One of my old neighbors had a lovely fawn-colored pittie he’d rescued from a scumbag. He was a young black man, so I cannot imagine what he dealt with. One of my feral kitties was used as a bait animal and came running to me once he escaped. Might have been the same place that abused both animals.
That poor doggie was terrified of everything. And her daddy? God, there was nothing he didn’t know about doggie psychology, but there he was, a young black man with a pitt. A young black man who loved Shakespeare and spy novels and who could talk about murder mysteries on my stoop forever. I’m sure to some people he was a thug with his awful dog…and I was a crazy cat lady.
That feral kitty, by the way, wraps his arms around my arm and puts his big ole ex-tomcat face in my hand when he sleeps.
Our eldest dog, Ella, had a hard early life. We adopted her 10 years ago when she was four. It took a couple of years of hard work to get her turned around, but she is now a “good girl”.
The only peculiarity we cannot break her of is her absolute hatred of stereotypic “little old ladies”. She tolerates kids, men, and women. But a stooped, grey-haired woman over the age of 70 makes her want to kill.
I have two dogs - an English Mastiff - brindle - about 14\50ish pounds named Luna (support animal) and a 7 pound Chihuahua cross rescue, Keke.
Keke is ridiculously cute, and everyone wants to pick her up. Luna is huge and drooly, and people are intimidated by her. Guess who is more likely to try and rip your face off? Now, Chihuahuas are generally a bit twitchy and nervous, but she was also a street dog for the first seven months of her life, and Luna was brought up with love and cuddles.
Honestly, I would try to avoid putting any of my body parts close to your mastiff’s mouth myself. I know someone with mastiffs, and know that they are very sweet dogs that try to avoid stepping on people, but the drool!!! I like to stand at their sides and rub their ears, this usually allows me to leave the encounter with fairly dry shoes.
I volunteer for a pet rescue group (on the cat side) and we are constantly taking in “pit bull” puppies because the ignorant fuck who owned the bitch didn’t have her fixed because he was going to breed her and make lots of money. When the plan doesn’t work, they want to get rid of the puppies because they don’t want to feed/vet them, no room, etc. The most idiotic ones argue about our policy of taking the offspring, but having the parent fixed and returned because they might want to breed her again with a different stud.
From what I have been told about these pups, its never a fucking pit bull.
Yes. It was one of literally dozens of sites reporting the story.
You can also find it on CNN, ABC News, the Associated Press, USA Today, and many newspaper and TV news department websites around the country, including the major dailies in Ohio.
Attacking the bona fides of a story based on where it appears without bothering to check on whether it was reported elsewhere is the height of laziness.
It’s usually the fault of the person who gets bitten.
"Lots of people reported our Airedale to the police but my father held a municipal office at the time and was on friendly terms with the police. Even so, the cops had been out a couple of times—once when Muggs bit Mrs. Rufus Sturtevant and again when he bit Lieutenant- Governor Malloy—but mother told them that it hadn’t been Muggs’ fault but the fault of the people who were bitten. “When he starts for them, they scream,” she explained, “and that excites him.”
There are dogs worth having. There are dogs who never show the slightest signs of being dangerous who suddenly bite and kill kids and old people. There are people who own dogs who can control them, but there are far more who let them do as they please, even let them roam around without any concern.
We trust dogs so much that people don’t realize how dangerous and destructive they can sometimes be.
Besides, there are millions in shelters. What purpose do they serve?
they are dogs.
“Poof”
Just kill any dog that shows any signs of antisocial behavior toward any human, and then keep the rest.
Bullshit. Dogs in shelters have value as people can adopt them as pets. Just because they’re in shelters doesn’t mean their lives should be thrown away. I have always adopted my dogs.
The height of laziness is persisting in prejudice despite authoritative cites from dog experts like the American Veterinary Medical Association, its Journal, the National Canine Research Council, the CDC, and manyothers. Hatred of pit bulls is like belief in chemtrails or the flat earth – what experts and people with experience say doesn’t matter; the believer persists in feeling smugly satisfied they have secret knowledge others lack.
For a very long time, I always thought that every time I washed my car, it would rain.
Then one day I realized that when it rains and I had not previously washed my car, I paid little or no attention to that. But when it rained shortly after I washed my car, that event burned a spot in my memory.
In other words, I may have tended to belief there was some correlation between raining and washing my car when none existed because I just remembered the times when both events happened and did not remember when only one of those happened.
I can’t be certain what the truth is. But I seriously have to doubt the universe pays attention to my washing my car and then makes it rain shortly afterwards. That just doesn’t make any sense.
