Impounded pit bull learns fate Friday after October attack

1. your dog is loose your dog does harm… dog dies… stop whining and pay up the restitution to the victims… don’t make it overly complicated. Maybe the next time you’ll 1) think twice about getting a killer dog or 2) take better precautions and care

   1. the owner did pay..you want his first born too mcginn?

      1. The foamers will be biting their own tongues in rage at the news that Stallone is going home. A good decision and a fair decision.

   2. “Think twice about getting a killer dog”……. Stallone is now a certified service dog, thanks for being educated before making a comment – I’ll gladly use your logic when your kid commits a crime though……

   3. Joanna, Captain Katz did not “lose his dog”, the individual transporting his newly rescued PTSD service dog to him made an error in judgment in taking a traumatized dog that had not yet been desensitized to “fighting ring like places” and Aurora seized Captain Katz’s dog and never even bothered to try to contact him once during this ordeal because they said he’s not the “owner” under the ordinance; the transporter was deemed Stallone’s “owner.” As the transporter’s attorney I can assure you the first thing I did was speak to Misty’s family and restitution is part of the sentence I negotiated. By the way, Stallone passed his service dog evaluation and flew back to New Jersey today where he was originally being delivered when this happened, sleeping on the floor alongside Captain Katz.

2. The concept of a “bait dog” appears to have evolved from common traditional dogfighting practices, which have changed over time. Classically, in the early stages of training, a prospective fighting dog is offered the chance to attack several relatively helpless victims, such as stray dogs, puppies, kittens, or crudely declawed cats. These “bait” animals do not survive the encounters. For many “dogmen,” this is the extent of the “sport,” but for those participating in serious gambling matches, a prospective fighting dog who demonstrates the instinct and ability to rip harmless animals apart may next be introduced to one or more “sparring partners” whose behavior and abilities will more nearly approximate what the dog will later encounter in a gambling fight. The purpose is not only to prepare the fighting dog to win in a fight for money, but also to reassure the trainers that they will not lose their investment. Many dogfighters these days skip this second phase of traditional fighting dog training, and sometimes the first phase too. Some test their fighting dogs only in muzzled “rolls” with related dogs, to avoid injury to the fighting dogs which might inhibit their success in a gambling match. But among dogmen who still follow the traditional training regimen, the second-stage “bait dogs” will usually be other pit bulls. Submissive pit bulls who whimper and cringe, roll over, or run away will not give the fighting dog adequate training. The “bait dog” at the second stage of training is a dog who will respond to aggression with aggression, and will put up at least the semblance of a fight. This “bait dog” may be a stolen pit bull who has not actually been trained to fight, or a pit bull who has flunked out of fighting training at an earlier stage, or a fighting pit bull who has been injured beyond having a good prognosis for winning a gambling fight. To ensure that the future fighting dog wins and the “bait dog” loses, “bait dogs” are often starved and dehydrated. But a second-level “bait dog” has to be willing to fight–to retain the trait of “gameness.” Every “bait dog” may, in short, be both a “bait dog” and a “fighting dog,” and must be considered “armed and dangerous.”

   1. Goodness, you are great at twisting words! Too bad none of them make sense!!

   2. Merritt- Stop your crazy talk. You have zero idea of what you are speaking of. You are about as accurate about pit bulls and stats as Westboro is about gays.

   3. Trolling again Merritt?

3. 27 dead by dog attack so far in 2013.!
   Pit bull type dogs killed twenty-five of them. fifteen of the twenty-five dead are children.
   Stars indicate people killed by a ‘family’ pit bull – ones that had been raised and cherished as an indoor pet, ‘never showed aggression before’, and knew the victim.

   Child fatalities by pit bull type dog (14):
   Christian Gormanous – 4 yrs old
   Isaiah Aguilar – 2 yrs old
   Ryan Maxwell – 7 yrs old **
   Dax Borchardt – 14 mos old **
   Monica Laminack – 21 mos old **
   Tyler Jett – 7 yrs old
   Jordyn Arndt – 4 yrs old **
   Beau Rutledge – 2 yrs old **
   Ayden Evans- 5 yrs old **
   Nephi Selu – 6 yrs old **
   Arianna Jolee Merrbach – 5 yrs old
   Daniel (surname as yet not revealed) – 2 yrs old (Gilbert, Arizona) **
   Samuel Eli Zamudio – 2 yrs old**
   Jordan Ryan– 5 yrs old (Baker city, Oregon)**

   Adult fatalities by pit bull type (11):
   Betty Todd – 65 yrs old **
   Elsie Grace – 91 yrs old **
   Claudia Gallardo – 38 yrs old
   Pamela Devitt – 63 yrs old
   Carlton Freeman – 80 yrs old
   Linda Oliver – 63 yrs old
   James Harding – 62 yrs old – chased into traffic by two attacking pit bulls
   Juan Campos – 96 yrs old
   Terry Douglass 56 years old. **
   Katherine Atkins-25 years old **
   Nga Woodhead-65 years old

   (1 non-pit type killing) [Rachel Honabarger – 35 yrs old – mauled to death by her own GSD mix]
   (1 husky-mix killing, unknown if the other half of the dog was pit bull) [Jordan Lee Reed – 5 yrs old]

   Two of the pit bull type dogs were BULL mastiffs, ie 40% pit-fighting bulldog.

   If 23 of 27 dead were killed by pit bull attack, that’s 85% dead by pit attack, 7% dead by ‘molosser’, 4% by some kind of GSD mix, 4% by a husky + possibly pit mix

   If you count the pit-mix mastiffs as pit bull types, that’s 93% killed by attacking pit bull types. Pit types are only about 5% of the entire dog population.

   The man who ran into traffic kept pit bulls himself. He knew perfectly well what the two stranger pit bulls that were chasing him would do if they caught him, so he preferred to risk a swift death by oncoming car.

4. Council Bluffs, Iowa.!
   Pit bulls are not only problematic in large cities; they threaten mid-sized cities and small towns as well. Located in the heartland, Council Bluffs, Iowa has about 60,000 citizens.

   After a series of devastating attacks, beginning in 2003, Council Bluffs joined over 600 U.S. cities and began regulating pit bulls.

   The results of the Council Bluffs pit bull ban, which began January 1, 2005, show the positive effects such legislation can have on public safety in just a few years time:1.

   Council Bluffs: Pit Bull Bite Statistics.

   Year Pit Bull Bites % of All Bites.
   2004 29 23%.
   2005 12 10% (year ban enacted).
   2006 6 4%.
   2007 2 2%.
   2008 0 0%.
   2009 0 0%.
   2010 1 1%.
   2011 0 0%.

   https://www.dogsbite.org/legislating-dangerous-dogs.php

5. Of the 4,098 dogs involved in fatal and disfiguring attacks on humans occurring in the past 30.5 years,

   2,540 (62%) were pit bulls;

   530 were Rottweilers;

   3,295 were of related molosser breeds, including pit bulls, Rottweilers, Cane Corsos, mastiffs, boxers, and their mixes.

   Of the 507 human fatalities,

   256 were killed by pit bulls;

   84 were killed by Rottweilers;

   378 (69%) were killed by molosser breeds.

   Of the 2,264 people who were disfigured,

   1,455 (61%) were disfigured by pit bulls;

   304 were disfigured by Rottweilers;

   1,861 (82%) were disfigured by molosser breeds.

6. In Calgary, by Bill Bruce’s own admission and documentation, pit bulls lead the serious bite count with 13% of the city’s serious bites attributable to pit bulls, yet pit bulls account for less than 1% of the city’s dogs.

   In fact, pit bulls are responsible for nearly as many serious bites (13%) as the ENTIRE sporting breeding category (15%), which includes all of the most popular breeds (Labs, Goldens, Poodles, Spaniels, etc) and houses 70% of Calgary’s dogs.

   Why aren’t these breeds attacking in the face of irresponsible

7. Dog Attack Deaths and Maimings, U.S. & Canada, September 1982 to May.25, 2013.

   By compiling U.S. and Canadian press accounts between 1982 and 2013, Merritt Clifton, editor of Animal People, shows the breeds most responsible for serious injury and death.

   Study highlights

   Pit bull type dogs make up only 6% of all dogs in the USA.

   The combination of Pit Bulls, rottweilers, their close mixes and wolf hybrids and other Pit Bull Type Dogs:

   84% of attacks that induce bodily harm.

   75% of attacks to children.!

   87% of attack to adults.

   72% of attacks that result in fatalities.

   80% that result in maiming.

8. Myth: Pit Bulls have been called the Nanny Dog.!

   Truth: This myth was started by statements made by two people. Mrs. Lilian Rant, President, Staffordshire Bull Terrier Club of America, magazine editor said they are referred to as a nursemaid dog in an interview published in the New York Times in 1971.

   Second in 1987 Toronto Star article where Breeder Kathy Thomas, president of the Staffordshire Bull Terrier Association said “In England, our Staffies were called the nanny-dog”.

   No sources, citations or evidence just two biased people heavily invested in trying to change the image of Pit Bulls made these statements and started this whole myth.

   The “nanny dog” is a complete historical fabrication. The sole known published reference to the “nanny dog” notion, before the rise of opposition to breed-specific laws in recent decades, came in a 1922 work of fiction, Pep: The Story of A Brave Dog, by Clarence Hawkes, a blind man who wrote by dictating his stories and, though able to spin a gripping yarn, routinely muddled his facts.

   This work of fiction also appears to be the point of origin of many of the other popular myths about the history of pit bulls. Indeed some dogfighters did photograph their pit bulls with their children, to help advertise the sale of their cull dogs as pets, but that hardly means pit bulls were safe pets.

   One of the most notorious of these gents, professional dogfighter John P. Colby, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, produced his first pit bull litter in 1889. The Boston Globe on December 29, 1906 reported that police shot one of his dogs, who mauled a boy while a girl escaped. On February 2, 1909 the Globe described how one of Colby’s dogs killed Colby’s two-year-old nephew, Bert Colby Leadbetter.

   The entire history of the “nanny dog” myth is outlined here:

   https://thetruthaboutpitbulls.blogspot.com/2010/08/nanny-dog-myth-revealed.html

9. Letter received from a pit bull owner:

   I was an upper middle-class pit bull owner just like you. My husband is a doctor and I am a stay-at-home soccer mom and we live in a lovely suburban neighborhood. We got our dog as a puppy from a reputable breeder and put her through puppy classes and basic obedience. She was spayed and properly vaccinated, stayed indoors and was very loved. I used to defend the breed to everyone I met, just like you. I used to think I knew my dog inside and out, and I was sure she would never, ever hurt my child.

   Then my dog turned 3 and, literally overnight, her dog-aggression came out. She tried to attack the neighbor’s poodle through the backyard fence (she had been in a fenced yard beside this same dog literally thousands of times with no show of aggression).!

   When my 8 year old daughter tried to pull her away from the fence, our pit bull locked onto her forearm (she only got her forearm because my daughter threw it up to protect her face, she was going for the face) and it took 8 minutes for my husband to beat her off, he eventually wound up using the weed whacker, after a baseball bat broke over the dog’s back without even being noticed by her. My daughter lost partial use of her right arm and she is still relearning all of the basic skills with her left. Her life will never be the same.

   We have been accused of being at fault for not “being there to call off the dog”. Well, we were there, we were sitting on patio chairs watching my daughter throw a ball for our pet, who she had spent three years playing with and which had never shown so much as a lip lift to anyone or anything up to that point. We couldn’t, physically, call off the dog.

   We couldn’t physically BEAT off the dog for over 5 minutes. After the dog was off my daughter, my husband was on the ground struggling with it to keep it from going at her again as I pulled her into the house. There was so much blood that I kept sliding on it and falling down. There are still blood stains on the patio almost 2 years later. All the dog wanted was to get back on my daughter and finish the job. The dog didn’t make any noise while she was
   attacking and her tail was wagging faster and harder than it had ever wagged
   before. I believed then, and I believe now, that that dog was the happiest it
   had ever been when it was locked onto my daughter and trying to kill her.

   Let me tell you, you have no idea – none – how completely different pit bulls are from normal pet dogs. When that dog was triggered she went from being a goofy pet and companion to being a cold-blooded predator in a millisecond. You cannot imagine what it is like knowing that your dog is trying to kill your child and knowing that it might just succeed because it is stronger than you are. There is nothing like it in the world.

   There was no news coverage of my dog’s attack on my daughter. None. So much for the overhyped media aspect, hush?

