3-Year-Old Critical After Being Mauled By Pit Bull

NBC ^ | 1/31/06

[Fruitbat]

While inside the home, a dog, named Diamond, attacked the child. Police said that the attack was unprovoked.

GEE! Not like there's any precedent for this or anything.

[Gabz]

Good for you. I've had similar things said to me about my having had (and have) lab/chow mix dogs. The first one we had, who I lost in 2003, absolutley hated the next door neighbor. It took us all a long time to figure out why the dog hated the wife, but loved the husband and kids....but we finally figured it out.

When the dog was about a 6 month old puppy, and the youngest child next door was a toddler, mom swatted said toddler on the diaper for teasing the puppy through the fence..........that dog disliked that woman for the next 11 years.

[Gabz]

And I apologize to you.......I misinterpretted your comment.

[Fruitbat]

A small percentage of people who own and breed the dogs abuse them to make them ferocious attack dogs and fighting dogs. They choose Pit Bulls because of their strenght and tenacity. Most people who own the dogs are regular people. These criminals combined with the medias distortions are responsible for the breeds reputation. They were the most commonly owned breed of sog in the 1920s America.

I would disagree with you that people that own pitbulls are normal. There is plenty on record to indicate that it's not just "people who've turned pitbulls into ferocious attack dogs and fighting dogs" that have problems with them.

IMO, if you own a pitbull, you should have to sign some sort of statement indicating that you're fully and personally responsible for anything that the dog does. Anything!

IMO it's reprehensible and remiss to own a pitbull. There are thousands of other dog breeds to buy that can offer security and other things important.

[ScreamingFist]

You're just all worked up about these dogs. Hey, remember they are dogs. Not people. I've got three kids and if my dog ever even snarled at them the dog would be DEAD.

Yea...sorry, I get worked up about dogs. As I said WAY up the thread, I will not own Pit Bulls, nor do I know anyone qualified to train them. I am NOT a fan of them. I don't like them. That being said, they are a legitimate breed, for those that know how to handle them. Joe Blow the rookie would be well advised to steer clear of them......

Sorry if I offended....

[Gabz]

Did you even bother to READ, let alone COMPREHEND what I said?

[ScreamingFist]

You one the prize for falling into my evil little trap.

LOL! You reeled me in like a fish, a tactic I've been known to use myself......your sign up date should have been the key, but NO, SF falls for it hook, line AND sinker.

Regards.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Shoot the dog owner and then the dog.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

This happened in San Francisco when the woman was mauled to death by another breed of dog.

Bull Mastiff actually... still a bulldog...

[Gabz]

If the dog attacked someone, unprovoked, I would take responsibility for it and do what was required upto and including having it put down. My dogs are members of the family, but they are also a form of protection and will alert us when someone who doesn't belong shows up on our property.

BW, how was my neighbor a jerk? She reprimanded her child, a toddler at the time, by swatting him on the diaper for teasing an animal.

[Wristpin]

Actually, there was a manslaughter conviction in December for a Virginia woman whose three pit bulls killed an 82 year old woman walking her dog last year.

[ScreamingFist]

The breed only exists because we humans engineered these dogs. I think we do a better job when we engineer big loveable dogs.

We've created lovable dogs, ship captains dogs, wolf hunting dogs, duck fetching dogs, pointing dogs, scenting dogs and even dogs that go down rabbit holes....each created for a purpose. The pit bull was created to kill in a arena....I find it disgusting, but they are legitimate...and those that know how to handle them, love them.

We cannot outlaw breeds simply because many that own them are ignorant thugs.......