Couldn't Resist Posting This (Pit Bulls)

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Gridley, CA - The Butte County Sheriff's Office said a Gridley woman is dead from injuries she sustained while trying to break up a fight between her two pit bulls. Gridley is about 60 miles north of Sacramento. When the victim did not show up for work Wednesday, deputies were asked to conduct a welfare check at her home on Dewsnup Lane. Deputies arrived about 3:30 pm and found the woman inside covered in bite marks and two large pit bulls loose in the home.


http://blog.dogsbite.org/2015/12/2015-dog-bite-fatality-gridley-woman-killed-by-pet-pit-bulls.html

and this:

http://www.dogsbite.org/dangerous-dogs-pit-bull-faq.php
 
"Dogsbite" is notorious for giving bad press to the true bully breeds across the board. Really they are the GOP of breed bans...I will totally disregard. There was a survey one year among vets. The breed most likely to bite? Doxies...I am serious. My dogs get bad press. Because half the time "Pit Bull" becomes journalistic shorthand for big scary ass dog involved in attack. And it isn't a bully breed at all. Nobody bothers to check. It's just another headline.

When they raided Vick's dog farm? They were expecting killer doggies. These pups had been starved, beaten, tortured, forced to breed, forced to fight. The agents came in and started cutting chains. the dogs couldn't lick them or love them enough. ONE dog from the Vick farm had to be put down. Out of forty and some dogs the rest were re-homed as pets. They aren't killers by breed. They are a breed than want to please humans.

Tell them to kill another dog for you and they will. Tell them to lay on the couch with your son, relax, and you'll bring yummies...oh yes I like this, bring it on...great big lap dogs with the right human.
 

I think like any animal they jut want to get along, until another animal or some human mistreats them.

I would have thought Chihuahuas were the most biting breed - those suckers are the sharks of the doggie world.
 
Bad press? Do you mean that the woman is not dead but alive, and the dogs did not bite her? That they only licked her?
It the story factual or not?

Chihuahuas are nasty little snappy things but they are unlikely to sever an artery or bite your face off.
 
We have a chihuuahua, she is neither nasty nor snappy....but I take your generalised point WG...just as I take Furs generalised point ..because until recently we owned a rescue Pitbull, who had to be put down after years of loving tender care when he turned ''bad''...heartbreaking for all of us !:( ...however ..dogs do bite, and attack for other reasons other than being mistreated, that's all breeds not just Pitbulls.. there no question about that, whether we as animal lovers like it or not, it happens and it happens all too regularly.

What about the friendly family pet, that attacks the baby in the house..?. jealousy perhaps...but usually not mistreatment..

The dog that lashes out on another dog to the detriment of it's health and possible cause of it's death...not mistreatment by an owner necessarily ...just a deep abiding dislike or distrust of a stange and unknown dog.....

There's thousands of documented cases of dogs who attack, who have never been mistreated by their owners...and conversely thousands more who do because of they either their genetic make-up, breeding or their mishandling by their owners.
 
Any country allowing people to own those very dangerous dogs is crazy, but then The US is crazy in some respects especially where its evil gun culture is concerned!:mad:
 
If you find Americans so appalling why are you on this site? Admin has made it very clear that we are not permitted to stir up hostility and disrespect toward those who have different cultures, ethnicities, belief systems than ourselves. As a Canadian it would be inappropriate for me to berate all Brits for the discourtesy of one. Robust civil debate is delightful, country bashing is not. Disproportionate anger is not tolerated by our moderator/admin who wish to provide a congenial atmosphere for all to enjoy.
 
Some people are more allergic to the saliva that collects on the pads/claws of cats than any actual dirt deposited when they scratch a person. I was bitten by a child once, boy did that infect! Three series of antibiotics until my arm healed. Lol.
 
I think it was around 2006 while walking home from the garage where I take my vehicles, I first heard a noise that sounded like a chain being drug on the road. When I turned around to look, I saw a Pit Bull trotting towards me. Normally, I carry pepper spray when I walk, but on that day, I did not. The dog came right up to me and started to growl. I kept walking and he kept following me and growling. Finally, I had enough and I also did not know what his intentions were. Luckily, I had my cell phone with me and called 9-1-1. I told the dispatcher what was going on and she told me that she was sending a cop and I was to try to get myself into a safe area. That wasn't going to happen because no one was around and I wasn't going to just walk into someone's home.

A few minutes later, the dog came after me, so I took my jacket that I was wearing off and wrapped it around my arm. When the dog jumped up at me, I stuck out my wrapped arm and he bit down on the jacket with my arm being inside of it. The dog then leaped towards my face, so I punched him in the head kind of between the eyes. The dog let go, but stood there in front of me growling again. At that time, the cop showed up and surveyed the situation. He then drew his gun when at that moment, a garbage truck came into the development where I was and the female garbage collector yelled for the cop not to shoot. She reached into the cab of the truck and pulled out a few dog biscuits that they carry for situations like mine. The dog took the biscuit and the lady was allowed to put a rope around the dog's neck and tie him to a gas light pole in front of the house.

