To be fair my chow chow is black.

Ok, yeah thanks for being a nit.

My point is that in modern society there is no reason for people to own dangerous dogs, save possibly guard dogs or farm/working dogs. There is absolutely no reason for people to be walking around cities and towns with pitbulls.

Well, I wasn't quite sure if you were anti-pet or not, so I used a little license to illustrate my point.

Now THIS, I can understand, and I probably agree with it.... as long as we're not limiting this to just pitbulls.

They were bred as hunting dogs. Not a huge difference, but significant enough to mention it.

Not gonna read this thread and this has probably already been talked about but im all for holding owners responsible for harm their pet (any pet and any breed) causes to someone else.

Pit bulls were bred to be friendly to people and vicious towards other dogs. This is because a fighting dog typically changes owners many times throughout its life and has to be able to get used to get used to new owners all time.

Pit bulls are dangerous because of scum bag owners that don't socialize them correctly at young ages towards people and other animals.

That's an animatronic Teddy Bear, it reads books to children.

That's an ewok.

Pretty sure Chows are the most likely to attack people IIRC.

Is taht thing 6-legged?

I own a Pit Bull and I whole heartedly believe its the owners responsibility to have a sound minded dog. If you do not, you need to take on modified behavior training or put the dog down.

My Pit loves everyone and everything and has never had a problem.

That dog looks exactly like my pit mix!.

FWIW he has never had any aggressive behavior. In fact, my neighbors dachshund attacked him the other day and he just moved behind me and looked at me while my neighbor tried to kick her dog away.

CPLO is the voice of reason in this thread. Regardless of how you feel about banning pitbulls the idea of banning one specific type of dog is illogical, biased, and a logistical nightmare.

Well England pulled it off apparently. Maybe it helps to be an island nation.

Maybe it helps to have a society of people that are accustomed to the government telling them what to do.

I thought someone was saying earlier in the thread that they passed the laws but it is extremely difficult to enforce.


http://www.defend-a-bull.com/bsl.html

This website makes an interesting argument against breed specific legislation. Despite the unprofessional look its background gives it.

Also here is a quote from this news story about a pitbull in a police K-9 unit.
Found here:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?sec...cal&id=6625698

Nice find.

<insert drunken dog rant>
**** you people who wouldn't make it 2 min with a pack of dogs. You'll never get it.

Put a rope around that animal's neck.

So I got pissed off half way through the thread and grunched like a chihuahua with a bunch of pits on my side.
Suzzer, I hope that you don't hate pits forever because of this.

4 High, wat the **** is this ****? Explain urself.

People have had dogs as pets for over 10 thousand years. How far back do we need to go to define natural?

The dangerous dogs act is a failure. There are more pits in Britain now than there was when the act was brought into law. They just sell the dogs bred in Ireland and claim they are another breed called the Staffordshire Terrier that basically looks identical.

Also bigger more aggro breeds are being bought as the pit isnt at the top of the dangerous dog rankings by any means.

Dunno if you should get rid of the pit bull, but it seems to wont be able too if you try so meh, i have no idea what the solution, if any, is.

awwww how cute!

i take everything back. all those reports of pitbulls doing the exact opposite of that must be gross slanderous exaggerations

no billy hes not tearing your face off, he's just showing affection!

time to ban those as well

in fact ban any breed that's easily confused with a pitbull. how hard is that? how can you tell? any breed that rips peoples face off with any regularity and looks almost identical to pitbulls

im not advocating to put down peoples pets. just stop breeding them until their finished

Yeah, Chow Chow's have been ****ing outrageous in my experience. I literally stopped going over to a friend's house in high school when he got one. The ****ing would stalk you and keep his head low by your feet and if you turned around and looked at him he would bite you. ****ing insane. The thing bit me, my friend, his girlfriend, his sister, his sister's boyfriend, and his dad that I know of. Drew blood on multiple occasions and ripped a pair of my jeans and they still wouldn't put it down because the mom loved it and the dog loved her. I would ring the doorbell to their house and the first thing I would see was this dog sprinting from the back and slamming himself against the glass barking his ass off. Then I would go back and sit in my car and wait for my friend to come out. It was ****ing absurd.

I mean anecdotal blah blah and it doesn't really mean anything overall, but this thing was ridiculously aggressive even as a small puppy, but it wasn't funny anymore once he got big. It was ****ing scary.

I know these songs about Cuchulain, and I want to know what kind of dogs they had. Like the Hound of the Baskervilles, some monster Great Dane sized man-eater.