Posted on 04/06/2009 7:39:41 AM PDT by stinkerpot65
The scene was so gruesome that even seasoned emergency responders broke down and cried.
"They were never agressive; never seen them agressive," Watson said. "Never bit no one."
"I'm scared," Watson said. "I've got three kids who are going to be without a mom to be there for them."
Watson was sentenced to seven years in prison; that's part of the reason she can't stop crying.
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I'm sure they did. I don't really remember. It's been so many years since I've prosecuted. Our current city attorney has the same complaints about pit bulls. They really are dangerous animals. Those that have been abused are more dangerous, but even those with loving owners in some instances will maul people, even kill people. Most maulings do not result in a fatality, but if a pit bull tears into it's going to do some damage. And it can be a nice dog that seems to just love people and then out of nowhere tear some kid's hand off, or his face.
They're just not a good breed to have anywhere where they might encounter innocent strangers, and it's certainly not a good idea to let them roam around the neighborhood. But people will do that, and sometimes dogs will get out through a loose board in a fence, or crawl under it. I have a little terrier I can't keep in the backyard because she'll always find a way out. She destroyed my lattice work fence. She bolted on me this morning when I was walking out the front door and she's done that before where I couldn't find her for hours. Most pit bulls are good dogs that never hurt anyone, but there just is no breed capable of causing so much damage that is as likely to attack people as a pit bull. And even if people are responsible their dogs can get loose and really hurt people. Again, most deaths from maulings are caused by pit bulls even though they aren't even in the top 50 most popular breeds. They're just dangerous dogs and I wish people would just stop buying them. If there were no pit bulls we'd have far fewer people being killed or seriously injured by dogs. Not that there is a huge epidemic of that, but it's always a tragedy when it does happen and the breed most likely to do it is the pit bull.
My sister has a jack-rat, people moved in next door to her that breed pits. The pits have come over and under the fence into her yards and attacked her dog once, but she was able to stop it before too much damage was done. There is nothing she can do about it. So now, my sister owned her house first, but can’t even let her little dog in it’s own backyard because of the idiots next door.
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Same krapolla goin’ on here,,,
Thug puppy-mill next door,,,Section 8 house,,,welfare,,,
Walking my yorkie in my backyard has now become a
“Search and Destroy” mission,,,If that ain’t enough,,,
The ass-clown that lives in the house next to them now
has 2-3,,,I guess we’ll have !TWO! puppy-mills now,,,
One of them got out not 30 min. ago and ran into my yard
while I was workin’ on the house,,,
I gave the owner a good cussin’,,,
I guess I’ll have to carry the gun as well as the tools!!!
Huh-I’d say the same thing about parents and kids.
Well said. This type of hysteria is more typical of what I would expect to see on DU or DailyK, not on FreeRepublic.
It’s amazing the ignorance that one can find even here on what the Constitution does or does not say...Frightening really.
Perhaps owners of larger breeds should be required to take a licensing test indicating knowledge of law, and dog care and that of other critters. They should also perhaps be required to have some kind of liability insurance....and you would exercise this control exactly how? By penalizing those dog owners who already exercise due diligence while those who are negligent will ignore the law, just as they would ignore laws against the ownership of firearms.
” Bred properly, trained properly and treated properly, they are wonderful pets full of love and loyality.”
Read my post #20. Be very careful. Daisy was bred from AKC champs. Cared for lovingly, and one day, under completely normal situations, snapped. Good luck.
That was back in ‘72/73.
They were bred to kill other dogs. I should have been more clear. I did not mean to imply they were bred to kill people.
I’m not sure I’d call it genetic damage, but certainly when one breeds only for appearance the working aspects of any breed deteriorates rapidly.
BTW, many of the rather imprecisely defined “pit bulls” of today are indeed bred for - and trained - to be aggressive towards people. Just presumably not their master.
Hi Joe...my 2 dogs don’t know they could kill anybody. But they do know I could kill them.....:O) goat granny.
How can you not say they are a special case.The only thing that is special about them is the fact that they are the current breed of choice of the idiots.
Next time use a heavier shovel...Or steel rake, tines down...stay safe...goat granny
much of what you say is true, but a dog biting someone is a little different than a dog that is bred to kill someone.
Pit Bulls were bred for dog fighting, not for killing people. They were bred to fight other dogs. They were most definitely not bred to attack people. They were bred and trained to allow their handlers to walk step into the middle of a fight, and to break it up, without turning their aggression on the handler. Which is something that very few dogs will allow.
We do have breeds that were specifically created for attacking people. The Mastiff and the Great Dane. But we've seen zilch about killer Mastiffs or killer Great Danes. Why? It's not because these dogs can't be dangerous. Both would be far more dangerous than a Pit Bull, if they were raised the way these dangerous Pit Bulls are. But Mastiffs and Danes aren't popular among the idiots who think that having a tough, mean dog is a sign of manhood.
OK, according to that 15 fatalities in TX. How many pits in TX? It’s got to be a huge number. I think this is proof that the vast majority even of pits are not out there killing folks. But hey, that doesn’t make a good story.
I guess it is how you look at things and what ones perspective is...
You could take your above senario and substitute illegals for pits and I suspect the same statement would be valid. I don’t condone murder by illegals and I don’t condone killings by pits. They both are wrong and we should stopped.
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