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Golden Retrievers have maimed and killed several people. Google it. For the record, I love goldens, a lot. You are just like your friend Dianne from California.

Its not fair to throw facts into the face of BS.

She's a beauty.

I've been bit twice, myself, once by a German Shepherd and once by a Boxer.

I'm with ya.

Like Elmer Keith used to say, "big bullets for big game."

I inherited a mix pit and something else maybe lab not a bad dog reasonable temper thanks again kids... one day I was going out to my car and there sitting next to my dog was a crop eared male pit that was twice the size of my dog. It got up and walked toward me as I headed to my car, I pulled my CCW Glock 19 and trained it on the dog, it closed on me, growled when it was about 5 foot away and launched itself. The 115 grain +P+ Federal HP entered its head directly between and just above the eyes and went straight down its neck into its body, the bullet did not exit and the dog landed at my feet quite dead. My neighbor a policeman told me the same dog had attacked him during his morning run and he pepper sprayed it. Drug folks raise them and then when they get mean or do something to the drug family often they take them out and just let them go.

Messed you up though, didn't they? You should be thankful. A Pit would have crippled you.

Yeah TAK, that is why all the cattle dogs and sheep dogs have been put down...all the cockies around here are using pitbulls because of their loving, caring, nature.

TRH, you are such a goose at times.

You are an insufferably arrogant twit.

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Ask Hawk why so many fruit cakes and druggies and homies own pit bulls.

I almost put down a pit in my driveway last summer. Everything happened very quickly and ended just as fast. Luckily the dog turned away before I got my 38 out of my pocket. I have had several run ins with this dog. The owners are trashy and breed these animals for money. Their dogs stay chained up in the front yard or in the back yard with no human interaction. The big male has been in my back yard twice after ripping through their wooden privacy fence. It's just a matter of time until something happens with their dogs. But, I don't blame the dogs for the neglect they receive from their owners. It is amazing that animal control has not taken the dogs away from them given the number of times they have dealt with these people and the obvious conditions that persist there.

Ive been bitten a schittload of times by German Shepherds And a schittload of times by Malinois



That said Ive liked every Pit I have come in contact with...dont like them enough to own one, buttttttt......

I would agree with those who have said the dogs are handled/trained to reflect their owners......

pits and rots = meat if they show up in my yard. i think most people that own nasty dogs are making up for their own small peckers. and i write this as i watch my beagle snore on the couch beside me.

Actually, in the ghetto culture, the first thing they do with a puppy Pitbull (especially if they're involved in drug dealing, but even absent that factor) is to set about "making them mean." They have a whole procedure for this, involving staking them down by a rope or chain and having buddies from other neighborhoods come by and strike the dog with a broom from time to time. When the dog finally gets enough of it and drives aggressively towards them in an effort to bite, the agitator runs away in pretended terror and leaves. This does two things: firstly it teaches the dog that most strangers will try to hurt them, given the chance, and secondly, that aggression towards said strangers is the solution. Pitbulls trained this way are unsafe around anyone but their owners, and not even completely with them. Pitbulls raised as family pets, on the other hand, typically have the attitude of never having met a stranger, i.e., they want to be friends with everyone they're introduced to, and most that they haven't been introduced to, also.

Did a negro in a pickup truck stop and tell you that bit of wisdom or are you a natural born expert on "ghetto culture"?

No doubt.

PS The Boxer bit my hand, and the German Shepherd sunk its fangs in over my right kidney. Got all the scars still, too.

I don't think anyone is disputing the physical potential of a pit bull, if that is what you're getting at. I just think that it is ignorant to generalize the entire breed as uncontrollable man eaters. I used to have a fear for the breed myself, until I actualy spent some time around a few. I have seen good pits and bad. One looks at the owners is usually all it takes to get a good idea of any dogs demeanor. Pits can make some very good family dogs. If you don't like pits, don't get one. If you have a dog running through your property and you want to shoot it, that's your poragative.

Someone asked why pits aren't used as bomb dogs and the like. I know pits are used as service dogs for a few things, but I have never seen a lousier nose on a dog than what my pup exhibits. She marks very well though.

I had a pit. Great dog. Until he wasn't.

Then I Glocked that [bleep].


Travis