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Anonymous
| These dogs had never shown any aggression in over 8 years! I don’t think the parents could have known. Having said that we don’t know what started it. I’m not victim blaming a 2yo and a baby but if the baby rolled on a dog, or pulled it’s tail, or the 2yo poked one with a stick or something, dogs will react. Two dogs together get the pack mentality and all hell breaks loose. This could happen with any breed. Pitt bills happen to be large strong dogs.. |
Anonymous
So true. It’s ignoring reality. And it seems to often go along political lines, I don’t know why. |
Anonymous
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Agree we should ban them. I think the key is to ban breeding dogs that have identifiable pit bull characteristics or parentage. Often the people breeding these dogs are doing it for the wrong reasons anyway (breeding dogs for strength, viciousness, and size, either for dog fighting or for “protection”) so this is not done innocent “oh gosh I had no idea” innocence. Going after some of these breeders would make a real impact on prevalence of the breed, especially in rescue populations.
Speaking of rescues, there are two reasons that pit bull mixes are so common in shelters (often it’s the vast majority of dogs in a shelter). It’s because people adopt these dogs and then discover the dog is scary or aggressive, and abandon them. Even people who want dogs mostly don’t want pits (unless they want an aggressive dog, because they WANT the dog to attack). This should tell us something. |
Anonymous
That’s not true. Pits are 6% of dogs in this country and cause 65% of deaths from dog attacks. It’s not “any breed”. |
Anonymous
Yeah absolutely not true. Both of my dogs (herding breeds — one a sheltie, one a border collie) snapped at or bit my children once or twice when they were toddlers and did something to upset the dog like startling it while sleeping. The worst injury incurred from these warning bites was a scratch on the face. That’s it. I never had to worry about my kids dying. |
Anonymous
The dogs apparently got into a fight over a ball and the "loser" went and attacked the baby. The Dad apparently referred to the dogs as house lions and posted stuff talking about how no one was going to take his pits. The Dad, at a minimum, should be in jail. His pit worship killed his kids. |
Anonymous
| The news articles are all different. The link on this post says it happened inside, the one I read yesterday said it happened outside. I feel like we’re not getting the true story. |
Anonymous
THE DOGS WERE EFFING PIT BULLS. THAT IS HOW YOU KNOW. |
Anonymous
This doesn’t include all of the pet cats and dogs that pitbulls maul and murder every year. I am so tired of aggressive breed dogs eyeing my 20-lb dog like prey every time we go for a walk. And I’m supposed to trust that the owner out walking with their face glued to their phone has a tight grip on the leash. |
Anonymous
There are also some reports that the dogs had been getting more aggressive and the mom.had asked to rehome them but Dad had refused. His Facebook page was apparently full of pit bull stuff, some articles have screenshots. There's also reports that the responding officers vomited, the carnage was so bad. Never pit bulls. Never. |
Anonymous
+1. And I never understood the argument that a dog had NEVER shown aggression, or was owned for 8 years without a problem, etc. SO WHAT????? does it count less if it's the first time that it attacked and killed? The point is that it does attack and kill, sometimes for minor "triggers" for lack of a better word. Just because it never showed aggression before doesn't mean shit. Not to mention, there isn't a person alive, including the owners, that didn't know about the possibility of this happening with pitbulls being around children. Unless they didn't have functioning brains, they had to know of the possibility and the times it has happened in the past to other children. And they took a chance, let their egos guide them instead of their brains guiding them, and now have lost their children in a horrific way. |
Anonymous
True story. Those pit bulls took away precious and innocent lives. Why or where is not important. The breed needs to die. |
Anonymous
this happens with Pitbulls. They can seem nice for several years and then they can suddenly turn on their owners. I have seen it personally. They can be absolutely beautiful up to that point when they SNAP. |
Anonymous
And what details could possibly make dogs literally ripping a baby in half acceptable? Oh the little girl shouted or threw a ball? She deserved to die for that? I'm so.sick of pit apogists. I know from personal experience these dogs are.more aggressive and rougher than other dogs. The stats show they make up korenthan half of fatalities, despite being a minority of dogs. |
Anonymous
And this right here is the problem. People like this poster should be banned from owning dogs. “I’m not victim blaming,” then you proceed to blame a 5 month old and 2 year old for being mauled to death by dogs that any reasonable person can admit should not be around children. Seriously, PP, you are sick. |