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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was on a beach in Delaware once and saw a pit bull grab another dog (sitting on a towel with its owner) by the neck and kill it.  Just walking by and casually killed it nbd.  Owner of the dead dog was traumatized, police were called, etc.  My kid was a tween and was upset by it all.[/quote]

Same thing happened just outside my neighborhood. Neighbor with the most adorable small dog that we all loved was walking it on a leash and a guy who let his pit off leash saw the dog and killed in so fast there was barely time to react. [/quote]

The guy saw the small dog and let his "pit" off leash to kill it? And the pit just swooped in silently and killed, no bark, no time to react?

Didn't happen, but what a story!  :roll:  :roll:  :roll: [/quote]
You can deny it all you want, and even embellish someone else’s story with details they didn’t give, but these things do happen, all too frequently.[/quote]

Someone's off-leash small dog killed a cat right in front of me. JRT. They're known for it.

Do you see the commonality here? It's not the breed, it's the lack of leash.

Stupidly claiming that it's "pit bulls" only emboldens owners of other breeds to do the exact same dangerous clownshoe behavior that's at the root of the actual problem: unleashed, untrained, unmanaged dogs allowed to run loose.[/quote]

A pit in our neighborhood snapped the neck of a stray cat while ON a leash right in front of our house. It happened so fast I almost couldn't believe what I was seeing.

The commonality here is an animal who is bred for a certain physicality and disposition, including a violently strong jaw and killer instincts, and then being treated like a normal pet.

Most dogs don't have the strength to harm anyone in the same way. They aren't built for it. Pit bulls are. They are built for it and they have been bred for aggression and violence for a long time.[/quote]

Good. Stray/outdoor/wandering cats are horrid, kill wild birds, spread diseases, and should be eliminated entirely.

Or, at least, it would be good. If it happened. Which it didn't.  :roll: [/quote]

PP here. Two things:

(1) It happened. I know because I had been in the process of getting that specific stray cat collected by animal control so that we could adopt her (once she'd been to the vet and declared safe to come into our home where we have children and other pets). I was the one who then had to call 311 to have her dead body removed from the side walk. I agree stray cats are an issue which is why I was interested in this cat and working to get her off the street. I should also note here that her ear had been clipped so she'd been spayed. The dog who killed her was not fixed.

(2) At the time I had a 1 year old. One of the reasons I was so shaken by seeing this happen is that I immediately thought how easy it would have been for that dog to do the exact same thing to my daughter, with whom I often walked down that same sidewalk.

Do you think that dog killed the cat because it was trying to protect wildlife in the area? You think he would refrain from snapping my baby daughter's neck because he knows the difference?

If you own an animal who is capable of killing a cat in a few seconds and with no warning on a city sidewalk, then you also own an animal who can kill a small child. And you should not own that animal and he has no business on a city sidewalk.[/quote]

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