I wouldnt trade my pit bull for nothing. He is the most well mannered dog. Very protective over my kids and my yard....the water company even makes appointments to check my meter

Just curious..Why does the water company make appointments?

Makes me sick to look at. I would exterminate the breed from the face of the earth if I could.

Cuz pits like to keep a tight schedule. Duh...

I wouldnt trade my pit bull for nothing. He is the most well mannered dog. Very protective over my kids and my yard....the water company even makes appointments to check my meter

Just curious..Why does the water company make appointments?

My neighbors had a pitbull till they went out of town.

That's happened around me a few times over the years.

Appointments are easier than hiring replacement workers...

Appointments are easier than hiring replacement workers...

seems the owners are always bragging their pitbull is non violent, right up until it kills somebody.

Even if it's just a 1% chance of an attack why would you take that chance esp with kids ??????

I'll keep my pit,yall can bash me if ya want....bet you won't sneak in my yard and steal a hose or have a gas can stolen

I'll keep my pit,yall can bash me if ya want....bet you won't sneak in my yard and steal a hose or have a gas can stolen

I was out in the yard with my lab yesterday afternoon and a lady that probably weighs 100 pounds was walking a big pit bull a few houses over and it seemed all she could do to hold the leash. I kept my hand under my jacket with the holster unsnapped on the 1911, I'd dropped that mutt in a heartbeat if it come toward me and Kodi.

Stolen gas can or dead child....hmmm, let me think....

Cuz that pit bull is the source of thier self esteem. They live through the "toughness" of that dog. Dog disappears = thier identity disappears.

Planet Earth bro. Look at 95% of Pitt bull owners. They are f olks who revel in the "toughness" of thier dog, and are apparently blind/dont care to the risks for others. They rationalize thier ownership every which way possible.

Look at 10 pit bull owners that you know. Then ask yourself are even 2 out of 10 what you consider normal people? I bet 8/10or better are anti-social or low self esteem.

But. ..... By gosh thier dogs could whup anyone or any thing. Just ask em. Thier dog lung/snap/snarl/attack/bite innocent people??? Well Gaw-Lee I never thought that could happen. He/she was so sweet .

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Grow up , come meet my dog and you will change you're outlook

Your wasting your time. These pit people are not very big picture people.

Don't be a statistic bud.

Don't have to worry about that, my dogs will lick the kids to death, if any of y'all doubt me instead of making potty posts on here about us pit owners ride over here and see go yourSelf...you can see first hand, pm me for a address, not everything you read online is true...

I am a pit owner..I also own several assault rifles guess that makes think I'm fracking rambo to..

Well I've sent out a open invitation on my end, stop by and rub my vicious pits head while.she licks you to death, if you don want to ride by shut you're mouth...I hate Chiauahas, dang ankle biters

I used to be just like you I had a pit for awhile had to put it down because it snapped at me. Whitney has a huge American shepherd loyal to her to a fault. One night we were messing around on the couch and it came after me so I knocked it's ass out. If I hadn't been a little slower there's no doubt he would have ate my ass up. Just hate for you to be looking back from a bad situation one day because your dog went after a kid that couldn't defend themselves

Grew up with Pits. One would babysit while Dad was in Vietnam and Mom was at work. I have owned half dozen over the years and never, ever have I had a biting incident. These were pets, family members and had nothing to do with self esteem, what kinda croc was that to come up with?

I do however, have scars on my face from a chihuahua and my daughter as a mark on her shoulder from a chihuahua. Using you guys logic I guess I'd be happy seeing that chihuahua breed wiped from the face of the earth.

Of course I don't feel that way about a breed of dog. I also don't feel that Guns should be banned because a few irresponsible adults allow their firearms to be gotten ahold of by kids who then kill themselves or another kid.

You just don't get it. A gun is always safe until someone makes it unsafe. many of these pit stories involve a dog that was very loving until it decided to kill. If I ever heard one story about a gun loading itself and killing a child all on it's own. I would get rid of all my guns immidiently. Guns are completely predictable. From all statistics Pit bulls are not.

