Two 8-month-old pit bulls that were loose in Nanaimo attacked several children, severely injuring at least one. Other people that came to aid the children were also injured.
The children were playing in a yard at the house of one of their friends. The dogs were from somewhere else in the neighborhood and had been cited for being at large previously.
One of the owners of the dogs came and got the dogs but did not stick around. The news interviewed the other owner, a Dangerhair that looked to be in her late 40s or early 50s. While she was devastated at what her dogs had done, she said to the reporter, "People are saying, look at this from the prospective of a parent, well, these dogs are my kids, too," and then she broke down crying.
It was later reported both dogs were euthanized, as there have been other incidents prior to this one, and due to the severity of the injuries the one particular child sustained.
To the dangerhair dog owner I would have to say, "If these dogs were your KIDS, you did a lousy job of raising them. Thank heavens you didn't spawn any of your own."
Because I'm sure they're probably fine? Of course pitbulls are going to be disproportionately responsible for attacks, they're literally the only dog you ever see in ghettos and trailer parks. Why would you expect anything else?
Because I'm sure they're probably fine? Of course pitbulls are going to be disproportionately responsible for attacks, they're literally the only dog you ever see in ghettos and trailer parks. Why would you expect anything else?
Alsip police said the elderly woman lived at home where the attack happened. The dog was shot to death at the scene.
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"Schudt said the dog was a family pet. Police have not had any prior complaints from neighbors about the dog acting aggressively toward people or other pets. The dog was well fed and well cared for. Officers found no signs of foul play or mistreatment of the dog in the home."
Wow, it's almost like they were bred to bite and not let go. But it's just a normal dog, yo.
At least you're honest about how hatred of Pitbulls typically segues into hatred of POC. Time for you to 'unpack your knapsap' of speciesism that privileges cognitive elites like humans over natural
and innate animall wisdom, sweetie....
At least you're honest about how hatred of Pitbulls typically segues into hatred of POC. Time for you to 'unpack your knapsap' of speciesism that privileges cognitive elites like humans over natural
and innate animall wisdom, sweetie....
they were never bred as guard dogs. They were bred for blood sports, such as bull baiting. Here is a painting of the practice, which involves betting on which dog could kill a bull. View attachment 1218122
Sometimes they used bears, or other large animals. In america most of the blood sports were dog vs dog, the practice started in the south, a minority of the dogs were bred to catch runaway slaves (thats the origin of american bulldogs, which are mostly pit bull now anyway). The dog fights were generally not to the death, but points were scored by causing injury, and of course some dogs died from their injuries. Most of the money that can be made in dog fighting is actually from breeding the dogs, if you have a grand champion record associated with your dog you can charge other people a lot of money in breeding fees. There was a shit load of record keeping to make sure people were getting their moneys worth, and there are documented cases of dogs that bit people being bred repeatedly. The job these dogs were bred for is incompatible with society, and it cannot be removed or socialized out of them. All this shit was selected for and bred into the dogs for hundreds of years, way before animal rights were invented. it is a testament to the cruelty of man that this type of dog exists, so many of them can never be suitable pets.
Rottweilers are dogs that really were bred as guard dogs, and still have a higher rate of dog bite related fatalities than most other dogs, but they still lag way the fuck behind pit bulls.
Anyway.
there are a bunch of pit bull adoption drives right now because shelters are more full up with them than usual bc of corona chan. This chick got attacked 11 days after adoption. Might lose part of her finger. View attachment 1218167
I lived under the misconception that Pitbulls where only the scourge of moon crickets, trailertrash, children and old people and didn't quite see the problem
Seeing this hot, dumb white chick mauled by this hellspawn makes it all too real.
The Atlanta Police Department has released surveillance video of a woman whose dog jumped on and bit a woman on the Atlanta BeltLine in Buckhead. Police say the victim, who is a Buckhead resident in her 30s, and the suspect were each walking their dogs April 2 around 5 p.m. on the BeltLine near...
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Police searching for fat white trash who let their shitbulls maul a cat to death
There were actually three victims,” Rohrbacher said. “Two were mauled, viciously attacked and bitten and one man was chased onto the bed of his truck to escape being bitten by these two dogs.”
Akitas, Bull Arabs, Gull Terriers/Mastiffs, Argentine Mastiffs, Boerboels, Cane Corsos, Caucasian Shepherds, Belgian Malinois, Canarian Catch, Chows, Bandogs, Pakistani Mastiff, SDD, Kangal, ACD, literally any other kind of wolf-dog hybrid. That's off the top of my head, and only including dogs big enough to easily kill people. Pitbulls are honestly not that difficult, just very popular with all the wrong people.
