Marauding pit bulls attack six
 

Even bit off his owner's thumb.

Yet another sad tale in the endless stream about this breed.

Rampaging pit bull team

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This thread will now be deluged with posts defending the breed. How certain posters own/owned pitbulls that wouldn't hurt a fly and were good with children(!). How it's not the dogs who are at fault, it's the owners for not training them, bla bla bla

They've banned the breed where I live.

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the thought of how terribly mangled the 10 year old in critical condition must be is sick.

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a wild pack of family dogs came runnin through the yard one day
my father got his gun, shot it up they ran away ok
a wild pack of family dogs came runnin through the yard
and as my own dog ran away with them i didnt say much of anything at all

a wild pack of family dogs came runnin through the yard
as my little sister played the dogs took her away
and i guess she was eaten up ok yeah
my mothers cryin' blood dust now

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Every time a dog attacks someone that dog should be shot in front of the owner and then the owner should be shot. Every [censored] time.

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It seems like a good idea to me. The truth is, these dogs have been bred expressly for viciousness by many people, and you don't really know what's in the bloodline of your dog. Apparently normal house dogs of this breed seem to snap regularly. A lot of what dogs do is instinctual, like, start to run and they'll chase you. They even chase cars! And they start doing that as tiny puppies. It looks like violence is pretty instinctual to this breed by this point in its genetic manipulation. These guys bit their owners' thumb off, too, and went running around the neighborhood attacking, so they weren't just defending their territory or their owner -- they were on full-on random attack, even outside their territory.

Obviously owners can make dogs like these worse, and they tend to attract the worst kind of owners, but it's pointless by now to deny the inherent nastiness of the breed, especially since it has been specifically bred for, for so many generations by so many people.

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When they were talking about banning the breed here in Ontario, the Humane Society, the Kennel Club, pitbull owners, and a bunch of other animal groups tried to campaign against the idea. However, they built up next to no support amongst the general population. The average person doesn't want to have to worry about their kids getting mauled by some loser's attack dog.

It's about the only decent thing that our government has done since it got elected.

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someone should have unleashed a pack of ravenous pit bulls on the support groups. or at least adorable, bloodthirsty shelties.

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The attack in the Denver suburb of Aurora came two days after the City Council banned pit bulls and other "fighting dogs." Owners who already had the dogs could keep them if they paid a $200 annual license fee.

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What are other fighting dogs?

Melch

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What are other fighting dogs?


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Remember that lesbian who got torn up in San Francisco by her neighbor's two dogs? One was a Canary Island something or other, which apparently are big and often very mean dogs.
Rottweilers have that rep too.

Some German strains of German shepherds are bred for meanness too, but that's to make them scarier guard dogs, not to fight other dogs. Same with Dobermans, who are often psychologically way out there on the edge.

But I don't know what that city council defined as fighting dogs. I'm sure pit bull is always the first breed whose name comes to mind.