I don't let my kids play with guns just because they have never been shot with a gun before. I realize and recognize the potential for danger. If Pit owners did the same a lot of innocent children would be alive today.

Instead they say, no, my gun isn't dangerous at all, the kids play with it all the time. In fact I leave it unattended in the yard because I know it's completely harmless. Never mind all the children that have been killed by guns before, mine is different. "I substituted gun for Pit Bull to make the point."

I absolutely "get it".

In my experience there is absolutely no reason to believe that a Pit Bull is any more dangerous than any other Terrier
type dog. In actuality, in my experiences, chihuahuas are the more dangerous breed of Dog. So is this damn cat!!! I do not currently own a pit but I would not hesitate to own another one if "that" one were to pop up somewhere.

As for your little analogy you can insert Car, Truck, tractor, Mini Blind cords, or any number of things that are inherently dangerous to children when left unattended. As you noted these things are inanimate but are no less dangerous around children than a Dog, any dog. You can't "ride" any dog without the possibility of a bite, you cant Pull the ears, tail or nads of any dog without the fear of a bite. Same goes for punches to the face, stepping on paws, etc...etc...

There are always those dogs that are trained to "git em" and those then become weapons much the same as a gun and no matter how they are around kids they are unsafe because they have been trained to react aggressively, that is the same with any dog, not just the Pit Bull.


I'll also add the for the record, most dog attacks attributed to "Pit Bulls" aren't even Pit Bulls but are instead any number of breeds that favor the American Pit Bull Terrier. Kinda like the "Assault Weapon", looks like one so it must be one and as dangerous as one. The dog pictured on the webpage that is linked to start this thread is not even a Pit Bull. That is a White English Bull Dog. A Pit Bull doesn't have a head that big. It would help the cause if yall would even know what kind of dog you want annihilated. Come on guys you are acting on emotion and not facts or experience.

No sir, you are acting on emotion, the emotion of trust in your dog. The facts are that a Pit bull killed someone on average of every 18 days last year and over 56% of those deaths were children under the age of 7. Pit bulls make up 6% of the dog population yet account for 81 percent of the fatalities from dogs.To dismiss those facts is not rational behavior. It is behavior based on emotion and as such you will rationalize and dismiss all evidence that doesn't agree with your fantasy.

I'm sure your dog has so far been a loving family member and as such you feel loyalty toward it. I do understand that, but I strongly urge you to do the research for yourself with an open mind and read all the stories told by horrified family members telling how their beloved family pet, raised by them turned into a monster and killed their precious child.

I've owned a pit that I rescued from fighting. She was one of the best dogs we ever had. Being in law enforcement I have worked pit bull attacks but I have also seen German Shepard, golden retrievers and labs become viscious. The meanest dog I have ever seen was a golden retriever that tried to attack a police officer. Dog took three rounds of 40 cal and still didn't kill it.
When the owner got home he admitted that he made his dog aggressive to protect his house while he was gone. Also had a pit bull owner turn her pit on us as we approached her front porch after she called us to her house. Dog was DRT never made it off the front porch. All I am saying is any dog can become aggressive and a lot of it relates back to the owners and how they raised it. A buddy of mine has 4 pit bulls that he hog hunts with. These dogs are trained to attack and he has never been bit by his dogs nor have they acted aggressive towards him. They look mean as hell covered in pig blood lol. I think with any dog you take a risk espically with children but I don't think it is worth wanting to wipe out an entire breed.

For yall that own pits,i have a serious question.Why did you choose to get a pit over all the other breeds out there?

For yall that own pits,i have a serious question.Why did you choose to get a pit over all the other breeds out there?

But they're misunderstood, gentle and don't hurt anyone.