And yet, curiously none of these breeds hold a candle to the rates that pits attack. Especially curious that you went with "big enough" rather than general breed temperament, reports, bite capacity, or any kind of documented stats.
Again, the ownership of rottweilers and dobermans each outnumber pitbull ownership (which is roughly 6% of all dogs) yet their combined rates of bites, injuries, and fatalities are still dwarfed by that of pitbulls. On top of that, pitbull bites are 4.4x more likely to result in serious injury compared to the other biting breeds. If it was just a matter of size, or hell even bite capacity, the stats for dog attacks would be much more evenly spread across the other breeds.
Hell, if it was just a matter of irresponsible owners and poor training there should be way more attacks across all breeds. There's way more irresponsible owners with more popular dog breeds, and I'd even go so far to say that most owners have a few bad habits, but the fact is that when Karen's golden retriever gets out of the yard the biggest concerns are it running into wild or stray animals or getting hit by a car. Not that little Timmy is going to be torn to shreds when minding his own business.
No dogs ever kill children randomly. They always have a very obvious and predictable reason, and the people we always see on the news crying about 'it came out of nowhere' are always people who never bothered to learn how to see it coming. If you get attacked by your own dog you're a chump. If you get attacked by your own pitbull you're a chump who might as well clean loaded guns with the barrel in your mouth.
The last three are especially interesting since in all those cases the owners had a dog since puppy hood, and said owners had a long history of seizures. Meaning not even prolonged exposure to the conditions of a seizure stopped them from turning aggressive, so they are either ticking time bombs or cannot be trusted even with training.
Even the abused or maltreated German shepherds know how to communicate and escalate. Unless otherwise trained, they will work their way through the Doggie DEFCON with plenty of posturing, growling, and teeth baring. Nobody gets to the point of contact without knowing a nip is coming. Even then, GSDs usually open with a corrective nip, then pause and evaluate before nipping again or going to a full bite.
It's the shepherding behavior they've been bred for that they default to, which precludes bipolar flip outs and mauling. They have a behavior set geared towards bossing lambs around, not murder. The worst you usually get from most abused herding dogs are neurotic OCD and 'corrective' nips.
The best you can expect from a well trained pit bull is their murder instinct being suppressed long enough for your guard to drop to the point where they get the chance to eat your children.
Pretty much this. The guiding nip behavior observed in German Shepherds is also why they're often high on the bite charts but rank extremely low in serious injury and fatality charts; majority of the cases the German Shepherd wasn't aggressive.
In a similar vein, looking through some of the studies conducted by Animals 24-7, there was an interesting note regarding huskies and their bite stats. Apparently the husky injury and fatality numbers are somewhat inflated because the majority of those attacks are centralized to Northern Alaska and Canada. Not only because of the sled teams that reside in those areas, but because it's not uncommon for the sled dog owners & trainers to leave their dog teams alone to fend for themselves for seasons at a time. So there's a whole demographic of husky related deaths that not only can be summarized as "Asshole Owner Attacked By Semi-Feral Dog Pack That Was Left to Starve" but they're sometimes counted as individual dog bites so an owner getting killed by his 6-dog sled team will sometimes look like "6 husky-related bites/deaths" on paper.
Because I'm sure they're probably fine? Of course pitbulls are going to be disproportionately responsible for attacks, they're literally the only dog you ever see in ghettos and trailer parks. Why would you expect anything else?
Not true actually. Pitbulls have been seen a great uptick in middle class and more well-off areas since 2007 when Michael Vic's story became national news:
That whole scandal brought attention to the breed, that attention gave a lot of disingenuous pitbull advocates a chance to get their foot in the door and pedal their bullshit, which animal shelters were more than happy to go along with since it was an easy way to offload the influx of homeless pits from Hurricane Katrina and often lying about the temperament dogs in question to prospective adopters (1, 2), and that's what lead to clickbait websites and Instgram thots making it popular to share pits in flower crowns and why you'll see countless articles about deadly unprovoked pit attacks have a token "N-now now, l-lets not blame the breed!" tacked on near the end. There's a reason they got the nickname Dindu Dogs.
Frankly, I genuinely hope you don't ever get a pit - or any dog for that matter - because pretty much everything you've said so far only tells me that you match the exact profile of every irresponsible pit owner/advocate I've ever seen. And if you do have one, well, have fun getting sued when your pit mauls a neighbor.
I grew up around pits, pit mixes, bull arabs and staffordshires my whole childhood. They're not the breed for me, but yes, they're still very much normal dogs.
I grew up around pits, pit mixes, bull arabs and staffordshires my whole childhood. They're not the breed for me, but yes, they're still very much normal dogs.