   You are insane to own a fighting dog when you have children. Absolutely insane. I wish we had been protected from our own stupidity by legislation. What is worse is that you are also, by your own admission of a picket fence the dog could easily escape over, putting other people’s children at risk. Fighting dogs are not pets and we need laws in place to protect people from them.

   P.S. You are also insane if you take your fighting breed dog to a dog park, besides being pathologically narcissistic and criminally selfish.

10. TRISH KING, Director, Behavior & Training Dept. Marin Humane Society

    “There is no direct eye contact or very little direct eye contact. It is very quick and over with. Which is one reason why with pit bulls and rottweilers, we have problems. Because they’re bred to do direct eye contact and so they are off putting to other dogs and actually scary to other dogs.”

    The fourth undesirable characteristic – arousal or excitement – is actually the most problematic. Many bully dogs cannot seem to calm themselves down once they get excited. And once they get excited all their behaviors are exacerbated.

    Thus, if a dog is over-confident and has a tendency to body slam or mount, he or she will really crash into the other dog or person when he’s aroused, sometimes inadvertently causing injury. He may begin to play-bite, and then bite harder and harder and harder.!

    When you try to stop the behavior, the dog often becomes even more “aggressive.” In this way, play can turn into aggression fairly quickly. Research on the brain has shown that excited play has exactly the same chemistry as extreme anger. This allows a play behavior to switch quickly into aggression. And, once the dog has become aggressive a few times, the switch is much easier.

    DIANE JESSUP, pit bull expert, breeder, former ACO
    “Jessup, the animal control officer in Olympia, uses two pit bulls to train police and animal control officers on surviving dogs attacks.
    Unlike dogs who are nippers and rippers, her pit bulls are typically “grippers” who bite down and hang onto their victims.”

    Jessup believes that much of dog behavior comes from their genes. “I truly believe that a dog is about 90% genetics,” says Jessup.
    on protection sports

    This difference in “sheepdog versus bulldog” mentality in a trainer is best understood when training the “out!” or release command. It is common practice for those training shepherds and sheepdog types to use force such as hard leash corrections or electric shock to get the dog to release the sleeve.

    Sadly, I had one young man come to me because a club trainer was slugging his little Am Staff female in the nose, till she bled, trying to get her to release the sleeve.

    She would not! And of course she would not! She was a good little bulldog, hanging on for dear life, just as her bull and bear baiting ancestors of old did.

    She was a super little gripping dog, who took the pain she experienced as just “part of the job” once her owner set her upon the sleeve. And this is the response from well bred pit bulldogs—to ignore pain while gripping. It is, after all, what they are bred for! Give me a bulldog like her, rather than one which will allow itself to be yanked off the sleeve due to pain.

    MICHAEL BURNS, Los Angeles Animal Control Lt.
    You have a dog that has aggressive tendencies enhanced through constant and incestuous breeding. If there are some recessive genes on the aggressive or psychotic side, they will make themselves manifest.

    They are different. There’s an absence of the normal sounds a dog makes when it attacks. It’s almost a workmanlike way they hold on in an attack. It’s a persistence I haven’t seen in any other breed.

    KURT LAPHAM, a field investigator for the West Coast Regional office of the Humane Society
    Most breeds do not multiple-bite. A pit bull attack is like a shark attack: He keeps coming back.

    DAVID GENDREGSKE, Clare County MI Animal Control Director
    “In my opinion they appeal to the most irresponsible pet owners and to younger people,” he said.

    “The younger people have no jobs to support the animal, or they have to move where animals aren’t allowed and (the dogs) end up here.” Certain people like pit bulls because they are intimidating, he said. “They want to scare people. It’s an intimidation thing.

    They’re number one with those being incarcerated. If there’s a dog left behind (when someone is sentenced to jail or prison), it’s always a pit bull,” he said. He cited the time a pit bull got out of a car and attacked a horse.

    He was pulled off, but he went back and grabbed the throat. He was pulled off again and again and went back after different parts of the horse. “What kind of a dog but a pit bull would do that?” he asked. “All dogs can bite but not with that ferocity. “ Some people will say that how a pit bull acts and reacts is dependent upon how the dog is raised, he said.

    “But he was raised to kill for centuries,” he said. “You can’t breed it out in one generation.” If the popularity of pit bulls is a fad, it’s a long term one, he said. “I keep seeing more and more pit bulls,” he said. “It’s getting worse.”

    Pit bulls, he said, are not good as a working dog, except for perhaps wild boar hunting. “And they’re not one of the smarter breeds,” he said, despite other’s beliefs that they are intelligent.

11. ALEXANDRA SEMYONOVA, animal behaviorist
    You will also not prevent the dog from being what he is genetically predisposed to be. Because the inbred postures and behaviors feel good, fitting the body and brain the dog has been bred with, they are internally motivated and internally rewarded.
    This means that the behavior is practically impossible to extinguish by manipulating external environmental stimuli.

    The reward is not in the environment, but in the dog itself! As Coppinger and Coppinger (2001, p. 202) put it, “The dog gets such pleasure out of performing its motor pattern that it keeps looking for places to display it.” Some dogs get stuck in their particular inbred motor pattern.

    As pointed out above, this kind of aggression has appeared in some other breeds as an unexpected and undesired anomaly – the golden retriever, the Berner Senne hund, the cocker spaniel have all had this problem.

    The lovers of aggressive breeds try to use these breeding accidents to prove that their aggressive breeds are just like any other dog, “see, they’re no different from the cuddly breeds.” But a cuddly breed sometimes ending up stuck with a genetic disaster does not prove that the behavior is normal canine behavior. All it proves is that the behavior is genetically determined.

    “These dogs aren’t killers because they have the wrong owners, rather they attract the wrong owners because they are killers.” The 100 Silliest Things People say about dogs.

    JOHN FAUL, animal behaviorist
    Faul said they were dangerous and a threat to life. He said the pitbull was bred to be absolutely fearless and had a “hair-trigger” attack response.

    “The cardinal rule is that these dogs are not pets,” he said.

    “The only way to keep them is in a working environment.”

    He said the only relationship one could have with the pitbull was one of “dominance, sub-dominance”, in which the dog was reminded daily of its position.

    ANDREW ROWAN, PhD, Tufts Center for Animals
    “A pit bull is trained to inflict the maximum amount of damage in the shortest amount of time. Other dogs bite and hold. A Doberman or a German shepherd won’t tear if you stand still.

    A pit bull is more likely to remove a piece of tissue. Dogs fight as a last resort under most circumstances. But a pit bull will attack without warning. If a dog shows a submissive characteristic, such as rolling over most dogs wills top their attack. A pit bull will disembowel its victim.”

    “A study by Dr Randall Lockwood of the US Humane Society found that pit bulls are more likely to break restraints to attack someone and that pit bulls are more likely to attack their owners, possibly as a result of owners trying to separate their dogs from victims.”

    Jørn Våge, Tina B Bønsdorff, Ellen Arnet, Aage Tverdal and Frode Lingaas, Differential gene expression in brain tissues of aggressive and non-aggressive dogs
    The domestic dog (Canis familiaris), with its more than 400 recognised breeds [1], displays great variation in behaviour phenotypes.

    Favourable behaviour is important for well-being and negative traits such as aggression may ruin the owner-dog relationship and lead to relinquishment to shelters or even euthanasia of otherwise healthy dogs [2,3].

    Behavioural traits result from an interaction of both genetic and environmental factors. Breed specific behavioural traits such as hunting, herding and calmness/aggression are, however, evidence of a large genetic component and specific behaviours show high heritabilities [4-8].

    ALAN BECK, Sc.D
    However, Alan Beck, director of the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine Center of the Human-Animal Bond, favors letting the breed go into extinction.

    “This breed alone is a risk of serious public health factors,” Beck said. “We are keeping them alive against their own best interests.”

    Beck said while he does not advocate taking dogs from current and caring owners, he does feel that it has become more of a social and political issue for people than a health one.

    “If these dogs were carrying an actual disease, people would advocate euthanizing them,” Beck said. “This breed itself is not natural.”

    “It has this sort of mystique that attracts a population of people. Of course, most of these dogs are never going to bite, as champions of the breed will tell you. But most people who smoke don’t get cancer, but we know regulations help reduce a significant risk.”

    “I know you’re going to get beat up for this. But they just aren’t good dogs to own. That’s why so many of them are relinquished to shelters. There are too many other breeds out there to take a chance on these guys.”

    MERRITT CLIFTON, journalist, Animal People editor
    There are very few people, if any, who have written more on behalf of dogs over the past 40-odd years than I have, or spent more time down the back alleys of the developing world observing dogs in the habitats in which normal dogs came to co-evolve with humans.

    But appreciation of the ecological roles of street dogs & coyotes, exposing dog-eating and puppy mills, opposition to indiscriminate lethal animal control, introduction of high-volume low-cost spay/neuter and anti-rabies vaccination, introduction of online adoption promotion, encouraging the formation of thousands of new humane societies worldwide, etc., are not to be confused with pit bull advocacy.

    Pit bull advocacy is not defending dogs; it is defending the serial killers of the dog world, who kill, injure, and give bad reputations to all the rest. Indeed, pit bull advocacy, because it erodes public trust in dogs and people who care about dogs, stands a good chance of superseding rabies as the single greatest threat to the health, well-being, and human appreciation of all dogs worldwide.

    STANLEY COREN, PhD
    “A dog’s breed tells us a lot about that dog’s genetic heritage and makeup. Genetics is a strong determinant of personality. In the absence of any other information, we can make a reasonable prediction about how the dog will behave based upon its breed.” p 84

    “When we crossbreed, we lose some of that predictability, since which genes will be passed on by each parent and how they will combine is a matter of chance. Fortunately, there is some data to suggest that we can still make predispositions without knowing much about its parentage.

    John Paul Scott and John L Fuller carried out a series of selective breeding experiments at the Jackson Laboratories in Bar Harbor, Maine. By happy chance, their results revealed a simple rule that seems to work. Their general conclusion was that a mixed breed dog is most likely to act like the breed that it most looks like.” p 77

    Dog trainers/animal control, Pit Bull breeders, owners, fanciers, experts.

12. Behaviorists/veterinarians

    RANDALL LOCKWOOD, PhD
    Randall Lockwood, who said he has witnessed the best and worst of pit bulls, said illegal dog-fighting is perpetuating dogs that are hazards to humans and other animals. Shaped by dog-fight enthusiasts, they are “a perversion of everything normal dogs should do. What they’ve created is a canine psychopath.”

    “Fighting dogs lie all the time. I experienced it first hand when I was investigating three pit bulls that killed a little boy in Georgia. When I went up to do an initial evaluation of the dog’s behavior, the dog came up to the front of the fence, gave me a nice little tail wag and a “play bow” — a little solicitation, a little greeting. As I got closer, he lunged for my face.”

    The pit bull, in its purebred or mixed form, has been responsible for most of the fatal dog attacks on humans in the last two years. In 1987, there were eight deaths from dog attacks in the country, and seven involved pit bulls. In 1986, there were 13 deaths, seven involving pit bulls. But pit bulls have been victimized by hype.

    The dogs are no strangers to ordinances. A pit bull ban was passed in London in the 1400s.

    These dogs can be canine crocodiles. They have a dark and bloody history.

    In the United States, pets are considered property in the eyes of the law. And one of the most hotly defended rights of the individual is the right to own anything, no matter how stupid or dangerous the choice — even when what someone wants to own is a threat to them, their family, and the community around them.

    FRANKLIN LOEW, dean of Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine
    I’m not aware of any other breed of animal that has ever been singled out this way. This is man biting dog.

    HUGH WIRTH, veterinarian
    RSPCA Victoria president Dr Hugh Wirth said the dogs were a menace and were not suitable as pets for anyone.

    “They are time bombs waiting for the right circumstances.”

    “The American pit bull terrier is lethal because it was a breed that was developed purely for dog fighting, in other words killing the opposition.

    “They should never have been allowed into the country. They are an absolute menace.”

    “The fact of life is that the community doesn’t want American pit bull terriers. They’ve said it loud and clear over and over again – they want them banned.”

    GRAEME SMITH, veterinarian
    My views about associating a breed with dangerous behaviours were challenged over time as I saw the impact of Pit Bull attacks. Talking to owners with dogs of this breed who have themselves been turned on, it became clear that these animals are unpredictable and when they attack they can cause serious injury or death.

    It is very hard to give Pit Bulls the benefit of the doubt.
    Avoiding the identification of dogs and their behaviours by their breed means the legislation in place can be such that allows these Pit Bulls “one free bite.” This “one free bite” can have fatal consequences.

