Posted on 03/03/2010 12:03:16 AM PST by Chet 99
Obviously the old lady's fault. /s
Wow, is it just me or have there been a bunch of these reports in the news the last week or two?
I got in the middle of a dogfight one time that involved pits. I was at the local mountain bike trail winding down after a ride when this lady with a minivan full of dogs drove through the parking lot. I noticed her stop near the exit to the parking lot and I wondered what she was doing. Turns out one of her dogs jumped out the window and started tangling with three dogs that live up the dirt road. Two pits and a sharpei. The next thing I knew here comes her setter at full gallup across the parking lot and jumps in the open door of my truck. This poor beast was covered with slobber and blood and I could hear the woman screaming for help. Not exactly sure what to do I grabbed my .40 Springfield and a fire extinguisher and rode my bike across the lot to where the lady was. She was trying to pull another of her dogs out of the fight and I could see she had been bitten on the ankle and had peed her pants. I didn’t want to shoot some redneck’s dog for fear of getting shot myself so I hit him in the snout with a blast from the extinguisher. You ever seen a pitbull do a backflip? I have. The animal went from snarling fury to rubbing it’s snout in the dirt in about half a second. The other pit and the sharpei were skulking around in the nearby trees and I wasn’t sure what was about to happen next. So I gave the beast another shot from the extinguisher. The three ran off together and I went back to my truck to try and dislodge the setter. She loaded up her other dog and drove over to where my truck was. The poor woman was shaking like a leaf and clearly freaked out, guess I don’t blame her. I gave her the setter and told her to call the sheriff and report the incident to animal control.
We’ve had some issues with the dogs from that house down the road but that’s the first biting incident I am aware of. I think when her mutts started going nuts she should have rolled up her window and driven on. Bad choice on her part, but those two pits and that sharpei should not have been running loose like that.
None of these posted were “around the world”. All were here in the USA. I have not kept an exact count but isn’t it something like 15 or 20 in just the last month or so (the time that you and I have been talking about it) What exactly would make you wake up if you don’t count “media reports” as important. How else do you get your info? If we got one report every day of the week would you admit there may be a problem with pit bulls?
Media reports are inconsistent and often plain wrong. This is easily found by simply reading the differences in the same story compared to other news companies. You can also check with animal control to get the breed of dog, see if it has a history, what the condition of the dog was and its living environment, etc. You cannot rely on something so simplified and often wrong for calculations, not to mention the reports miss the most important details in their effort to create a ratings-maker.
If all thirteen thousand daily attacks were from pit bulls, then I would say there’s a problem. A couple a day isn’t even a drop in the bucket. However, the pit bull attacks make the news even when people aren’t seriously hurt. How is this fair reporting? What about the other attacks that send people to the hospital? Who reports on them?
I don’t rely on media reports because they report what they want, not everything that happens. Therefore, they are incomplete and cannot be used in any serious way.
Why wouldn’t you at least read the links I have provided? They are far more accurate than media reports, I assure you.
Bullcr@p, your likening us to liberals doesn't cut the mustard on this issue. Your precious little "Am Staff" is perfectly capable of making the news.
Over 50 breeds have taken lives, and every few decades a new breed is number one on the lists. It has more to do with popularity with the wrong crowd. Experts that have studied the numbers as well as the circumstances surrounding each attack have found a common thread that surpasses the breed of dog, and that is the care the dog receives.
www.cdc.gov
www.chako.org
Last year, for example, there were 19 deaths caused by non-pit bull-type dogs, and the difference between the pit bull attacks and the others just wasn’t there. They were similar in the care they received, no matter what breed was involved.
www.kcdogblog.com
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