Instant Karma.
The above item came from the Facebook front page of www.nationalpitbullvictimawareness.com, which is:
https://www.facebook.com/NationalPitBullVictimAwareness?fref=ts
There are daily updates of attacks at the above facebook page, and it is not necessary to sign in. The information and updates change daily, and sometimes several times per day.
Why people would even want to own one of these things is beyond reason.
Over the weekend, the wife and I attended a community festival/multi block party in Minneapolis. They had a number of vendors selling pet products as well as a number of rescue groups for various breeds of dogs.
There was a pit bull rescue group. I told the wife “Let’s stay away from that. No need to give them credibility by standing there and listen to them pontificate on how pit bulls are really good dogs and have just gotten a bad rap”.
Great guys don’t keep viscous animals. There’s an underlying emotional, mental or criminal reason.
Pit bulls were bread for violence and have a genetic predisposition to attack. In some cases, with very intensive training and serious safety precautions, this can be managed. But you just never know. These dogs are escape artists and have a frightening track record of unprovoked attacks on not just people, but also other pets, farm animals and pets or live stock belonging to other people.
The breed should be classified as a dangerous animal and people should not be allowed to own them as pets.
If the pitbull is going to attack anyone, I would much rather it be the owner.
Once the owner is dead, kill the dog.
My family just lived through this. I was on the road while it happened.
Two neighborhood kids were working on our front yard. My four year old was playing in the game room fortunately. My wife brought our six month old puppy (a german shepherd - beagle mix ... high energy, but wouldn’t hurt a fly) out front to meet the kids. They were playing with her. She was on a leash and being handled by my wife.
Our neighbor lives in front of us ... about 50 yards down a hill ... The pit bull saw the puppy, went nuts, got free of his leash (pulled the thing up out of the ground), charged up the hill, and attacked my wife, one of the kids, and our puppy. The owner had to run up the hill and literally smother his dog to get it under control.
She called me after she dropped out son off with her sister and went to the hospital ... I drove home pretty fast (I was about 3 hours away).
My wife was bitten four times on her arm. The kid had one bad bite. The puppy dove in front of my wife to try and fight the pit bull off. The puppy got some bad lacerations on her legs and needed a lot of stitches. The puppy was beat up pretty bad and we still have to run her to the vets to insure none of her lacerations/bites become infected. We aren’t out of the woods just yet.
Here’s the sick part.
It seems our neighbor muzzles the dog with a ball gag. My wife would see the dog always running around, but not barking and she swears that the dog was always playing with a red ball. We found the ball in our front yard. The owner keeps the dog gagged with the ball (a soft, spongy ball)
This is nothing compared to what can happen. Those dogs, if not trained and handled properly, can and will attempt to kill. It’s their nature.
I know there are pit bull lovers out there. See, the thing is, you love that breed of dog. You know how to train and control them. I like Chow Chows ... they’re frigging vicious if not handled properly. I cannot handle them, so I will not own one.
Unfortunately, MANY people adopt pit bulls not knowing what in the hell they’re getting into. My neighbor is an example of this kind of person. He is not a bad man, but he made a *BIG* mistake. Had my four year old been outside, I shudder to think what might have happened.
I’ll also say this. I haven’t been around dogs much in my life. We got our puppy since my son loves dogs and she was a perfect fit for our family. She’s already 50 pounds and still growing, but she is a dopey mass of love for lack of better terms :-). Hearing about a six month old dog attempting to fight off a frigging pit bull instantly made me get why people fall into a crazy kind of love with their dogs. They are amazing animals and I love our dog to death (unless she’s in “I need attention” mode ... though she’s getting trained for that :-) ).
Anyway, thought I’d throw that out there given the thread ... I don’t know what to do next from a legal standpoint ... what a mess.
Hmmmm. Neither the article or the comments so far say that pit bulls are ‘misunderstood’, a word that all of the pit bull apologists seem to you use in defending the breed. Like my friend and neighbor who had her hand bitten by one.
I have a family with pit bulls next door to me at the RV park I stay at while working in the oil patch. They have a male, female and a pup from her litter. The male is young, big, full of testosterone, and overall nasty. They put up a five-foot high metal fence anchored with steel driven fence posts and anchored further to the three foot chain link fence separating lots in the RV Park. The hose faucet to my RV is located next to the fence and each time I turn it on or off he attacks the fence trying to get at me.
A couple of months ago, the woman had a baby who is too young yet to be outdoors. Given the attitude of the male pit bull, I worry what might happen when their youngster becomes a toddler. Even though the dog may consider him/her family, they can be unpredictable if something or someone excites them and that anger happens to transfer to a tyke who may be in the yard. The above story is another example of that type of typical behavior of that breed.
OK, I’m usually anti-pit bull, but I will agree that this story is about a pit bull that behaved properly.
What do you find “interesting” about it?
Contain, Control, Maintain, Train, and Socialize.
Do you find this “interesting”?