Posted on 11/12/2009 8:43:54 AM PST by mnehring
Fair enough. But then, you have no way of knowing what the circumstances are regarding your contact, so you decide it was willful misreporting. You may be right, but you do not know, do you? Feel free to claim that the stats are not as bad as presented. Also feel free to tell me how low the stats need to be to decide pit bulls are not dangerous dogs.
Go past the stats that you do not believe and click on the quotes. Many, if not all, link to the original newspaper article. Perhaps you believe there were errors in the three part series wherein the owner of three pit bulls was trying to hold a boy up away from his dogs as they jumped up and ripped away chunks of him. I doubt it.
Read another story where the parents came home to find their son dead by a pit bull they loved and trusted and raised properly. Instead of calling “dogbite” to get those pesky numbers corrected for pit bulls maybe you should place a call to those parents and tell them that their kid is dead because they didn’t “mitigate the factors” as proper owners. pfff
All of you pit bull apologists do what you want. There is no question that based on the total number of pit bulls, even against the “grossly skewed” numbers on “dogbite”, the odds are you will never have a problem. But God help you if you are one of the few who does. I know what it is like to be one of those lucky “winners” when the doctor says: “this only happens to 1 in 500,000”. Once it is you or yours the odds no longer matter much, do they? Enjoy your dogs. And no, for anyone foolish enough to think I have some sort of axe to grind, it had nothing to do w/ dogs.
I’m done here. You all can stay and hold your straws ever more tightly.
You just don't get it.
The simple fact that since people have been documenting dog bite fatalities, there has not been any significant increase on average since pit bulls became popular. They just replaced other breeds that were number one over the years. This in itself should be enough for a rational person to see that they are not any more of a danger than any other breed. If they really were, the five to ten million of them alive today would be causing problems of epidemic proportions, and they simply aren’t. Sure, they’re on the news every couple of days, but compared to the 13 THOUSAND DAILY reported attacks requiring medical attention occurring anyway from all dogs, they are hardly even a drop in the bucket.
Beautiful! I’ve never had a Dobe, but I’ve heard and read they are “velcro dogs”. True?
We have a chow mix - love him to death! As for Malamutes, they’re NOT guard dogs although they certainly look the part. From everything I’ve read they will sit there and let a robber clean you out with a big goofy grin on their face! They are people-loving - just as pits are (which is what is often exploited by less than scrupulous owners!)
What do you mean by “velcro dogs”?
They “lean” on their owners when they’re sitting down, stick to them like glue, etc...Very loving animals from what I’ve read.
VERY loving.
That’s good to know. So sad that there are so many bad raps for the different larger breeds. Common sense is a great cure for many of the tragedies which occur with dogs - but unfortunately we seem to live in a world that prefers not to insist on individual responsibility. Easier to make the animal pay the price than admit to any carelessness, negligence or outright cruelty on the part of the owner/breeder/parent, etc.. (Sorry for the rant, but I’m pretty passionate about this issue!)
Best dog I ever had.
Give him/her a pat for me!
Tori is a she. I pat her all the time.
My Siberian Husky probably wouldn’t go after an intruder, but she is a big Husky (over 65 pounds) looks like a wolf with blue eyes, and has a bark/howl that is sort of scary which she does when a stranger comes to the door, where she can be seen through the glass. Our Chow never barked until the stranger had a hand on the doorbell, then he was suddenly THERE, displaying a mouth full of teeth and sounding like the end of the world. Chows still have a pretty bad rep, right up there with Staffordshires, Dobies, Rotts, etc. When I was a kid, that list didn’t include Staffordshires, but did include German Shepherds.
I personally think the worst biter in the dog world is a Chihuahua-I wouldn’t tangle with ANY barking dog, no matter the size.
I agree. I had a 95# Rottie mix, named Bettie,(she looked like a block-head Lab) and she was as gentle as a lamb. Never showed any aggressive behavior to anyone, slept next to my cat and was as smart as a whip. Off leash she would stop at corners and wait for me to cross.
Nor would I. I think that’s the problem - too much human error and total lack of understanding of basic canine behavior. That - and negligence, carelessness, cruelty, etc... along with a healthy dose of stupidity. Agree that smaller dogs can be very very aggressive - and Chihuahuas do have a rep. for being a bit aggressive.
“The simple fact that since people have been documenting dog bite fatalities, there has not been any significant increase on average since pit bulls became popular. They just replaced other breeds that were number one over the years.”
EXACTLY, Solosmoke!
Hilarious story about a Rottie male a friend of mine had. He had been raised with cats, thought he was one, and would try to do exactly as they did: i.e. climb on the coffee table, etc... Imagine a Rottie sitting on your coffee table! They can be so funny - and they want to please so badly.
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