Posted on 02/14/2010 5:49:48 PM PST by Chet 99
that pitbull is like the nutty professor in Alabama...oh she wouldnt hurt anyone...except the brother she shot in anger
Wok her dog?
“I want her fridge for my basement”.
I’ll take her cases of EVOO!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perro_de_Presa_Canario
Damn best scared the living sh!t out of me!
Get a Boxer!
“after his sixth incident of attacking dogs”
Rachael was a little slow on the uptake. I can only hope her purse is a lot lighter because of lawsuits.
Rachel Ray has
Money and fame
Only thing she
Lacks is BRAINS!
Does the state have a SIX STRIKES and OUT law for Pit Bulls?
About 100 years ago, Newfies were almost eradicated because of attacks on people.
Funny one red neck......:O)
By whom? The Canadians? They blew it with Labs and lost the ancestor breed in St. Johns Dog. If it wasn’t for the British - Labs might not exist.
Hey, don’t blame it on Alabama !
Nutty Professor was from ‘BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS’ ! ‘nuff said.
I once read that dog bites treated in ER, Poodles were No. 1 & Chow was No.2. any dog weighing 100# can do a world of hurt. RR can open a cake mix box with the best of them, Now hat is unfair, since I have never watched.
barbra ann
The stats that have been posted on these threads list most mauling and death #1 Pit and pit cross #2 Rottys. Any dog can bite there is a big difference between breeds. When I was young we had an Irish Setter and she nipped me many times. Dogs have a genetic background that makes them what they are. Pits have not had the unstable temperment bred out cause too many people have some need for that breed..
Your instincts are good. Remember the gal who lived in an apartment in San Francisco who was killed while going to her own apartment by a couple of dogs that some neighbors in a nearby unit were taking care of? Those dogs were Presa Canarios.
Great dogs, no doubt, for certain jobs, such as guarding property. But as "pets" in a city apartment?
“Remember the gal who lived in an apartment in San Francisco who was killed while going to her own apartment by a couple of dogs that some neighbors in a nearby unit were taking care of?”
I do remember that. But I think it was the neighbor’s own dogs, not visiting dogs. And the woman that was killed was pretty athletic, iirc, not some poor fragile person too.
And then the story got weirder, the couple who owned the dogs were lawyers, or something like that. And they had some strange relationship with some convict, or something. And they were involved in breeding those beastly dogs.
It was a very odd tale.
Now we have the odd tale of the Alabama brother-killing, co-worker murdering, pipe-bomb suspect professor.
America really has a lot of loonies.
What do you people intend to do with all the APBTs after they’re banned?
Put them on cattle cars?
Cool...you finally solved the APBT problem. Now what will you do about the other thousand large, powerful, aggressive dog breeds?
Guess we’re going to need a bigger cattle car.
I am against breed-banning.
That said, what do you "people" intend to do about this problem? Keep pretending that it's not a breed problem? Keep pretending that it's not a problem of owners getting too much dog for them to handle?
A naive dogs-are-people-too woman gets a spaniel that bites one of her kids, the kid maybe goes to the Med Stop. A naive dogs-are-people-too woman gets a pit bull, and the kid ends up in intensive care or the morgue. A druggie gets a basset hound for a pet ... zero problem. A druggie gets a pit bull ... big problem.
If "you people" don't want to see these dogs banned, then you should start exerting extreme peer pressure on people you see who own these dogs who aren't being responsible. If pit bull lovers really don't want to see these dogs banned, they'll start trying to come up with another solution to the problem rather than denying that it exists, and I would think that would include patrols looking for homes where the dogs are obviously kept in a dangerous way, and then giving the owners hell for it and taking action to protect the dogs from people who get them who cannot handle them.
I wish such a patrol of responsible pit owners would go kick the ass of the owner who lives at a place I see where a three-foot fence separates one of these pit bulls from school kids who walk past the place on their way to the bus. The dog barks and snarls and snaps at them, but as of yet hasn't hopped that fence. One of these days it will ... and when some kid ends up in critical care or dead, "you people" will be clamoring that "it was the owner, not the breed," when if that same owner had chosen a lab or a retreiver or a Scottish terrier, maybe there'd be a bit kid or two, but there sure as hell wouldn't be any intensive care and ripped-off ears or funerals.
Pretending that this isn't a problem is about the surest way to see breed banning come into play, and THAT would be a real tragedy. "You people" who only approach this problem with your "doggy parent" emotions rather than with clear-headed sense that respects the realties of NATURE, are the pit bulls' worst enemy.
If you want to find ‘us people’, try looking for your area’s Bully Breed Club. They’re all over, full of responsible owners who spend their time and money to help other owners learn about their dogs, and how to care for them. If you find a way to force druggies and naive dogs-are-people-too moms to join and show an interest in their animals, do let me know. Otherwise, we’re going to have to continue to trust people to make wise decisions for themselves, as adults, and punish them AFTER they fail.
Asking a private citizen to police the dog-owning habits of idiots is as masturbatory as asking us to police the car driving habits of irresponsible teens, or the gun-owning habits of inner-city thugs.
"You people" in Bully Breed Clubs had better change your mindset and get behind the power of pure peer pressure that you as free citizens have a God given right to exert, and in this case, have a DUTY to exert if you want to keep breed bans from happening.
When the GOVERNMENT goes nanny-state, that's one thing, and a very bad thing indeed. When private citizens come down on other citizens that abuse a privilege to the point of making it likley that it will be taken away, that's the right thing if they want to protect their rights and keep the government from stepping in.
This is the equivalent of having Dads in the neighborhood. Before the onslaught of single mothers, boys in the neighborhood behaved because their own or somebody else's dad would come kick their ass; no cops were needed. YOU are saying that it's better to let the kid go to jail and have the government handle it.
You want to keep the Bully Breeds from being banned? Then start using your own freedom to pressure irresponsible people from having the dogs and stop apologizing for it and trying to put it off on the government.
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