Pack of pit bulls kills two.

[Mickey1992]

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/14112666/detail.html

How many more have to be mauled or killed?  I just seems senseless for this breed to continue to exist.

[Chairboy]

So nobody has been killed by other breeds?  Or is it that pitbull stories are mediarific and get more coverage?

Think sensationalism, like 50 years ago when a white man raping a black woman would be unreported, but a black man raping a white woman would be blasted across the front page.

Edit: Whoops!  Hawt, but whoops

[Dowding]

but a black woman raping a white woman would be blasted across the front page.

I'd say that still would make the front page.

[Chairboy]

heh, whoops

[SIK1]

It's not the breed but the owners. Yes pit bulls are powerful dogs, and they should not be allowed to roam freely, nor should any other breed for that matter.

I also wonder if it was really a pit bull, not to long ago here the paper had a story about a Pit bull attack, and it turned out to be a mastiff. Of course the media doesn't really care about facts just selling papers, and a mastiff attack doesn't grab headlines like a pit bull attack.

[lazs2]

pit bulls are powerful and aggressive.   For the most part.. their owners are the last person who should own a dog.

It makes for a bad combo.    I would not ban any breed.   I would however save the worst of the breed and when a person got convicted of having a pit and letting it mauls someone.. the owner should be thrown into a room with 3 or four of the dogs for various lengths of time depending on the attack his dog was involved in.  

If someone died... he stays till he is dead.

lazs

[rpm]

Originally posted by lazs2
pit bulls are powerful and aggressive.   For the most part.. their owners are the last person who should own a dog.

It makes for a bad combo.    I would not ban any breed.   I would however save the worst of the breed and when a person got convicted of having a pit and letting it mauls someone.. the owner should be thrown into a room with 3 or four of the dogs for various lengths of time depending on the attack his dog was involved in.  

If someone died... he stays till he is dead.

lazs

[AquaShrimp]

Dogs are like sharks, most dont have the temperment or ability to hurt humans, but some do.  Pit bulls have both the aggressive nature and means to hurt and kill people.  They are domestically created monsters.  I'm sure if we chopped open the head of a few of these killer dogs, we could see parts of their brains that are different from normal, non-killing dogs.

[2bighorn]

Originally posted by Mickey1992
Pack of pit bulls kills two

I just seems senseless for this breed to continue to exist.

American Bulldogs, says article... Not pit bulls...

[Saxman]

Funny how those little, but INCREDIBLY important, details get overlooked once public hysteria and soap-boxing gets involved, isn't it?

[SIK1]

Originally posted by AquaShrimp
Dogs are like sharks, most dont have the temperment or ability to hurt humans, but some do.  Pit bulls have both the aggressive nature and means to hurt and kill people.  They are domestically created monsters.  I'm sure if we chopped open the head of a few of these killer dogs, we could see parts of their brains that are different from normal, non-killing dogs.

I can tell you have never had any first hand experiance with pit bulls. They are not monsters they are dogs. I have a friend that is terrified of German shepards because as a child she was attacked by one. Does that mean that German shepards are monsters? To her they are.
Try watching "The Dog Whisperer" once in a while. Not only does he have a large, and good looking pit bull, maybe you will learn something about dogs.

I have owned pit bulls, as well as other breeds of dogs and by far the pits were the best dogs I have owned.  Any large breed of dog can do harm to a human. And just an fyi if you did look at the brain of a pit it would look just like the brain of any other dog.

Other traits of the breed are loyalty, protectiveness, inteligence and fearlessness.

[john9001]

but i thought it was a sport.

[JB73]

Originally posted by 2bighorn
American Bulldogs, says article... Not pit bulls...

for emphasis

[Tiger]

How about Rotweilers?  And Chows?
They are rather aggresive dogs as well.

It's not the dogs, it's how the owners program them.
I've seen small terriers attack people because the owners made them aggresive.  I've also seen Large Boxer Bulls that was as safe as a stuffed animal because the owner's showed it proper love and attention.

Trying to say a certain 'breed' of dog should be put out of existance because of the action of a few of them.  Apply that to people...  should everyone who lived in New Orleans be labeled the same because of the actions of the looters after Katrina?  LA during the riots?  NY back in the 70's?  Of course not, but that is basically the idea you are trying to convey saying all pit bulls are dangerous because of isolated incidents.

[Mickey1992]

Originally posted by 2bighorn
American Bulldogs, says article... Not pit bulls...

Funny how they changed the article from Pit Bulls to American Bulldogs and make to mention of the correction.