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A couple years ago I got attacked by a pit bull as I was riding my bicycle. It ran up out of nowhere and started trying to attack me, biting at me ankles.
I made it out unhurt though. Because there were some big rocks nearby that I used for self-defense. I got lucky scored a direct hit to it's head
When a big violent dog gets near you......be ready to kill it if necessary. For self-defense, and for fun
Pit bulls suck. The owners are usually just some guy with a macho complex trying to be cool.
A couple years ago I got attacked by a pit bull as I was riding my bicycle. It ran up out of nowhere and started trying to attack me, biting at me ankles.
I made it out unhurt though. Because there were some big rocks nearby that I used for self-defense. I got lucky scored a direct hit to it's head
When a big violent dog gets near you......be ready to kill it if necessary. For self-defense, and for fun
Pit bulls suck. The owners are usually just some guy with a macho complex trying to be cool.
Yeah here are some guys with macho complexes..
Pit Bull Awareness: Famous Pit Bull Owners - Past & Present (http://pitbullawareness.blogspot.com/2007/12/famous-pit-bull-owners-past-present.html - broken link)
It's almost 2 in the morning, so at this point, I just wish my neighbors would stop their pit bulls from barking. I wish there was a way to control the breeding of certain humans.
Wow a whopping 45 people are bit a year. In a nation of only 350 million, we must rise up against this scourge which bites people at the rate lighting strikes. Let me guess you play the lottery regularly. Ok now brace yourself folks 4.5 out of our 350 million citizens are killed by pit bulls, far less than those who killed themselves mistakenly with hand guns. Are you trying to take our second amendment right away?
By compiling US and Canadian press accounts between 1982 and 2007, Animal People News determined the types of breeds most responsible for death and serious injury. Read full study »Study highlights
The combination of pit bulls, rottweilers and wolf hybrids:
77% of attacks that induce bodily harm
73% of attacks to children
83% of attack to adults
70% of attacks that result in fatalities
77% that result in maiming
Discussion notes:
Pit bulls attack adults nearly as often as they attack children, a characteristic not found in any other breed. They also attack without warning. The victim of a pit bull attack may have little or no opportunity to read the warning signals that would avert an attack from a different breed.
Traditional dog legislation allows "one free bite." On the second bite, the dog is killed. Such laws do not address the threats from pit bulls, rottweilers, and wolf hybrids. In over two-thirds of the logged cases, the life-threatening or fatal attack was the first known dangerous behavior by the animal.
1982-2007 chart:
BreedBodily harmChild VictimsAdult VictimsDeathsMaimingsPit bulls1194528424116654Rottweiler42724311363232Wolf-dog hybrid796541943German Shepherd704519942Chow513414634Akita483214139*This is a partial list
Pit Bulls are often hard to ID and many times attacks by mixes or completely separate breeds are attributed to Pits. Even shelters make mistakes. So when you see pitbull stats, remember that they could be inaccurate.
That doesn't work very well.
-- Mistaken identity works both ways: If Pits are "often hard to ID," or look so much like "entirely separate breeds," there might be _more_ Pit attacks than are reported. (And if Pits were that nondistinctive, they'd have far fewer fans!)
-- To pitch the "it's not a real Pit, it's a mix" argument, you have to know what the non-Pit part(s) is/are, and show that Pit-mixes and pure Pits have lower fatal/serious bite rates than non-Pit mixes and non-Pit purebreds.
(And the issue _is_ fatal/serious biting, not just "bites reported." Otherwise, it's like lumping fender-benders together with traffic fatalities.)
-- Pits have some very marked traits -- and in my experience, shelters and rescues aren't usually _that_ entirely rotten at breed-guesstimation.
[And, fyi: For adoption purposes, they'll often _de-emphasize_ "Pit-ness" -- to the extent that it's ethical -- because many people are turned off by the Pit name alone. So Pits/Pit-mixes become "Terrier/Staffies," "Lab/Bull Terrier mixes," and more exotic things.]
Wow a whopping 45 people are bit a year. In a nation of only 350 million, we must rise up against this scourge which bites people at the rate lighting strikes. Let me guess you play the lottery regularly. Ok now brace yourself folks 4.5 out of our 350 million citizens are killed by pit bulls, far less than those who killed themselves mistakenly with hand guns. Are you trying to take our second amendment right away?
Pit bull terrier 1110 495 397 104 608 #
The first number is attacks on children. The second number is attacks on adults. The third number is deaths caused by these attacks. No other breed even comes close to the pure breed pit bull terriers.
Yeah here are some guys with macho complexes..
Pit Bull Awareness: Famous Pit Bull Owners - Past & Present (http://pitbullawareness.blogspot.com/2007/12/famous-pit-bull-owners-past-present.html - broken link)
Oh, c'mon! You can pitch _anything_ with selective lists like that -- whether dog breeds, religions, veganism, meat-eating, or boxers-vs.-briefs.
And there's a difference between
-- the trimmer Pit Bulls of yore and today's often-grossly-pumped-up PBs (which some previous-era PB-owners would hardly recognize); and
-- some lawsuit-averse VIP's carefully bred/chosen and trained PB, vs. the backyard-bred, iffily trained PBs that too many of us encounter in our unglamorous everyday lives.
In the same way a dragster is too dangerous for public streets, pit bulls have been bred for the sport of dog fighting and are not appropriate for any other use.
So dogfighting is appropriate as long as it does not interfere with your tidy little world. Great.
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