The story tells us that dogs were being ignored and ‘not fed every day’. It basically tells us that the dogs were abused. My pit mix-breeds eat twice a day and would love to eat 4 times a day.
The story has a photo with her and a dog. That dog does not look like a pit. And if it is, it is nowhere in the vicinity of 125 lbs. One would wonder how two dogs that are not fed every day managed to be well over the ‘high range’ weight for their species.
This reporthas a picture of one her pits. It is maybe 50 lbs and looks malnourished.
So…did anyone else who has seen too many NCIS, Bones, Criminal Minds episodes immediately think that if you killed a woman with abused bogs, that may be a good way to hide a crime?
Basically irrelevant to my greater point that maybe one shouldn’t own a potentially aggressive animal that could easily overpower them, doesn’t really matter what the breed is or isn’t after it kills you.
The problem is not with the dogs. It’s with the people. People should not own breeds they know nothing about and are not equipped to care for. People should not own dogs and manipulate and abuse them to make them dangerous. People should not neglect and abuse animals.
If you show an example of an animal that became dangerous to humans, you can bet that there was a bad human that made them that way.
I do feel sorry for the neighbor who was trying to help him. That guy will have guilt and nightmares for a long time. It sounds like the dogs got more than one or two chances if they were known biters.
It infuriates me how pit bulls (which, as others have already pointed out, aren’t really a single breed, but a conglomerate of different breeds with similar characteristics) are blamed for everything under the fucking sun.
Several years ago, a councilman in my fair city decided to demonize pits bulls, and passed a breed ban. Shocker, his own dog (a lab) bit a child and was quarantined at animal control. Suddenly, overnight, animal control gets broken into, and the lab was stolen. The councilman claims he had no idea what happened. Uh huh, sure. For the record, I don’t recall any serious talk about the dog being put down - I wouldn’t be for that, as it was the first time this happened, and the dog was otherwise pretty well-behaved (and the child wasn’t badly injured). But the gall of the councilman, insisting pit bulls were dangerous monstrosities while defending his own dog seriously pissed me off.
Only NOW is the city seriously looking at overturning the breed ban, and it’s about god-damn time.
I worked at a vet clinic for about 7-8 years. Not ONCE did a dog that could have been labeled a ‘pit bull’ (or any dogs such as German Shepherds, Dobermans, Rotties, etc) ever cause me harm or appear to intend to cause me harm. Whereas I was snapped at many times by much smaller breeds, including chihuahuas, shiatzus, poodles, etc. And I’m not going to say small dog breeds are all vicious little beasts either - my point is that any dog, if it is untrained or simply by virtue of being an animal, can be dangerous. Breed bans are pointless, and only make it harder to adopt out dogs in need of homes.
Great move by Chris Evans there. And just like a Pit Bull to disguise himself as a German Shepherd. Their ability to take the form of any dog breed is just another thing that makes Pit Bulls so dangerous. I heard they refuse to wear masks too.
I heard Trump’s hair did some kind of funny flop under a helicopter the other day. Of course, it turns out it was a fucking Pit Bull on top of his head trying to make him look bad.
It’s also always an AK-47 or a Glock, even though 99% of the time, it’s neither of those.
The news media isn’t good at identifying dogs, and they know that pit bulls are feared by a lot of people, so they will gleefully report total hearsay about whether a dog is a pit bull because it makes for a more lurid article/story. Same thing with guns- they are terrible at actually reporting what is actually used, so if some goon says “AK”, they take it and run with it.
I agree that singling out “pit bulls” specifically is mistaken. But suggesting that the temperament of small dogs makes them a greater problem is pretty ridiculous too. An immature kid with a water pistol might be annoying, but he’s not more dangerous than an adult with a gun. The danger lies in the amount of damage a dog can do if it does go out of control. So if we want to make some kind of general statement - all irresponsible and incompetent owners are a problem, but the biggest problem is irresponsible and incompetent owners who keep dogs that are physically capable of inflicting immense harm quickly and easily.
German Shepherds were the Dread Attack Dogs when I was a child. Nobody ever went on about pit bulls; they went on about German Shepherds instead. There seems to always be one breed that’s being demonized.
Neither the article linked, or the CNN story the article links to, gives any context for the attack. Were a six year old and a four year old alone with the dog? Under what circumstances? Did the dog and the children know each other? Who had been doing what before the dog “lunged” at the younger child?
