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Officer saves young girl from family pit bull
CBS Atlanta ^
| December 7, 2012
| Jennifer Mayerle
Posted on 12/09/2012 10:09:21 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip
A pit bull? That’s unusual. #sarcasm
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posted on
12/10/2012 7:14:30 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
To: CatherineofAragon
Ah, we are splitting dog hairs over the commonly recognized pt bull and stafford shire terrier?
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posted on
12/10/2012 11:30:50 AM PST
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Mamzelle
To: CatherineofAragon
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posted on
12/10/2012 11:32:46 AM PST
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Mamzelle
To: CatherineofAragon
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posted on
12/10/2012 11:32:53 AM PST
by
Mamzelle
To: Mamzelle
Sorry wrong link. But interesting anyway.
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posted on
12/10/2012 11:34:03 AM PST
by
Mamzelle
To: Mamzelle
"Ah, we are splitting dog hairs over the commonly recognized pt bull and stafford shire terrier?" Well, no. The article concerns a pit bull, and I was referencing same.
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/americanpitbull.htm
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posted on
12/10/2012 12:37:24 PM PST
by
CatherineofAragon
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To: Mamzelle
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posted on
12/10/2012 12:38:17 PM PST
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CatherineofAragon
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To: Mamzelle
"Sorry wrong link. But interesting anyway." Yes, it was!
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posted on
12/10/2012 12:39:22 PM PST
by
CatherineofAragon
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To: CatherineofAragon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_bull
It is a little precious that when someone says "pit bull" one would pretend that it is a specific breed of dog, when it is clear that people have started to use the term to describe agressive bully breeds that are commonly owned by rural drug dealers.
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posted on
12/10/2012 1:24:21 PM PST
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Mamzelle
To: Mamzelle
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12/10/2012 5:25:39 PM PST
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CatherineofAragon
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To: CatherineofAragon
I know of an ER doc whose first patient in a new town was a five year old torn to pieces by two dogs that register to those not concerned with the niceties of dog breed distinctions, as pit bulls. They looked like the dog with Spanky and Our Gang. That was a pit bull,
non? The child was walking across a parking lot, two dogs jumped out of the back of a pick up, ripped him to shreds and jumped back in the truck to await Master's Voice. (Nipper the RCA dog was a pit bull mix) The child died.
Whatever, yourself.
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posted on
12/10/2012 7:27:40 PM PST
by
Mamzelle
To: Mamzelle
A horrible tragedy, no doubt about it.
However, use of a search engine will pull up endless accounts of children being mauled and killed by German Shepherds, Rottweilers, Malamutes, and Huskies.
My sister-in-law owned a German Shepherd for protection; that dog was trained within an inch of his life. If he hadn’t been, he would have been a loaded weapon for anyone who came near him. As it was, he was a potential danger to those he didn’t know, but a big, sweet darling with family. He was the best dog I’ve known. And when he reacted threateningly to strangers, as he was supposed to do, my SIL was prompt to command him to stand down.
The National Canine Research Council, in studying over 40 years of dog bites, has identified poor ownership practices as a factor in the overwhelming majority of dog bites/attacks. Some dogs may be more prone to biting (personally, I believe it’s the small, yippy ones who lead the pack, but that’s me). It’s the responsibility of the owner to train and control his own dog. When that responsibility is shrugged off, bad things happen. And when you think of all the thugs who want pitbulls and Rottweilers so they can strut around with their tattoos showing and the chain collars on the dogs, looking tough, you can begin, possibly, to understand a big part of the problem.
“Non?”
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12/11/2012 8:28:09 AM PST
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CatherineofAragon
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To: CatherineofAragon
I am not familiar with the National Canine Research Center but my brother is a veterinarian and he and his colleagues think that the reason that children are often attacked by dogs is not necessarily training or lack of it. According to them dogs do not always recognize children as small humans but as another animal that they are in competition with. Especially if they have not been raised around children.
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posted on
12/11/2012 8:36:44 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: Ditter
I’ve read about that, as well.
Recently there was a video posted here in which a lion at the zoo showed extreme curiosity about a young girl. Several Freepers said they’d seen big cats react similarly to children, but not adults. So maybe it’s a common thing with both domesticated and wild animals.
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12/11/2012 9:08:14 AM PST
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CatherineofAragon
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To: CatherineofAragon
I would think that a wild carnivore would look on anything smaller than them self as a meal.
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12/11/2012 11:47:01 AM PST
by
Ditter
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