly, I’m often the one relatives call when their “problem child” dog needs its nails clipped.<

LOL. Chi WAA WAA’s. Gotta love their dysfunctional owners (c;

I have been engaged in my very first rooster fight. Little chickie thought he was gonna be Boss Hogg. I attempted some anger management therapy, but no dice.

Bird, meet Mr Crockpot. Problem solved.

[Darnright]

>I can guarantee I will never be killed by a pit bull, by making sure nobody who lives anywhere near me is allowed to have a pit bull.<

You better put your house on the market then. Virginia state code prohibits using a dog’s breed to label it as a “dangerous” individual. You cannot ban any breed in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Well yes. It all makes sense now. Babies aren’t really having their faces torn off by pit bulls, it’s the liberal media tearing the children’s faces off, and brutally murdering children and pets, and then planting evidence pointing to innocent pit bulls.

[Salamander]

When food calls, let the answering machine pick up....;D

See ya later!

[Salamander]

Using logic, it would appear that not *all* “insecure trash” are attracted to “fierce” breeds.

Some choose little foo foo dogs they use as date bait.

:)

[CharlesWayneCT]

Yes, and thus I will not be able to prevent being killed by a pit bull, whereas I can easily protect myself from being killed by a coconut.

You have made my point for me — the whole argument was rediculous, because the “risk” of being killed by a coconut, whatever it is, can be almost entirely mitigated, whereas, largely because of people like those on this thread, nobody can really protect themselves from the risk of being killed by a pit bull.

So, my chances of my son or daughter being killed by a pit bull are MUCH HIGHER than being killed by a coconut.

I will note that I didn’t say I WOULD do anything. I simply specified the way I could prevent the risk. I could guarantee not being killed on a roller coaster, by not riding coasters, but I’d never actually give up coasters.

[Salamander]

“where the anti-pit-bull crowd is arguing that pit bull owners are people who threaten their neighbors, it would be a shame if you were an example of said threats. “

Actually, the only threats made here were by an anti-pit bull person to someone who doesn’t even own a pit bull.

Funny, that.

[Salamander]

LOL!

Reminds me of the joke about the guy with the disorderly parrot....:))

The dogs whose nails I clipped were Toy Poodles, Collies, Walker Hounds and one Shar Pei.

I dropped giving out “helpful behavioral hints” years ago.

All it did was waste *extra* time there and got me excuses for the *next* go-round.

I just clip and leave.

[Darnright]

Charles, Virginia has a very well-written dangerous dog law. Should a dog threaten you, you have recourse to require the owner to keep it in a locked, covered pen. The owner is required to have a large insurance policy to keep the animal. It cannot be out of the pen except to go to the vet and it MUST be muzzled and leashed at all times.

You do not have guaranteed protection, no. That said, you do not have a guarantee that some human predator won’t murder you or your family members either.

Did your neighbor report the deadly attack on her pet? It’s important she do so, because then the owner of the pit bull will be required to either contain the animal as outlined above, or the state will make sure it’s destroyed.

[bannie]

I don’t grow coconuts. AND I don’t walk under coconut trees.

[Salamander]

West Virginia may be *almost* Heaven but Virginia obviously is!

Posting enviously from the free/freak state,

Salamander

[Salamander]

I live in a very heavily wooded area.

My dad [who has never been bitten by any dog in his 78 years] was nearly done in by a “fool killer” dangling branch which suddenly dropped out of a tree he was walking under while hunting.

He “got lucky” and only received a broken collar bone and severely bruised shoulder.

The irony of that is that, as a child, he drummed “watch out for fool killers” into my head to where it became second nature to scan the trees ahead of me for them, when walking the mountain.

Ban pit trees.

:)

[CharlesWayneCT]

Not much in life is guaranteed. Someone could throw a coconut at me, and kill me. But as far as risks go, I’m really quite certain that the risk of a person throwing a coconut at me is nowhere near as great as my children being killed by a pit bull.

I know people want to change the argument, to make this about something different. I’m trying to stay focused on the rediculous claim that people shouldn’t be afraid of pit bulls because “they are more likely to be killed by coconuts”. It was a stupid argument, and every reply to me has pretty much proven that it was a stupid argument.

[Darnright]

What this thread needs is a little canine levity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb6HbWkh0k4&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayldeeEsrOA

[Varda]

Checking in and I see all these pings. I did abandon the thread for a football game. It’s a milder and gentler game then these pit bull threads.

[Lil Flower]

I said that banning pit bulls would prevent the death of many innocent children and pets.

So would banning guns and mama's boyfriend, but I guess you would be against banning those.

I?d hate to think that you are a pit bull owner, because in a thread where the anti-pit-bull crowd is arguing that pit bull owners are people who threaten their neighbors

I am a very proud "pit bull" owner and again,I find individuals who want to behave as dictators and take away my freedoms to be the threat. So again, your problem would be with me not the dog.

Is it a good thing we are not neighbors? Well, the last time I had a neighbor with dogs they could not control

I don't have a dog that I can't control. You wouldn't have a problem with my dog, the problem would be with me. I don't allow neighbors to tell me how to live. I still believe in freedom. What little we have left from folks like you determined to turn us into a nanny state.

It is clear

The only thing clear is that you don't have a clue, so why don't you go get one.

[donaldo]

Quite right. A pit is violent by nature, just like a lion or leopard. Its in their DNA. This is a given. Certain dogs are predisposed to certain behaviors and tasks. This is undeniable. Not all pits are aggressive but I wouldn’t allow my child anywhere near them. Especially those I see here in San Antonio. The typical pit owner is a thug (not all). It’s no wonder they’re adored by Rappers and Hip Hoppers, it’s their dog of choice. This says a lot. Just check out their CDs. There’s usually a couple of bitches on the cover, a pit bull bitch and the other variety.