    If it looks like a Pit Bull, it is a Pit Bull.
    What’s at stake is the safety of people and their own pets in the wider community, there is no room for gambling with an unpredictable animal.

    And that is so often the case. No one knows where these dogs are until they come out and cause some form of grief. My position is about protecting the public and other animals from these animals.

    NICHOLAS DODMAN, BVMS, ACVB, ACVA
    Rottweilers were originally bred to guard the money of peasants returning home from the city of Rottweil in Germany, so their fierceness was prized. Staffordshire bull terriers and pit bulls were programmed to deliver a full crushing bite to the noses of bulls. “They’re locked and loaded,” as Dodman puts it.

    on breed profiling
    But Dodman defends the practice. “The insurance companies have no ax to grind,” he says. They base their decisions on actuarial statistics showing that certain breeds in certain homes are a recipe for trouble and the cause of lawsuits.

    on the MA muzzling law
    After a spate of attacks by pit bulls this summer, Massachusetts lawmakers passed legislation requiring the dogs to be muzzled in public. Some pit bull owners protested, but a Tufts expert says the law may be a good idea. Breeds like pit bulls and Rottweilers, says animal behavior expert Nick Dodman, are hardwired for aggression.

    “Some of these dogs are as dangerous as a loaded handgun,” Dodman– director of the Animal Behavior Clinic at TuftsSchool of Veterinary Medicine – said in an interview with The Boston Globe Magazine.

    Genetics play a big role.

    “No doubt about it, pit bulls are genetically predisposed toward aggression,” he told the magazine. “Justas certain breeds of dogs were bred to herd, certain were bred to hunt, certain to point, and others to swim.”

    While most pet owners accept that their dogs have certain genetic behavioral characteristics, there is still resistance to the idea that some dogs are more dangerous than others.

    “Everybody accepts [genetic behaviors like herding or hunting] until you throw in the word ‘aggression’ and things like a full, crushing bite, which some breeds were specifically bred for in the past.”

    Statistics on dog attacks reinforce the link between certain dogs and dangerous behavior.

    “It’s like a scene from “Casablanca” when they say, ‘Roundup the usual suspects,’” Dodman told the Globe.“It’s always German shepherds, chow, husky, pit bull.The numbers do the talking.”

    He added that pit bulls and Rottweilers alone account for more than 50 percent of the fatal dog attacks every year. Despite the danger, the owners of these dogs often fail to take proper precautions.

    “A lot of owners of aggressive breeds are suffering from denial and ignorance, because no one wants to be fingered as having that kind of dog,” Dodman said.

    “Genetics does play a role and people who think it doesn’t are kidding themselves,” says Dodman. “The pit bull is notorious for a very hard bite. They are always No. 1 in the lethal dog bite parade. The dog was bred for pit fighting. It was bred to never give up, to bite and hang on.”

    KATHERINE HOUPT, VMD, PhD, DACVB
    Says Katherine Houpt, director of the Animal Behavior Clinic at Cornell and author of Domestic Animal Behavior: “Different breeds have genetic predispositions to certain kinds of behavior, though that can be influenced by how they are raised. The pit bull is an innately aggressive breed, often owned by someone who wants an aggressive dog, so they’re going to encourage it.”

    “I have seen so many pit bulls taken by very nice, very dog-savvy people who did all the right things,” said Houpt. “They take them to socialization class, they take them to obedience school, they are fine for a few years, and then they kill the neighbor’s dog.”!

    1. …I get it. You think that you get your point across by constantly hijacking the thread with your copy and paste style. And, the rest of your cohorts think that they are just as important as you are. The sad part about you and your cohorts is that you look so silly with your efforts and we have tried to tell you this. But yet, you continue to embarrass yourself. Sad.

       1. @ Dennis Baker – Just noticed your profile shows you
          have cut and pasted this EXACT SAME STAT LIST to 7-8 other threads in
          the last month, its the only thing you have posted over the last month –
          the fact it was already posted here below your post strongly indicates
          you didn’t even read the story and chances are your just a ignorant
          troll here to spread the word of hate towards pitbulls – thanks for
          playing troll, next contestant please!

13. 75% of all Animal Shelters in the US will euthanize all pit bulls, pit crosses or any dogs that even looks like one immediately with no attempt to adopt them out.

    The other 25% will also euthanize within a few days to a week if adoption doesn’t take place.

    Why is this?, because nobody wants any of the evil disgusting Mutants, they can’t give them away, that is why 93% of all Pitts in Animal Shelters in the US are killed , over 1.1 Million Pit Bulls every year are killed in this manner every year after year after year after year in the US alone.

    Over 100 a day are killed in animal shelters in LA county alone, 73,000 a year after year after year after year.

    That is over 12 million pit bulls killed in Animal Shelters in the US in the last decade alone.

    The Idiot Pit Nutters who are playing their rescue game are losers and losing the battle as the few hundred they save is a pittance compared to the Million plus killed the same year.

    They show their support for these mutants by fighting against laws against their breeding that could prevent this as a result much needed mass slaughter of pit bulls, they are responsible for all of this and show their ignorance and hypocrisy by continuing fight against what is actually in the best interests of this perverted breed.

    That’s 2,750 a day or 345 every hour, right this moment somewhere in the US a pit bull will rip, ravage and maul no more and instead is feeling the loving sting of death, oh what a lovely truth and reality that no pit loving pervert can deny or combat, how does that feel pit nutters……Now the pit bull will find it’s true forever home, the deep dark forever night, all that it warrants or deserves, bye bye mutant and don’t come back!

14. Psychology Today
    Canine Corner
    The human-animal bond
    by Stanley Coren, Ph.D.

    Dogs That Bite and People That Don’t Listen
    People often try to explain away misbehavior in children, dogs, and dog breeds.
    Published on April 3, 2013 by Stanley Coren, Ph.D., F.R.S.C. in Canine Corner

    I recently gave a series of talks at the All about Pets Show in Toronto. As often happens at such events, people stop me as I am walking around the hall to ask me questions, solicit advice, or to offer their opinions about various aspects of dog behavior or events occurring in the news that may have an impact on dogs and dog owners.

    I usually enjoy these interactions, and try to be as helpful and open-minded as I can. However, sometimes (fortunately rarely) these encounters can be quite unpleasant.

    On the second day of the event, a woman accosted me and began to harangue me about statements that I had published about pit bull terriers. The statements which so offended her were reports of research published in respected scientific journals that found that pit bulls, and pit bull crosses accounted for a disproportionate number of dog bite related injuries and deaths.

    I tried to tell her that I was reporting credible research findings, and tried to summarize some of the newer data that had recently appeared in behavioral and medical journals about the dog breeds that bite.

    In most instances she did not even let me complete my description of the research before she rejected the findings claiming that the breeds were being misidentified, that data surveys based upon press reports were inaccurate or biased, that statistics underestimated the real number of pit bulls in the population, that other breeds like Labrador retrievers and Golden retrievers had a higher bite incident rates but these simply weren’t being reported because of bias.

    She also said that researchers ignore the fact that pit bulls are the dogs that are most likely to be abused and provoked by people, and she implied that that meant that many of their bites are justified.

    I tried to give her some specific research findings to ask her if she could explain them using her own rationale, however she ignored my requests and eventually resorted to the ad hominem argument that I simply didn’t know what I was talking about and I must have an irrational dislike of the breeds involved.

    I must admit that I got frustrated by this, and rather than losing my temper I simply walked away to end the encounter.

    As a psychologist I suspect that I know what is going on in her mind. For many people dogs fit into their family structure in the same way that children do. There is a real bond here, and lots of love and affection for dogs in general and of course especially for the family’s favorite breed of dogs. If a human child does something wrong it is natural for a parent spring to his or her defense.

    I once watched the interview of a mother whose son had been arrested for shooting a shopkeeper during a holdup. Unfortunately for the shooter, there were security cameras in the store and near the entrance. When shown the video of the boy and his companion entering the store, the mother claimed that her boy was being misidentified, despite the fact that he was wearing his high school jacket with both his name and team number on it.

    When asked about that she claimed that the jacket must’ve been stolen. When another camera clearly showed the boy’s face, she still claimed that it was not him, and the police had singled her son out for arrest based on racial profiling. When the boys companion actually spoke his name during the robbery she was ultimately forced to admit to his identity, however she then went on to claim that her son was provoked into shooting the clerk because the clerk was threatening him.

    However the video clearly showed that the clerk had his hands out to the sides and had stepped back from the counter defensively. This mother was clearly offering the human equivalent of the defenses that the woman in Toronto was giving as explanations and denials of reports of aggressive misbehavior by pit bulls.

    People who know my work also know that I am not a fan of breed specific legislation, however, as a psychologist who has studied the genetic basis of dog behavior I also know that there are real differences in temperament across breeds. Aggressive tendencies are part of those breed-specific differences in a dog breed’s personality.

    When I encounter credible data pointing out differences in the temperament of various breeds I often report them. I think they are interesting and important, and can help us to intelligently select the dog breeds which can fit into a family’s living situation or particular service dog positions. Take for example the following bit of data.

    Doctors Alison Kaye, Jessica Belz and Richard Kirschner studied 551 dog bite injury cases that were brought to the Division of Plastic Surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia over a five-year period. The victims ranged in age from newborn to 18 years. As is the usual procedure in trauma cases, as much data as possible was gathered about the event that caused the injury at the time that the patient was admitted.

    One important bit of data that was collected in these cases was the breed of the dog that bit the child. What is striking in this report is the fact that of all of those injuries where the dog’s breed was identifiable, 50.9% were due to pit bulls (55.7% if we include crosses). The next closest breeds were Rottweilers accounting for 8.9% of the bites (10.3% with crosses), German Shepherds with 3.7% (7.0% with crosses), and Akitas and Cocker Spaniels each account for 3% of traumatic dog bites.

    According to the available statistics the most popular breeds of dogs in the city of Philadelphia are, Labrador Retrievers, German Shepherds, Yorkshire Terriers, Bulldogs and Rottweilers. As in most large cities in America, pit bulls (defined as American Pit Bull Terriers, Staffordshire Terriers, and American Staffordshire Terriers) account for less than 1% of the canine population.

    On the basis of these statistics alone one would expect that Labrador Retrievers would have the highest bite rate yet they are virtually invisible in this data set. Instead we find that pit bulls are responsible for more than 50 times the rate of bite injuries than what we would expect given their population numbers.

    This is from information taken as part of medical intake of dog bite victims who are being treated for trauma. It is not based on press reports, nor does it represent some kind of inherent bias against square-headed dogs. No matter how much one may love the bully breeds, these are facts that, like a surveillance video of a robbery which identifies a perpetrator, cannot simply be explained away under the cloak of bias or misrepresentation.

    Stanley Coren is the author of many books including: Born to Bark; Do Dogs Dream? The Modern Dog; Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses? The Pawprints of History; How Dogs Think; How To Speak Dog; Why We Love the Dogs We Do; What Do Dogs Know? The Intelligence of Dogs; Why Does My Dog Act That Way? Understanding Dogs for Dummies; Sleep Thieves; The Left-hander Syndrome.

    1. Thomas McCartney,
       Be aware that your mouth and the mouth of Stanley Coren, Ph.D., like the mouths of all humans,are teeming with potentially fatal bacteria. During one of Dr.Coren’s diatribes, he could sneeze and infect the entire first row of listeners. Therefore, he should be forced to wear a surgical mask in public,as should you. Your germs could cause children and the elderly to develop fatal pneumonia,influenza,meningitis, just to mention a few. Better yet, both of you should be banned, just in case.

15. Opposing Views:
    ANIMAL RIGHTS
    UK: Your Dog Kills Someone, You Get A Life Sentence
    By Pat Dunaway, Wed, August 07, 2013

    With 16 people dead by dogs since 2005, the UK now has a proposal that can give the owner of a killing dog, a life sentence. Currently the law can only give two years imprisonment for the act but the Ministers don’t fee that is enough for the deed. If your dog attacks, the sentence will be 10 years.

    The union representing postmen and telecoms engineers welcomed the proposal. Their membership sees 5,000 attacks a year and some owners are fined a small amount. This proposal will match sentencing to the serious nature of the offense. The proposal was launched yesterday by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

    The UK wants to protect their citizens from vicious dogs and has had BSL in force for awhile. This proposal broadens the original scope so that owners can be prosecuted for attacks on private property and will give the police more effective powers.

    The UK is experiencing an all time high for attacks on guide dogs. In addition a total of 240 attacks were reported between March 2011 and February 2013.

