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I will say this about the dog control vs. gun control argument. If certain types of guns occasionally loaded themselves and then of their own volition decided to randomly shoot innocent people, I would probably be a lot more sympathetic to gun control arguments.

Solution? Your dog mauls someone you get thrown in the pit with a few.

Form the ambulance chasing lawyer link you provided.

"(About 16 people die each year from dog attacks in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.) In such cases there is almost always evidence that the owner failed to take precaution despite knowing that the dog presented a grave danger to people, usually because the owner had trained the dog to fight or knew of previous unprovoked attacks or very aggressive behavior by the dog."

Like I said there are usually signs, but folks ignore them because they can't stomach doing what should be done, that is on them and them alone.

PaulBarnard,

Tell me: How much time & how many cases of illegal dogfighting.illegal gambling have YOU investigated & submitted for prosecution??
(I spent nearly a full year on such investigations of such cases & later testified about the SCUM who does that group of crimes. = UGLY business, imo..)

yours, tex

https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2016.php

Hard facts, not theory, like global warming etc. nor exaggerated as in gun deaths stats ( suicides) that have nothing to do with crimes being committed.
These are deaths, not the hundreds or thousands of people and kids maimed, or that suffered life changing events, many of which will never fully recover.

Call them apples oranges or fruit loops,, all they do better than any other breed is to fight to the death, to bore in and kill no matter what,,, that is what they were breed for.

Pits are more likely to kill you if they get aggressive, they have a greater capacity to kill you than other breeds due to breeding and physical ability, compair them to any breed in the US,,, find the numbers.

and as for that study being anti Pit, I bet almost all of them are,, and for a good reason.

Zero my friend. Zero.

Wait a minute mag. You have been bitten by all these breeds? Not saying it didn't happen but that sounds like you displayed fear of a strange dog and they sensed it and bit you because of it

I'm not even saying that is a bad thing because after I almost got my ass tore up by the biggest doberman in Montana, I can relate.

My opinion on Pit Bulls, for the record, is extermination.

I have personally seen how they can turn at a moments notice on known and loved family members (not mine) and would have killed if not for someone intervening. Same goes for Rotts.

You must not have a lot of Mexicans on your route -- it's the dog of choice for the "Vatos"

Naah, I got it from the Dog Whisperer, he was a dick about supporting pit bulls, but he got a lot of other stuff right, especially how dogs are dogs, and not little people.

We had one of those ankle biters that out of the blue bit a toddler in the face. It wasn't bad, just a small puncture. The kid had not done anything - was just standing there. And the dog bit her. I put him down.

Golden Retriever, Chihuahua, Shih zu, and Lab were all in adulthood, unprovoked when reaching out to pet except for the Golden, I was taking a Seashell away from him. The German Shepard, and Poodle were when I was a kid and was probably due to kid stuff but still unprovoked in my opinion.

You should have seen the look on that Golden's face when I picked him up and slammed him into the ground then I pinned him down with my hands on his front paws and my body holding his lower body. Him looking up at me and me screaming at him.......My uncle and I still laugh about it.

After that day that dog was my best buddy when I went over there, I'm pretty sure it was because of respect.

Way back when our uncut male 8lb Jack Russel mix when he was about a year old growled at our son, prob'ly he thought he was jockeying for position within the pack. Said dog immediately went sailing across the room, courtesy of my foot. He musta thought my son did it, never had a problem after that.

I agree any breed can be aggressive, usually (but not always) when they feel threatened but...

"Owner/Family mauled by Yellow Lab", the headline never read.

To All,

Fwiw, IF you are in need of a watch dog & don't want one of the "protection breeds", look at a Chow-Chow, German Shorthaired (or Wirehaired) Pointer, Viszla, Treeing Walker, Plott Hound, TX Blue Lacey, Kerry Blue Terrier or (for small spaces/apartments) a Lhasa Apso.
(NO JOKE, the little Lhasa Apso has a LOUD/scary-sounding bark, is FIERCE, FEARS NOTHING, is fiercely loyal to their "pack" & has a HARD bite. = Buddhist monks trust the Lhasa to guard their temples & shrines. - Do NOT let a Lhasa outside & off-leash, as they fear NOTHING & will stand snarling, while a car runs them down. = A 15 pound Lhasa believes that he/she is as big as a German Shepherd.).

When my late wife was modeling/a student at SMU in 1970, a known criminal (with a long string of arrests for various crimes) broke into her condo in North Dallas. - When VK got home, she said that "Muffin", her 10# Lhasa bitch, looked like she had rolled in fresh blood. = The thug went to the ER at Parkland Hospital and 100+ stitches later the DCSO placed him into confinement, charged with burglary.
(The burglar said that "Muffin" let him into the condo but wouldn't let him out.= She kept using his feet & legs as a "chewy toy" until he finally was able to escape.)

yours, tex

22+40 gr in the brain =Proper care.

My mother had Lhasa when was growing up. They are fearless, and hell on mail if you have a drop slot in your door I can attest to that.

What I was told (don't know if it was true), Lhasa's were put in Tibetan temples to serve as early warning and as advance attacker to invaders, Mastiffs were also in the temples but were not as alert and as aggressive; but once they heard the commotion from the invaders and Lhasas tussle; they would go see what killed the Lhasa and resolve the issue.

They make pork chops for some to wear around their necks. It makes dogs like you.