Pit bull attack leaves multiple people injured in the Bronx

New York Post ^ | 6/18/18 | By Tina Moore and Stephanie Pagones

[kanawa]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3661149/posts #114 and on...

I'd be far, far more busy. What good would it do..?
I can't reason with fanatics.
They operate on an emotional level untempered by rationality.

Rarely will I waste my precious time posting story after story of dog attacks.
They are mentally unable to discern and formulate rational responses and identify principles that apply to all dogs.
Instead of a response, all that is forthcoming is a reaction on a level best expressed by their childish and useless repetition of the phrase, "Dog of Peace'.
Instead of rational investigation, discovering commonalities, and coming to reasoned solutions to all dog attacks,
actions that would require real effort, we get instead ..."kill them all and their owners too".

I hand them a report like this and do you think they'll post it?
Don't hold your breath.
The death isn't important to these hypocrites if it doesn't advance their 'pit bull jihad'.

Disgusting self-righteous gits. Cut from the same mold as David Hogg.

Been here too many years and seen the same sanctimonious bullcrap too many times.
The names may change but the mindset remains the same.

Principles of Responsible Dog Ownership
Contain, Control, Maintain, Train and Socialize

[Fhios]

I am a victim of my own prejudice.

I made too many assumptions and an imagined Hollywood production ran through my mind. The adult parent walking the children home after an 8:00 pm Disney movie sounds more likely, but the omission of that background from the journalist was sloppy or I just seemed to miss what they were doing.

I won’t go into details other than I’m not a pit bull defender. I don’t have any good memories of the Bronx and I had a similar experience in San Diego with my Golden Retriever who though didn’t slip the leash and bite anybody, put on a fearsome display of aggressiveness.

[Fhios]

Oh, my previous post I forgot to say I apologize for stereo typing too fast.

[Norski]

Very well.

KAPOW KAPOW KAPOW

[Norski]

It does happen.

$4.25 million award for pit bull attack––and the victim may see some of the money
Animals 24-7 ^ | June 14, 2018 | Merritt Clifton
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3663318/posts

[JudyinCanada]

Very gracious of you, Fhios. It’s all good.

[neverevergiveup]

“..you’d find there are too many of all dog attack stories..”

You’re right. There are a ton more than I thought (the CDC reports ~4.5 million dog bites in the US annually). However, pit bull bites are by far the most likely to severe injuries, maiming, and death. One report cited 413 Americans killed by dogs in the period from 2005 - 2017. Of those, 65.6% were killed by pit bulls. Rottweilers were second on the list. As you point out, however, all dogs bite, and I personally think that generally the public needs to be more aware of the potential for dog bites and how to avoid them. It always makes me nervous when parents let their little children pet the dog of a stranger.

[trebb]

I many places, 10 PM is end of a late dinner or maybe a movie and not the wee hours of the morning....some of us older folks forget that.....

[octex]

No offense intended toward anyone... Could it possibly be that all of the girls were in their menstrual periods? That might have triggered the dogs’ aggressiveness.

I’ve read that women living together in a household often become synchronized in their cycles. ...As a married man with two teen daughters I experienced HELL every month!

[kanawa]

the public needs to be more aware of the potential for dog bites and how to avoid them.

Exactly. Education about dogs should start at the earliest age possible.
Schools seem to have no problem finding the time to indoctrinate children that Heather can have two Mommies,
but are woefully lacking in instructing about proper care of and interaction with dogs.