    Let’s compare with the USA. Since 2005, the USA has had 167 deaths by pit bulls alone, Total deaths from all breeds since 2005 are 251. How are we protecting our citizens from these deadly attacks? Instead of passing laws, our society has decided to save these attacking killers.

    It’s not unusual for the dog, especially the pit bulls, to be “saved” and sent to sanctuaries such as Spindletop or Olympic Animal Sanctuary. These are ‘sanctuaries’ for those dogs unable to function in or unfit for society. Why are we saving these dogs, taking space for them, investing money in them, when so many are dying in shelter for lack of space and money?

    There are over 400 breeds of dogs, breeds that were specifically and selectively breed for certain traits. Yet, one breed type is doing the majority of severe attacks and fatalities – the pit bull or gripping dogs.

    Gripping dogs include the Presa Canario, the Dogo Argentino, the Tosa Inu, the Fila Brasileiro, the Cane Corso, and the Presa Mallorquin, all fighting dogs, bred for fighting. And these gripping dogs/Pit Bulls account for the vast majority of severe attacks and deaths. These breeds were never meant to be pets.

    This country is moving much too slowly in protecting citizens and beloved pets from these breeds. The backlash from the No Kill movement and the pit bull advocates hinders moving ahead to prevent these attacks and deaths.

    Myths have evolved to make the pit bull look more appealing as a pet, myths such as the nanny dog. Never was the pit referred to as a nanny dog until a breeder called them that in the 1980’s. Even the group in the forefront of protecting pit bulls admitted that the nanny dog is a myth on their facebook page recently.

    The pit community insists that the attacks are from abused pits, although the evidence does show otherwise. If that is the case, then why is this community fighting the one thing that can keep pits from the hands of those abusers?

    Could it be that they don’t want to change, they want to keep the “game” in the pit bull? It is estimated that only 25% of pit bulls are neutered in comparison to the national average of 87% for all canines. Again, the pit community fights BSL that would dictate mandatory spay/neuter.

    With all the evidence to show why we need BSL for pit bulls, the writing is on the wall. It’s time we stepped up to the plate about this issue like the UK has done. Too many mothers and fathers have endured closed casket funerals.

    This father has endured it and now speaks out about it. He believed the myth. Demand changes, demand that legislators protect us with laws that try to prevent victims, rather than the current laws that require a victim first.

    You aren’t safe even in your own home when it comes to pit bulls. This is a serious matter unless you are a hermit. If you function in society, take walks in your neighborhood, go to dog parks, or even your own backyard, then you need to be concerned.

    https://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/animal-rights/uk-your-dog-kills-someone-you-get-life-sentence#

16. Learn and become educated about the genetic truth and reality of the Pit bull Type dog and the danger they present:

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ban-All-Pit-Bull-Type-Dogs-Everywhere-Today-All-Dogs-must-be-on-a-Leash/180634022056782

17. In a discussion of the Denver ban, Assistant City Attorney Kory Nelson recently told the San Francisco Chronicle that:

    “Since 1989, when that city instituted a pit bull ban, ‘we haven’t had one serious pit bull attack,’ said Kory Nelson, a Denver assistant city attorney. His city’s assertion that ‘pit bulls are more dangerous than other breeds of dog’ has withstood legal challenges, he said.

    ‘We were able to prove there’s a difference between pit bulls and other breeds of dogs that make pit bulls more dangerous,’ he said.”

    Sources: Denver Post
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    Toronto:

    In a November 2011, public health statistics published by Global Toronto showed that pit bull bites dropped dramatically after Ontario adopted the Dog Owners Liability Act in 2005, an act that banned pit bulls:

    The number of dog bites reported in Toronto has fallen since a ban on pit bulls took effect in 2005, public health statistics show.

    A total of 486 bites were recorded in 2005. That number fell generally in the six years following, to 379 in 2010.

    Provincial laws that banned ‘pit bulls,’ defined as pit bulls, Staffordshire terriers, American Staffordshire terriers, American pit bull terriers and dogs resembling them took effect in August 2005. Existing dogs were required to be sterilized, and leashed and muzzled in public.

    Bites in Toronto blamed on the four affected breeds fell sharply, from 71 in 2005 to only six in 2010. This accounts for most of the reduction in total bites.
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    Salina, KS

    Rose Base, director of the Salina Animal Shelter who lobbied for the ordinance, told the Salina Journal:

    The ordinance has made a difference, she said. Records at the Salina Animal Shelter indicate there were 24 reported pit bull bites in 2003 and 2004, and only five since — none from 2009 to present.

    Salina has 62 registered pit bulls, Base said. Before the ordinance she guessed there were “close to 300.” Since the first of this year three of the registered pit bulls have died of old age.

    “We definitely haven’t had the severity of bites that we had in the past,” Base said. “Our community has been somewhat safer because of the law that was passed
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    Prince George’s County, MD
    Prince George’s County passed a pit bull ban in 1996. In August 2009, Rodney Taylor, associate director of the county’s Animal Management Group, said that the number of pit bull biting incidents has fallen:

    “Taylor said that during the first five to seven years of the ban, animal control officials would encounter an average of 1,200 pit bulls a year but that in recent years that figure has dropped by about half. According to county statistics, 36 pit bull bites, out of 619 total dog bites, were recorded in 2008, down from 95 pit bull bites, out of a total of 853, in 1996.”
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    Salina KS (a second article)

    Note that they admit that the pit bull ban did not reduce the number of bites, but it did reduce the severity of bites reported by all breeds. Proof that when pit bull deniers find a jurisdiction that banned pit bulls, but reported no decrease in overall bites, is a moot point. Its death and dismemberment we are focusing on, not bite counts.

    In the monthly city newsletter, In Touch, published in September 2006, the City of Salina reported that the pit bull ban adopted in 2005 significantly reduced pit bull biting incidents in just a 12 month period.

    The number of pit bull bites depicted in the “Salina Pit Bull Bites Reported” graph shows 2002 with 13 pit bull bites, 2003 with 11 pit bull bites, 2004 with 15 pit bull bites and 2005 with only one bite. The newsletter notes that “animal bites reported have remained constant, but the severity of bites have decreased dramatically” since the enactment of the pit bull ban.
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    Springfield, MO

    In April 2008, the Springfield-Greene County Health Department released data to a local TV station – following the City of Springfield’s adoption of a 2006 pit bull ban:

    “The Springfield-Greene County Health Department reports that dog bites and vicious dog complaints are declining since the implementation of the Pit Bull Ordinance in the City of Springfield two years ago. In 2005 the health department fielded 18 vicious dog complaints, but only eight in 2007. Bites were down from 102 in 2005 to 87 in 2007.”
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    Washington

    In 2008, the City of Wapato passed an ordinance that bans new pit bulls, rottweilers and mastiffs. Nine months after its adoption, in March 2009, Wapato Police Chief Richard Sanchez reported successful results:

    “Nine months into the ban and police calls about vicious dogs have been cut in half. The Wapato Police tell Action News they’ve gone from 18 reports in January, February and March of last year to seven so far in ’09. “Seven calls in three months… that’s nothing,” says Chief Richard Sanchez, Wapato Police Department.

    Chief Sanchez credits local cooperation for the decline of dangerous dogs.”
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    Rhode Island

    When the City of Woonsocket was debating a pit bull ordinance in June 2009, the animal control supervisor in Pawtucket, John Holmes, spoke about the enormous success of Pawtucket’s 2003 pit bull ban:

    “Holmes says he predicted that it would take two years for Pawtucket to experience the full benefit of the law after it was passed, but the results were actually apparent in half the time.

    “It’s working absolutely fantastic,” said Holmes. “We have not had a pit bull maiming in the city since December of 2004.”
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    Per section 8-55 of Denvers pit bull ban:

    A pit bull, is defined as any dog that is an APBT, Am Staf Terrier, Staff Bull Terrier, or any dog displaying the majority of physical traits of anyone (1) or more of the above breeds, or any dog exhibiting those distinguishing characteristics which substantially conform to the standards set by the AKC or UKC for any of the above breed.

    Over the course of 22 years, the Denver ban has withstood numerous battles in state and federal courts. It has been used as a model for over 600 USA cities that legislate pit bulls, as well as US Navy, Air Force, Marine and Army bases ( so much for Sgt Stubby).

    without it, we’d see just what we see in Miss E’s lame replies. Every pit owner would claim their land shark was anything but a pit bull.

    Miami Dade county voted 66% to keep their pit bull ban, just as it is worded, last year.

    1. I’m sure you are aware that Kory Nelson is the co-founder of dogbites.org? I have to respectfully disagree with his “one size fits all” approach to resolving the problem of dogs biting people and other animals. Whenever a people use such a blanket approach you begin to have mass genocides of innocents… Nazi Germany, Bosnia, Africa, on and on and on…. I would hope that at some point we as humans will come to the realization that stereotyping people, dogs, whatever based on prejudice is not logical nor helpful in solving the problems of this world.

18. Merritt Clifton Editor OF Animal People:
    Of the 4,477 dogs involved in fatal and disfiguring attacks on humans occurring in the U.S. & Canada since September 1982, when I began logging the data, 2,855 (64%) were pit bulls; 538 were Rottweilers; 3,628 were of related molosser breeds, Including pit bulls, Rottweilers, mastiffs, boxers, and their mixes.

    Of the 518 human fatalities, 265 were killed by pit bulls; 84 were killed by Rottweilers; 388 (75%) were killed by molosser breeds.

    Of the 2,541 people who were disfigured, 1,703 (67%) were disfigured by pit bulls; 316 were disfigured by Rottweilers; 2,115 (83%) were disfigured by molosser breeds.

    Pit bulls–exclusive of their use in dogfighting–also inflict about 10 times as many fatal and disfiguring injuries on other pets and livestock as on humans, a pattern unique to the pit bull class.

    Surveys of dogs offered for sale or adoption indicate that pit bulls and pit mixes are less than 6% of the U.S. dog population; molosser breeds, all combined, are 9%.

19. LETTERS: Keep dogs contained
    October 22, 2013.

    I have a personal experience related to the recent pit bull attack on the Corona boy (“Mauled by pit bull mixes, Corona boy still hospitalized,” Oct. 3).

    Several weeks ago, I told my 9-year-old grandson he would be safe riding his bike on our cul-de-sac because there was little traffic. Unknown to me, our neighbor had acquired a pit bull mix. Our neighbor’s daughter came out with him on a leash, and when he saw my grandson, he took off after my grandson.

    He leapt and bit my grandson on his right thigh. When my grandson realized he could not ride his bike fast enough to get away, he threw his bike on the dog and scaled a retaining wall, getting bitten on his other thigh as he did so.

    My husband confronted the owner, only to be told, “He has never bitten anyone.”

    When will these attacks stop? When will the owners of these vicious dogs admit their animals are a danger to others and keep them contained? Shouldn’t little boys be safe from being mauled while riding their bikes?

    Sue Siebold

    Riverside

    https://www.pe.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-headlines/20131022-letters-keep-dogs-contained.ece

    1. Thomas it’s interesting that you just recently popped up on threads about pit bulls and you post the exact same thing on every comment section in the exact same order. Your profile is also private. Being that you are in threads all over the US, it leads me to ask two questions. First would be what is your agenda in Colorado as it appears you are not a Coloradoan? Second, are you actually Colleen Lynn or the author of Craven Desires? There are some similarities in previous aliases. You don’t actually respond or interact, you just post and re-post. We are all smart enough to see when someone is trying to bait. We just don’t have time to respond to your ridiculous behavior. We have things to do like passing breed neutral legislation and actually working to improve public safety. All while showing what a responsible pit bull loving community we are.

20. The Pit bull type dogs truth and genetic reality, watch and learn:

21. U.S. SUPREME COURT, April 26, 1897, SENTELL v. NEW ORLEANS & C. R. CO.
    Laws for the protection of domestic animals are regarded as having but a limited application to dogs and cats; and, regardless of statute, a ferocious dog is looked upon as hostis humani generis, and as having NO RIGHT TO ITS LIFE which man is bound to respect.

    1. As Stallone’s lawyer and an animal attorney, I’m glad that our concept of the rights of animals as sentient beings and individuals in their own right rather than being viewed as just “property” has evolved since 1897. If you would like to make a legal argument, perhaps you should brush up on precedents in the field of animal law.

22. A Propensity to Attack Other Dogs Means a Dog Is Dangerous to People: https://dogbitelaw.com/dangerous-vicious-dogs/a-propensity-to-attack-other-dogs-means-a-dog-is-dangerous-to-people.html

    1. Nonsense.

23. 27 dead by dog attack so far in 2013.
    Pit bull type dogs killed twenty-five of them. fifteen of the twenty-five dead are children.
    Stars indicate people killed by a ‘family’ pit bull – ones that had been raised and cherished as an indoor pet, ‘never showed aggression before’, and knew the victim.

