Isn't tethering them outside just making them a bigger time bomb?

Infuriating. We had the same **** walking to the bus stop when I was a kid - except it was the neighborhood Dobermans that got out of their yard. Which means you might get bit but probably not mauled to death.

And right at the bottom of the article. Look how sad! He wouldn't hurt no one. Is that even a pit bull?

what is also sad is this is about 1 mile where in 2016 a guy high on drugs ran over a few kids as well. a 9 year old boy was killed in that

http://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/a...2x6n7hl9jqv0I/

This twitter feed has pretty good updates on this mornings pit bull attack:

https://twitter.com/AudreyWSBTV

*****ng horrible story.

Mass eradication the best solution imo. One horrible day, then things would be so great after.

Judge,

Not picking on you personally, but posing the question for guys like you:

Why the absolute **** would you ever want to own a dog that you need to keep "completely isolated from other dogs" and always on a leash, for fear of them disemboweling another dog or human?

What is the enjoyment in that? What is the allure?

27,
Snuggles!

They are great to have around our house and we don't go to dog parks anyway.

They are both pit bull mixes ages 10 and 9 and right now we are pot committed on them. The first we didn't know was a pit as a puppy. Both rescues as puppies.

Honestly don't know how life would be much different if they were "normal" dogs, besides us not having to be so careful in regard to not coming in contact with other dogs on walks, or making sure everything is closed out back. But yes, I get the paranoia would be nice not to have.

our next dog(s) won't be pitbulls just because the precautions are annoying. Maybe a greyhound.

This article linked to the last attack was just horrible too. Because the kid did not die and is "only" maimed it flies under the radar but I'd be willing bet the silver bullet to pitbulls lies in the numbers of these very serious but non-fatal attacks. Which I bet correlates just a badly as the number of deaths by pitbull or worse.

What a tough kid though. So sad.

http://www.ajc.com/news/local/gwinne...FqeXod6zfsE4M/

In more positive news - I haven't been attacked by the pitbull on my running route that's behind a 3' decorative fence, yet.

Sometimes I think about getting a little dog. Then I think about all the women in my neighborhood with pit bulls that they wouldn't be able to control if it came after my dog. Every walk my head would be on a swivel.

Guess I have to get a pit bull too. It's an arms race.

i'm becoming paranoid about pits now, possibly from this thread

may start running and walking my dog less

haven't actually seen a pit in my area, fortunately

can't wait to break out the "you can tell a pit by putting a baby in front of it" line

Get a gun. Shoot the bitch who's dog comes at you. Then shoot the dog.

I think you have the order mixed up there. The chick isn't going to try to bite my nuts off.

order is fine.

I've talked in this thread and in the fb one about the chick who adopted partially lame pitbull and posted endlessly about it. Of course it's the sweetest dog ever and she loves it like a child. Well, it's gone lame over the last 24 hours and all of her friends are prayng fervently for its recovery. ANd here I'm thinking that all the children in the neighborhood just got a little safer. I keep thinking of this farside comic
http://imgur.com/GqzoPlR

What did the farmer say when his horse died?

+1000 for mass extermination of pit bullls.

would be fine with killing the owners as well, on the condition that they score 70 or lower on an IQ test (probably 90% of them will meet these conditions)

Many of these problem kids have very little regard to human life. Instead they should be going around killing pit bulls if they were smart. Creep into someones backyard and either mash the pits head in with a bat or the safer route and put a few bullets into it. The world will thank you.

The least responsible owners are always going to be attracted to the most vicious dogs. I love dogs but don't really want my young family members to hang out at a house with a pit bull regardless of how awesome the owner is, the risk/reward just doesn't add up.

That said, if we could push a button and eliminate all pit bulls tomorrow, then imo the same problem would just start with some other dog breed the day after tomorrow. The same idiot owners would move on to whatever, dobermans, rottweilers, german shepherds, they would debase and pervert something else. I understand that pits have some attributes that make them potentially worse than the above, but to me those add up to a difference in degree, not in kind.

If the worst owners are always going to bring out the worst qualities of the deadliest dogs, then are we prepared to ban all potentially dangerous breeds? Doesn't seem realistic. With pit bulls I used to support a breed ban, but now I'm more in favor of strict licensing, of strict liability where the owner is liable for all dog-inflicted injuries regardless of fault, of high insurance premiums, etc.

The victims are the people who get attacked, their families, their friends, and the pit bulls themselves, who were desecrated by a bunch of limpdicked morlocks.

How would the dog fighting industry be affected?

This counts for a ton. (If a Chihuahua goes berserk, it is usually not tragic).

No. We find a point where the risk to reward is tollerable to the community, not where it is eliminated. That it can't be eliminated doesn't mean it shouldn't be addressed at all. In this case, wolf breeds are illegal as are other exotic animals as pets.

The debate is where the line for tolerance is. It's is a matter of opinion which is why it is debatable. For those that are attracted to pits they see the risk as worth it and often as a secondary human trait will deny the danger or downplay it. For those that don't care for pits there is no upside so they will decline to see any benefit in allowing them because the risk vs no reward.

The question after all the back and forth banter boils down to "why do you need to own pits when other dogs are also nice and less dangerous" and that question has never, ever been answered by the pit crowd. Part of that, I believe is because they often don't want to admit that the danger/power is the why.

But yeah. Waiting for stupid people to smarten up is a looooong wait indeed.

Update on the crippled put bull girl: her vet bill stands at $9000 and she solicting gofundme donations.

It's like the same chick over and over...NSFW images

Yeah there's at least a dozen of these chicks within a couple blocks of me.

Brings a three year old male abused pit into her home with her male Doberman. She's a ****ing dog trainer.

I'm beginning to think we need to sterilize pit owners.

27,

Dude, the dog just wasn't used to seeing over-stimulating behaviour from cats!