Originally Posted by C_U_Next_Tuesday (Post 14475301)

Too bad she didnt decorate her house according to your standards....

If there is one thing I cant stand is stereotypical judgmental fuckheads.

Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear (Post 14464943)

for doing what dogs do in a place made for it ? :error

if you take a dog to an offleash park with other dogs then you have to accept there will be dog fights.

it would be like going to an "alcohol ok beach" during spring break and wondering why you got into a fight.

Originally Posted by BlackCrayon (Post 14475735)

Seems the only people who defend pitbulls own them.

Originally Posted by Walrus (Post 14472714)

Spooky, no one denies the damage that reactive Pit bulls are capable of. Those of us who understand that it's the owners, not the dogs... want something to be done about these bad owners. That's what people should be advocating about. If you ban the breed, the bad people will still find a way to own one. Or they will find another breed to abuse if they can't. Just like they would if you banned guns. And the good owners and pit pulls will be punished. What are they gonna do.. ban labrador/pit bull mixes, or any dog resembling a Pit bull?

Here's a good example of what breed banning acommplishes... In 1989, Denver, Colorado banned the Pit bull breed. The amount of Pit bull attacks in Denver has not declined since this date. It accomplished nothing. People still own Pit bulls in Denver illegally. In 2004 Colorado passed a law that prohibits the banning of specific breeds. But in Denver they still hunt down Pit bulls and take them away from innocent families. Many people moved out of the city because of this.

They often get the breed of dog wrong in these sensational news stories of pit bull attacks. I remember the media getting it entirely wrong with the Ving Rhames case where his groundskeeper was found dead. Rhames's dogs were actually a Mastiff type and a Bulldog. Not Pit bulls. And they didn't kill the person either like originall reported. I think that case was a great example how the media is incredibly quick to blame pit bulls. They didn't even the get correct dog breed on initial reporting. This is common though.

AaronM says he's seen good pit bulls owned by good owners act just as bad. Huh? It NEVER happens. Every single story I see in the news of Pit bull attacks it's always the tie out dogs that broke loose, never walked, never trained, etc. In a rare case, if a otherwise well behaved dog has cancer, or some other serious disease, he may act out. But this can happen to ANY dog. And good dogs will bite too if you corner them... If you leave them with no other choice.

Originally Posted by Ninja_Pete (Post 14478135)

The ppl with the "kill pitbulls cuz they are killing machines" are so fucking ignorant its painful. Any dog is what you make it. Are pitbulls strong? Sure they are, but if you don't raise them to attack and hurt people you have nothing to worry about. Pitbulls are the most human friendly dogs I have ever owned. I have 2 of them and they wouldn't hurt a flee. My blood boils at the attitudes and remarks ignorant people make about how mean and and viscious they are. You can't blame a dog for being a dog. You also can't blame a dog for being raised by a fuck up human who shouldn't own the dog in the first place.

May I ask. Why did you have a dog of that size and age running around with pitbulls and larger dogs in the first place? Of course if it get's in a fight it's gonna get it's ass kicked. It doesn't belong running around with medium/large sized dogs. Whether it was a pitbull or a golden retriever it didn't belong there.

I go to the dog park all the time and my 2 american pitbull terriers have never attacked anything. Have they both been attacked? Yes they have.

Don't blame the breed of dog for something you did wrong. You shoulda had your dog with dogs it's own size. I am sorry your dog got beat up, that's never a cool thing to experience, but please don't blame "pitbulls" for what happened. Blame yourself or the owner of the pitbull if in fact the dog was animal aggressive.

Originally Posted by spooky181 (Post 14478272)

I had Rusty there cause the crowd that go there (around 10 to 15) have mainly small dogs with a couple of labs and golden retrievers thrown in. Been going there with rusty every day for over a month with no problems apart from the usual little 10 second fights over a ball or something. This guy comes along with his pitbull and whilst my gut told me to leave I didn't want to be a wuss so stayed. I should have left. Anyway Rusty is fine now.