Just got back from the emergency room. My dad was riding his bike this evening and a dog got after him and got ahold of his leg and caused him to wreck. Several punctures in his leg from the bite and a little skint up from the wreck. Yes, it was a pit bull.

hope he heals quickly....

Dang, where was it located? Would like to ride back by with a weapon.

No way it was a pit, they won't hurt anyone.

He's supposed to be put down.

Was the dog dog's owner injured after this incident? Lets hope so.

That sucks. Hope he recovers and gives that mut a pepper spray ennema

He is fine now, just a sore leg and a messed up bike. I think dads more tore up about warping his bike than he is about getting bit. Owner wasn't home at the time. They called later and said they were putting it down and offered to pay for the bike.

I can't believe it was a pit.....that's unheard of.....

Take that wound seriously . I got bit by a chow and it took forever to heal and muscle was sore for almost a year.

Hope you father has a full recovery.



I was probably a mixed breed pit.

X2 ill ride along with ya case there is another one, I want in on the fun
I hope your dad gets well soon!

They better be paying his medical expenses and lost wages too. Hope he recovers quickly.

Yes, one of those notorious mixed-breeds. Pure pits are just swell dogs ... mix it with a pedestrian lap dog... Devil Spawn.

Maybe they will let you be the one that "puts it down"

Interesting. All the "bike riders on roads will get what they deserve" haters must be biting their tongues.

Hope your father recovers completely and quickly.

glad he is going to be OK.

Yeeaaa..... Your probably right.....

I guess they hate pits more than they hate bike riders.

Bad to say but killing a dog is worse than any crime imaginable. If you have a mean dog keep it up. That is all.

famous words from pitbull owners:

"he's good around kids"
"he wouln't harm a flea"
"He's just a big baby"
"its how you raise the dog"
"It's like all of a sudden, he just snapped"
"they were asking for it"
"they shouldn't have run from him"

???

Dont forget...
"He aint neva bit nobody befo"

Please elaborate.

The victims of rape, incest, child abuse, murder, elderly abuse and emotional-verbal abuse would love to hear how killing a dog is worse.

Hope he heals quickly!

knew that was coming before i even opend thread. Just curious, but did you see the dog.

GH, you need to go on somewhere with that practicality and fact finding. Someone's brother's, sister's, friend in law said it was a pit so it was.

Absolutely! The dog lived less than a mile from our house. The owners father lives next door to them and he said he has wanted to put it down for a while.

Maybe the dog owner was mistaken and just thinks it's a pit. Maybe it's a border collie?

^^^^ Famous respones from someone who gets there info from media, and believes every word of it. probably also believe that pit

have more jaw strenth than most dogs
jaw strenth is comparable to a shark or tiger
have locking jaws
cause more damege then other dogs because unlike other dogs, pits shake.
got there name "pit" cause they fight one another in a pit.
more aggressive
more agrresive towards humans cause "thats the way they were bred.
did i miss something?

well seeing how most people have no clue what kinda dog it really is, and love say "yea its a pit"

and when i say most people i mean even people who work around dogs all there life cannot accurately identify them

from the genum: pittus bullus bite that buttus

Same ol shucks about a pit round here...

Oh look CFB starts tomorrow...

Thank God, but you cant go in the sports forum and talk about that either or someone will rape your dog and burn your house down.

Impossible!! Everyone knows that only Pit Bulls bite!!

yes you missed
Ferguson, Missouri, they believed that all cops are bad so lets loot and burn stores. Were they right? Could be because almost all, if not all, killings by cops involve cops.

It's a misunderstood breed.

as of lately pitbulls have killed more people than all other breeds combined. no hype here just facts

Ok
were did you get those so called facts from?

the media. I like pitbulls. I also like rattlesnakes, grizzly bears, and I think sharks are cool. I just don't like to live next to people that have these. I have small kids and sometimes they have to stay inside. We see other mangled dogs come here. and who knows what happened to our cat. prayers to the biker that misunderstood these ausome creatures.

Holy chit, the cat is missing. Well why didnt say that sooner. That has all the tell tale signs of a nationwide pit bull epidemic.

A close community to where i live, a 8 or 9 year old kid had his ears bit off by a pit. It was about a year ago. PO-lice shot the dog in the street. Sorry for your dad.