... a dog whose breed rips apart terrified, innocent children or adults who can't defend themselves, giving their last moments on earth an unbelievable hell of ripping flesh and the blood running from their cooling bodies crumpled in a heap as these gentle misunderstood dogs stand by ready to rip and tear again.

most of the people i see that own pits are wussy little thug ass black dudes, they walk them with big huge chains instead of leashes. i see it the same way i see them toting chrome pistols and putting 28 inch wheels and a skittles paint job on 94 crown vics, all so some other dumbass will look at them.

And you got this information whose link doesn't even show a Pit Bull in the Pic. They show a White English Bulldog,.....not even a Terrier. See what I mean...not misunderstood dogs at all. Mis-identified to be made to look more dangerous than they are.

Correct 6% of the population yet 81% of MIXED BREED Pits. Read the stories and not the headlines!! Geez I cant believe hoe gullible you guys are. No wonder we are losing the war on our rights.

I didn't decide, I was raised with them. Now I am not talking about a perceived pit, I am talking about a bona fide real American Pit Bull Terrier and not these "mixed" breeds that are commonly grouped in as Pits. I owned Pits before they were "cool" and before they apparently out of nowhere, started attacking and killing everyone. They were just like my Lab or Retriever they were Pets and family members.

I was exposed to Pits for as far as I can remember. They were catch dogs when we Hog hunted and pets and family members when not hunting. Never, ever got bit by one and never seen them Bite anyone. Dad would, as I would also, shoot on sight before the second hand made a revolution around the clock any dog that would bite or attempt to bite a child. All of the Pits I owned or were family owned were all from the same bloodline and not some inbred or mixed fence jumping breed.

Any dog can be vicious, jump in on a pack of Walker Hounds that have caught up to a deer or Hog and try to get em off. They'll tear you a new one. I've been ran out of a yard by a Chocolate lab, barking snarling and throwing slobber. And I have a small chunk of cheek missing when a Chihuahua decided he didn't like me laying on "his" pillow. I got bit by my own Golden Retriever when I came thru the gate on my dirt bike once. They all can and will Bite gents and some will do it faster than most and yes, some are more efficient when they do bite but singleing out a particular breed based on false information is just emotion because it involved children.

Go to the link and read the stories. The vast majority of the cases involving children were "mixed Breed" and in almost every occasion they were unattended children.
One story in particular, the little boy in Calloway Florida they have the breed listed a Pit Mixed breed and that is untrue. I know of this case personally via animal Control friend and those doge were Boxer mix and not Pit. This makes my point. Any number of Mixed breed dogs are called Pits and yet everyone ignores this simple fact and spouts off their hatred of a breed of dog they know nothing about because some biased magazine article tells you to be afraid of these dogs.

As I mentioned earlier, the dog whose pic is on the webpage linked to in this thread isn't even a Pit Bull or is it even a terrier!! It is a White English BULLDOG. Like I said, bias based on emotion. None of you have ever owned a real Pit Bull and seen them attack anyone that any other dog would not have attacked.

And you got this information whose link doesn't even show a Pit Bull in the Pic. They show a White English Bulldog,.....not even a Terrier. See what I mean...not misunderstood dogs at all. Mis-identified to be made to look more dangerous than they are.

Correct 6% of the population yet 81% of MIXED BREED Pits. Read the stories and not the headlines!! Geez I cant believe hoe gullible you guys are. No wonder we are losing the war on our rights.

Pits should be eradicated. Period.

One thing for sure, if a pitt looking dog is on my property I'm not going to ask for its ancestry papers to see if it came over on the Mayflower.

What a load of hog wash. You're like the guy who wanted a blood test before you would admit what kind of dog it was. You would rather look for any excuse to defend the %$&^% dog rather than the 4 year old child it killed.

Let me put it like this. Any dog that looks enough like a Pit Bull to be mistaken for one needs a bullet in the head.

Where are you seeing a white english bulldog on that link?The only dog pic i see is a blue pit with the kid it killed laying on it.I have had 2 english bulldogs and I'll tell ya,if thats the only dog i gotta worry bout getting tore apart by i aint real worried.Them damn dogs are to retarded to even know how to bite somebody.

http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2013.php

Percentage of dogs killing people is high. (high as He!!)

