[Candy317]

Hello I'm new. I'll post my intro later. But I have to comment on this issue first. I would expect it from non-dog lovers, but hearing it from dog lovers? I'm applaud I adore and admire the yorkie breed although I don't own one, but as well I adore and admire the american pit bull terrier breed, although I don't own one.

I will defend a yorkie if its being bashed on a pit bull forum if they're saying things like all yorkies should be put down, because they're all bad with kids, are ankle biters, snappy, and yappy.

You can't go and say these people are wrong for saying these things, when you say all pit bulls are killing machines. But you sure can INFORM them that not in all cases its true.

If this is the mentality you have then......lets abort all black babies since african-americans make up for the highest rate of crimes. Lets say that those police officers were fair and just for shooting, Sean Bell 50 TIMES, because he was black, and as we all know like pit bulls, ALL BLACK PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS. Lets kill all the homosexuals, because they have the highest rate of HIV/AIDS. Lets be like the Nazis and put all pit bulls in gas chambers, just because they were born a certain breed...like they did with the Jews.

Unless you think these are valid points, then why would you say 'lets kill all pit bulls, they are all to blame'.....its the SAME MENTALITY.

This is the reason why I won't become a humane law enforcer and help animals. Because I don't want to pry a best friend out of a 5 year old boy. I don't want to destory the only friend a elderly woman has in her life. I don't want to put down a three month old puppy, just starting life, becuse it ws born a hated breed. I don't want to put down a beloved hyperactive 2 year old pit bull. I don't want to put down a 12 year old gray muzzle pit bull, who did nothing wrong, but be born a pit bull.

Lets stop all dog hate.

If this the case, because they're pit bulls and they kill something, lets put down pomeranians as well. A POMERANIAN killed a 6 month old baby not to long ago. But of course this isn't as nearly important as when a pit bull does it. Pit bull stories sell. So the media reports them. But ask any vet which family dog breed they put down the most...most the time it ISN'T a pit bull. But these cases, don't go to the public. So it goes unheard of to us.

Just recently on another dog forum, someone posted on how a family pet, GOLDEN RETRIEVER snapped on his owner. He has some serious bite wounds, and he was going for the owners throat. Let it been one of his daugthers, it would of been a fatality. But this owner DID NOT LEAVE HIS CHILDREN UNDERSUPERVISE WITH THE FAMILY DOG. No not the family PIT BULL, the family dog. As for why the dog snapped? It would of been a brain tumor, could of been rabies, who knows.......but its not because 'his brain swelled, because it has a small head'.

Same dog forum, different dog. A lab goes after a woman, her baby, and her pit bull who was leashed. The owner of the LOOSE AGGRESSIVE lab shots the pit bull, who was only protecting his family after the two dogs go at it. The pit bull did nothing, but protect his family. If the lab would of died...oh well, you shouldn't of had your lab loose and better the lab get killed for trying to attack than the baby get killed from the aggressive lab attacking it.

My dog gets hit by a SUV. You don't see me banning all SUVs for doing so. I will not own one, because of the impct it did to my dog. But it wasn't the SUVs fault it was the DRIVERS fault, and MY fault for having my dog offleash. Just switch suv to pit bull and driver to owner, same concept.

Its sad that once a dog grows in popularity it becomes 'america's new trget'. Some time ago PIT BULLS, yes pit bulls were america's family dog. They were referred as ''nanny dogs'', because they were so good with kids. But the downfall to this populraity is that they fall in the wrong hands like drug delers and dog fighters. Oh by the way, Micheal Vick's fighting pit bulls? Most of them were adopted out and are in loving homes. Hellen Keller? Had a pit bull. Lil'Rascal's dog Petey? Pit Bull.

Of course no one wants to her the positive, just negative. Who cares that a pit bull got certified as a therapy dog, lets put him down and not let him help someone who can't help themselves.

Dobermans were america's target dog. They became widely use as guard dogs. Since Billy hit the ball over his neighbor's fence, and Billy's mom wasn't supervising him, he goes over and gets attack by this dog and the doberman gets a bad rep.

Now I hear more and more Lab bites happening, why, because dumbwit owners don't socialize their dog or don't supervise them. To add to the problem people are not watching their kids/other dogs with other dogs.