In other news. A pitbul bit an unarmed black kid.Causing looting and riots by a mob black labs. The pitbul is also being investigated in a missing cat case and believed to have started the ebola virus. If you come across the subject. DO NOT CONFRONT IT. It is considered pawed and EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.

I have noted something over the years: Retrievers retrieve, hounds hunt with their nose, pointers point, herding dogs herd, but we are supposed to believe pit bulls who were bred from terriers (who were bread to hunt and kill) don't tend to do what they were bred to do.

So now they were bred to hunt and kill humans. Really

Bunny

By that logic dobies would be showing up at your house on april 15 to collect taxes

I never said they were bred to hunt and kill humans. What I said is that dog breeds tend to do what they were bred to do. Have you ever noticed that labradores will go fetch a stick if you throw it? Regardless of it it's a yard dog, or fully trained champion hunter.

Why do most hog hunters use pits for catch dogs?


As far as the doberman showing up to collect taxes, what dogs do the police use to catch people? Dobermans, German Shepard's or rottweilers maybe? I wonder if there is a reason why they don't use English pointers?

Check out these statistics.

http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-study-dog-attacks-and-maimings-merritt-clifton.php

Clyde let me ask you this. Do you believe EVERYTHING the media says. Do you believe the media goes to extremes to make sure there info is the most accurate it can be.how reliable would you say the media is

I definitely don't believe everything in the media. I don't really consider these studies/statistics as media??

Why wouldnt these so called statistics be considered media. Every bit of info on dog bite. Org came from media reported events. It is just a compilation of media reports. Do yawl even read the stuff yawl quote

My bad.....try this

http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/images/dogbreeds-a.pdf


Or maybe our government is out to tarnish the reputation of pit bulls?

Oh the goverment, thats a lot more reliable. Now I'll admit i didnt read that. But i will tomorrow. So were did they get there info. Assuming you read it.

Cnn reports obama is the best president america ever had andto huffington post confirmedit it.See how silly it sounds.

Goodman, what source would you trust? Would you trust any source that provides negative info on this breed of dog?

Didn't we do this already?

Ehh
I wrote a very long resonse to your question half way through erased it and decided to save us all some time. People gonna feel how they feel regardless what is said. I just wish people would take the time to research this fromt diffrent angles. Instead of only looking for information that backs up there preconcieved ideas. You know how many folks still believe chiggers embed themselves in your skin and can be killed with clear nail polish.

I'm not interested in arguing. It's obvious you are a fan of the breed just as I am not. We are not going to change each other's mind. I have no problem researching from different angles. What source do you trust?

Oh yeah, I thought the finger nail polish suffocated those little bastards. Educate me on this matter.

and like most here you don't even know how they got the numbers .most just read and believe them . lol


funny how we just believe stats we like .

they come from the same place as above . lol

this is how they got those stats . the do a news paper search online of dog bites . reallllllll good way to collect true scientific data .

I simply posted that my dad got bit and we spent the evening yesterday evening in the hospital. It was a pit bull, end of story. Some of you questioned how I know its really a pit? Seriously? If anyone thinks there is no merit behind the fact that pits have more reported attacks/bites to humans that any other breed, so be it. Do you have any data to back up your theory? There are several breeds that are more aggressive than the others, it don't mean they are all bad. In this case, the owner knew the dog was aggressive, and has kept it up for a long time. Just happened to be out when my dad was riding by and it got him. If you have a pit, I am sure they will always be gentle and loving, and never give you any trouble.

Frankie, sine you read the cdc link and know the data came from an online search of news reports of dog bite death related fatalities, how should this data be collected to give a better more scientific breakdown of deaths caused by breed?

CDC gets its statistics from medical records and law enforcement reports.


EHH, chiggers don't embed under your skin. They bite you and the enzyme in their body from the bite is what creates the irritating, itchy bump. Some folks are bothered by them more than others, similar to how some are bothered more by poison ivy. The fingernail polish can't suffocate anything under your skin because there's nothing there to suffocate.

I agree, but in the cdc link it states the years the data was collected from and that it came from an online search and the humane societies data base.

Interesting. Maybe they use multiple sources. They're idiots if they only rely on online searches and the $($@#* humane society.

