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Someday, people will wise up and get rid of these dogs.
This is just unfriggin believable.
I am a dog lover, but here we go...” It is not the breed, it must be the owners..how they raised the little pit bull..”
Outlaw the breed.
Prior attacks = not worth the time rehabilitating a pit bull. Especailly with young children in the house. But I’m sure the father(if there even was one), with the small P, felt like a REAL man when he took the dog for a walk once every month or so.
May Jesus help the older kid(s) that found this little boy. I canot even begin to imagine the horror they encounted. I remember the first time I saw a friend killed in action, the first time I ahd to write a letter home, but to find your baby brother mauled by a dog, to hear that babies screams, is somehting only the Lord can help one through.
“But he was such a nice doggie... no problems at all once he ate the cat and attacked another dog.”
Why are the parents not being "euthanized"?
I understand enforced starvation can be very euphoric.
The knee jerking on this thread is troubling to me.
There is no such thing as a ‘vicious breed of dog’ folks.
Ask you vet.
Then I suggest you that are posting ‘ban the breed’ to review the list of dogs that lead in ‘biting’.
You’ll see the poodle near the top of the list, btw.
Obviously, this dog was extremely aggressive, but thats not ‘typical’ of the breed.
Even money says the owner had the dog and trained it up to this level, or somebody else did.
Again, ask your Vet if there is a breed of dog thats naturally ‘vicious’ and given to attacking. There simply isn’t one.
Pit bulls have tremendous power in their jaws, and as such when they bite, its going to be serious. It just kills me how the MSM has misrepresented this over and over and over again.
The same way they do ‘guns in the home’ btw. EXACTLY THE SAME.
Please, everyone, write Cindy Wolff who wrote the column “TLC can bring out the good in abused pit bull” for the Commercial Appeal (Memphis) newspaper, just after an attack in downtown Memphis that caused the loss of an arm for an elderly man getting off the bus:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/lifestyle_columnists/article/0,1426,MCA_529_5401645,00.html
Her email: wolff@commercialappeal.com
She is promoting pit bull ownership just at the time they are mauling our citizens.
One of her quotes: “All around Memphis there are other pit bulls living happy lives as family pets.”
Yeah, Cindy, and there may be some happy Komodo dragons or alligators living among us, but that doesn’t mean the cost of their happiness is worth the rest of us living in danger and constant fear of an attack.
one of these days we are gonna have open season on the POS dogs....
Where was mom?
Pit bull type dogs are terriers and terriers were created to be killers of one thing or another. I’ve worked with dogs all of my life and I’m always extra careful around any terrier breed. Pit bull type dogs just happen to be very large powerful terriers. I have met some wonderful one’s over the years, but unless a persons circumstances in life can handle such a dog I really wish people would choose another breed. Too much dog for most.
That said, I have no idea how the gov could go about banning them... Would a dog be banned because it “looked” like a pit breed? How mixed would it have to be to be passed over in the ban? What about the Am staffs/Staff bulls etc... being shown under AKC? A lot of questions... It’s a shame all people can’t just be responsible dog owners. I want to slap the silly fools who get a dog like that so they can look like “tough guys”, then tragedy occurs... :(
Pit bulls have been bred in the good ol' USA way before any of us were born yet only recently have they been causing trouble, and even the level of "trouble" is relative. Compared to swimming pools in the number of children killed per year, pit bulls are meek angels. Should we ban that too?
Once again, statist emotionalism trumps common sense freedom. You think the nanny-staters will stop at the "devil pit bull dogs?" Puh-lease. First it's pit bulls, trans fat, and cigarettes. Next thing you know they'll come for our guns and gas guzzling, "energy inefficient" cars. You know, "for the children"?
And we wonder why we are losing in the arena of ideas. Emotion trumps logic, always. Witness the massive caterwauling, on FR of all places, on any myriad of issues to day. Borders, WoT, 08 candidates, you name it.
It's way past time we stop fallign for cheap emotion and actually engage an issue logically. We don't want to become liberals, do we?
My oldest brother had a black lab that he loved dearly. Then one day it snapped at his daughter. It was put down the same day.
It's one of the main tenets of Conservatism: PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
Ever notice they never give the dog’s name in cases like this?
Maybe they need to send the owners head to Columbia for testing.