You idiot, your dog isn't "protective", it's aggressive!

[Anne_Neville]

A man died when he was attacked by his pet pit bulls.

From the article:

Raymond Tomco was a Korean war veteran and a retired builder who enjoyed working in the yard and tending to his pink and red rose bushes, said Christina Tomco’s boyfriend, Jamar Mackall, who has lived in the home for three years. Mackall, 29, described Tomco as a “straight, blunt, tell-it-like-it is” guy.

Tomco had been attacked by Onyx a couple months ago and his daughter and Mackall asked if he wanted to get rid of the pit bulls. But Tomco said that “he liked that the dogs were protectors.”

Somebody should nominate this guy for a Darwin Award. When your dog attacks people or other dogs, it’s not being “protective”, and it’s not “telling it like it is” to say it is. It’s aggression, and you should never tolerate aggression from your dog. The dog is at least as likely to attack you, a family member, or a friend as it is to attack a burglar or mugger- so having a “protective” dog isn’t making your family safer- quite the opposite.

I’m just sick of people making excuses for their aggressive, badly-behaved dogs by saying they’re “protective”.

[LiveOnAPlane]

I’m with you on that.

Thank God no innocents were killed.

[Anne_Neville]

@LiveOnAPlane

Thank God no innocents were killed.

Amen! All too often, it’s a child who gets attacked and killed.

I do feel very sorry for the woman who had to find her father’s body after he’d been killed by his “protective” dogs. That would be horrible

I’m betting these dogs weren’t neutered, either (though the article doesn’t say if they were or not):

Delise is a veterinary technician with a degree in Veterinary Science Technology, and is author of a book covering nearly four decades (1965-2001) of human fatalities from dog attacks…

Delise said that her studies show that all dog related human fatalities nationally since 1999 found that 95 percent of the dogs involved “were not neutered, and 94 percent of the dogs were male.

Unfortunately, the macho asses who want a “protective” dog are also often the macho asses who resist neutering their dogs for various stupid reasons. :mad: