Pitbulls are safe?
 

?I treated them like kids?: Woman who lost both arms, eye, and ear in attack by her own pit bulls calls for tougher control on breed

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A woman just released from the hospital after losing both arms, an eye, and an ear to her three pet pit bulls has now lent her voice in support of an ordinance that would toughen controls of the breed in her area.

Linda Henry of Westwego, Louisiana, was nearly ripped apart May 12 when three of her four pet pit bulls, a breed commonly known for their ferocious temperament, brutally attacked her within inches of her life.

Now out of the hospital, the still shell-shocked 54-year-old says she supports a Westwego lawmaker?s attempts to put stiff restrictions on the breed through a city ordinance.

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Watch the video, do they look like they can afford to feed and properly care for 4 pitbulls?

Their house is in disarray and needs repairs, they talk like they are ghetto trash and most importantly, they treated them like 'kids' NOT like animals.

Dogs don't just attack for no reason, no matter the breed, something motivated these animals to attack their owner, we may never know what, but because the owner just said 'they just attacked for no reason' and she was injured, we just believe what they say.

I have owned pits and pit mixes for close to 10 years and have NEVER had an issue, teach them correctly when they are pups and they will have respect for their owners and others around them.

Our latest pit puppy has just started teething, she has already tried nipping at us playfully, she got hit on the nose, relatively hard for her size and she has never tried it again.

Remember, these are, for all intents and purposes dumb animals, they need to be trained constantly while they are young to know what the correct way of behaving around family members and other people is, if they are treated like humans, they will think they can act like humans and interact with anyone and everyone... They cant... Period.

was not prepared for the picture.

That's what ya get when you chain dogs up in your yard not feeding them ...
When was the last time you seen a White Mans pits attacking their owners ?

Get your black ass off of welfare and Wic and maybe you can feed your dogs instead of them fending for themselves!

Dumb ass fucker!

pitbulls are murderous predators

there should be some harsh shit handed down

I really hope that's sarcasm.. The majority of pits I have known have been stupidly lovey, extremely loyal dogs.. The ones that were mean or aggressive were due to their owners not handling them properly, most of which was just chain aggression.. Any dog can turn given the proper circumstances, some more so than others..

Not many other dog breeds will fight to the death just because you asked them to. I'm sorry but that's some serious loyalty in my book.. Now train them to do something better than rip other dogs apart and you have an amazing pet..

Fuck me that's brutal

Given the thread title, I was kind of expecting a pretty nasty image.

But, yeah, that picture was rough :(

Unless you live in the sort of neighbourhood where you "work a corner" on The Wire why would you ever have a pit bull anyway?

Pit bulls are owned by the most ghetto people.

Only a dumbass would own that dog.

:1orglaugh you keep the dog at home. i wont say what the dogs are used for

My dog is half pit and half beagle. Luckily enough I was not around to see THAT conception happen. Even if he is a bit aggressive, he is too small to bite off my arms. - although he did scratch my dressy leather coat..

FUCKING DOG! If he wasn't all curled up in his chair and sleeping and looking cute I would kick his ass right fucking now!

he's not really sleep he's going fucking kill you :evil-laug

Thera are several ways to treat kids! :thumbsup:thumbsup

Pits are all potentially dangerous animals regardless of their care.

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Better buy a cat, rabbits or a mouse instead.

When Vets and the CDC say one thing, I know I just ignore the professionals and go with the monkeys from GFY every time.

Couldn't agree more with him, look at that shit house, they probably never took care of their dogs and abuse them.

it's a fantastic breed, too bad a lot of people don't know how to raise them properly

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You should need to pass an IQ and personality test to own that breed...or any breed for that matter. It's amazing that any idiot can own a four legged animal with big teeth.

When I'm laying on the couch and my goofy Lab comes up to my face, I have no fear. He has a big mouth and teeth, and I think "if he wanted to, this dog could eat my face like a wolf in the woods."

I love Pitbulls. One of my dog's play buddies is a grey pit, and he's great.

The breed just attracts a certain kind of person(mostly) who should not be raising any living thing.

I don't think she was doing much with her arms anyway.

