Can’t we just ban the breed? We’ve been talking about this since the eighties.
This shows that you should never run from a pitbull. You may get mauled anyway, but if you run it only feeds their madness. I stood down a pitbull once and he did stop.
People in suburban and urban areas shouldn’t be allowed to have killer dogs like that.
(They’re already not allowed to have lions and tigers and the like.)
Pits have a strong following, bordering on romantic defenders of the breed sometimes.
Statistics vary, as they always do, sometimes showing that Pits (and their genetic relatives) are no more harmful than other breeds.
Nonsense.
Pits can be triggered. I've seen it, and it would make most folks feel sick to see what they do. In my case, I saw a pit bull attack a smaller dog (typical, they go after smaller, weaker targets). The pit clamped its powerful jaws on the helpless yorkie's neck and would only relax slightly to lap the blood, then tighten again.
It's in their DNA. If they get the trigger, they go native. The owner deserves a strong fine, a stronger lawsuit and perhaps criminal proceedings if laws were broken.
Pitbulls are our “strength”. LOL.
My daughter has a friend who was recently attacked by a pit owned by another friend. This is a dog she had been around often, for years! One day she was in their house and, poof, the dog just “snapped.”. Same old story with this breed, way too often.
Back in 2017, a huge pitty walked in through the open front door of a house I was renovating. She found me in the kitchen. I stood there, frozen, trying not to betray my nervousness and slight fear. She approached me, jumped up, and killed me with non stop kisses. With all the stories I’ve read about them, I felt pretty lucky. Such a pretty sweetheart.
CHET99 honorary ping.
Pit bulls are the Muslims of the dog world.
One Pit Bull
One 9mm
Problem solved
That should read *put down* not *quarantined*.
I live in a town of 4,000 people, and it’s amazing how many dogs get loose or are let loose around here, a lot of them pit bulls. On the local FB page, someone just posted that three of them, all about a year old, had been dumped in front of her house. There was one loose just down the street the other day. Another one ran off last night. A while back, two showed up at the microbrewery’s beer garden. Fortunately, there have been no attacks that I am aware of. Sonsofbitches. I mean the owners who let them get loose or abandon them.
I am still waiting for an attack by a pack of rabid and feral chihuahuas.
1. Round Rock is not Austin.
2. Never ever run from any dog. A simple shout of “bad dog” or “eff off” with hand out palm out. Stand your ground.
Quarantined, then death.
Pit bulls. The Dindu Nuffins of dog owner world.
The exact percentage of pitbulls among all dogs owned in the US ranges from a low of 6 to a high of 25, depending on which source is cited. Some of the pro-pitbull crowd likes to distort things, but this range is very reasonable. Very well documented is the percentage of fatalities caused by pit bulls among all dog fatalities in the US. It has consistently been 66% to 70% at least since 2005, and I found one source which went back to 1982. The percentage hasn’t changed much from year to year, though it does seem to be trending upward a bit.
So, the best case is that 66% of all Americans killed by dogs were killed by a breed making up 1/4 of the dog population. The worst case is that 70% of those killed lost their lives due to a breed that’s only 6% of the dogs in the US.
Either way, for many decades the overwhelming majority of dog fatalities are caused each year by pit bulls. In addition, about 2/3 of those fatalities were a member of the family owning the dog.
Also, those defending the breed ALWAYS say it’s because of the owners, the way the dogs were brought up, blah blah blah.
However, I have NEVER, EVER, heard in the followup report after yet another mauled child etc someone sitting around saying “Yessir! That’s mah good ole boy Killer! I done been teaching him to eat people for 5 years, and it’s about dadgum time that he done it! Yee-Haw!”
On the contrary, it’s almost always “I just don’t understand... Tiny has been with us for years, and he’s the gentlest sweetest thing. Just yesterday he was snuggling the baby.” (The same baby that he tore apart 24 hours later.)
The pitbull apologists have a long list of excuses whenever something like this happens. Upbringing, failure to get the dog neutered, some innate “litter jealousy syndrome” (aka inherent violent aggression - point made!), failure to properly restrain the dogs, and even failure for someone physically able to fight them off being present at the scene of the attack, and on and on. (These are actual examples of some of the BS they have spewed after incidents.)
A perfect example of a horrific attack without provocation or “bad upbringing” occurred during the past year in Tennessee. A major, vocal pitbull activist had a wife and two small children. They owned two pit bulls, and had had them for 6-8 years, from when they were very young. They were household dogs. One day while the guy was at work, his wife heard chaos erupt in the next room. She ran in to find the two pits tearing apart her two children, who were around 8 months and 2 years old. She tried to intervene, and the pits turned on her, ripping her up savagely. When first responders arrived, the two children were dead and the mom in critical condition, with a, quote, “uncountable” number of stitches required to close the lacerations all over her face, head, arms, and elsewhere. She lived, but the damage was catastrophic.
I found a detailed follow-up report on this incident, which revealed that one or both of these pits were the XXL variety, and from bloodlines which included dogs that had also killed people. The breeder markets them as “lions on leashes”.
I love dogs, but have no compassion for pit bulls whatsoever. The same inbreeding that gives them their looks also continues the behavioral characteristics for which they were bred.
I don’t want a crystal vase full of nitroglycerin as a room decoration, nor a timber rattlesnake for a pet, nor a pitbull for a dog. All for the same reason.
Even when I occasionally read FR as a boy, I think there were intense pitbull threads. Good grief.
the three dogs have been taken to the Williamson County
Animal Shelter to be quarantined.”
...Personally I think they should be put to sleep and then
no one would have to worry about them attackers.