Frankie weighs 97 pounds and Bongo weighs 15-20 pounds, I'm guessing.Frankie and Bongo
Posted on 11/04/2016 10:22:53 PM PDT by ransomnote
Frankie weighs 97 pounds and Bongo weighs 15-20 pounds, I'm guessing.Frankie and Bongo
They’re all wonderful! :)
*Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!*
LOL!
Oh I have not seen that one :O
Gonna have to see if it’s on the Chinese free movie website.
Well, yeah...
I’ve been a pit bull owner for 20 years. They are simply dogs. ANY dog can be vicious and people who don’t belong owning any breed of dog do a very good job of raising nasty animals.
MY dogs are well behaved and lovable. People who don’t know dogs have a tendency to misread dogs, and have unreasonable prejudices against certain breeds.
Sorry about the broken link. These should work:
from: theage.com.au
November 17, 2006
Pit bull owners more likely to be criminals
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November 17, 2006 - 12:23PM
People who own vicious dogs such as pit bulls have significantly more criminal convictions - including crimes against children - than owners of licensed, gentler dogs such as beagles, American researchers report.
A study of 355 dog owners in Ohio showed that every owner of a high-risk breed known for aggression had at least one brush with the law, from traffic citations to serious criminal convictions.
And 30 per cent of people who owned an aggressive breed of dog and who also had been cited at least once for failure to register it had at least five criminal convictions or traffic citations.
This compared to one per cent of owners of low-risk, licensed dogs such as poodles, beagles or collies, the researchers reported in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
“Owners of vicious dogs who have been cited for failing to register a dog (or) failing to keep a dog confined on the premises ... are more than nine times more likely to have been convicted for a crime involving children, three times more likely to have been convicted of domestic violence ... and nearly eight times more likely to be charged with drug (crimes) than owners of low-risk licensed dogs,” said Jaclyn Barnes of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre.
Barnes and colleagues used public records to check on the criminal pasts of dog owners.
They used agreed definitions of vicious dogs used in writing local ordinances. “A ‘vicious dog” means a dog that, without provocation, has killed or caused serious injury to any person, has killed another dog, or belongs to a breed that is commonly known as a pit bull dog,” they wrote in their report.
The definition excludes dogs used in law enforcement or dogs protecting an owner or property.
Aggressive breeds identified by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and some insurance companies include pit bulls, rottweilers, akitas and chows.
The most frequent low-risk breeds seen in the study included terriers, beagles, collies and poodles.
Reuters
While doing research on other subjects, I came across MUCH more on “pit-bull type” dogs and the statistics thereof.
This article is a bit out of date, but only in that the problem was less extreme before 2008. As of this year, the “pit-bull type” dogs are killing approximately one person in the US every 14 days. (see www.pitbulldeaths.info for the names list with pictures)
I have more. . .
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