Posted on 09/05/2012 10:50:18 PM PDT by george76
SAN DIEGO -- A 40-year-old man who allegedly failed to restrain his friend's six pit bulls, which severely mauled two joggers in Valley Center, is facing four misdemeanor charges, the San Diego County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.
Jose Ledesma was arraigned Tuesday on two counts each of failing to protect the public from dogs and failing to restrain a dog
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Nope! I’m Jack.
You have never ever made a typo on any of your posts here on FR? Never? Not even the slightest typo or spelling error?
Please read the thread, from post #2
We used to have a nice quiet life here till the county paved our road.
Now the joggers and bicyclists have taken over and we have been told to lock up our two dogs (not Pit Bulls) as the joggers and bicyclists cause the chase and attack instinct to come out in the dogs.
As a result, the coons and foxes are into our chickens all the time. Our free roaming dogs used to keep them away.
Come to New Hampshire...we have parents who let their 8 year-old daughter walk their pit right thru a residential neighborhood.
That's going to end well.
Actually, I did read the thread. Just thought it was funny.
I don’t understand why anyone would adopt one of those animals. Sure they can be great companions but so can a lab or a beagle and those dogs don’t have the destructive power and tenacity to kill. So why get a dog with destructive potential when you can get one that’ll provide you with a great companion without risking serious injury or death if it has a bad day? Why risk it?
Congratulations. While most of them are fine enough dogs you’ve decided that it makes sense to buy something with the potential to do serious damage if it has a bad day when there are many other alternatives that do not have the ability to be so destructive. It makes absolutely no sense to introduce risk that you do not have to introduce given how many other breads there are out there that do not have the destructive potential that a pit has. What is the point? Unless you have to impress the local gangster population or have real serious security issues there is no point. You are just taking a needless risk just like all of the other fine people whose pits have “never hurt a fly” before they injure or kill someone. Again that is a small minority of dogs but if you choose to take the risk you shouldn’t be shocked by the outcome.
See now I can agree with that statement. Obviously he isn’t Cesar Millan.
Gee, thanks!!!
I grew up on a farm and am well aware that ALL animals come with risk.
Before the “gangster” populace decided to make Pits their thug dog of choice, APBT’s were just ordinary dogs. Helen Keller had one. Fred Astaire had one, as did President Woodrow Wilson, Humphrey Bogart, and Steve Irwin. Ever heard of Cesar Millan?
In the state of Kentucky, Pits are trained to be Service Dogs. In California, as well as other states, the are Search and Rescue dogs...Pits aided in the search for Lacy Peterson and the Space Shuttle Columbia crash.
I used to be like you...afraid of what I thought I knew. Then I got to know some Pitties and found out I didn’t know at all what I thought I did.
This year the devil dog is Pit Bulls. Before that, it was Dobermans, Rotties, and German Shephards.
As for my own pooch, he is a 90 lb lap dog dominated by a 3 lb Chihuahua and a 4 lb cat. He’s just a dog. But he’s a good one.
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