Yet another child dies at the jaws of pitbulls

[JBeukema]

The simple answer is to outlaw the breeding of these dogs. It is actually cruelty to the animals themselves to continue this idiocy.

Take a guess where else I've heard that exact same argument.

 

[JBeukema]

Do you happen to remember the woman mauled to death in an apartment hallway in San Fransisco? The dogs that attacked her were Presa Canarios, another breed bred to fight but unlike pits, these are enormous....as big as mastiffs.

Across the street from my brother's old house, where my neice now lives alone, there's just such a dog, and it is allowed out without a leash or fence (not that either one would be much help).

IMO, the people who want to own such animals (and I'd include wolf-dog hybrids here as well) have a screw loose.

Presa Demand Grows for All Wrong Reasons / Dogs wanted for killing, fighting - SFGate

Really? Wolfhounds? Most wolfhound breeds are pretty good with kids- they just have an instinctual and seething hatred for anything resembling a wolf.

 

[Tank]

When Pitbulls first came to America they were sold off and used for work.

If people discriminated for years against your "breed" maybe you would be more violent too.

 

[JBeukema]

No intelligent parent would leave any child unsupervised with any dog. Dogs are not human, even the most docile dog can snap.

Humans can attack children, too, and often do. It's a matter of knowing who to trust, regardless of the number of legs.

Usually, aggressive dogs, like aggressive humans, are made that way, not born that way.

I strongly disagree. Again...........

It is the breed.

You both have valid points. Any child can be made violent, but some genetic stocks are more inclined towards violence than others.

Army ants, negroids, pitbulls- all have been shaped at the genetic level to be more inclined towards aggression than other closely related populations.

It's not nurture versus nature. It's nature and nurture.

 

[JBeukema]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1xndiXQJsc

Why didn't they taze the dogs?

 

[JBeukema]

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[JBeukema]

I like chowchows

 

[JBeukema]

o sorry didnt see allie's post....but she is so correct

The one dog I've had I would not have left alone with a child was our American Bulldog. She was a sweetheart, but she played rough and she didn't always realize how sharp her teeth were- she thought she was nipping playfully, but it friggin' hurt...

 

[JBeukema]

bf is a prime example of why large dog owners fear
'dangerous dog' lists

once you do away with pits and rotties...what breed is next?

'If they take our extended clips and fully autos, what's next?'

 

[JBeukema]

I love my Mylo and she bites my daughter and all the neighborhood kids on a regular basis..and it's not cute play biting, either. It isn't as hard as she COULD bite, but it leaves a mark and makes them cry (though it doesn't make them avoid her, lol). She bit my daughter in the face the other day...my daughter stuck her face down on her when she was sleeping, and Mylo bit her; I could see teeth marks (again, didn't break the skin, just red marks that went away after a few minutes) on her cheek and under her chin.

That woul have taken off her face if it was a pit bull bite.

I always knew you were a retarded piece of shit...

 

[Madeline]

Do you happen to remember the woman mauled to death in an apartment hallway in San Fransisco? The dogs that attacked her were Presa Canarios, another breed bred to fight but unlike pits, these are enormous....as big as mastiffs.

Across the street from my brother's old house, where my neice now lives alone, there's just such a dog, and it is allowed out without a leash or fence (not that either one would be much help).

IMO, the people who want to own such animals (and I'd include wolf-dog hybrids here as well) have a screw loose.

Presa Demand Grows for All Wrong Reasons / Dogs wanted for killing, fighting - SFGate

Really? Wolfhounds? Most wolfhound breeds are pretty good with kids- they just have an instinctual and seething hatred for anything resembling a wolf.

No, JB. NOT a wolfhound....a cross between a wild animal (a wolf) and a domesticated one (a dog). Thought to be a "cool" animal to own among the more challenged members of our society.

 

[JBeukema]

I read 'wolf-dog' and somehow missed the word 'hybrids'

 

[Madeline]

I read 'wolf-dog' and somehow missed the word 'hybrids'

S'ok. If you have not lived among the incredibly stupid, you would never guess anyone would have this dumbassed idea.

 

[JBeukema]

Why would you cross a dog and a wolf? Isn't the reason we bred dogs because wolves are not good pets?

 

[Skeptik]

Why would you cross a dog and a wolf? Isn't the reason we bred dogs because wolves are not good pets?

The answer is in the rest of the post: "among the more challenged members of our society." the "challenged members" tend to do a lot of things that are not really great ideas.

 

[Madeline]

Why would you cross a dog and a wolf? Isn't the reason we bred dogs because wolves are not good pets?

Apparently, to a certain type of sociopath with adequacy issues, this sounds like a fun idea. It happens a lot here in Ohio -- and oddly, it also happened in Florida, where I used to live. Needless to say, the offspring are unreliable at best.

 

[AllieBaba]

I love my Mylo and she bites my daughter and all the neighborhood kids on a regular basis..and it's not cute play biting, either. It isn't as hard as she COULD bite, but it leaves a mark and makes them cry (though it doesn't make them avoid her, lol). She bit my daughter in the face the other day...my daughter stuck her face down on her when she was sleeping, and Mylo bit her; I could see teeth marks (again, didn't break the skin, just red marks that went away after a few minutes) on her cheek and under her chin.

That woul have taken off her face if it was a pit bull bite.

I always knew you were a retarded piece of shit...

Why? Because I don't shoot my little dog for acting like a terrier when the kids torment her?

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Spot on Maddie.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Not all pitbull owners are drug dealers, but all drug dealers are pitbull owners.

Here's a remedy for that if anyone after violates a durg law they will be forbidden to own any dog. It's a whole lot harder to hide a dog than it is to hide a gun.

What an excellent idea, bigreb!

I wonder why the justice system doesn't do this?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

The breed is not the problem. Properly maintained Pit bulls are perfectly safe.

 

[manifold]

The breed is not the problem. Properly maintained Pit bulls are perfectly safe.

Sure, if by 'properly maintained' you mean locked up in a cage.