Don't Bully My Breed

http://dontbullymybreed.org/ ^ | Aguust 28, 2010 | Me!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Did you know....

...3.)
Approximately 150 people are killed every year by falling coconuts. Therefore, you are more than 60 TIMES MORE LIKELY to be killed by a PALM TREE than a Pit Bull.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Click the link, folks, it’s really a neat website.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I’ll even make it REAL easy for ya.....

http://dontbullymybreed.org/

[Brad’s Gramma]

Yo!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Yo and Yo!

[Keith in Iowa]

But still... there’s got to be a reason why the headlines are filled with instances of trouble with this breed. When was the last time there was a headline “Toddler mauled by toy poodle”?

[wideawake]

"Approximately 150 people are killed every year by falling coconuts"

Challenge.

[Krankor]

I’ll still take my chances with a coconut.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Prior to putting this up, I did a search last night for animal attacks/killings/maulings....gotta tell you. There were an enormous amount of OTHER breeds included in there.

I’ve NEVER owned a pit...never been around one...but I don’t like the bad press they ARE getting...

I REALLY detest what the “macho-men” who use this breed for fighting, have done to them, therefore GIVING them the bad press.

[JoeProBono]

Yo!

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Bogus statistics... According to Dog Bite Law, there were 46 fatalities from dog attacks in 2008, and 65% of all fatal dog attacks are pits or rotties. Assume even division, that means 33% - or 15 - deaths in 2008 were from pit bulls in the US each year.

Also, your number of coconut deaths are WORLDWIDE, not just in the US. As the entire world has (6800/300) 22 times the population of the US, that means approximately (150 / 22) 6.8 deaths a year in the US occur from coconuts.

MEANING, that in reality, in the US you are 2.5 times MORE LIKELY to be killed by a pit bull attack than a falling coconut. A bit different than the stats originally claimed, eh?

[Brad’s Gramma]

Well, you’ll never see this chick hanging around under a coconut tree!

(not that you would have prior to this...but hey.)

:)

[LatinaGOP]

Loved all the pictures! I don’t have a pit, but I know some great ones and some not so great ones. I also know some great and some not so great dogs of many different breeds. It’s the owners, not the dogs.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Sheesh! Don't coconut shoot the messenger!!!

:)

[Brad’s Gramma]

It’s the owners, not the dogs.

Yep!

[B4Ranch]

Well give us a chart or some statistics to show us you’re not blowin smoke.

[goseminoles]

Pits aren’t necessarily the problem. Its the dumb ass owners.
I hate cocker spaniels as much. They will bite in a New York minute.
That said, the coconut analogy is silly.
150 people probably die from genitals in the garbage disposal.

[goat granny]

Not likely Gramma, Michigan has no palm tree’s darn it...too cold...

[Brad’s Gramma]

Ping to Doggy Ping List. :)

From Joe 6-pack’s FR homepage...I quote:

The Doggie Ping list is for FReepers who would like to be notified of threads relating to all things canid. If you would like to join the Doggie Ping Pack (or be unleashed from it), FReemail me.

FRmail poor Joe. Although, I did ask permission first..

:)

[Brad’s Gramma]

Ya want for ME to come up with a CHART?

Awwwwwwwwwwwww man......stop that.

I don’t do charts.

[correctthought]

Hmmmm:

http://www.dogsbite.org/dangerous-dogs-pitbull-myths.htm

Also interesting.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Charts & Graphs

Probably nothing to do with a dog, but it's charts charts and more charts!

[qam1]

Approximately 150 people are killed every year by falling coconuts.

Name one

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Sheesh! Don't coconut shoot the messenger!!!

Too late... I'm gonna send a few swallows over you with their own coconut and you're in for it! :)

[B4Ranch]

You’re cute, but you already know that.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Walk thru your local cemetary. Sheesh, man, do some leg work yourself!

[PugetSoundSoldier]

150 people probably die from genitals in the garbage disposal.

Thanks for making me squirm REALLY BAD!!!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

LOL!!!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Oh oh. I’m in trouble.... ;)

[Minn]

MEANING, that in reality, in the US you are 2.5 times MORE LIKELY to be killed by a pit bull attack than a falling coconut

Not even considering that coconuts palms maybe exist in Hawaii and parts of Florida in any significant numbers.

[IrishCatholic]

Well, numbers aside, coconuts won't chase you. Coconuts won't continue to attack once they hit the ground. Coconuts won't suddenly snap. Coconuts, and I'm just guessing here, can't be naturally aggressive, or bred to be aggressive, or trained to be aggressive.
I wouldn't mind if my three year old was alone in the living room with a coconut.

