re: My thoughts on pitbulls- numbers don’t lie

The difference is the severity. Dachshunds, chihuahuas, etc bite but they don’t murder children.

frick pits they should be sterilized along with their trashy fricking owners.

I know a few pits and they are really sweet dogs. That being said, I’ve only had to go to the hospital once for a dog bite, and it was from a pit.

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This is like playing with a loaded gun...you never know when it will go off

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I hear this comparison used a lot.

You are wrong. A loaded gun is much more predictable than a dog. Guns are mechanical objects with no feelings or intellect. They go off when the firing mechanism is activated. This is a very specific and predictable series of events.

A dog is a living being, with feelings and intellect. It is not at all predictable. And pit bulls have been bred to be fast, strong, and deadly.

I'd feel much safer around a loaded gun. As long as it's not in the hands of some dumbass.

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The difference is the severity. Dachshunds, chihuahuas, etc bite but they don’t murder children. 

frick pits they should be sterilized along with their trashy fricking owners.

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Awww tell us where the mean Pit Bull owner touched you...

Most of the Pit owners I know are awesome people who have rescued their pet from a shitty owner or a kill shelter. Mine was a rescue and she is not even close to aggressive. The key is keeping them around people and other animals, and not locked up in a tiny cage all day. They need exercise and companionship, they are terriers. She treats my son like he is her puppy. Best pet I've ever had.

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most dogs bite and slash, that's the big difference.

Pits have massive jaw and neck muscles, and they are bred (designed) to clamp down and not release.

I know someone that works at an animal shelter, one of the 'don't kill' places. Pretty stout dude, 5'8, 200 lbs, used to work out, built like an ex football player. He was cleaning out an area and took his eyes off a pit (who was behaving just fine, was at shelter because it was abandoned, not because of an attack). The pit hit him on the lower leg, tore through the thick rubber boots he was wearing. Dog wouldn't release when he was spraying it with a hose. Wouldn't release as he beat it with a rake, he broke the rake handle hitting it.

He had to drag the dog into the gate and then choke it down with the gate, shutting it on the dog's neck (and remember, we're talking a solid 200 lb dude doing this). Had to lean into the gate to eventually choke the pit out, as it passed out it loosened enough that he got his leg free.

Had that been a child, or even an average adult woman, it most likely would have been a fatal attack.

We grew up around big dogs; owned boxers for years. Friends had Dobermans, neighbor had dalmations. No other breed I've been around compares to what pits do. They're just not a safe animal to have.

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So let me get this straight.. Pit bull attacks are keeping the medical industry in business?

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Yep, that and ED.

So you are comparing dogs to human beings? WTF

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