I once saw a video of a rabid fox run crazily into a bar, bite one woman on the leg, chase another on top of a table, and run off back out the door.
That sounds bad
but it ain't nothing compared to a Pittbull once they go psychotic, its a whole other level of carnage. I have never ever heard of somebody dying from getting mauled by a Fox...unless the thing was carrying some weird disease
Public opinion is ridiculously fickle.
No mine isn't I love dogs and I've felt this way for years and years and years about Pittbulls, they are inevitably dangerous fight dogs. They were breed for a specific purpose to maul other animals to death and have no place in our modern society
Today it's fashionable to want pitbulls "exterminated". Who or what will it be tomorrow?
No its not fashionable...I believe my opinion is a little anti-whatever since amnesty international or whoever will always be "think of of the poor owners" and "think of the poor puppies"
My opinion is also perhaps anti-social since its going to cause offense to many Pitt owners in this thread
Unfortunately for them I'm more concerned about the kids who get their face mauled off by these inevitably dangerous "pets"
On a side note, I had some trashy neighbors at one point that had several of them. They used to eat through the fence and run loose around the neighborhood. I heard them making a godawful racket one day, and I looked over the fence and saw two of them ganging up on another one, ripping his chest out. No one was home, so I called animal control. When they finally showed up several hours later, the guy had come home, and I had informed of what was going on. He proceeded to ignore me and kept talking on his cell. Anyway, he's got the dead dog wrapped up in a blanket, stufffing it in his minivan. He talks with the animal control officer for a minute before they shake hands and go their separate ways. I'm glad those assholes moved. Fucking renters.
These is what I'm talking about, those dogs will inevitable return to their savage fighting nature unless supervised 24/7, you put them on chain they can be so strong they can snap the chain clean off....and who has time to watch a dog 24/7...maybe somebody on welfare but even folk on welfare need to eat, to sleep....a Pittbull is not a pet its a fighting machine
I have seen too many of those dogs go bad. Maybe there is some special use for them, maybe the style should not be exterminated, maybe they could use the style of dogs to deter convicts from trying to escape death row, or use them in Iraq or something
but other than some very, very extreme circumstances I see absolutely no need for a dog like this in our modern societies.
Also, I think it's worth noting that there's an elementary school down the street from me and I pass by there with Dixie almost everyday on our walks. Whenever the kids see her, they always get excited and ask me questions. The kids also know she's a Pit and they aren't even remotely afraid.
Sorry dude I know how much a dog can change your life, you love it, it loves you and gives you comfort but I firmly believe this dogs is inevitably dangerous and should not be allowed exist in our modern society.
I would be EXTREMELY concerned you allow this dog interact with children at schools. Some day some poor little innocent child is going to do something stupid while petting your dog, like do some clumsy poke the dog straight in the eye, when a dog like a Pittbull finally does go nuts there is no stopping it. It's not going to be stopped by a simple command like "down girl stay" or even a stopped by a good kick, the dogs are extremly strong fighting dogs.
They also got this thing called "Lock-Jaw" which allows the fighting dog to bite down like a wrench with its teeth
When a dog like yours does go crazy near children be prepared to do anything or else its going to be a massacre. IMO your style of dog should not be anywhere near kids.
Pit bulls have by far more deaths and maimings then any other dog breed. Obviously something within the breed gives them the tendency to be more aggressive. Bad ownership is simply not enough of an excuse for the consistently high number of deaths and maimings by pit bulls over an extended period of time.
It's the whole fighting dog thing. Pittbulls don't just nip, bark and deliver bites like a regular dog, the Pittbulls when they are psycho mode go in for the maul. They got the "LockJaw" business which means when they do go for it they clamp down there's no stopping them.
A variant of the "locking jaw" story is told by Tom Skeldon, Lucas County (Ohio), dog warden, who said that an impounded Pit Bull that had been used in fighting started "going wild," biting at the walls of the kennel. He shot the dog with a tranquilizer, and then left it for five minutes to let it pass out. When he came back the dog had indeed passed out, but not before it had leaped up and clamped its jaws on a cable used to open the door of the kennel. "Everything else was relaxed, the dog was out cold, but its jaws wouldn't let go of that cable, and he was hanging in midair," said Skeldon. "Not even a jaguar will do that."
When the crazed Pitbull bites onto something soft and cushy like a human the teeth in their jaw bites into them like a wrech. Its no good just pulling the dog away because their jaw has clamped down, if you pull the dog off its jaw is going to be coming away with a big chunk of skin, muscle, vascular beds and all kinds of bleeding flesh....they were a highly sucessful animal at mauling other animals to death for a reason.