The linked article isn't actually a CDC document, but is on their website for reference. It was written by a Veterinarian journal.

first you'd need to know how many there are of each breed . how many pits are there , how many of them bite . same with each large breed dog .

this is my problem with the data in a large numbers of the reports , the dog is guest to be this or that . you put 10 people in a room one might know what a pit is .

the other reason is why the data is gathered to start with . basically the data is from ARA's . ARA's not only want pits gone but ever other dog .

there is no real data out there on dog bite that i know of . some seem to hold this data as the holy grail on what is the "worst" dog breed and the data is just not there to prove that . on the other hand there is no data out there that says pits aint the worst dog breed .

not in this case . when it comes to death by dog

keep back tracking . lol

i'm sorry for your dad and wish him the best . i have no rreason to doult your word . it's just i hate those stats . just as i hate the stats the anti gunners use for shooting deaths and there are a few others . some the cdc falls right in on as facts .

What does knowing how many of a breed there are have to do with how many people got bit?

You accuse me of back peddling for clarifying what is in a link to Clem, but then spout off a bunch of incomprehensible gibberish that makes no sense trying to make a point.

Even if the data used to generate the paper is skewed in pit bull identification, 76 of 238 fatalities were still associated with the breed, which is 17 more fatalities than second place. So even if there is some miss-identification they still are number one.

It's late and I am heading to bed. Feel free to post some data that says beagles are the number on killer of people in the world.

There used to be a disclaimer on the CDC site that says the reason they stopped keeping stats on individual breeds was because of the difficulty in Identifying breeds, even by experienced Animal Control Officers and Veterinarians. It also stated that the only true way of identifying the breed was thru DNA testing.

Dogbite.org stated mission is the eradication of the Pit Bull breed.

By their own admission they said they included, and I quote, " Lab mix and Boxer and Boxer mix in their "mixed breed" stats as Pit Bulls.

I have not seen anywhere that anyone has said that the breed can be dangerous, just not as dangerous as presented on this site and with the vileness exhibited towards them on this site.

Just my opinion take it or leave it.

Yup

sorry i mean keep back tracking on the source of the data .

if you look at the people behind the data, their goal is irradiation of all dog breeds

some people will believe what they want regardless of facts, Im only trying to say that when it comes to this topic alot of folks have been wrongly informed, if your intrested in the TRUTH, goes to this link. Why people fail to resist the facts, and yet cling so strongly to the lies they have been fed is beyond me.

mis identification

this is why the data is easily misreported, and used to slander the name of the renamed "nanny dog". These dogs were once popular for man, many reasons.

My wife was walking a couple days ago and we have some new neighbors that has a pit bull. He came after my wife with the owner running and hollering at the dog. She finally got the dog back. Now I walk with her past that house in the afternoons. If he comes back out on the right of way after her again and shows aggression,,, he will be dealt with. I would sure hate to kill a mans dog but o-well. They should have him chained or in a pen. We have small kids that also walk up and down the street. I see some bad ju-ju in that dogs near future

As it should be.
You are not going to "deal" with a Pit Bull, you are going to "deal" with an aggressive dog that happens to be, as described by you, a pit bull.

There are those on this site that would trespass onto your neighbors yard and poison that dog simply because the dog is a pit Bull breed....or atleast they think it is, regardless of whether the dog has shown aggression or not.
Given that aggression is common with all dogs when it comes to "their" territory it bewilders me where they get this hatred of the breed. Oh they'll say it's because they kill babies, more than other dog breeds, but fail to realize the mini blind cords and babies momma's boyfriend kill way more babies a year than Pit Bulls and besides, how many babies is too much? Aren't babies killed by other breeds just as important? Why is their killers breed ignored?

Maybe it's just easier to do something that you can actually do something about? You'll never stop crazy people from killing people, you won't stop stoopid people from shaking babies that cry, you won't stop drunks & druggies from mistreating the people around them but some folks feel like keeping animals that inherently possess lethal ability as "pet" just doesn't make sense in a society and they CAN do something about it.

Personally I don't give a chit if people raise & fight dogs, chickens or crocodiles, I have no moral issue with it. Keeping them as "pets" in a neighborhood just doesn't make sense to me, and denying their dangerous nature is just a bit ridiculous. I think you are responsible for anything your pets do, and I've never had a problem putting down an aggressive animal or one that I decided could do me harm in a particular environment. A pit bull in my yard is just as much a threat to me as a rattlesnake in the woods I hunt, I don't need either one of them in my life.