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Originally Posted by Lou  Candy,
I own a gun and the law wants to take it away from me. Everyone knows how dangerous a gun is and they should all be destroyed. Yes?
No, it isn't the gun it is the gun owner that is the danger. That is why guns should be registered and buyers need to have their backgrounds checked. Same thing with pit bulls. They need to be registered and, yes, muzzled in public. Anyone that isn't fit to own one should be denied ownership. And no, I don't think that "labs" need to be treated in the same way. Go back and look at my post with the link to the stats. Pit Bulls have the most bites and kills of ALL breeds. Doesn't that tell you something? No one on this thread made up the figures.
If dog fighting weren't so popular then maybe this would all be a moot point but until society figures out a way of making all humans perfect I guess we will have to deal with each problem as it comes along. I'm sorry you are upset about the posts suggesting these dogs be put down and I don't want to see all pit bulls killed. But ANY dog that attacks anyone or anything without good cause needs to be eliminated for the safety of others. |
Yes it does tell be something, there are more stupid people owning this breed. These people who use them for guard pets often don't have any means on owning dog. Let it be a pit or golden. I do agree with with denied ownership, but not with just pits, but all dogs. I'm tired of these dogs used for fights like I'm tired of yorkies used as fashion asscesories and only that.
But when you say lets kill them all, you're saying lets killed the ones that haven't done anything wrong, the service dogs, the family pets whom are owned by RESPONSIBLE pet owners.
Wht does dog fighting have to do with any of this? These dogs are usually LOCKED UP way from the public, so the owners don't get caught. Most the time these attacks are from irresponsible people who own these breeds that keep them loose.
I gave you a cause for why any dog not just pit bulls attack....its their prey drive. Should dogs be put down for that? NO. How to prevent them is not killing them off, its owners doing they're part.
From the same site you used...
The most horrifying example of the lack of breed predictability is the October 2000 death of a 6-week-old baby, which was killed by her family's Pomeranian dog. The average weight of a Pomeranian is about 4 pounds, and they are not thought of as a dangerous breed. Note, however, that they were bred to be watchdogs!
The baby's uncle left the infant and the dog on a bed while the uncle prepared her bottle in the kitchen. Upon his return, the dog was mauling the baby, who died shortly afterwards.
Same thing could of happened with a pit bull or lab.
From the same site you used.
In all fairness, therefore, it must be noted that:
Any dog, treated harshly or trained to attack, may bite a person. Any dog can be turned into a dangerous dog. The owner or handler most often is responsible for making a dog into something dangerous.
An irresponsible owner or dog handler might create a situation that places another person in danger by a dog, without the dog itself being dangerous, as in the case of the Pomeranian that killed the infant (see above).
Any individual dog may be a good, loving pet, even though its breed is considered to be potentially dangerous. A responsible owner can win the love and respect of a dog, no matter its breed. One cannot look at an individual dog, recognize its breed, and then state whether or not it is going to attack.
But of course we overpass that and only read where it says pits and rotts are the ones causing most the dog bites.
NO I'm not going to muzzle a dog who hasn't done anything wrong. Why should Sunnydaze muzzle her SERVICE DOG?
Muzzles make dogs MORE aggressive........hey you want to add on to the problem, be my guest. Like I said muzzling dog isn't going to doa nything, if its already on lesh, its beinging restrained by its owner already. But if your loose dog comes and attacks my dog, how will my leashed and MUZZLED dog going to protect itself?!
Yes other dogs do have the strength to KILL a pit bull, given enough aggression/force/strength. Like most say it only takes one bite on the throat. If my dog is muzzled it can't fight the dog off and has no chance in defending itself.
2007's Top 10 Biting Breeds, Florida
Miami Dade County Animal Control:
992 bites
Miami Dade County has had a pit bull ban in place for nearly 2 decades.
Terrier: 108
Labrador mix: 95
Shepherd mix: 90
Mixed breed: 81
German shepherd: 53
Chow mix: 50
Boxer: 39
Rottweiler: 33
Pit bull: 32
American bulldog: 30
Broward County Animal Control:
616 bites
Broward County does not have a pit bull ban.
Pit bull: 182
Labrador retriever: 50
German shepherd: 40
Rottweiler : 36
Shepherd: 29
Chow chow: 23
Bulldog: 17
Boxer: 14
Unknown (mixed): 14
Jack Russell Terrier: 13
Yes pit bulls are up there, but thats because and I can say because I LIVE here, more thugs/gangstas own these dogs and they don't properly take care of them, letting them loose, ect. But why not labs again? Lookie here? Stop all this ''this breed is more dangerous than the other'' It can happen with any breed. Why even WITH a breed ban are there more dog attacks in Dade than Broward, even though Dade has the pit bull ban? More IRRESPONSIBLE OWNERS live in Dade than Broward, that's why.