....and Chet 99 hasn't warned me of coconuts.

I don't see the comparison means much of anything at all.

[Ronin]

About 25 years ago at a resort on Fiji, I sat down on the grass under a coconut tree, just to relax and enjoy the beautiful tropical air and scenery.

I am not sure how long I was there when there was a sudden THUD right next to me. Coconut. BIG coconut. It had left a curved indentation in the grass a good inch deep. It had landed less than three feet away from my HEAD.

If that sucker had hit my head... well... FReeper Ronin would have never existed.

[Minn]

Well, you’ll never see this chick hanging around under a coconut tree!

Shame. What's more emblematic of the good life than relaxing under a palm tree? Especially at Christmas time.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Well, numbers aside, coconuts won't chase you. Coconuts won't continue to attack once they hit the ground. Coconuts won't suddenly snap. Coconuts, and I'm just guessing here, can't be naturally aggressive, or bred to be aggressive, or trained to be aggressive.

However, a few select drugs ingested will convince you otherwise!

[Brad’s Gramma]

YEA ME!!!! LOL!!!

I took the Identify The Pitbull Test and got it, FIRST TIME!

YESSSSSS!!!! I haven’t passed a test since kindergarten...and y’all know how long ago THAT’S been!

[goseminoles]

” Thanks for making me squirm REALLY BAD!!!”

Sorry. Probably bad analogy. Just don’t flip that switch on your kitchen wall for a couple days. :o)

[potlatch]

[you are more than 60 TIMES MORE LIKELY to be killed by a PALM TREE than a Pit Bull.]

LOLOL, especially in a hurricane!

I don’t believe in banning dogs but do believe some breeds have certain instincts that can take over.

I have a Yorkie with a super sense of smell and when he follows a ‘trail’ everything else goes out of his head!

[Minn]

Click the link, folks, it’s really a neat website.

Strikes me as propaganda.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Nor the blender, or the food processor, or sand the deck, or...

:)

[GLDNGUN]

...Therefore, you are more than 60 TIMES MORE LIKELY to be killed by a PALM TREE than a Pit Bull.

I can only assume you survived a hit on the head from a coconut with only brain damage to show for it. I don't live in an area that has palm trees so what are my odds for being killed from a falling coconut? ZERO. I DO have those detestable ugly dogs known as "pit bulls" that live in close proximity to me, making the odds of being killed by one much greater than a coconut.

Time and time again we read about pit bulls ripping the faces off young children or worse. It's always the same story..."gee, he was always such a gentle dog...we don't know why he snapped...blah, blah, blah." Meanwhile, some poor 3 year-old girl is in the hospital with 500 stitches in her face and disfigured for life IF she's "lucky" and survived.

With all available breeds, why on earth would you or anyone select such a breed? What is the point? What redeeming value do they have? That can't be trusted with your own family members, especially small ones, so they are not reliable guard dog companions. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but they are UGLY. Period.

Do yourself a favor. Get another breed. And stay away from the palm trees. You might not be so "lucky" next time.

[B4Ranch]

Gramma, Aren’t you going to tell us how dangerous snakes and spiders are too?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I won’t bully the breed, but if one of those things attacks me, I will have my phasers set to “kill.”

[Brad’s Gramma]

Well, SOMEONE’S gotta stand up for the dogs!!!

There’s an equal amount of anti-you name the large dog breed propaganda out there...

So there.

Now look. Didn’t I take everyone’s minds off of the Kenyan for awhile? I am doing my civic duty. Trying to save a breed, and your sanity.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I don’t have a pit.

I’ve never had one.

I don’t hang around coconut trees and most people on this thread didn’t even click the link for the other stats, didja.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I'm not afraid of spiders!!!!

[freedomfiter2]

It’s because pit bulls tend to hang out with meth lab operators.

[Brad’s Gramma]

As would I...

[JoeProBono]

Cesar Millan, all his family and friends, his staff and volunteers, and dog lovers all around the world today will mourn the passing of one of the most loyal, trusting, well-balanced, and influential pit bull ambassadors the world has ever known. Daddy, Cesar’s longtime friend and partner in canine rehabilitation, died peacefully surrounded by family on Friday the 19th of February. He was sixteen years old.

[Brad’s Gramma]

There ya go!

[B4Ranch]

Can you say the same about snakes?