Posted on 06/26/2011 3:08:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
” “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.
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.
Pit Bulls and Meth Labs go together very well in my part of the country.
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.
Targets.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Post proof.
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...........
Pit bulls are safe.
Shoot the owners when one attacks.
It’s they that are the danger.
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