    Child fatalities by pit bull type dog (14):
    Christian Gormanous – 4 yrs old
    Isaiah Aguilar – 2… yrs old
    Ryan Maxwell – 7 yrs old **
    Dax Borchardt – 14 mos old **
    Monica Laminack – 21 mos old **
    Tyler Jett – 7 yrs old
    Jordyn Arndt – 4 yrs old **
    Beau Rutledge – 2 yrs old **
    Ayden Evans- 5 yrs old **
    Nephi Selu – 6 yrs old **
    Arianna Jolee Merrbach – 5 yrs old
    Daniel (surname as yet not revealed) – 2 yrs old (Gilbert, Arizona) **
    Samuel Eli Zamudio – 2 yrs old**
    Jordan Ryan– 5 yrs old (Baker city, Oregon)**

    Adult fatalities by pit bull type (8):
    Betty Todd – 65 yrs old **
    Elsie Grace – 91 yrs old **
    Claudia Gallardo – 38 yrs old
    Pamela Devitt – 63 yrs old
    Carlton Freeman – 80 yrs old
    Linda Oliver – 63 yrs old
    James Harding – 62 yrs old – chased into traffic by two attacking pit bulls
    Juan Campos – 96 yrs old
    Terry Douglass 56 years old. **
    Katherine Atkins-25 years old **
    Nga Woodhead-65 years old

    (1 non-pit type killing) [Rachel Honabarger – 35 yrs old – mauled to death by her own GSD mix]
    (1 husky-mix killing, unknown if the other half of the dog was pit bull) [Jordan Lee Reed – 5 yrs old]

    Two of the pit bull type dogs were BULL mastiffs, ie 40% pit-fighting bulldog.

    If 23 of 27 dead were killed by pit bull attack, that’s 85% dead by pit attack, 7% dead by ‘molosser’, 4% by some kind of GSD mix, 4% by a husky + possibly pit mix

    If you count the pit-mix mastiffs as pit bull types, that’s 93% killed by attacking pit bull types. Pit types are only about 5% of the entire dog population.

    The man who ran into traffic kept pit bulls himself. He knew perfectly well what the two stranger pit bulls that were chasing him would do if they caught him, so he preferred to risk a swift death by oncoming car.

    1. 5% of the dog population is a lowball and would also be approximately 3,500,000 dogs….and 14 fatalities? You’d be better off making the point of number of attacks that lead to substantial bodily harm and not death, as those numbers are much higher. But 14/3,500,0000? You’re more likely to die making toast.

24. Freddy and Stallone are on the plane heading home! and he is flying in the cabin as a service dog! YES!

25. @ Thomas McCartney, Thanks for all the posts – its a proven fact that when people screen the loudest (in this case post the most) they know they have faults in their argument and there for try to over compensate with loudness (again in this case quantity and length of posts). While it is true that a few have lost lives to dog attacks (I don’t find it funny or amusing either so lets refrain from going there) if you do your homework from a source other than “Dogbites.com” then you will learn 90% of the cases you mention as reasons to condemn the breed were abused/neglected or trained fighting/guard use dogs who were left unattended with either young children, weak and frail elderly or people who were otherwise to sick to defend from an attack – so why not blame those who allowed that situation to occur rather than 100% of “Pitbull type dogs” or how about this – one could even blame the .000015% of dogs that were involved from the breed? Using your logic you would blame every person who ever tasted alcohol for a DWI fatality or cry that every car on the road needed to be crushed and sunk in the ocean because one had a mechanical failure that caused a accident – but your not doing that are you? No, my guess is because YOU don’t want to walk to work do you? How about this one, do you believe EVERY single fast food place in the nation should be shut down and the owners locked away in prison? I ask because fast food creates health risks that kill hundreds EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR – yet my bet is you have a fast food meal in your guy right now so you wouldn’t support that would you? As for the rest of you hate filled “Kill all of the breed” idiots, you sicken me, you make me weep and cry for my children’s and grandchildren’s future……… I’ll sit and eat with my “Pit bulls” every day of the week before I would waste the spit in my mouth to pay homage to your graves…………

    1. Stallone Supporter

       Bravo, “I Helped Stallone”! Good one! Many of our servicemen and women, as they commemorate Veterans Day this weekend, are training their dogs to be therapy and service dogs. Capt. Katz is a remarkable hero, and Stallone will make us all proud.

26. a killer dog are you serious you people need to realize this dog is not a killer this dog with the family dog he was stolen from his family here in Arizona he was tied up back legs popped out of place his teeth were filed down and he was beaten and then thrown into a ring as bait well being hogtied if you don’t know his full story you need to keep your mouth shut keep your opinion to yourself I am still owns original rescuer I am the one who went to the shelter and assessed him he never showed any signs of aggression out of the past all of it with flying colors green all the way across the board no food aggression no animal aggression no person aggression and no child aggression hell he even got along with my cat I rescued him I pulled him off of death row here in Arizona he is a wonderful dog that was scared of being placed into a stranger’s care during transport and brought to a small enclosed area all fenced off with other dogs this you’re in Arizona is a huge problem the dog fighting ring is here are not your typical wooden fence of little tiny areas they are about 12 foot by 12 foot if not bigger which chain link fencing so the dogs can’t jump or run through this dog was a family pet he had a family he had a mom he had a dad and he had three human siblings he knows how to play fetch he knows how to sleep in a bed he knows how to use the doggie door this dog was well trained and well-loved and his original owners could not pay for his medical expenses and that’s when I stepped in to save his life this dog deserves to live this dog deserves to be with the person I chose would be a good fit for this dog and he’s going to live out the rest of his life happy and for ever in New Jersey and if anyone wants to talk any crap about the decision made by the judge can kiss my b*** not trying to be a b**** but this is ridiculous how the laws in Colorado and the laws in the other states that have the BSL target one breed if you think back 10 years ago it has been German shepherds it has been Labrador retrievers Rottweilers Doberman Pinschers chalice Sharpay’s what kind of dog do you own ask yourself this would you allow your dog to be killed because of its breed this dog was a victim this dog was scared and this dog did fight or flight he had nowhere to run so he went after what he thought was going to hurt him I do not blame him for this I know he can be conditioned and be a great addition to another pack he was perfectly fine with mine here in Arizona so to all you haters and all you people that want to talk bad about this dog and the judge’s decision should maybe look in to PTSD syndrome and then think about it I think long and hard about it what if it was you what if it was your family pet what would you do if your dog was stolen if your dog was beaten if your dog had his knees popped out of place so he couldn’t run from his attacker and then ripped apart by by his attackers and then shot in the back and left in the desert to die how would you feel you don’t know what this dog went through nobody really knows with this dog went through but I do know his story I live in Arizona I know firsthand what happens in this state to these poor animals until you experience it first hand and you work with the second chance dogs first han you have no room to talk until you walk a mile in my shoes or these dogs use I suggest you go find another page to hate on because this one is not for you thanks have a nice day

    1. Kelly, you are a caring and dedicated dog rescuer who knows every detail of Stallone’s tragic life. Thank you for helping educate idiots like Thomas McCartney. He is obviously a dog hater masquerading as a cat lover. No one who loves animals of any kind would spend so much time and energy attempting to assassinate the character of a dog breed.

       1. Did you know that over 2,700 pit bull type dogs were put to death today in US Animal shelters alone, that this happens every single day, so 2,700 to one, oh yeah baby…Winning.!! 😉

          1. Notorious Pit Haters The List

             A
             List Of Notorious Pit Haters- This is the BLACK LIST of HATERS that
             Made it to the List, More will be added when more PIT HATERS are caught
             in ACTION.

             Thomas
             McCartney (Pathological Liar, Know to troll pro pit pages, blogs and
             communities, Is part of the Colleen Lynn Cult. Copy and Pastes from Pit
             hating blogs with no links to the references or sources)

             https://www.facebook.com/thomas.mccartney.31

             Yeap, pretty well sums you up McCartney! Did you know a thousand idiots die every day – now we just have to wait for YOUR day 🙂

             https://theavocaterforthevoiceless.blogspot.com/p/notorious-pit-haters-black-list.html

          2. Hey Thomas McCartney!
             Stop eating your cat litter! It’s hard to take you seriously with all those granules stuck to your chin.

    2. Thomas McCartney and his extremist friends are impossible to educate. But it does pay for us to point out who these haters are when they turn up in discussions such is this spreading their fake stats and propaganda just in case any journos make the mistake of taking the dogsbite.org cult and their rabid supporters seriously.

       It’s really good to see good information being posted for those who don’t know the truth about ‘Pit Bulls’ and are made nervous about the breed and afraid to help them out of shelters by the fear-mongering of DBO, Craven Desires and co.

27. Sorry for typos im mad that there are haters tryng to open their mouths

28. I’m not going to get on the rampage of what people think they know about Pit-Bulls. I can post all night long about this type of dog or that type of human being. This world is corrupted; our system has failed us every day. I know that everything starts on the top and ends on the bottom.

    Stallone had terrible owners, used as a bait dog, and abused. I am very
    thankful when I see a happy family complete. I am very happy that I was able to
    see this once very sad story have a good ending.

    I will continue to be the voice for those without one. Here in Aurora, I have witnessed animals being tethered 24/7 with no shelter, no food, and no human contact. Before this dog, if rescued can be available for adoption he/she has to pass a screening, and assessment and the dog will have food aggression, really. And why would the dog have food aggression, that is because
    he/she was starved.

    If a dog was beat, and abused and tortured, they will react, as you would, and yes, we humans will act in the same manner. How many times have you heard on the news, in self-defense, or a flashback, or claims insanity, and they walk, and free to commit the crime repeatedly.

    I am happy that Stallone was giving the opportunity to have a third chance, as we know we can’t save them all. I am very thankful that Aurora was able to be part in this story. I hope that this will give us an opportunity to keep on what we believe in, and that would be dogs are our family and chaining dogs, and abusing dogs and starving dogs is a crime. I hope for harsher punishments for animal abusers.

    Kelly, you have been very strong and amazing through this whole ordeal, thank you for flying out to be part of Stallone’s life, you never failed him, and he will never forget you. The pictures speak volumes, I cried when I saw the pictures. Thank you Fred for your love for Stallone, the bonding you two had is a dream for every dog. Thank you for coming to Colorado to pick up your best friend, Stallone. Thank you all that joined in to help be the voice for Stallone, I thank the Attorney that will step in the grass and kneel down and cry with the family and Stallone. Animal Attorneys are not always animal lovers and the Attorney on this case did an awesome job speaking to the community and deescalating back and forth drama and people trying to prove their point. We all have our own taste in foods and people and animals.

    I do not judge the books by its cover, nor do I judge by what people tell me. Everyone and everything is an individual. I do not like it when people say that the Hispanics
    are the one that do this or that, I am an individual, and so is Stallone, he is
    Stallone and he is now living the good life with Fred in New Jersey. Thank you
    ALL for being part of Saving Stallone, you did it!

