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Pit Bulls: Safe or Dangerous?
NBC San Diego ^ | Sunday, Jun 26, 2011 | Sarah Grieco

Posted on 06/26/2011 3:08:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: SoldierDad

” “Every breed has attacks or fatalities against them.””

Yeah, I can see where my golden retriever would rip apart someone. At worst he would go fetch your chihuahua f it got loose.


21 posted on 06/26/2011 4:40:50 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liberals who graduate from Ivy League schools are the dumbest people on the planet.)
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t know why this is even a debate. Don’t people have any inkling of the history of selective breeding of dogs and other animals? Dogs were selectively bred to have specific traits that were beneficial to their human owners.

Pointers and Setters point, retrievers retrieve, sheep dogs herd livestock, and other dogs perform other tasks they’ve been bred to perform. Pit bulls were bred to attack and fight, and sooner or later that can come out no matter how responsibly or irresponsibly their owner’s have raised them.


22 posted on 06/26/2011 4:45:01 PM PDT by Will88
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To: nickcarraway

Pit Bulls and Meth Labs go together very well in my part of the country.


23 posted on 06/26/2011 4:45:57 PM PDT by HChampagne (I am not an AARP member and never will be.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

LOL I’ve had goldens for years.

Our current one is a rescue, 100# rambunctious teenager.
He’d never bite anybody, just knock them over with momentum.
Sometimes when he’s done licking the grandchildren I have to towel them off.


24 posted on 06/26/2011 4:47:56 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nickcarraway

Targets.


25 posted on 06/26/2011 4:50:36 PM PDT by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "p" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
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To: nickcarraway
"Pit Bulls: Safe or Dangerous?"

Not dangerous, if ventilated from front to rear with lead.


26 posted on 06/26/2011 4:56:11 PM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96)
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To: nickcarraway

Sorry to the pitbull fans out there, but if I catch one roaming freely I will shoot it. They are far too dangerous to kids.


27 posted on 06/26/2011 4:57:43 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

One of my tenants had a cat that was 12 years old. Two pitbulls roaming the neighborhood tore the cat apart, in her kitchen.

Enough said.


28 posted on 06/26/2011 5:01:00 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: nickcarraway

Pit Bulls: Safe or Dangerous?

ONly one way to find out for sure, take 500 of them, don't feed them for three days, don't let them rest for those three days and then turn them loose in the halls of Congress.

29 posted on 06/26/2011 5:03:47 PM PDT by FreeMaine (America, please, please, please, unite and kick Maine out of the Union.)
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To: SoldierDad
So, where do I go to find out about the deaths caused by Chihuahua's???

Chihuahuas confront cougar in SoCal garage

KTLA News
June 14, 2009

SAGE, Riverside County -- A woman got the surprise of her life when she walked into her garage to see why her dogs were barking. She found a full grown mountain lion.

Ana Lee Spray says her three chihuahuas were barking so loudly, she couldn't figure out what was wrong. But, she quickly got the answer staring back at her. She says the big cat appeared to be angry and began hissing at her. She picked up her pint-sized puppies and ran back into the house.

She then grabbed her video camera and took a few pictures of the caged cougar, after she called 911.

Officers with the Department of Fish and Game arrived at Spray's home in the 3900 block of San Ignacio Road a short time later and tranquilized the cat. The mountain lion ran out of the garage and had to be tranquilized a second time in Spray's yard.

Experts say the animal was likely looking for food and had his eye on the chihuahuas as a quick snack.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-garage-cougar,0,224308.story

30 posted on 06/26/2011 5:05:26 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: nickcarraway
The Pit Bull Rescue Central website advocates against the notion that the breed itself is dangerous. Marcy Setter runs the website educating dog owners and restoring the pit bull image.

I would challenge Ms. Setter to this. She gets in a room with a pit bull and I'll get in a room with a beagle. Then, someone will constantly prod each dog. We'll see who walks out.

31 posted on 06/26/2011 5:06:56 PM PDT by OldPossum
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To: Trod Upon
Usually the problem seems to come from people who have packs of them

Approximately a year ago, while walking one of my Labs at the neighborhood park a couple blocks from our home, I witnesses a pit bull engage in an unprovoked attack on a 10 year old female black lab that was sitting right next to it's owner, and not even looking in the direction of the pit bull. The pit bull was not on a leash, and the owner, a young woman, had zero voice control over the dog. The only reason the Lab did not suffer serious injury (the pit drew blood, but not a lot) was because the Lab went onto her stomach and did not resist. The owner of the pit and the owner of the Lab managed to get the pit to release the Lab after holding down the Lab for approximately 2 minutes. While I cannot be sure about the pit's age, it appeared to be somewhere between 1 to 3 years old.

32 posted on 06/26/2011 5:10:27 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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We had two pit bulls roaming free in our neighborhood one day that came running up into our front yard while we were doing some work on one of our vehicles - no license or ID tags. They were friendly enough, but did provide us with a scare. We leashed them, and called Animal Control, who came and took them away. Had they been vicious, there would have been no time to get my shotgun before someone was seriously injured.


33 posted on 06/26/2011 5:20:22 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I’ve been bitten twice by one of my Labs while trying to separate them after they started fighting over a rawhide chew. They’ve not done that again for a long time.


34 posted on 06/26/2011 5:23:04 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: FatherofFive

When I was 10 our Chihuahua/Dashhound mix chased a large German Shepard out of our yard, and halfway down the block. I couldn’t stop laughing for quite a while. I just wish I had had a video camera back then.


35 posted on 06/26/2011 5:25:43 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: SoldierDad
When I was 10 our Chihuahua/Dashhound mix chased a large German Shepard out of our yard, and halfway down the block. I couldn’t stop laughing for quite a while. I just wish I had had a video camera back then.

I read somewhere that dogs really don't know how big they are, and they somehow think the are as large as the other animal that they see. This is why the three Cuihuahuas could take on the cougar.

I don't know how "they" figured this out, but it sounds plausable.

36 posted on 06/26/2011 5:58:32 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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37 posted on 06/26/2011 6:31:40 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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Post proof.


38 posted on 06/26/2011 6:46:29 PM PDT by Eaker (The problem with the internet, you're never sure of the accuracy of the quotes. Abraham Lincoln '65)
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To: umgud
we have about 120 acres at work and one day a coyote crossed our property. Sally ran it down and visciously ripped it to shreds.

Bravo!

Good dog.

Let's hear some stories about goldens or labs or teacup turds protecting property like this! Oh, and not fiction like most of the posts on these threads.

Crickets...........

39 posted on 06/26/2011 6:54:29 PM PDT by Eaker (The problem with the internet, you're never sure of the accuracy of the quotes. Abraham Lincoln '65)
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To: nickcarraway

Pit bulls are safe.

Shoot the owners when one attacks.

It’s they that are the danger.


40 posted on 06/26/2011 7:00:59 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Be respectful, be courteous and have a plan to kill every mob member that threatens you.)
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