Want to criticize pitbulls? Do it here!

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Anonymous wrote:This is my neighborhood. https://moco360.media/2024/12/18/pitbull-fatally-shot-wednesday-after-attacking-two-women-in-bethesda/

I want to know which idiot neighbor has two pitbulls that they don’t keep secured.

I'd like a public list of any a hole who doesn't keep their dogs secured. Sounds like the human(s) got bit trying to breakup a dogfight that never should've happened, and the end result is 2 dead dogs. How sad! Dog owners should be more responsible about securing and controlling their animals.

But... if the "pitbull(s)" in question were really the vicious beasts y'all want to claim, how is anyone alive to tell this tale? This is literally a dogfight. Could've been any breed of dog. It's sad, and the owners of the loose dogs should be fined (honestly, they should be prevented from owning dogs), but this isn't a clear statement about the breed unless you're willing to say no other dogs behave this way, and they literally all can and do.

It's sensational because "someone said pitbull". Someone said pitbull shouldn't be news.

What?! One dog kills a dog and sends two adults to the hospital, and you think that doesn’t make it a vicious beast because the women aren’t dead too? That’s insane. This story would make the news anywhere regardless of the type of aggressive dog involved because gunshots and police sirens in quiet suburban neighborhoods are always newsworthy. It just so happens that, as is so very often the case, the vicious out of control dog turned out to be a pitbull.

Missed the point, eh? This whole thread has pages of examples of ignorant idiots who think pitbulls just kill anything they see for the joy of it. If that were true, the women would be dead too. They're not.

"as is so very often the case" Bro, this doesn't happen "very often" at all, which is why it makes the news. And if you want to talk about how many of the incredibly-infrequent incidents are pit bulls, you need stats on how many "pit bulls" there are vs. other breeds so that the context is factually represented.

All of which has been said on this thread, ad nauseam, but, again, "someone said pitbull" and now... this (again).

Y'all are a trope. It's like TDS. Pit Bull Derangement Syndrome or something...

"Sends two adults to the hospital" with minor, non life threatening injuries they probably incurred trying to break up a dog fight w/o knowing how (understandable, but still not smart). Again, this doesn't support the "pit bulls attack anything that moves" posturing so many of the haters use to justify their hate.

No one has claimed that pit bulls attack anything that moves.

You are having a weird response to an awful story. The aggressive dog (whatever it's breed), killed this woman's dog. That's terrible. As an animal lover, my heart breaks for the dog and for her.

Disturbing detail: while the police waited for backup, the aggressor was left to EAT THE DEAD DOG in the yard. That's... very upsetting.

If your first response to this story is to launch into a defense of pit bulls because the dog in this story did not also kill or maim two humans, that is a weird instinct.

It's true that we don't actually know if the dog was a pit. Though pits are very easy to spot at this point because they are so common.

The linked story makes clear the aggressor was a pit bull. It is beyond bizarre to me that anyone reads this story and has an instinct to blame the victims of the attack, including a dog that the pitbull ate before it attacked the police officer/officers who put it down.

NO, the linked clickbait uses "pitbull" without anything to substantiate the claim, and even goes on to say that the police report does not list the breeds of any of the involved dogs.

Someone posted it on this thread, which means it gets the context of this thread, which is a lot of shrill harpies making baseless accusations about the wild violence of "pit bulls".

Nobody is blaming the victims. Smart people aren't even blaming the dogs. Liability for this incident is clear: the owner(s) of the loose dog(s). That doesn't mean that there aren't missing details, other complicating factors, etc.

JFC the education in this country...

You’re one to talk. What kind of educated person uses the phrase “shrill harpies”?

[Anonymous]

That’s why I carry mace when I walk my dog. A few years ago a dog attacked mine, the owners leash broke and her dog got loose, pinned mine down and wouldn’t stop biting, I fell down trying to separate them. She just stood there stunned. Good thing a neighbor was next to me, he helped get the dog off and helped me up. I took her info and cursed all the way home. I carry it everywhere and would not hesitate maxing a dog if an owner can’t control them.It was a such a scary experience, since then we avoid dogs we don’t know, wave hello from afar, cross the street and keep not moving.

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Anonymous wrote:That’s why I carry mace when I walk my dog. A few years ago a dog attacked mine, the owners leash broke and her dog got loose, pinned mine down and wouldn’t stop biting, I fell down trying to separate them. She just stood there stunned. Good thing a neighbor was next to me, he helped get the dog off and helped me up. I took her info and cursed all the way home. I carry it everywhere and would not hesitate maxing a dog if an owner can’t control them.It was a such a scary experience, since then we avoid dogs we don’t know, wave hello from afar, cross the street and keep not moving.

+1 regardless of breed. If your dog is under your control, it won't be in range to worry about my boot, my walking stick, or my pepper spray.

If your dog is close enough to me that any of the above are in range, you're not doing your job correctly.

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They’m shot a dog who mauls but What happens to the sog owners? So they go to jail or get fined?

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Anonymous wrote:They’m shot a dog who mauls but What happens to the sog owners? So they go to jail or get fined?

They'll get county fines, assuming they can prove the dog was loose and the attack was unwarranted (i.e. the other dog was leashed, minding its own business on public property under the proper control of its owner).

Jail is highly unlikely unless there's some kind of contributing factor (previous citations, which might've led to restrictions on the dog and limits on where it could be and how). Civil case for the medical and psychological damages, maybe. Again, the injured parties will have to show they were simply minding their own business (I mentioned this upthread and someone blew an ass gasket about it, but there was a reason).