29. An estimated 4.7 million dog bites occur in the U.S. each year2,3
    Nearly 800,000 dog bites require medical care2
    Approximately 92% of fatal dog attacks involved male dogs, 94% of which were not neutered1
    Approximately 25% of fatal dog attacks involved chained dogs1
    Approximately 71% of bites occur to the extremities (arms, legs, hands, feet)2
    Approximately two-thirds of bites occurred on or near the victim’s property, and most victims knew the dog
    The insurance industry pays more than $1 billion in dog-bite claims each year3
    At least 25 different breeds of dogs have been involved in the 238 dog-bite-related fatalities in the U.S.4
    Approximately 24% of human deaths involved unrestrained dogs off of their owners’ propertyproperty
    Approximately 58% of human deaths involved unrestrained dogs on their owners’ property4
    Breed-specific legislation (BSL)
    In response to these statistics, many communities have enacted breed-specific legislation (BSL) that prohibits ownership of certain breeds, such as pit bulls, Rottweilers and others.
    Any breed of dog can bite, and research suggests BSL does little to protect the community from dog-bite incidents.
    In fact, BSL can often have unintended consequences — such as black-market interest and indiscriminant breeding practices — resulting in subsequent breed overpopulation that leads to increases in the number of homeless, stray and euthanized dogs.
    Enforcement of BSL has been shown to be very costly and extremely difficult to enforce. One county in Maryland spent more than $560,000 maintaining pit bulls (not including payroll, cross-agency costs and utilities), while fees generated only $35,000.5
    Responsible breeding and ownership, public education and enforcement of existing laws are the most effective ways of reducing dog bites.
    American Humane supports local legislation to protect communities from dangerous animals, but does not advocate laws that target specific breeds of dogs.
    Dog bites and children 
    50% of dog attacks involved children under 12 years old
    82% of dog bites treated in the emergency room involved children under 15 years old2
    70% of dog-bite fatalities occurred among children under 10 years old5
    Bite rates are dramatically higher among children who are 5 to 9 years old2
    Unsupervised newborns were 370 times more likely than an adult to be killed by a dog5
    65% of bites among children occur to the head and neck2
    Boys under the age of 15 years old are bitten more often than girls of the same age2
    What can parents do?
    Educate your children. Studies have found that the number-one dog-bite prevention measure is education. Children who understand how to act around dogs, how to play with dogs, when to leave dogs alone and how to properly meet a dog are much less likely to be bitten. To address this need, American Humane has created American Humane KIDS: Kids Interacting with Dogs Safely™, a dog-bite prevention program specifically for children ages 4 to 7.
    Supervise your children. Unsupervised children may innocently wander too close to a dangerous situation. Eighty-eight percent of fatal dog attacks among 2-year-olds occurred when the child was left unsupervised.1 Supervision of children, especially around dogs, is one way to help ensure they are safe.
    Safe rules of behavior for kids
    Don’t treat a dog unkindly.
    Never hit, kick, slap or bite a dog or pull on his ears, tail or paws.
    Don’t bother a dog when she is busy.
    Never bother dogs with puppies or dogs that are playing with or guarding toys, eating or sleeping. Always leave service dogs alone while they are working.
    Don’t approach a dog you don’t know.
    Never approach a dog that is tied up, behind a fence or in a car.
    If you find an animal, call the police or animal control for help.
    If you want to meet a dog, first ask the owner for permission. If the owner says it’s OK, hold out your hand in a fist for the dog to sniff. If he’s interested, you can give him a little scratch under the chin (notover the head) and say hello.
    Do be calm.
    Always talk in a quiet voice or whisper — no shouting — and take a “time out” if you feel angry or frustrated.
    Do be still.
    If a loose dog approaches you, stand still like a tree. Keep your hands at your sides, and stay quiet and calm. Look away from the dog.
    If you are on the ground, curl up into a ball, like a rock. Keep your knees to your chest and your hands over your ears. Stay quiet and calm. Look down at your knees, not at the dog.
    Always make slow movements, set things down carefully and don’t run when you’re around dogs, as this gets them excited and they may accidently hurt you.
    What can dog owners do?
    SPAY OR NEUTER YOUR DOG.

    Unlike some, I will also give you the link so you can check for yourself!
    https://www.americanhumane.org/system/auth/session-revalidate.jsp?payload=%3Crequest%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A//convio.com/crm/rest/v1%22%3E%3Csignature%3Efe20f68d4582b199c678087e4908b1fa6f0153ad%3C/signature%3E%3CsignOnCmd%3E%3CsiteID%3E1062%3C/siteID%3E%3CuserID%3E0%3C/userID%3E%3CsessionID%3E44520A96A3EC4376A3A5A7D4EB971D6C.app278b%3C/sessionID%3E%3CsessionName%3Ejsessionid%3C/sessionName%3E%3CsessionCookieName%3EJSESSIONID%3C/sessionCookieName%3E%3Ctimestamp%3E2013-11-10T15%3A53%3A48.383Z%3C/timestamp%3E%3C/signOnCmd%3E%3C/request%3E&returnURL=http%3A//www.americanhumane.org/animals/stop-animal-abuse/fact-sheets/dog-bites.html

30. Is BSL Effective?
    Extensive studies of the effectiveness of BSL in reducing the number of persons harmed by dog attacks were done in Spain and Great Britain. Both studies concluded that their “dangerous animals acts,” which included pit bull bans, had no effect at all on stopping dog attacks. The Spanish study further found that the breeds most responsible for bites–both before and after the breed bans–were those breeds not covered by it, primarily German Shepherds and mixed breeds.

    One of the few known instances in which a breed ban’s effectiveness was examined and reported on in the United States occurred in Prince George’s County, Maryland, where a task force was formed in 2003 to look at the effectiveness of its pit bull ban. The task force concluded that the public’s safety had not improved as a result of the ban, despite the fact that the county had spent more than $250,000 per year to round up and destroy banned dogs. Finding that other, non-breed-specific laws already on the books covered vicious animal, nuisance, leash, and other public health and safety concerns, the task force recommended repealing the ban.

    In a different study looking at dog bite data, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Humane Society of the United States, and the American Veterinary Medical Association together produced a report titled “Breeds of Dogs Involved in Fatal Human Attacks in the US between 1979 and 1998,” which appeared in the September 15, 2000, issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. Among its findings, the study reported that during this 20-year period, more than 25 breeds of dogs were involved in 238 human fatalities. Pit bull-type dogs caused 66 of the fatalities, which averages out to just over three fatal attacks per year, and Rottweilers were cited as causing 39 of the fatalities. The rest were caused by other purebreds and mixed breeds. At the time the report was released, Dr. Gail C. Golab, one of the study’s co-authors, was quoted as saying, “[s]ince 1975, dogs belonging to more than 30 breeds–including Dachshunds, Golden Retrievers, Labrador Retrievers, and a Yorkshire Terrier–have been responsible for fatal attacks on people.”

    The authors noted that the data in the report cannot be used to infer any breed-specific risk for dog bite fatalities, such as for pit bull-type dogs or Rottweilers, because to obtain such risk information it would be necessary to know the total numbers of each breed currently residing in the United States, and that information is unavailable.

    https://aldf.org/press-room/press-releases/pit-bull-bans-the-state-of-breed-specific-legislation/

31. Media bias:

    A 2008 report on media bias by the National Canine Research Council (available on their website at https://nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com/dog-bites/dog-bites-and-the-media/audience-interest) compared the type of media coverage given for dog attacks that occurred during a four-day period in August 2007 with intriguing results:

    On day one, a Labrador mix attacked an elderly man, sending him to the hospital. News stories of his attack appeared in one article in the local paper.
    On day two, a mixed-breed dog fatally injured a child. The local paper ran two stories.
    On day three, a mixed-breed dog attacked a child, sending him to the hospital. One article ran in the local paper.
    On day four, two pit bulls that broke off their chains attacked a woman trying to protect her small dog. She was hospitalized. Her dog was uninjured. This attack was reported in more than 230 articles in national and international newspapers and on the major cable news networks.
    It is not a stretch to see how such news coverage could influence calls for breed bans from the frightened public and its legislators.

    Same page as the last

32. As an example, consider the 2007 Michael Vick dogfighting case in Virginia, in which 50 of the former pro football player’s fighting dogs were seized and about to be euthanized according to conventional wisdom that dogs trained to fight to the death are too dangerous to humans and other animals and cannot be retrained. However, in an unprecedented move, the court agreed with amicus briefs filed by animal welfare groups and appointed a special master, animal law professor Rebecca Huss, as a guardian for the dogs to oversee temperament evaluations to be done on each dog by a team of behaviorists. As a result, only one dog was destroyed owing to temperament; the other 49 were saved and shipped to rescue groups, where they were rehabilitated and are now enjoying media attention as service dogs and beloved companions. Time will tell whether this unexpected outcome successfully turns on its head the argument that fighting dogs or certain breeds of dogs are inherently dangerous, untrainable, hopeless.

33. Check out thus page that has ALL of it’s references listed, and none of them are from DOGBITE.COM!!
    https://dontbullymybreed.org/

34. https://tvblogs.nationalgeographic.com/2013/03/19/the-truth-about-pit-bulls/

35. I won’t be as annoying as others, although it would be just as easy to find TRUTHFUL and TRANSPARENT statistics that support my view. Again, THEY ARE NOT FROM DOGBITE.COM!!

36. The ASPCA has no obligation to share safety issues about pit bulls with the public. On their “Pit Bull Information” web page, they write: “Sadly, pit bulls have acquired a reputation as unpredictable, dangerous, and vicious.” Yet, spelled out in the ASPCA Shelter Guidelines — designed to protect shelter workers — are the unique risks attributed to pit bulls. One of them is that they “attack without warning,” which is equivalent to unpredictable behavior.

    From the ASPCA’s The Care of Pit Bulls in the Shelter Environment:

    There are “cases of experienced handlers who had developed good relationships with the dogs over a period of months still being attacked without warning or obvious provocation.”

    Pit bulls “ignore signs of submission from other dogs” and “give no warning prior to attack.” They add that this is “different than normal dog behavior.”

    “Today’s pit bulls” have multiple names including: “Staffordshire Terrier (AKC 1936), American Staffordshire Terrier (AKC 1972, Am Staff), American Pit Bull Terrier or Pit Bull Terrier.”

    “These dogs can be aggressive towards humans and more likely to cause fatal attacks to people than other fighting type dogs.”

    “Pit bulls will climb fences, chew up stainless steel food and water bowls, destroy copper tubing of automatic water systems and conventional cages, and attack other animals through chain link fences.”

    “Pit bulls can break through conventional cage doors and destroy typical epoxy paint on the floors and walls.”

    “Pit bulls require special housing considerations” and “isolation from other animals if dog aggressive or have a high prey drive.”

    “Install a panic button in rooms housing pit bulls along with other restraint equipment in any room housing pit bulls.”

    It seems unlikely that the ASPCA or shelters participating in the “Adopt-A-Bull Contest” will tell potential adopters to install a panic button in their home or that pit bulls attack without warning.

37. From the New Yorker, Feb 6 2006
    Pit bulls, descendants of the bulldogs used in the nineteenth century for bull baiting and dogfighting, have been bred for “gameness,” and thus a lowered inhibition to aggression.

    Most dogs fight as a last resort, when staring and growling fail. A pit bull is willing to fight with little or no provocation. Pit bulls seem to have a high tolerance for pain, making it possible for them to fight to the point of exhaustion.

    Whereas guard dogs like German shepherds usually attempt to restrain those they perceive to be threats by biting and holding, pit bulls try to inflict the maximum amount of damage on an opponent. They bite, hold, shake, and tear. They don’t growl or assume an aggressive facial expression as warning.

    They just attack. “They are often insensitive to behaviors that usually stop aggression,” one scientific review of the breed states.

    “For example, dogs not bred for fighting usually display defeat in combat by rolling over and exposing a light underside. On several occasions, pit bulls have been reported to disembowel dogs offering this signal of submission.”

    In epidemiological studies of dog bites, the pit bull is overrepresented among dogs known to have seriously injured or killed human beings, and, as a result, pit bulls have been banned or restricted in several Western European countries, China, and numerous cities and municipalities across North America. Pit bulls are dangerous.

    https://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/02/06/060206fa_fact

38. Where does PETA stand on “rehabilitating”
    fighting dogs?

    Rehabilitation, when possible, is right only if it means the optimal
    situation for each dog, and that means what every dog needs and
    deserves—a good home with a devoted family who will responsibly
    and lovingly care for him or her for life, not life in a small pen in a
    “sanctuary.”

    PETA is opposed to confining dogs to cages and pens indefinitely—that is just not a life for a dog, as their behavior tells us.
    No doubt the expectation that fighting dogs can somehow be rehabilitated and then placed in a good home will make the hard work of animal control and law enforcement officers even more
    difficult and, in some cases, prevent them from seizing dogs abused in this gruesome industry.

    These placements make people feel good, but they come at the expense of other needy animals. After all, there are plenty of dogs, including pit bulls, who haven’t been fought, who don’t require one
    second of rehabilitation or the money to pay for it.

    They are literally dying for homes. To require a shelter to destroy those adoptable, homeless dogs (or close their doors to them) to make room for 20 or 120 singly housed fighting pit bulls—who, no
    one disputes, are virtually impossible to place responsibly—causes suffering and ultimately destroys even more animals.

    What does PETA do to make the world a kinder place for pit bulls?
    PETA’s spay/neuter clinics—which to date have sterilized more than 50,000 dogs, cats, and rabbits—spay and neuter pit bulls free of charge.

    Unfortunately, virtually none of the pit bulls we encounter in the field—in rural North Carolina and Virginia—have ever set a paw indoors. They go back after surgery and their owners put them back on a chain or into a pen.

