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We don't need ANY laws regulating these infernal animals,,,or laws preventing us from shooting them on sight either...

Spot! Lay Down! BANG!!! Good Boy.

Poisoning a pitbull is an honorable undertaking, providing that shooting is not an option.

We went to the same school!


Travis

Hollywood or East Coast?

How does it feel to be the first woman to graduate from MCRD SD? You must have pulled a lot of strings. With your mouth.

ESAD

[bleep]

Love most any dog, have reservations with some breeds, but cannot internally allow myself to trust Pits, even those that belong to very close friends of mine. Its something in my Gut that I cant get past. And this is from a guy that has owned Rotts and Dobies my whole adult life. Theres just something about Pits that I cant drop my guard on.

Anything coming from a Texan is always hilarious. Here's to hoping you can afford a real dog one day.


In Christ,
Travis

It's because they exude the ability to tear you up good if they ever decided to, and that freaks some folks out, even if the dog in question is completely friendly and easy going. Guys who never like to feel that way about a dog (because it makes them question their image of themselves as tough guys) feel hostility toward the breed for that reason.

If only I didn't have to pay all of these lawyer defense fees for all the kids my dog has eaten. Someday I will get a real dog, like a Palmeranian.

It's because they exude the ability to tear you up good if they ever decided to, and that freaks some folks out

woman attacked by her own pit bulls loses both arms,an eye and a lot of blood.

Oh, you mean there's something in my post you don't agree with?

Yes Hawk, I normally refrain from things like putting my fate (or that of others) at the paws of a dogs whim.

Mostly I see guys with pits that have low self esteem and choose to live their life vicariously through that of a tough dog. As a kid they didn't have the luxury of being able to say to others that their dad could whip the other guys dad and regretted it.

It makes absolutely no sense to talk about how pits are bred to be loving, docile, and not dangerous in one sentence and then in the next to talk about how they are the poor mans estate mastiff. Just because a dog licks his masters hand doesn't make it safe for people to be around.

Every family pet/hunter pointer has let me know, at some point in time it didn't feel like putting up with me getting in its face/space without growling and barring teeth at me. Maybe it had a face full of porky quills or a mesquite thorn coming out the top of a foot, or was very tired from a days hunt and was too tired to put up with having the duct tape pulled off its legs to get the boots off after hunting in thick prickley pear country. A pissed off growl at me got the swift, sharp swat that let the dog know I was boss was ultimately what let me be boss and then I could proceed as needed.

Unfortunately I have seen men who grew up hunting with hounds and setters and pointers try being the boss with dogs of a more violent nature get the hell bitten out of them and sometimes left with permanent loss of normal use of a limb. Crippled at the whim of a dog.

Those who raise a dangerous dog and fail to teach the alpha rule and have a dog teach them (or another family member) can pay the price forever.

How often has a masters loving dog become jealous of the relationship it's master develops with a new partner or child, and the dog decides to teach the baby where it will fit in the developing pecking order? The answer is, some dogs take a finger and some take a life.