re: Another one... Pit Bull Kills 3-year-old

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how do people justify owning a pit bull?

i'll never understand it

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Though I'll never own one, I've never heard of a pit bull in a normal, responsible family killing or hurting anyone. I'm sure it has happened, I just don't think it is a serious problem.

The pit bull next door is awesome, I love her. She jumps in my lap when I come over and my golden makes her his bitch. I was pretty worried when I first saw how she acted through the fence, but once you're with her, she's docile as can be.

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Yeah, people don't seem to know what a pit really is.

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You have a pit, yes?

That poor little boy, only 3 years old

Really there's no excuse for having one of those dogs.

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She jumps in my lap when I come over and my golden makes her his bitch.

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Yeah, until the day the pit snaps and kills your Golden. Our neighbor's pit was the sweetest thing, LOVED to play with my Mom's Golden Retriever. One day, out of the blue, the pit snapped, attacked the Golden, latched on to her back and would not let go. My Mom and the pit owner tried pulling the pit off, the owner ended up hitting it across the head with a two by four sevearl times to get it to release. Mom's Golden had bad puncture wounds on her back, and all of the skin and muscle torn from her bones. She had to have drains put in to clear the infection, and was scared to death of all other dogs after that. Sorry for your coming loss. frick all pit bulls.

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and their owners

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I don't deserve to die, bro. My pit bull is out playing with children and maybe even rescuing people from house fires right now.

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Family members say the dogs have never attacked anyone before.

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Sooner or later its going to occur to one of the appologist that post in this thread.

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Our news crew was the first to arrive on the scene when this happened just after 4:00p.m. Monday.

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3rd line in they have to mention this gem.

Literally no one fricking cares

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Hyperbole, but more effective than "lining up all the pit bulls and shooting them"

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So saying shoot the owners is just "hyperbole" while saying do away with the breed is not, it's "ignorant"? Okay.

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Certain demographics are highly likely to be more violent. Should we line "all of them up" as well?

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You're putting dogs on the same level as humans here.

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Attack the actual problem, not the knee jerk blanket solution.

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Well the common denominator in these fatal attacks seems to be a single breed. Call me crazy but logic would dictate that breed is the problem.


Take the emotional aspect that people associate with dogs out of the equation here. Let's use an inanimate object like a car as an example. Let's say Honda came out with a model of car that got to be really popular. Then suddenly one day one of these cars just exploded while going down the road for no reason and kills the kid in the back seat. The next day another one of these cars does the same thing. Later that same day another one of these models explodes and kills an 85 year old woman. Would you support?

(a) destroying all the models of that car

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(b) shooting everyone who owned that car

Have the dog people showed up to say pit bulls only attack when provoked or are scared yet?

This case sounds like the kid didn't provoke them, unless I'm missing something. So that leads me to believe they just were in the cage, saw the kid as prey, broke open the cage and attacked to kill.

Real wonderful breed of dog to have around kids alright. I can half arse understand a provoked dog attacking but that doesn't seem to be the case here.

I never liked pit bulls, and then my dog got attacked by one. Really hated them after that. Then about 3 months after the first attack yet another pitbull tried to attack him. frick that breed.