    Our Community Animal Project (CAP) transports pit bulls to and from our clinics and provides hundreds of pit bulls—who would otherwise have nothing but a tree, a board leaning against a fence,
    or a plastic or metal drum as “shelter”—with sturdy, wooden doghouses; straw bedding in winter; flea, tick, and fly-strike prevention in the summer; toys; and a little love.

    https://www.peta2.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/PETAandPitbulls.pdf

39. The Straight Scoop on PETA and Pit Bulls

    is PETA’s position on pit bull–specific legislation?

    PETA isn’t out to pull any pit bull out of any good home.
    What we want to do is prevent any more
    litters. Just as we support mandatory spay/neuter legislation for all dogs (and cats) because it is the most effective way to combat the companion animal overpopulation crisis and its tragic consequences, PETA supports banning
    the further breeding of pit bulls.

    PETA also favors restrictions or a ban on “ownership” of pit bulls that would, however, not affect the status of those pit bulls who are already in a good home.
    In other words, we support bills that include a grandfather clause allowing pit bulls who
    are spayed or neutered and already cared for to maintain their status for the rest of their lives.

    Are breed-specific laws fair?
    There are many wonderful dogs in animal shelters who need homes, and PETA urges everyone who can provide a dog
    with a permanent, loving home to adopt a homeless dog (or two) from a shelter and speak out against the specialized breeding of
    any dog.

    When shelters are forced to euthanize
    dogs by the millions every year, it is counterproductive for the humane community to fight efforts to reduce the population of pit bulls or any breed of dog through the use of breeding bans
    and restrictions.

    Pit bulls are abused, neglected, and tortured specifically because of their breed and characteristics: PETA does not balk at efforts
    to protect pit bulls from breed-specific abuse through the use of breed-specific safeguards.
    Why does PETA take this position?

    Pit bulls are the most exploited, abused, and neglected dogs of all. They are seemingly the most abundant breed in animal shelters as well as the most difficult to place safely because of theft,
    abuse, and the possibility of attacks on small animals, other dogs, and human beings.

    In New York City, pit bulls make up 40 percent of the 12,000 dogs who are housed by the city’s shelter system, which handles between three and five cruelty cases involving pit bulls every week.

    As far back as 2000, an ASPCA query to shelters about their experiences with pit bulls revealed that 35 percent of responding shelters took in at least one pit bull a day, and in one out of four shelters, pit bulls and pit mixes made up more than 20 percent
    of the shelter dog population.

    One-third of the shelters did not adopt pit bulls out to the public,
    partly out of concern for the dogs’ safety.

    According to The Humane Society of the United States, pit bulls constitute an increasing percentage of victimized animals in media-reported cases: In 2000 and 2001, pit bulls were the victims
    in 13 percent of reported dog abuse cases, but in
    2007, 25 percent of victims in reported dog abuse
    cases were pit bulls.

    As of this writing, PetFinder.com lists more than 11,000 homeless pit bulls for adoption.
    Other animals are abused. Why doesn’t PETA take the same position on all animals?

    Until there are no homeless animals in shelters, PETA would love to see a ban on all animal breeding, period!

    If it were not so easy to mindlessly breed and acquire
    animals and if adopting orselling an animal were handled with the seriousness that it deserves (for example, if prospective guardians had to pass a course and show the financial means to meet their animals’ medical needs, etc., and were required to think long and hard and to commit to the animal for life), far fewer animals would be discarded and dumped at animal shelters once their novelty wore off.

    But the reality is that there is big money in torturing pit bulls, and for many pit bull “owners,” having a pit bull is just that—possessing
    something macho for the sake of status, not to enjoy the loyal companionship of a loving dog.

    Fighting and breeding pit bulls can be very lucrative for the dogs’
    abusers.

    Pit bulls have become a commodity in our society, and for them, the consequences are often infected wounds left untreated, eyes swollen shut with blood and pus, broken or torn-off limbs left to “heal” with no veterinary care, and ears cropped at home—things that animal shelter workers see on a
    regular basis.

40. LETTERS: Keep dogs contained
    October 22, 2013

    I have a personal experience related to the recent pit bull attack on the Corona boy (“Mauled by pit bull mixes, Corona boy still hospitalized,” Oct. 3).

    Several weeks ago, I told my 9-year-old grandson he would be safe riding his bike on our cul-de-sac because there was little traffic. Unknown to me, our neighbor had acquired a pit bull mix. Our neighbor’s daughter came out with him on a leash, and when he saw my grandson, he took off after my grandson.

    He leapt and bit my grandson on his right thigh. When my grandson realized he could not ride his bike fast enough to get away, he threw his bike on the dog and scaled a retaining wall, getting bitten on his other thigh as he did so.

    My husband confronted the owner, only to be told, “He has never bitten anyone.”

    When will these attacks stop? When will the owners of these vicious dogs admit their animals are a danger to others and keep them contained? Shouldn’t little boys be safe from being mauled while riding their bikes?

    Sue Siebold

    Riverside

    https://www.pe.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-headlines/20131022-letters-keep-dogs-contained.ece

41. The Pit bull type dogs truth and genetic reality, watch and learn:

42. An example of why leashing and licensing laws don’t work to solve the breed-specific problem of pit bulls:

    Pitbull supporters always point to Calgary Model as the perfect solution when dealing with dangerous dogs. The city introduced its responsible pet ownership bylaw in 2006.

    Calgary’s bylaw department emphasizes responsible pet ownership through intensive licensing, hefty fines and owner education.

    Has their model worked? The statistics from the past four years would indicate a resounding “NO”. For the past four years dog bites have risen steadily every year, and over 350% in the past 4 years, from 58 in 2009 to 203 in 2012.

    And In 2010 Pit bulls led the ‘bite’ count. Meanwhile in Toronto, four years after implementing Breed Bans, dog bites were down 32%, from 486 to 329.

    Bites in Toronto blamed on the four banned breeds fell sharply, from 71 in 2005 to only six in 2010.

    Considering these breeds regularly inflict the most serious damage, this is an undeniable win for the citizens of Toronto.

43. Last year, a pit bull killed somebody in the U.S. every 13 days… ripped off a person’s body part (ear, scalp, foot, hand, etc.) every 3 days… killed other pets and seriously bit multiple people every day.

    Pits are 4% of dogs in the U.S. but responsible for 80% of bites that need medical attention, 69% of fatal maulings (95% for 2013 so far, one every 9.5 days).

    Pits are 6x more likely to attack their owners than other breeds are; 30x more likely to bite in a given year (per capita basis) than other breeds, and 16x more likely to escape confinement.

    Even untrained pits can pull thousands of pounds, so they are absolutely uncontrollable by any mere human holding a leash.

    Pits are bad. It has nothing to do with “bad owners.” Does it take a bad owner to bring out the herding instinct in a Border Collie or the hunting instinct in a Beagle? Well, it doesn’t take a bad owner to bring out the 150 years of breeding-for-aggression in a pit bull, either.

    Aggression is the NORMAL, DEFAULT behavior for pit bulls. If bad ownership was responsible for the pit maulings, how come there are millions of Beagles, Springers, Goldens, etc. in the hands of bad owners, and none of them are mauling or killing anybody?

44. If an assailant attacks a pedestrian on her way to the store, it is NOT a “fight between two people”!

    When a pit bull type dog attacks a normal dogs, it is not a fight between two dogs. It is an attack by a “good” pit bull, doing exactly what pits were created to do: attack other dogs, an attack on a passing victim dog.

    All “good” pits are dog aggressive. No one who is sane or compassionate wants more dogs with dog aggression to be born. Enact and enforce mandatory spay/neuter microchipping of all pits, pit mixes all dog aggressive dogs. Let them mercifully become extinct.

    Only dog fighters need dog fighting skills and instincts in their dogs. Stop enabling and supporting dog fighting. Let pits mercifully become extinct, starting now.

45. An article about dog attacks in the journal Annals of Surgery 2011:

    The article starts by describing a pit bull attack on an infant. The baby had to be given CPR, and a tracheal intubation upon arrival at the hospital. Wounds included “scalp degloving,” (skin ripped off head) and multiple bites to the face, neck, chest, buttocks and genitals. The infant died and the article includes a very graphic and awful picture of a pit bull- related fatality.

    Here are some stats from the article:

    Pit bulls attack indiscriminately

    Responsible for 65% of all fatal attacks in 2008

    6 of 7 fatal dog bites in Texas in 2007 were inflicted by pit bulls

    94% of attacks on children by pit bulls were unprovoked

    81% of attacks that occurred off the owner’s property involved pit bulls

    One person is killed by a pit bull every 14 days

    One body part is severed and lost every 5.4 days as a result of pit bull attacks

    2 persons are injured by pit bulls every day

    You have a more than 2500 times higher chance of dying if attacked by a pit bull type dog compared to other types of dogs

46. BADRAP surrenders to facts

    “A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.” ~Mark Twain

    on May 20 @ 9:00am PST, BADRAP made the following proclamation:

    It’s Dog Bite Prevention Week. Did you know that there was never such thing as a ‘Nanny’s Dog’? This term was a recent invention created to describe the myriad of vintage photos of children enjoying their family pit bulls.

    While the intention behind the term was innocent, using it may mislead parents into being careless with their children around their family dog – A recipe for dog bites!

    https://cravendesires.blogspot.ca/2013/05/badrap-surrenders-to-facts.html

47. To those who claim that it’s all in how you raise them, I think it may be of interest how dogs are trained for police work and some military work.

    These dogs are kenneled and intentionally NOT socialized. They were not LOVED on like a dog in a home would be. We didn’t want them friendly to people but their handler.

    They are AGITATED/PROVOKED on purpose by a person using techniques that gets them intensely serious to want to attack. We trained them daily to ATTACK people. We trained them to attack HARD to take a person down and to CALL OUT on command.

    It took months to get them to be serious enough even with all of this work. These dogs were by their DNA, NORMAL AGGRESSIVE dogs.

    They were German Shepherds, Dobermans & Malinois mostly. When have you heard of these dogs biting someone so severely they were maimed and required months of rehabilitation and plastic surgery?

    When have you ever heard of them killing a human? Even with all of this practice none were KILLER dogs. In fact, they were some of the most safe dogs to be around.

    They were predictable, they warned, they were stoppable and they recognized submission not using it for a kill. Pit Bull advocates make fools of the naive who buy into the idea that “it’s all in how you raise them.”

    The dog fighters know that other breeds of dogs don’t make good killers. 400+ breeds of dogs are raised in as many a variety of ways including abusive (greyhounds/beagles) as Pit Bulls yet NONE of them go around maiming and killing People, pets & livestock.

    Those people who’ve had the privledge of training the elite dogs who have life and death jobs to do on the police/military force, use the best NORMAL AGGRESSIVE breeds of dogs NOT the ABNORMAL AGGRESSIVE Pit Bull/Molasser types.

    These abnormal aggression breeds go from happy faces and wiggley butts (non-aggression) to sudden uncontrollable rage, unprovoked without warning and unstoppable. Not a good recipe for such work.

    They are like a loaded gun in the hands of a child running around playing with it. You never know IF or WHEN it will go off or if you could STOP it from firing fatally or which child running around with a loaded gun would cause it to fire.

48. Merritt Clifton (all written in 2013):

    “From 1930 to 1960 the U.S. averaged fewer than one fatal dog attack per year. Pit bulls during that time killed nine people. Dobermans killed two, one in 1955 and one in 1960, and that was enough to create the lasting image of the Doberman as a dangerous breed.

    Since 2010 we have averaged 23 fatalities per year from pit bulls alone. From 1960 to 1985, the U.S. averaged about 600,000 bites per year requiring medical treatment, with a dog population of about 35 million.

    From 2000 to today, with a dog population of about 70 million, the average number of dog bites per year requiring medical attention has been between 4.7 and 4.8 million. What changed? In 1960 pit bulls were about half of one percent of the U.S. dog population. By 2000 they were about 4%, and now they are 6%.”

    “No pit bulls from shelters are known to have killed or disfigured anyone in the first 90 years of the 20th century, but 43 have in the past four years, and there have also been 19 fatal & disfiguring attacks by other shelter dogs, mostly Rottweilers & bull mastiffs. The only dogs rehomed from U.S. shelters to kill anyone, ever, before 2000 were two wolf hybrids in 1988 and 1989.

    31 shelter dogs have participated in killing people since 2010, 29 of them pit bulls, bull mastiffs, and Rottweilers. In addition, pit bulls & related breeds adopted from shelters have killed & disfigured around 100 other pets for every person who has been killed or disfigured.

    The bottom line is that in the rush to try to get to no-kill status without stopping the proliferation of dangerous dog breeds first, the animal shelter & rescue communities are grossly failing the public trust, and need to be called to account for it.”

