I guess you didn't get the memo!!!
They ain't baad dawgs,,,
It's all the owners fault don't’cha know!!!
How will I know who to shoot?!?!?!
Maybe the dawg first,,,?
Then give the owner a full magazine...?
Well, while you reload, I’ll mention here that the owners ARE a problem, just not in the way that the owners say it.
Any owner with a dog that has yet to maim/kill considers themselves a ‘superior’ owner and has nothing but scorn for those who have witnessed the genetically determined killing instinct of their own dog (and who are then labeled ‘irresponsible owners’ by their ‘superiors’) that they have raised from a puppy. These self anointed ‘superior’ dog owners are hastily thrown under the bus (relabeled ‘irresponsible’) by their peers the moment THEIR dog does revert to the behavior the breed is known for (kills a family member, maims the postman etc). So all pit owners are on a continuum - just biding their time as ‘superiors’ until they are labeled ‘irresponsible’.
I think that all pit bull owners are irresponsible owners. They either ignore advice that they carry a break stick (to pry own their dogs jaws during an attack), an equipment omission which even the pit lovers websites portray as ‘irresponsible’ or they do carry a break stick because they realize that their dog is known to a)kill and maim and b) become uncontrollable and unwilling to respond to their owner’s commands to release their prey or halt their attack and yet they choose to own one anyway.
Here, let me help you with that bandolier...
You know after writing ‘all owners are irresponsible’ am having second thoughts because I have read a few accounts that indicate a small number of pit bull owners simply fell for the propaganda.
On dogsbite.org there’s a story about a woman who did everything the pro pitbull websites and experts said to do (very intensive training routine) and followed up with them as the dog slowly became a problem. When the dog attacked her own dog and bit her husband in the process, she was crushed but decided to have the dog euthanized because having done everything possible to socialize the thing, it was reverting to its own natural aggression. She wrote a six page detailed account of all her efforts to encourage and socialize the animal and submitted it to the shelter with a request that the dog be euthanized.
The shelter then stopped communicating with her and put the dog up for adoption with no mention of aggression and stressing that the dog was affectionate and lovable. I give that woman credit - she did everything right, and then the ‘experts’ took over and apparently adopted the dog out by advertising it as friendly. Once she studied up on the breed, she felt that she had been duped by the propaganda and had gone through this painful process for nothing (she really loved the dog and it was painful to decide to have it euthanized and her other dog was traumatized by the attack). And she wondered who ended up with that ticking time bomb of a dog after she gave it up...