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I dont' get the fascination with this breed of dog. Why is it that every attack I hear about involves pit bulls? Are the media just hyping them up or are the dogs really just involved in that many incidents? Man, if you owned a pit bull that killed my child, it woudlnt' be pretty.
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Buy your kid a pet porcupine.
Animal bred to be aggressive (kill!) becomes aggressive (kill kill kill!).
Note: Qyntel Woods could be a long 3.
it all depends on the owner....
It all depends on how they're brought up. Pit Bulls can be some of the sweetest dogs ever. Teacup poodles bite people too. (granted, they don't kill people) My family is a big dog family (Rotweiler, Lab/Rotweiler mix, Golden Reitriver/Black lab Mix) and people that hate on breeds just because they see an ocassional bad news report on the breed is one of my pet peeves.
You honestly cannot punish a dog for having ty owners.
I'm not talking about isolated cases, but it really seems as though Pit Bulls result in more horrific attacks than any other breed. I say seems because I've never really done any research into the fact and looked up actual figures, but everytime I hear "dog attack" on the TV, I assume its a Pit Bull and most of the time its right.
I love dogs, but children are more important.
Do the research before you generalize.
As for numbers of attacks : http://www.dogbitelaw.com/Dog%20Atta...%20Clifton.pdf
, I didn't generalize . I asked questions. Learn to read before you characterize.
Also, your numbers don't reflect very well at all on Pit Bulls.
you are learning very fast manny my friend..... always put them in their place first and then proceed to make your point.... it will make the point that much more important........
and thats the end of the lesson for today kids....
I was just showing you the numbers, since you said you'd never seen them. My first statement was "it depends on how they're raised."
Pit Bulls were bred for fighting over many, many generations. They are going to be predisposed to fighting/biting more than any other breed. You don't have to be a genius to understand this. I would never own one of those little freakazoids.
tlong you have to be a man to control a beast... so you couldnt own one in the first place
Did ASHBEIGH do her research? From her very link:
Pit bulls seem to differ
behaviorally from other dogs in having far less inhibition about attacking
people who are larger than they are. They are also notorious for attacking
seemingly without warning, a tendency exacerbated by the custom of docking
pit bulls' tails so that warning signals are not easily recognized. Thus
the adult victim of a pit bull attack may have had little or no opportunity
to read the warning signals that would avert an attack from any other dog.
If an animal has a predisposition to a higher rate of violence, then how they are raised may be moot as it will still display a higher rate of attacks.
okay being serious now....
it all depends on the owner.... if you train someone to kill its gonna kill regardless...... you hardly hear of house pits going crazy on random folks...... its usually trained dogs that have escaped or been let loose......
Did I read those stats right? Ashbeigh, you are trying to defend pit bulls but then post numbers where 1110/2209 attacks in N. America are by Pit Bulls. That is more than half. Of. All. Dog. Attacks.
Manny and Mel:
I myself wouldn't own a pit bull, they do scare the out of me. But no animal, in my opinion, as I stated before, should be denied the right to live just because of their "history." I feel for people that have lost loved ones to the animals. I'm not saying they aren't capable. I'm well aware of their ability. I'm fighting the urge to bring pu like "The Dog Whisperer" just because y'all will think it's a load of crap, so I'm just going to stop now and watch the Weather Channel.
I was defending the stereotype (even if it was wrong, and I will admit it). There's other dogs that attack as well. Manny had never seen any numbers.
From the same link:
For the same reason, it is sheer foolishness to encourage people to
regard pit bull terriers and Rottweilers as just dogs like any other, no
matter how much they may behave like other dogs under ordinary
cir stances.
Pit bulls and Rottweilers are accordingly dogs who not only must be
handled with special precautions, but also must be regulated with special
requirements appropriate to the risk they may pose to the public and other
animals, if they are to be kept at all.
There wasn't much of a stereotype. I said seems and I even qualified my post with the note that I had never seen stats. However, you shouldn't defend stereogypes that the stats back up. Those aren't stereotypes at all.
i never said it dont happen.... also i want to point something out of your own article....
Fatal attacks by pit bulls or other dogs are very rare in San Antonio, said Animal Cruelty Investigator Eddie Wright and police spokesman Joe Rios.
"Dog bites occur quite often but something of this nature happens few and far between," Rios said.
City Council should ban them, period...
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