If you own a pit, me or my family members won't come visit you. If you come visit me and bring a pit bull, I will kill it.

Bart.

What a load of hog wash. You're like the guy who wanted a blood test before you would admit what kind of dog it was. You would rather look for any excuse to defend the %$&^% dog rather than the 4 year old child it killed.

Let me put it like this. Any dog that looks enough like a Pit Bull to be mistaken for one needs a bullet in the head.



clark
my point with the dna statement was to prove that you didnt actually read the article. You only read the part that you thought fit into your way of thinking. And I see your still havent read it because if you did you would see were it said they took dna from the dogs to determined what breed it was and not just an uneducated guess at it which seems to be very common practice with some people. Keep beliveing what the goverment tells U.

For some reason its not showing a pic in the upper right hand corner when i look at it.Im sure once the dog/dogs killed someone and were quarantined it was determined by someone that knows more about dogs than me whether the dogs were pit or not.If a vet calls a dog a pit its a pit in my eyes.

Hummm...I don't know LOL
I agree though, I am sure that someone with authority will call the animal the proper breed which is why I mentioned that almost all these attacks listed were of Mixed Breed. They then throw in the word Pit for effect.

What is your angle? Why continue to defend the breed? The things are dangerous...PERIOD. They may not snap, but if they do you are in trouble.

Just because you were raised with Pits only shows that you had some ignorant ass parents.

If you want to own one...do it. A parent of a child owning one is just plain neglect IMO.

When I'm on a walk in my neighborhood with my family (including a 5 yr old and infant in a stroller) and I walk past a house with a snarling pit bull (or pit mix ... Whatever ... Semantics) it makes me so damned mad to think what could be seconds from happening. Then to look at the stupid owner smiling and explaining "she's just protective" or whatever. ... screw them.

My choices are 1) don't walk in my neighborhood, 2) endure the risk 3) carry a firearm and deal with the fallout should I need to use it.

Carry a gun and a little treat in a piece of meat in case the owner isn't around. Kill a Pit, save a child.

What happens if it is a German Shepard? Doberman? Rottweiler? Labrador Retriever? Boxer? Boston Terrier" (those little mugs are vicious) Dachshund (Also vicious little cusses)

I currently owns a little white fuzzy mutt rescue dog and a Boston Terrier /Cocker Spaniel mix. However after my last Pit died about 15 years ago I only owned Dachshunds until they both passed away about 5 years ago and we got these two now.

You still refuse to see the statistics and argue that all dogs bite.
32 U.S. dog bite-related fatalities occurred in 2013. Despite being regulated in Military Housing areas and over 700 U.S. cities, pit bulls contributed to 78% (25) of these deaths. Pit bulls make up about 6% of the total U.S. dog population.2
Together, pit bulls (25) and rottweilers (1), the second most lethal dog breed, accounted for 81% of the total recorded deaths in 2013. This same combination accounted for 74% of all fatal attacks during the 9-year period of 2005 to 2013.
The breakdown between these two breeds is substantial over this 9-year period. From 2005 to 2013, pit bulls killed 176 Americans, about one citizen every 18.6 days, versus rottweilers, which killed 33, about one citizen every 99.5 days.

I say yea, Rottweilers are dangerous too, so go ahead and kill them too. All the others, not so much.

Why not every dog on the list thats murdered people..There's a lot of people that refuse to see statistics on here.Take the German Sheppard murdered nearly couple dozen people!!!.I say one life is one to many....

You still refuse to see the statistics and argue that all dogs bite.
32 U.S. dog bite-related fatalities occurred in 2013. Despite being regulated in Military Housing areas and over 700 U.S. cities, pit bulls contributed to 78% (25) of these deaths. Pit bulls make up about 6% of the total U.S. dog population.2
Together, pit bulls (25) and rottweilers (1), the second most lethal dog breed, accounted for 81% of the total recorded deaths in 2013. This same combination accounted for 74% of all fatal attacks during the 9-year period of 2005 to 2013.
The breakdown between these two breeds is substantial over this 9-year period. From 2005 to 2013, pit bulls killed 176 Americans, about one citizen every 18.6 days, versus rottweilers, which killed 33, about one citizen every 99.5 days.