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if you like playing with fire thats your biz. just dont bring your torch into the city :2 cents:

Oooo weeeee! Sista girl gon' get a PHAT disability check now, yo!

Quoted for truth

Those breeds are not for everyone to keep

Any dog is a potentially dangerous animal regardless of it's care..

there needs to be harsh liability setup :2 cents:

Here's my non-expert opinion on pitbulls. Some are gentle, some are vicious, by nature all can be dangerous if prompted. So how do you know? I don't so I stay away from the breed entirely. Won't own one won't let my dog near one.

On the other hand I have zero problem taking my old girl to my friends house with his 300 lbs of German Shepard and Mastiff.

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Pit-Bull Ambassadors
Rescued from Michael Vick?s dogfighting operation, these five pit bulls show their unquestionable love for people by giving back to their communities.
By Lisa A. Hanks


?If I was sitting in my office, and Jonny was lying on the floor on his dog bed, and Mr. Vick came walking in, what would Jonny do?? asks Cris Cohen of San Francisco, the newly adoptive owner of one of the 54 dogs seized from Michael Vick?s Bad Newz Kennels dogfighting operation in Surry County, Virginia. ?Jonny would wag his tail and walk up to him and greet him. What does that tell you about dogs? They?re such forgiving animals.?

Dogs giving back

View a photo slide show of the dogs


Jonny, now a certified therapy dog, is just one example of former Vick dogs making positive contributions to their communities ? all thanks to a huge public uprising. ?A lot of people wrote, called and petitioned to have the Vick dogs saved, which saved [Jonny?s] life,? Cohen says. ?It?s nice to take Jonny and give back to the community.?
While Vick, former NFL starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, was on trial for felony dogfighting in late 2007, an enormous number of dog lovers demanded the pit bulls be saved from near-certain execution.

?Some people were saying the dogs should all be killed; they?re killing machines. Others said they should all be saved,? says Stephen Zawistowski, Ph.D., CAAB, an executive vice president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York.

Some vocal national groups held the position that all dogs confiscated in dogfighting cases are dangerous and should be euthanized once the trial ended. Other groups, including Best Friends Animal Society in Kanab, Utah, and Bay Area Doglovers Responsible About Pit Bulls (BAD RAP), located in San Francisco, requested individual evaluations that would identify the dogs that were good candidates for rehabilitation and a new life.

?Fighting dogs, previous to the Vick case, were automatically put down without assessment,? says Marthina McClay, certified professional dog trainer and founder of Our Pack Inc., a pit-bull rescue group in San Jose, Calif. ?Any dog can be damaged in an abusive situation, but let?s find out what?s going on with the dog first.?

Vick dogs evaluated
Fortunately for the Vick dogs, Judge Henry Hudson and Mike Gill, assistant U.S. attorney, opted for evaluations. Of the 54 Vick dogs initially seized, 49 were placed with rescue groups. Of the remaining dogs, two were euthanized (one for health reasons, the other for aggression issues), one went into law enforcement and two died shortly after they were seized.

See the full timeline


After several rounds of evaluations, 22 of the dogs were sent for sanctuary care with Best Friends. The rest went to foster homes through seven other groups across the country, including Animal Rescue of Tidewater in Norfolk, Va., and the Georgia SPCA.

more here

What an incredibly dumb way to measure loyalty. :1orglaugh

Pits are good for fighting other pits in back alleys for money by white trash and ghetto people.

I agree with your first point, though, but I still wouldn't own such an overall dumb breed. It's been so watered down now with the shitty pits that there are literally only 2 or 3 breeders in the country with decent pits.

That Mastiff is gorgeous.

I think it has a lot to do with the way dogs are raised.

I have a dog, although I am not much of a dog person. She's a black lab, must be about ten years old now. She's an inside dog, I walk her every day; Our dog is like a member of the family. I have two neighbors, one on either side of us, who both have large dogs... Who have never ever taken their dogs for a walk - in years.

Pitbulls are more than safe to these men http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3391671.html http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1361167 :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I had a Vizsla that I had to give away when I had my son. We got him at around 2 year old, before that he was part of a hunting pack we figure. He was a very gentle dog, but you really couldn't go near his food, or grab him if he was under a desk etc.

