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People keep getting mauled and killed by these damn dogs and this is the same crap we hear.

THATS BECAUSE ITS THE TRUTH. WHEN I WAS A CHILD MY COUSIN WAS MAULED BY A LAB. I HAD ANOTHER GET ATTACKED BY A CHIUAUA. LOOK IT COMES DOWN TO ONE THING. THE DOG SHOULD DIE BUT ITS AN ANIMAL TAUGHT BY A HUMAN TO BEHAVE THIS WAY. THE KEY WORD HERE IS ANIMAL. ALL ANIMALS ARE UNPREDICTABLE. IVE OWNED A PITBULL FOR 7 YRS NOW AND THE ONLY THING HE AS EVER DONE IS LICK MY 4 GIRLS TO DEATH AND KNOCK THEM OVER PLAYING. HE LIVES IN SIDE, IS ALWAYS BEING HUGGED, PETTED, GROOMED, HE IS PART OF THE FAMILY. NOT SOME DOG THAT GETS STUCK ON A CHAIN TWICE THE NORMAL AMOUNT OF HIM, SO THE OWNER CAN TAKE HIM OFF ONCE AND AWHILE TO SHOW HIM OFF. OH LOOK AT MY PITBULL SO MUSCULAR. ITS ALL YOU EVER HEAR BECAUSE THATS ALL THE MEDIA DISHES OUT. NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT A COCKERSPANIEL ATTACKING A CHILD. OH BUT A PITBULL (ITS BREED TO FIGHT) ITS SO DANGEROUS YEAH OK BE SIMPLE MINDED. TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH THERE HAVENT BEEN BREED TO FIGHT FOR QUITE SOME TIME. UNLESS YOU BUY YOURS WITHOUT PAPERS FROM THE BACKWOODS. MOST TOP QUALITY PAPERED PITBULLS ARE TAKING TROPHIES IN WIEGHT PULL AND SHOW COMPITIONS. DO SOME HOME WORK. HAVE WE EVEN SEEN PICKS OF THIS DOG. WE KNOW FOR A FACT IT IS A PITBULL? OR IS IT A MUTT THAT LOOKS LIKE ONE. SEEN IT BEFORE THAT ALL?

I’ve heard it all before:
Scott Pace Warren was inside his house Friday evening with his 13-year-old sibling when the dog attacked, Dallas police spokesman Sgt. Gil Cerda said. Family members told police the 1-year-old dog did not have a history of aggressive behavior.

“When the mother came inside the house, she saw the dog attacking the 6-year-old and tried to restrain the dog,” Cerda said. “By that time, a lot of damage had been done.”
Warren was taken to a hospital, where he died, Cerda said.
The fatal mauling occured one day before a new state law in which dog owners whose pets attack and seriously injure someone could face up to 10 years in prison took effect. In a fatal attack, the sentence could increase to up to 20 years.
Cerda said it’s too early to say whether anyone will face criminal charges.
Animal control officers removed the dog from the home. Its fate has not been decided, Cerda said.
“In many of these cases, the dog is normally euthanized,” Cerda said.
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ITS ALL YOU EVER HEAR BECAUSE THATS ALL THE MEDIA DISHES OUT. NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT A COCKERSPANIEL ATTACKING A CHILD. OH BUT A PITBULL (ITS BREED TO FIGHT) ITS SO DANGEROUS

You are in denial: The deadliest dogs Merritt Clifton, editor of Animal People, has conducted an unusually detailed study of dog bites from 1982 to the present. (Clifton, Dog attack deaths and maimings, U.S. & Canada, September 1982 to November 13, 2006; click here to read it.) The Clifton study show the number of serious canine-inflicted injuries by breed. The author's observations about the breeds and generally how to deal with the dangerous dog problem are enlightening. According to the Clifton study, pit bulls, Rottweilers, Presa Canarios and their mixes are responsible for 74% of attacks that were included in the study, 68% of the attacks upon children, 82% of the attacks upon adults, 65% of the deaths, and 68% of the maimings. In more than two-thirds of the cases included in the study, the life-threatening or fatal attack was apparently the first known dangerous behavior by the animal in question. Clifton states: If almost any other dog has a bad moment, someone may get bitten, but will not be maimed for life or killed, and the actuarial risk is accordingly reasonable. If a pit bull terrier or a Rottweiler has a bad moment, often someone is maimed or killed--and that has now created off-the-chart actuarial risk, for which the dogs as well as their victims are paying the price. Clifton's opinions are as interesting as his statistics. For example, he says, "Pit bulls and Rottweilers are accordingly dogs who not only must be handled with special precautions, but also must be regulated with special requirements appropriate to the risk they may pose to the public and other animals, if they are to be kept at all."