I found out that the dog was just over a year old, but he looked pretty scary to me. When the dog bit down on my coat, he penetrated the jacket and bit my arm just enough to draw a small bit of blood. The cop said that he had to call me an ambulance and I immediately rejected that idea. The cop told me that I had to go to the doctors and have the doc look at it. I later found out that they do this, so you can be counted as a dog bite statistic. The dog was quarantined for 10 days and did not show signs of rabies. The dog belonged to a single mom with two kids. The little boy, maybe 10 or so, was walking the dog and he got away from him.

As it ended up, I went to the docs and had my dog bite cleaned and examined. The owner was able to produce the rabies vaccination certificate, so the dog was able to stay alive. The cop told me that I could sue the owner, but since everything turned out OK, I passed on it. Besides, she was a single mom with two kids and renting an apartment and doing the best she could. Who was I to make her life more complicated?

BTW, the cop told me that the three most vicious dogs here in America were the Doberman, Rottweiler and Pit Bull. The cop said that he has a standing order to shoot to kill any dog that has bitten someone. The lady had to pay the vet's bill, plus a fine and any money that I paid out of pocket, which was zero.

That's my dog story.
 
Oldman, we also own a Doberman and he's a big softie...he's 10 years old and has never shown any aggression towards a human being...that said yes Doberman's have to be respected in that in the wrong hands they can be very dangerous dogs indeed. However, animals are like people in that they can be just born aggressive, or with a mental imbalance, or just be plain bad tempered, so regardless of how good their training and ownership is, all dogs have the capability to be bad, ..it's just that some due to size and strength are just so much more likely to do serious or fatal damage.

here's a list of the most dangerous dogs in the USA

In America there is no Federal law that imposed a ban and restrictions on dangerous breeds of dogs across the country. There is a law that prohibits the conduct of dog fighting, as well as training these dogs for fighting and their movement within the country.
There is a prohibition on the housing of large dogs in the cantonments of the U.S.А. army like Pitbulls, Rottweilers and hybrids of these species. Municipal authorities had taken several hundreds of laws banning the ownership of such dogs as:

  1. Staffordshire Bull Terrier
  2. American Pitbull Terrier
  3. American Staffordshire Terrier
  4. Dogo Argentino
  5. American Bulldog
  6. Tosa Inu
  7. Dogo Canario
  8. Cane Corso
  9. Fila Brasileiro (Brazilian Mastiff)
  10. Akita Inu
  11. Dogue de Bordeaux
  12. Bandog
  13. Bullmastiff
  14. Doberman Pinscher
  15. Ca de Bou (Majorca Mastiff)
  16. Kuvasz
  17. German Shepherd
  18. Mastino Neapolitano
  19. Rottweiler
  20. Chow Chow
  21. Japanese Mastiff
  22. Mixtures of wolves
  23. Hybrids of the above-mentioned breeds
Limitations of ownership in some States include: the age of the owner must be at least 21 years, the amount of liability insurance must be 100 000 $, prohibition the sale of dangerous dogs, the dog can given only to relatives, at private homes be sure to hang warning signs.
 
So…let me get this straight. We Americans have deadly dogs, carry big guns, drink pale yellow beer, and we’re pathetic? Okay. Got it.

But at least WE go to the dentist every now and then. :laugh:

Okay, back on topic: fureverywhere, I’m curious as to why you started this thread. Is this just another thread to try to show that pit bulls (or “pitties” as you often say) can do no wrong?
 
I was bitten by a German Shepherd who was normally tied in a yard which I had to walk by every day. This day he wasn't. Came running right toward me. I'd always heard to never run when that happens. He bit through a winter coat and left 4 teeth bruises on my leg. I just stood and looked at him. He turned around and walked off. I think if I had run it would have been bad news.

My father was bitten on the leg by a neighbor's pitbull when they lived in Florida, while they were talking to those neighbors. Drew blood. My father never fussed about it.
 
I love dogs and feel sad that breeders play such a large part in ruining a good animal, like the Pitbull. I believe the majority of today's Pits may be coming away from the terrible genetic tendency to fight and kill that "breeders" intentionally instilled by mating the most aggressive dogs.

Look what happened to the German Shepherd many years ago...originally called Alsation Wolfhound or Wolfdog, this strong and intelligent animal was a shepherd and a working dog until some idiots decided to use that strength to breed a vicious guard dog renamed the German Police dog. People became terrorized, no one wanted them any more and after many years they returned to a normal dog, again renamed the German Shepherd.

I don't know if these breeds that have been so irresponsibly tampered with will ever recover 100%, but I do feel there will improvement. The crimes done in breeding aggressive temperament are not the only crimes. Powerful jaw musculature has also been enhanced to enable the dog to strangle its prey with greater ease and surety than before.

As beautiful and sweet as many Pits are, I just don't have enough trust. It's a shame because its not their fault.
 
NancyNGA said:
I was bitten by a German Shepherd who was normally tied in a yard which I had to walk by every day. This day he wasn't. Came running right toward me. I'd always heard to never run when that happens. He bit through a winter coat and left 4 teeth bruises on my leg. I just stood and looked at him. He turned around and walked off. I think if I had run it would have been bad news.

My father was bitten on the leg by a neighbor's pitbull when they lived in Florida, while they were talking to those neighbors. Drew blood. My father never fussed about it.
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Yes, we used to have a German Shepard that was a biter, he also would run at calves, he was so aggressive that we had to have him put down.
 

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