I say yea, Rottweilers are dangerous too, so go ahead and kill them too. All the others, not so much.

Why not every dog on the list thats murdered people..There's a lot of people that refuse to see statistics on here.Take the German Sheppard murdered nearly couple dozen people!!!.I say one life is one to many....

I don't refuse to see statistics. I just know that they are incorrect. I can get online and find statistics that will cut that number by over half as far as actual Pit Bull attacks and not Mixed breed attacks or mis identified breeds.

What you all refuse to admit is that the Pit Bull is the most mis Identified breed dog out there and these biased web site scare tactics get folks like yall all up in arms about a particular breed when that breed is not as responsible as they are portrayed to be. That is all I am saying.
Even the stories that follow these "Statistics" list the majority of the dogs as Mixed breeds! This just further proves my point that i this website is just a biased site with an agenda. They'll spin whatever stats they have to prove their agenda driven point.

https://suite.io/mia-carter/1c0a23d

. From 2005 to 2013, pit bulls killed 176 Americans, about one citizen every 18.6 days


so over 176 deaths in 9 years and yawl ready to do away with something. to be so concered with life why havent yawl found out what other life losing statistics are. More children die from abuse in one state in one year than that. u claim to be symapathetic towards human life and especially children. But the truth is your just anti pit. it will never happen. But say they did outlaw pits. You have done very little to save human life. That only accounts for a very small percentage of deaths. I hope yawl have this "save the world" and " i'll give up what ever freedoms yawl want" attitude when it comes to something that affects you. maybe yawl should research what the #1 cause of child related deaths in america is and do what you can to outlaw that

More children die from abuse in one state in one year than that...... maybe yawl should research what the #1 cause of child related deaths in america is and do what you can to outlaw that

How about you research it, tell us what it is and I'll bet its already illegal.

My problem with whole pit bull thing it that people won't even recognize the potential for a problem. Dumbest thing I hear when a dog is barking, growling, etc is "oh she won't hurt you". Really? Kinda seems like she wants to.

Dog owners need to realize the potential is there and be double cautious to keep them contained to eliminate the possibility of something happening. Let your dog get out and kill somebody and watch your life get turned upside down. The owner would be lucky to have a pot to piss in when the dust settles, especially if there is a track record of problems.

I feel sorry for the person that is doing nothing wrong that gets hurt because an owner wants to prove a point about their "sweet dog". When laws start changing to affect the issue, aggressive dog owners can look in the mirror to find out why. Carry on.

. From 2005 to 2013, pit bulls killed 176 Americans, about one citizen every 18.6 days


so over 176 deaths in 9 years and yawl ready to do away with something. to be so concered with life why havent yawl found out what other life losing statistics are. More children die from abuse in one state in one year than that. u claim to be symapathetic towards human life and especially children. But the truth is your just anti pit. it will never happen. But say they did outlaw pits. You have done very little to save human life. That only accounts for a very small percentage of deaths. I hope yawl have this "save the world" and " i'll give up what ever freedoms yawl want" attitude when it comes to something that affects you. maybe yawl should research what the #1 cause of child related deaths in america is and do what you can to outlaw that

Only 176 killed and 83% children under 7 years old but no big deal lots of things kill a lot more kids.

Some people are stupid beyond belief. Some things in life can be prevented and some cannot. Children are killed by guns, I keep mine locked up or in my sole possession. Children are killed by child molesters and abuse. I don't allow my children to be alone with anyone except very close family and I don't hire ex offenders to baby sit. Children are killed in cars, I make mine sit in the back and wear a seat belt.

Children are killed by large dangerous dogs, Pit bulls being overwhelmingly the #1 offender. Guess what geniuses, I don't allow my children with Pit Bulls either. Why would anyone do everything else sensible to protect their children but completely ignore a different valid danger?