I couldn't control that first 2 years, and it was all the difference in the world. When we got him he already had a paw that was broken and healed, a big scar on his snout, and didn't respond to "sit" or anything like that.

Not worth the risk to have him around my baby.

There's so many other dogs to choose from, I'm not sure why people are so bent on having a pitbull.

Perhaps I wasn't really clear with what I was trying to say.. My point was that a dog that is ready and willing to give their life in the ring for their owner will also be ready and willing to give their life protecting their owner's house, family, and kids. Pitbulls are extremely loyal and friendly dogs.

Aren't they like forbidden all over the world?

That's a cool video & all, but pits aren't protective breeds by nature(a well bred pit isn't anyways). They will most certainly intimidate & all that, but their "protectiveness" is usually fear manifesting itself as a bite/growl/etc.

They are dangerous dogs, that's for sure.

It's pretty pathetic to see the classic slogan of some idiots saying: "If the dog attacks you, it's because you don't know how to treat them properly"...

Fucking losers and fucking hypocrites trying to put the humans as guilty and not accepting that these are Dangerous Dogs that have a higher percentage of killing or hurting people...

Anyone blaming the human, and not accepting that this is a dangerous assesin dog, is a complete fucking idiot and hypocrite.

With the same pretext, I can say that a poor marginal guy attacking you in street and shooting you to steal your money is a "victim of the system", and that YOU are guilty for it...

Nothing else to add.

Something tells me we were already taking care of poor Linda :1orglaugh

I don't trust anyone... specially animals (including humans).

I'm always vigilant.

I have had 2 my oldest just passed away a few weeks ago. He was 17 years old. They are amazing if you dont treat them like shit. I would never own another breed.

Tough breed indeed, not for the regular dog lover.

Pits are as American as apple pie...



I wonder how many of those kids on Little Rascals got mauled to death while shooting show episodes?

those parents were rich! :1orglaugh petey was replaced 87 times :1orglaugh :helpme

What makes you think Pit bulls are so dumb? They actually score quite high 83% - 85% on temperament tests http://www.atts.org. That's higher than average. Just out of curiosity, and not to single you out or anything, but how much time have you actually spent with Pit bulls? I suspect that 99.9% of the negative and false comments about Pits come from people who've never even spent time with them. It's easy to simply write off an entire breed like they are all the same. It's hard to actually make the effort and get yourself out there and actually get to know the breed.

I just think that's about the ugliest creature anyway. :Oh crap

Also, if they're really smart it only means they know what they're doing when they go apeshit on their former owners turned victims.. terrifying.
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My father owned 5 total growing up as a kid & I was around them often with his friends dogs being pits mostly also. They were fairly well bred pits, but this was during the '90s. My brother breeds them now once in a while. I am probably around a decent pit for 2-3 hours once per week. I've met two out of the hundreds that I've been impressed with as far as intelligence goes(& that was in comparison to other pits). The ones I interact with often are loving & playful & all that, but I wouldn't say anything even remotely close to "intelligent". Your reaction was typical, though, of most amateur pit owners I've met. I have nothing against the breed at all - they're just dumb. So are many other breeds & I also wouldn't own them for that very reason. A well behaved pit is probably great for therapy & such, because they can be incredibly loving and playful.. but I don't want that & that also doesn't suggest anything about their intelligence.

When comparing them to the dogs I'm around very often that are being trained to be sent to the border patrol, royalty/rich for estate protection, etc., they're dumb. The two I own as well, but whatever. I had this "discussion" with a local who thought his pit was "oh so smart" and him and his dog got laughed away from our ScH club because the dog was very dumb & couldn't do ANYTHING as soon as any amount of stress was applied. He thought he was going to show me up, but now he admits that pits may be smart for the typical sit, roll over, play dead crap, but that's about it. If your dog can follow a scent of meth & find it buried 2 feet underground 3 miles away in the middle of the woods, I'll shut up. Temperament has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence, so I'm unsure why you brought that up at all.

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