Posted on 01/31/2018 5:03:11 PM PST by boycott
but... nothing.
Your dog kills someone, you are responsible.
I don’t care if it’s a JRT or Mastiff.
It is your responsibility to keep your dog under control.
You fail and someone dies, you are responsible for that death.
No flames from me.
Most pit bull owners are poor. No pot to piss in. Rich folks don’t need them-liability.
Slightly OT, but this being a “dog” thread...
A fellow came into a local farm supply store I was at, yesterday, with by far the biggest German Shepard I have seen in over 60 years on this planet. The dog was well behaved, and seemed friendly, but, well, lets just say it was VERY imposing. Are some German Shepards being bred for exceptional size (perhaps as a new breed)?
Are Pit Bulls Really Dangerous?
By Marc Lallanilla, Life’s Little Mysteries Assistant Editor | February 14, 2013 02:12pm ET
ales of pit bulls mauling youngsters seem to abound, with one story hitting the news in 2013 detailing police in Nassau County, New York, who were searching door-to-door for two pit bulls that had attacked a teenage boy and three women during a 30-minute period on Feb. 13 of that year.
“One literally went for my leg and [the] other was trying to jump on top of me, but I was hitting them, and I was punching them,” Janelle Manning, 24, told CBS New York at the time. “They both weren’t letting go, once they got a hold of my leg.” Because of her leg injuries, Manning struggled to walk up and down stairs, CBS reported. “These dogs were, like, trained to kill; trained to hurt and viciously attack people,” she said.
But do pit bulls deserve their reputation as vicious “attack” dogs? An overwhelming amount of evidence suggests, in some instances, they do.
A five-year review of dog-bite injuries from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, published in 2009 in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, found that almost 51 percent of the attacks were from pit bulls, almost 9 percent were from Rottweilers and 6 percent were from mixes of those two breeds.
In other words, a whopping two-thirds of the hospital’s dog-attack injuries involved just two breeds, pit bulls and Rottweilers.
Other studies confirm these statistics: A 15-year study published in 2009 in the American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology revealed that pit bulls, Rottweilers and German shepherds were responsible for the majority of fatal dog attacks in the state of Kentucky. [See What Your Dog’s Breed Says About You]
And a 2011 study from the Annals of Surgery revealed that “attacks by pit bulls are associated with higher morbidity rates, higher hospital charges and a higher risk of death than are attacks by other breeds of dogs.”...
Fans of pit bulls are quick to assert that a dog’s propensity for attack depends in large part on its owner and how it is raised, and there’s considerable evidence that owners of pit bulls and other high-risk dogs are themselves high-risk people.
A 2006 study from the Journal of Interpersonal Violence revealed that owners of vicious dogs were significantly more likely to have criminal convictions for aggressive crimes, drugs, alcohol, domestic violence, crimes involving children and firearms. - https://www.livescience.com/27145-are-pit-bulls-dangerous.html
Pit Bull and other owners whose dogs attach people or other dogs are fully responsible for the actions of their dog — just as was the idiot POS who let his Pit try to kill one of my precious Cavaliers.
Like I said, people are what their dog does.
Got you. And agree.
I would hate to have a neighbor with a pit bull if you have elderly, children, or small pets. You know they would be defenseless against such an animal and you would always worry.
My sister has a Cavalier and I know it would be defenseless against any pit bull.
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