S/O If you have a pit bull...why?

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Anonymous wrote:^^ so did the Goocheland woman who was just eaten. There is a reason why 700 cities have outlawed pitbulls.

Every article that I have seen about the woman in Goocheland states that the dogs were being neglected.

It is sad and unacceptable, but is it an excuse to kill and eat the owner?

[Anonymous]

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My mom's Australian shepherd was attacked by a pit on a walk -- the pit came flying out of nowhere and bit off half her ear. Owner was close behind, very distressed.

The situation that you describes is typical!
I watched multiple pitt attacks on dogs and people videos on youtube. What stroke me the most was the fact that NONE of a pitt owners know how to stop/break the attack! NONE!
They either slap a pitt in the face which he does not mind at all, freeze some 20 feet away doing NOTHING, or just pull them by the leash which does not help either. They have a weapon that they don't know how to control! Some owners obviously enjoy their pitt attacking cats or dogs.
And as far as I know there is no punishment for pitt attacking other animals, it's more like "oh, just get yourself another dog/cat".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
My mom's Australian shepherd was attacked by a pit on a walk -- the pit came flying out of nowhere and bit off half her ear. Owner was close behind, very distressed.

The situation that you describes is typical!
I watched multiple pitt attacks on dogs and people videos on youtube. What stroke me the most was the fact that NONE of a pitt owners know how to stop/break the attack! NONE!
They either slap a pitt in the face which he does not mind at all, freeze some 20 feet away doing NOTHING, or just pull them by the leash which does not help either. They have a weapon that they don't know how to control! Some owners obviously enjoy their pitt attacking cats or dogs.
And as far as I know there is no punishment for pitt attacking other animals, it's more like "oh, just get yourself another dog/cat".

This was my story, and I didn’t note it, but both dogs were leashed.

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Anonymous wrote:We are not evangelizing that everyone should own a pit bull, but rather trying to demonstrate that they are not all inherently dangerous simply by virtue of their appearance.

You are missing a point of people's concerns. No one is bothered by their appearance, they are beautiful dogs.
People are worried about pitbulls' incredibly powerful jaws, their unpredictable temperament, their pain tolerance which makes it hard to stop the attack, and their habit of refusing to release the victim.

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Anonymous wrote: My question is why do you choose a pitbull over other breeds that are just as loving and cuddly as you claim your pitbull breed to be? Especially since you have to be aware that pit bulls have a very negative reputation and people will fear your dog? What is it about you that you want to purchase a dog that other people obviously fear and do not trust?

We are not buying these dogs! We are rescuing them. Shelters are overrun with pit bull mixes because there are millions of them.

There are also other dogs at the shelter that need to be rescued. You are deliberately choosing a dog that you know other people fear or avoid.

No. I am choosing a dog that people hate so much that they feel licensed to behave barbarically. I am choosing to rescue the dog that is at greatest peril from people like you that hate animals.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the appeal of yappy, aggressive, rat/like chihuahuas. Same reasoning. Could be any number of things. Protection. You find them cute. You like their blocky heads and their doggie smile. You prefer a larger size dog.

(And no, I don’t have a pit bull.)

No, it isn't. Because I've never heard of a "rat/like chihuahuas" tearing off a baby's face. You assert that "yappy" small non-pit breeds are "aggressive"? The stats about dog breeds and their rate of documented attacks says otherwise.

It’s been awhile since I posted and the thread has exploded but I just wanted to post this:

http://www.thedogplace.org/Family-Dog/0901-Most-Aggressive-Dogs.asp

They may not be able to inflict the damage a large dog can, but make no mistake about the most aggressive little a**hole dog breeds.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: My question is why do you choose a pitbull over other breeds that are just as loving and cuddly as you claim your pitbull breed to be? Especially since you have to be aware that pit bulls have a very negative reputation and people will fear your dog? What is it about you that you want to purchase a dog that other people obviously fear and do not trust?

We are not buying these dogs! We are rescuing them. Shelters are overrun with pit bull mixes because there are millions of them.

There are also other dogs at the shelter that need to be rescued. You are deliberately choosing a dog that you know other people fear or avoid.

No. I am choosing a dog that people hate so much that they feel licensed to behave barbarically. I am choosing to rescue the dog that is at greatest peril from people like you that hate animals.

I love animals. I have always had pet and my dogs are part of my family. I have “rescued” mutts from the shelter. I would never get a pit mix. I love my family and friends as much as I love animals.

[Anonymous]

Should we just kill all the pits?

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I don't put much stock into any data on dog bites because I know most incidents simply are never reported. I was bitten in the face by a basset hound as a kid and as an adult by some chow mix. I know both of those were never reported.

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Dog foster here. Most aggressive dog I’ve had? Chihuahua. Couldn’t kill me though.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't put much stock into any data on dog bites because I know most incidents simply are never reported. I was bitten in the face by a basset hound as a kid and as an adult by some chow mix. I know both of those were never reported.

Sure, many dog bites are not reported. Dog bites requiring medical attention are reported, and fatalities are reported. A bite that requires stitches or surgery is reported.

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Anonymous wrote:A dog with a sweet temperament, doesn't change that the dogs are bred to have a violent hair trigger.

I find that people I know that own them are consciously making the choice to be anti-social and counter culture. It's awful. I won't go to their homes and am uncomfortable around their dogs. I have too many other friends who have been bitten by pits. They are a liability and I personally think people who own them are stupid and willfully mean. Why else would you own a dog that puts people on edge when you walk down the street other than to be a tough jerk?

Oh puh-lease. Yes, that's me - stupid and willfully mean! Actually if you visited my house, I would have the dogs upstairs in a bedroom because they get too excited when strangers come by and start begging for food. Plus I would never want to make people uncomfortable at my home. I have friends who are afraid of dogs of any kind so the dogs get sent upstairs during visits.

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Anonymous wrote:I have family members with pits. Some of them got Amstaffies from breeders, and yes, I think the "cool" and "rebel" factor was a part of it. Others just got a dog from the shelter, and most dogs at the shelter are pits/pit mixes nowadays.

At the Fairfax Animal Shelter right now, they have 22 dogs and 4 or 5 of them are not pits or pit mixes. So 17 or 18 of them are pits or pit mixes.

Why sre they not putting down these pits, especially in a county run shelter?

Those dogs ended up in a shelter for a reason, likely very negative. It is irresponsible to rehome those pitbulls out again to another family, especially to one that lives in a neighborhood or has kids.

They end up in a shelter because they're popular with poor and working class people who are more likely to run into economic difficulties and have to give up their dogs. That's the reason pure and simple.

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Anonymous wrote:My friend and her husband adopted a full pit bull from a shelter. They had a toddler at the time. He is great with all of them, and other humans. They recently had a baby, and he is great with the baby too. He is not, however, great with other dogs or animals.

See, this is what sets pitbull.owners off as a special kind of stupid.

They are so desparate to prove to the world that their pitbull is gentle as can be that they do things like take zero precautions to keep their pits away from children, or worse allow their own kids to walk their pits unsupervised, have their babies sleep on their pirbulls and allow their toddlers unattended with and or to climb allover thier pits.

They cannot reason at all when it comes to basic animal safety and their pitts because "he's such a big goofy cuddlebug"

How can dog owners of such a dangerous breed be so deliberately stupid?

No one should let their kids do this with any dog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^ so did the Goocheland woman who was just eaten. There is a reason why 700 cities have outlawed pitbulls.

Her dogs were abused and left outside and not fed regularly.