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Posted on 11/04/2016 10:22:53 PM PDT by ransomnote
Halloween is a spooky night, but there's nothing scary about this sad pit bull dressed up for the occasion.
William, an 18 year old from Massachusetts, posted a heartbreaking to Twitter of his dog Dublin on Halloween. He was apparently sad that no trick-or-treaters wanted to pet the dog while his mother handed out candy.
William is away from home at college, but called his mom on Halloween night to catch up. That's when she told him the heartbreaking news.
"She was passing out candy and said that my dog was crying because people wouldn't pet him. That broke my heart, because my dog is the sweetest thing ever," William told Mashable.
William's tweet has racked up over 48,000 retweets at the time of writing and upset a ton of dog lovers in the process.
(Excerpt) Read more at aol.com ...
On You Tube you’ll find plenty of videos of Pits letting kittens frolic all over them.
Pitbulls, the Dogs of Peace - LOL.
I live in an area where people have college degrees and all their teeth, so I don’t encounter many pit bulls.
There is something distinctly puzzling to me about people who defy all logic, all warnings, all publicity... and then go ahead anyway. What must the psychiatric profile be for those people who do this? It goes against all good judgement. There are hundreds of breeds...and you pick THIS one?
I was visiting a friend in a high-rise, waiting at the elevators on the ground floor to go up. A young girl with a pit bull on a leash approached and stood near me waiting to go up too. When the elevator opened, I motioned the girl to go ahead, "I'll take the next one", and stood back. She looked really hurt and confused. Tough.
Listen folks, there was no way I was going put myself into a 4 x 5 foot enclosed space with a strange pit bull and a 100lb girl with a 3-foot leash. Not gonna happen. MY psychiatric profile contains a section about not putting myself in stupid situations. So far, it's served me well....because, you know, I'm one of those grey-haired retired guys.
Just like Hillary voters, aren’t they?
That's because the videos that did NOT turn out so well were NOT published. (Same with birds and dogs/cats/children).
“..no way I was going put myself into a 4 x 5 foot enclosed space with a strange pit bull and a 100lb girl with a 3-foot leash.”
Very wise move. I’d have done the same.
There were so many ways that situation could have gone really really bad and none of them would have been in your favor.
Studies have been done.
In 2006, Jaclyn Barnes led headed a team (/basics/teamwork) of researchers in Cincinnati which looked at the behaviors of owners of high risk for aggression dog breeds. Specifically they collected data from the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts in Ohio looking for evidence of criminal convictions.
A total of 166 owners of high risk dogs were compared with 189 owners of low risk dogs. The high risk dog owners had nearly 10 times more criminal convictions than other dog owners. Breaking the data down by categories of criminal behavior they found that high risk dog owners were 6.8 times more likely to be convicted of an aggressive crime, 2.8 times more likely to have carried out a crime involving
children, 2.4 times more likely to have perpetrated domestic violence (/basics/domesticviolence), and 5.4 times more likely to have an alcohol (/basics/alcohol)related
conviction when compared to low risk dog owners.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/caninecorner/
200903/psychologicalcharacteristicsownersaggressivedogbreeds
:)
Tons of ‘global warming studies have been done’, too.
So what’s your point?
[and your link is broken...ironically]
I have owned “high risk dogs” since I was 14.
Most law-abiding, goody two-shoes you’ll ever meet.
Although, I have had one traffic ticket, which I got for driving too fast to get to the meeting place for our annual VA benefit ride, in time.
So, what *is* a “low risk” dog?
One with no teeth?
If it’s got teeth, it can bite.
:)
How about once you get past 12?
Next I am going to try just chocolate from the cocoa bean. Straight sugar is bad for us long term. I wonder if chocolate exists, with no added sugar? Hmmm.
Agreed.
Bongo Fury and Frankie
Clearly vicious!
God bless dogs! They are best feature of this world, even the ones with teeth :D
;D
Yes.
Baker’s chocolate.
You’re not gonna like it much, though.
:P
It has been a dream of 40 years, to have Bull Terrier.
Cutest. Dogs. Ever.
Very cute Bully, but than they all are. Parents told me when I had my own house I could get a dog, it was between a Bully and Wire Fox,went with the Wire and I’m on my second one. I’m an absolute certified dog nut, love ‘em more than anything.
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