Posted on 08/21/2007 8:00:32 PM PDT by paulat
It’s pretty annoying when you can’t even go in your own backyard in peace. It makes you a prisoner in your own home.
Isn’t there something that could be done legally? Noise ordinance or something?
I hate to see it take a mauling to get something done. It always bugged me that problems like that cannot be dealt with until someone gets hurt.
Even the ones he tortured, because they wouldn't fight?
You sound like a good dog owner — with a level head. That being said, the “media hype” you talk about is more than media hype for me. I was in a situation where I was growled at by an unleashed, unsupervised Rottweiler who was immediately joined by an unleashed, unsupervised pit bull. Tell me about media hype.
So often it seems that a breed is destroyed by poor breeding once it becomes popular. Cocker spaniels, I think, were nearly destroyed as a breed from poor breeding after their popularity soared as the result of "Lady and the Tramp." After "101 Dalmatians," you had a lot of people running out to buy Dalmatians, then ending up turning them in to shelters. I suspect you now have a lot of poorly bred Chihuahuas as a result of their increased media exposure.
Wonder if you could find out who their insurance carrier is? They aren't renters, are they? So many pit owners are low lifes of no means to speak of...
We get enough crap from the media, I'd like to think we know better here. Following the link for the smaller picture back to its source I find no reference to that being a "pit bull" bite. I am unable to trace the link for the large pic back to its source so breed/type is indeterminate.
All dog bites are serious, some of course more so than others, and virtually all are preventable.
Here's one...
A GIRL aged four was recovering today after her face was ripped open by a dog she was trying to stroke.
But police said they were powerless to act because the attack happened on private property and the dog was not officially classed as dangerous.
Molly Malone needed plastic surgery on her cheek after being bitten by a ######## last Tuesday afternoon.
~snip~
Our first call was to the police. An officer came to see Molly and was shocked by the damage to her face.
~snip~
We have two dogs ourselves and we are animal lovers. But it has really damaged her face and my daughter is now permanently scarred, it only just missed her eye.
~snip~
Last year doctors at Alder Heys A&E department said they were treating the equivalent of a child a day for injuries caused by dog attacks, with one in five needing further treatment on more serious wounds.
You can check the link for the breed of dog.
And please note with respect to the last paragraph that this is an area where "pit bulls" are banned
Contributing Factors
Breed capable of inflicting significant damage.
Irresponsible owner(s) and gross negligence...Loose dogs
Pack behavior
Sex of dogs...Unknown
Reproductive status...Unknown
Function of dogs...Unknown
Failure of Animal Control..."Neighbors say they have had problems in the past with the two pit bulls running wild."
If you have to wonder that about a poster on this forum...I have to wonder about you
If a chihuahua goes beserk and attacks you a swift slap to the head will break its neck end of story, yet with a pitbull even a gunshot won't keep it down.
A crossbow is your quiet and discrete nighttime friend.....
Drives the CSIs crazy....
Some insurers already have put your excellent idea into practice (look at the fine-print "Adendums" to your own policy -- you might be surprised...
First and foremost, I never said anything bad about Pits and completely understood your sick azz post....that’s why I responded!
If you are ever in TN, bring your little pit/pom/in-bred/whatever the hell breed you have and we’ll see which dog can out rat each other! You are no better than Vick, taking dogs to the freakin’ woods....
Every single one of them. Most don’t live next door to Vick, and there’s no way looking at a dog to tell the future.
Every single one of them should be considered dangerous. It’s the only rational approach.
Dear, you're misinterpeting what the poster stated.
I agree with Cobra. If we didn’t have so many laws controlling us then there would be more of these menaces out of our yards, kids still alive as well as many fewer serious hospital calls.
I was thinking of an arclight, but my house is too close :)
I would agree a law is needed that ALL dogs found running loose should be killed, at least after the second time they are caught. Owners can have one freebie. But the law(s) should be local only. And wanting such laws does not make one a liberal. It just makes one sick and tired of people who have no sense of responsibility for their pets.
I consider any unknown dog, of any apparent breed, to be dangerous, until I discover otherwise.
#1, I was responding to a poster who claimed that only cats and foxes don’t like Jack Russell Terriers. I am not a cat or a fox, and do not like the breed in question. See post #25.
#2, This thread is another pit bull bashing thread. You asked WTF after reading my Russell comment, and I explained myself. Pot, meet kettle kind of thing.
#3, AlGoreLand is not very high on my vacation destination list, but your friendly invitation will be kept in mind. I’m sure Mr. Zippy would love to make your canine a mommy.
#4, “Taking the dog to the woods” is a euphemism for having it put down.
Irrelevant as to the breed - the point being dog bites are especially disfiguring, and pit bulls are the number one biters. There are only three types of injury routinely defined as emergencies in plastic surgery: Cold hand, gunshot wound to the face and dog bite to the face
All dog bites are serious, some of course more so than others, and virtually all are preventable.
Bullsh!t. Unless you mean preventable by preemptive killing of the dogs. According to the plasticsurgery4u.com site 94% of dog bites are UNPROVOKED. That means not preventable to me.
...I have to wonder about you
You need to go back to reading comprehension class because some of the "dogs can do no wrong" posters on this thread need a wake up call. Frankly I think anyone whose screen name is "luvmypitt" just might take a dog over a child. I was on a thread the other day with some silly woman who said that no punishment was too severe for M Vick for his involvement in dog fighting. I told her to develop a sense of proportion, and the whinney b***h nattered on endlessly how dogs were better than people, and how I was basically a sh!t for not thinking so too. So I'd say that some of the posters here would love their dog more than their kids. At least that idiot would. I'd ping her, but I don't remember her name, and she isn't worth the trouble of looking back to see.
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