Posted on 09/10/2003 10:21:56 AM PDT by ambrose
Unless you're being sarcastic, this statement makes it hard to take you seriously. You are joking, right?
Woah. Let me start off with anyone who judges a dog by its breed name and what the media claims it to be....they're just plain ignorant and (if I might add) STUPID. I have pit bulls. Three. Rescued. I also have a German Shepherd and a Chihuahua. I do not consider myself white trash. That's just a dumb a stereotype as the stereotype of pit bulls being vicious. I've rescued and fostered MANY breeds of dogs...Chihuahuas, Yorkies, Poodles, Hounds, pit bulls, Schnauzers, Malteses, Jack Russell Terriers, Dachshunds, Pugs, Bostons, mutts, Rotties, everything...you name it...I've fostered it. I've found from my personal experience that Chihuahuas are the absolute meanest dogs in existence but they're still the media's little love bug. My Chihuahua will bite me, friends, family, kids (HATES kids), other dogs, my pit bulls and personal dogs and just about everything he can get his mouth on. I still love him but he's BAD. Mean. Pit bulls shouldn't be deemed vicious. Pit bulls were never, ever bred to be human aggressive until these recent years where they've become a fad with every guy and gal wanting to look tough. I've seen a LOT of Cocker Spaniels (the ye ol' family dog) that are aggressive to people. A LOT. To no fault of their own...high demand equals puppy mills which equals temperament issues. Pit bulls do pack more of a bite than a Chihuahua BUT so does every other breed over 20 pounds. Period. End of story. You ban pit bulls? Then you'd best ban any dog that has the power to kill a human being...which is EVERYTHING over 20 pounds. Sometimes even small dogs have killed people. Every dog has teeth. Every dog has the potential to kill humans. NOT just pit bulls. So you think the majority of the dogs that attack people are pit bulls? Think again: http://www.understand-a-bull.com/BSL/OtherBreedBites/AllDogsBite.htm
I was bitten by a dog as a child. A Dachshund. Right smack dab on my face. Only a few inches from my EYES. The only dog that has bitten my dog trainer is a Chihuahua. Twice. I've never been bitten by a pit bull...ever. In all my years of dog rescue and pit bull rescue I have never, ever once been even growled at by a pit bull. It is the owner's fault that these dogs bite people. Bad breeding, no socialization, abuse, neglect, lack of responsibility, leaving the dog unattended with kids, letting the dog run the neighborhood loose and etc. The media chooses to pick on this breed. Most pit bull "bites" aren't even pit bulls!
Punish the DEED not the BREED. Punish the owner. How hard is that to comprehend?
What?
You can't get coverage because you own Pit Bull Dogs?
How many do you own? One dangerous animal is never enough.
WOW, alot of people are really clueless and narrow minded. Pit bulls don't need to be outlawed. it has NOTHING to do with the breed of the dog. it has to do with the OWNER and the way the dog is raised. Unfortunately, alot of disfunctionals decide to own larger breed and more powerful dogs so they can train them to be aggressive. aggressiveness is not part of the breed, it's part of what is instilled by the owner.
they should shoot the owner.
Not hard at all, if you're a conservative.
OK, I really don't see how people can be so idiotic. It blows my mind. Nevertheless...it is the OWNERS that allow this to happen. If the dog had been properly socialized and (most of all) properly confined...this would not be an issue. It is the owner's responsibility and the end result is the story that started this discussion. It's not really breed specific either. It applies with all dogs. Yes, the kid may have provoked the dog blahblahblah....it's still the owners fault the dog was running around loose.
Insider with sharp teeth...
Well, at least he's not pretending to be the neighbor of the kid in the story.
True. But who comes on a political forum just to defend pit bulls on a very old thread?
Lazurus!
Paging Mr. Lazurus! Your thread is ready.
Yeah, how dare you attempt to enter reason and facts into this thread.
If any of these clowns had actually owned or had experience with Pits (apart from some guy babysitting an obviously abused puppy) they might have some space to talk.
But, instead they succomb to the sensational tabloidization of a breed. Kind of takes some of the mystery out of the bizarre grip Dan Rather, Petah, and the Canadien commie at ABC have on a great number of voters.
Pit Bulls are the SUV's of the dog world.
The media portrays these creatures as the most vicious and destructive beasts on the planet. So guess who wants to own them? The kind of person who is attracted to viciousness and destructiveness.
In other words, exactly the kind of person who should never be allowed to own one.
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