If it has teeth it can bite, it can kill. I don't trust my dogs with other dogs, no matter wht size. In dog parks, if I see an aggressive toy breed, even if its 3lbs bigger thn my dogs, I'll leave. I'm not going to wait to find out if that this toy dog has the ability to kill my dogs. Then the owner comes to me with BS that, their dog never did anything like this before and gasp the world is shock that a toy breed could kill nother dog.

For instance, my sister's unaltered shih tzu went at it with my altered bichon over some food. If this happened while they were unsupervised, I would of came home to a dead dog. I think, even though my bichon if bigger than the shih tzu, my dog would of been the one dead. Fixed dogs are least likely to bite than unaltered dogs.

Fixing dogs and supervision, I cn't stress this enough. Could save lives here people.

No I would never punish a dog for biting/ttcking. Most the time it happens when dogs are unsupervised. I think there should be a law that bans STUPID OWNERS from owning dogs so these things don't happen. My neighbor's doxie has been a terrorizing passerbys for who knows how long. Do I think this dog should be pts? NO. But this dog definitely needs some socialization and some new owners. Same thing if it hppened to be a pit bull running amok in the streets.

For the person who lost your yorkie while it was on a leash, my sympathy goes out to you...I hope you got justice. But blaming all pit bulls for it, won't stop it from happening again. So we kill all pit bulls...then you know wht hppens? John Smith from down the street owns an aggressive dog down the street and it kills another dog for beinging loose. Destorying breeds won't solve the tragic killings of dogs/people. People should start socializing their dogs and keep the dangerous ones out from the public. People should also always supervise THEIR pets/kids so these sort of things don't happen.

Let me use personal exmples. I had a rat terrier who was dog aggressive, breed NOT known for dog aggression. I also had an akita mix who was dog aggressive, known for dog aggression. I wouldn't trust neither of these dogs with a strange dog coming to greet them. Now my bichon is dog friendly, so is my pit bull mix I had as a child, I would trust them with a strange dog, but of course SUPERVISED.

My pit bull mix dog, could of even been pure for all I know, was great with kids. She let my 3yr. old brother at the time pull her tail, ride on her back, pull on her ears. Terrible dog manners, but who would of known a pit bull did not bite back? My 6lbs rt terrier? If that was done to her, my brother would be in the hospital with some severe dog bites.

What will it take for this breedism to stop? Its never the dogs fault. Its the owners. Any dog has the ability to bite and kill. I do think a dog a bit bigger than a yorkie let it be a lab, pit bull, cocker spaniel has the ability to KILL a yorkie if THAT DOG, not BREED is dog aggressive.

I think we can all agree, not all yorkies are ill-mnner dogs. So not all pit bulls are killing mchines. Please don't judge on a dog's breed, but on the individual dog itself. Every dog is different. We also can agree with its OWNERS who make dogs this way 'yappy, snappy',ect', for not socializing or training them. Why can't the same be apply to pit bull owners? People are damaging breeds, not the breeds themselves.


I protect my small dogs from all elements, NOT JUST PIT BULLS. Toy dogs, small dogs, medium dogs, large dogs.

Oh for the christians who are saying these comments, who are we to play God? Maybe God has a reason for why these dogs are on this planet.

THIS SENSELESS KILLINGS HaS TO STOP. BSL might not be affecting you, but its affecting many innocent dogs and is hurting many dog owners nationwide. They start with pit bulls, but they keep on adding breeds..........WHEN WILL YOUR BREED BE NEXT?

Oh and muzzles? Makes the problem worst. They feel more threaten and most muzzles won't be strong enough if they feel the right to fight. Oh and if a loose dog approaches my dog who has a muzzle on and can't fight back from being attack, then what? It wasn't MY dog who started the fight, but my dog had to pay for it.

I NEVER will go to a groomers who uses a muzzle to restrain a dog from biting. My dog was terrible getting her nails done. Took her to a groomer, groomer puts on a muzzle, my dog got more stressed out then she already was, had a seizure on the table. Went to another groomer who didn't use muzzle, she did fine, freaked out a bit, but with patience, she wasn't so stressed out and had no seizures. Muzzles are a bandage on a boo boo, but won't make the boo boo go away. Socailization and training makes the problem go away. Not IGNORING the problem by just putting a muzzle on a dog.

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