49. Re: Letter to the editor, Breed-specific language ‘inherently flawed and does not work,’ Burnaby NOW, Sept. 10, 2013.

    Dear Editor:

    DogsBite.org advocates on behalf of victims of serious dog attacks. The United States-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization also tracks U.S. dog bite fatalities, dog bite injury studies, jurisdictions with breed-specific laws and appellate court rulings that uphold these laws.

    Statistical data from DogsBite.org is cited in the peer-reviewed scientific medical study, Mortality, Mauling, and Maiming by Vicious Dogs, published in the Annals of Surgery in April 2011.

    The study’s conclusion:”Attacks by pit bulls are associated with higher morbidity rates, higher hospital charges, and a higher risk of death than are attacks by other breeds of dogs. Strict regulation of pit bulls may substantially reduce the US mortality rates related to dog bites.”

    The amicus brief DogsBite.org submitted in the landmark case, Tracey v. Solesky, helped move Maryland’s highest court to modify common law.
    In April 2012, the Court of Appeals declared pitbulls “inherently dangerous” and attached strict liability when a pitbull attacks a person. This liability extends to landlords when a tenant’s pitbull attacks a person.

    The Maryland Court of Appeals went as far as pointing out in their decision ­– concerning the opposing brief written by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which sought to eliminate a financial remedy for the young mauling victim – the following:”Some are similar to the arguments made in the appellant or amicus’ briefs filed in the present case by supporters of pitbulls.

    In light of Maryland’s situation, we find those particular arguments unpersuasive. We have fully reviewed and considered all the briefs.”

    Research and statistical data from DogsBite.org has exceptional credibility with appellate court justices, surgeons and medical practitioners, attorneys who champion and represent dog mauling victims, the many local, national and international news agencies which have cited our data, parents and activists and of course the victims themselves.

    Colleen Lynn
    Founder and President, DogsBite.org
    Austin, TX

50. A pit bull type dog is what it is and does what it is.You can no more alter it genetic makeup then you can a collies to herd, a hounds to track, a retriever’s to retrieve, a labs to swim, a pointers to point, a sled dog to run and pull.

    They do what they are and a pit bull type dog is a mauling violent killer that has been bred to be a land shark, nothing you do can change that, even if you have them from birth.

    No matter if you love them, or how you nurture, train, rehabilitate, raise them optimally as normal dogs from birth, you can not change their Genetic reality to Kill, Maul, Maim, Disfigure, Dismember, cause Life Flights or trips to the Intensive Care Unit.

    For over 600 years the current pit bull type dog was brought into being through careful selective genetic breeding to create the most violent murderous fighting dog possible.

    Alexandra Semyonova canine Behavioral and Dog training Expert:

    The history of the ‘bull’ dog began in England, somewhere in the middle ages. It took hundreds of years of selective breeding to create dogs aggressive enough that they were fit for bull- and bear-baiting. The sport had its heyday during the reigns of Henry VIII and his daughter Elizabeth I, but as the law slowly abolished the torture of humans, public opinion began to turn also against the torture of animals for sport. In 1835, Britain passed a law that abolished bull- and bear-baiting.

    The people – in particular the breeders supplying the dogs and those who ran the gambling rackets – had to turn to some other avenue of livelihood. Pitting ‘bull’ dogs against each other became the thing. No need to have, sustain and hide a bull or a bear. No need for an elaborate fighting pit that was big enough to protect the audience from a bear fighting for its life against a bunch of bulldogs.

    The bulldogs were cheaper to keep, required only an improvised fighting pit, and could be quickly hidden if police were on the way. Some lines were modified by adding terrier. This didn’t lead to losing the bulldog’s love of a fight to the death but made the dogs smaller. These smaller bulldogs were easy to transport on Naval ships, and so the British fighting dogs spread around the world.

    It had taken a thousand years of careful breeding to create these specialized fighters / baiters that are so unlike any normal domestic dog. The British breeding program was so successful that these fighting dogs were used all over the world to increase the fighting tenacity of indigenous fighting and/or mastiff breeds. Never before or since was an experiment in changing the domestic dog so successful as the British thousand-years bulldog one. Even today, mixing in this type of dog is the only way to create new aggressive ‘breeds’. It doesn’t matter what you mix the bulldog type with, the trait will prevail — it’s genetic and strongly heritable.

    Every single living ‘bull’ type dog is a direct descendent of these vicious Elizabethan baiting / fighting bulldogs.

51. This is what a pit bull type dog is:

52. Abandoned Dogs Roam Detroit in Packs as Humans DwindleBy Chris Christoff – Aug 20, 2013

    Detroit Dominated by Pitbulls as 50K Dogs Roam Free
    As many as 50,000 stray dogs roam the streets and vacant homes of bankrupt Detroit, replacing residents, menacing humans who remain and overwhelming the city’s ability to find them homes or peaceful deaths.

    Dens of as many as 20 canines have been found in boarded-up homes in the community of about 700,000 that once pulsed with 1.8 million people. One officer in the Police Department’s skeleton animal-control unit recalled a pack splashing away in a basement that flooded when thieves ripped out water pipes.

    “The dogs were having a pool party,” said Lapez Moore, 30. “We went in and fished them out.”

    Poverty roils the Motor City and many dogs have been left to fend for themselves, abandoned by owners who are financially stressed or unaware of proper care. Strays have killed pets, bitten mail carriers and clogged the animal shelter, where more than 70 percent are euthanized.

    “With these large open expanses with vacant homes, it’s as if you designed a situation that causes dog problems,” said Harry Ward, head of animal control.

    Symbiotic Suffering
    The number of strays signals a humanitarian crisis, said Amanda Arrington of the Humane Society of the United States, based in Washington. She heads a program that donated $50,000 each to organizations in Detroit and nine other U.S cities to get pets vaccinated, fed, spayed and neutered.

    Arrington said when she visited Detroit in October, “It was almost post-apocalyptic, where there are no businesses, nothing except people in houses and dogs running around.”
    “The suffering of animals goes hand in hand with the suffering of people.”

    She said pet owners who move leave behind dogs, hoping neighbors will care for them. Those dogs take to the streets and reproduce. Compounding that are the estimated 70,000 vacant buildings that provide shelter for dogs, or where some are chained without care to ward off thieves, Ward said.

    Most strays are pets that roam, often in packs that form around a female in heat, Ward said. Few are true feral dogs that have had no human contact.
    Ward said Detroit’s three shelters — his and two non-profit facilities — take in 15,000 animals a year, including strays and pets that are seized or given up by owners.

    Fearing Humans
    They are among the victims of a historic financial and political collapse. Detroit, a former auto manufacturing powerhouse, declared the largest U.S. municipal bankruptcy on July 18 after years of decline. The city has more than $18 billion in long-term debt and had piled up an operating deficit of close to $400 million. Falling revenue forced cutbacks in police, fire-fighting — and dog control.

    With an annual budget of $1.6 million, Ward has four officers to cover the 139-square-mile (360-square-kilometer) city seven days a week, 11 fewer than when he took command in 2008. He has one dog-bite investigator, down from three.
    “We are really suffering from fatigue, short staffed” and work too much overtime, he said in an interview.

    The officers, who wear bulletproof vests to protect themselves from irate owners, are bringing in about half the number of animals that crews did in 2008, Ward said.

    In July, the pound stopped accepting more animals for a month because the city hadn’t paid a service that hauls away euthanized animals for cremation at a cost of about $20,000 a year. The freezers were packed with carcasses, and pens were full of live animals until the bill was paid.

    Famous Fighter
    Pit bulls and breeds mixed with them dominate Detroit’s stray population because of widespread dog fighting, said Ward. Males are aggressive in mating, so they proliferate, he added.
    One type of fighting pit bull has become known as far as Los Angeles as the “Highland Park red,” named after a city within Detroit’s borders, Ward said.

    Their prevalence was clear as Ward and officers Moore and Malachi Jackson answered calls Aug. 19. On a block where vacant houses and lots outnumbered occupied ones, they found four dogs in an abandoned house — a male and three females, including a pregnant pit bull with a prized blue-gray coat.
    Ward said it appeared the dogs were fed by someone who used the house to hide stolen items.

53. Walking Small
    Aggressive dogs force the U.S. Postal Service to temporarily halt mail delivery in some neighborhoods, said Ed Moore, a Detroit-area spokesman. He said there were 25 reports of mail carriers bitten by dogs in Detroit from October through July.

    Though most are by pets at homes, strays have also attacked, Moore said.

    “It’s been a persistent problem,” he said.
    Mail carrier Catherine Guzik told of using pepper spray on swarms of tiny, ferocious dogs in a southwest Detroit neighborhood.

    “It’s like Chihuahuaville,” Guzik said as she walked her route.
    At two nearby homes, one pet dog was killed recently and another injured by two stray pit bulls that jumped fences into yards, said neighbor Debora Mattie, 49.

    Last year, there were 903 dog bites in Detroit, according to Ward, adding that most go unreported to police. He said 90 percent are by dogs whose owners are known.

    After Attack
    Many de facto strays are called pets by owners who let them wander, said Kristen Huston, who leads the Detroit office of All About Animals Rescue, a non-profit that obtained the Humane Society’s $50,000 grant last year to feed, vaccinate and sterilize pets. Some dogs run away from their neighborhoods and threaten people, she said.

    “Technically, it’s illegal to let a dog roam, but with the city being bankrupt, who’s going to do anything about it?” Huston said.
    Huston said she walks through some of the poorest neighborhoods to talk to pet owners about how to care for their animals, sometimes giving them bags of food or even a free doghouse.

    Ward said more needs to be done to educate pet owners. He said his crews are too few, but help keep dogs in check.
    Four months ago, a woman sitting on her porch on the east side was attacked by two strays that tore off her scalp, Ward said.
    “We got those dogs,” he said. “It’s a big difference to that lady that those dogs were gone that day.”

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-21/abandoned-dogs-roam-detroit-in-packs-as-humans-dwindle.html

54. Dog Bite Law
    Solutions for victims, lawyers, canine professionals and dog owners
    It’s Time for the Pit Bull “Recall” Too

    June 18, 2013 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    From the Law Offices of Kenneth M. Phillips, Beverly Hills, CA
    For further information: Kenneth M. Phillips, 310-858-7460

    Chrysler’s Jeep recall reminds that the pit bull problem also can be fixed

    The recall of the Jeep is a reminder that effective laws can and should be enacted to lessen or eliminate another source of preventable deaths and injuries: the modern pit bull.

    On June 18, 2013, Chrysler agreed to recall 2.7 million Jeeps because in 14 years there have been at least 37 Jeep accidents that caused at least 51 deaths. (Chris Isidore, Chrysler relents, agrees to recall 2.7 million Jeeps, clickorlando.com, June 18, 2013.)

    Compare those numbers with deaths caused by pit bulls: in 7 years (half the number of years), pit bulls have killed 151 Americans (three times as many as those killed in Jeeps). (Colleen Lynn, Dog Bite Fatalities, dogsbite.org, June 18, 2013.)

    There are those who believe it is at least as important to fix the pit bull problem as it is to fix the Jeep problem. There are between 2.5 to 3.4 million pit bulls in the USA today. (Merritt Clifton, More adoptions will not end shelter killing of pit bulls, Animal People Online, June 18, 2013.)

    These dogs are responsible for 45% of all fatal attacks and more than half of all disfiguring attacks. (Clifton, ibid.) Attacks by pit bulls are associated with higher morbidity rates, higher hospital charges, and a higher risk of death than attacks by other breeds of dogs.

    (Bini, John K. MD; Cohn, Stephen M. MD; Acosta, Shirley M. RN, BSN; McFarland, Marilyn J. RN, MS; Muir, Mark T. MD; Michalek, Joel E. PhD; for the TRISAT Clinical Trials Group, Mortality, Mauling, and Maiming by Vicious Dogs, Annals of Surgery (April 2011, Vol. 253, Issue 4, pp. 791–797).

    Leaving out those who believe there is no pit bull problem at all, there generally are 3 schools of thought about a possible “fix.” Some believe that no new laws are needed because responsible pit bull owners can be relied on to breed a mentally stable model and keep the dog out of dangerous situations.

    A second cohort favors breed-specific laws that will keep these dogs away from the wrong people, places and situations. The third group wants to reduce the breed’s numbers and/or eliminate it. (Dogbitelaw.com, Arguments for and against breed specific laws, June 13, 2013.)

    Violent Raging Pit BullUnfortunately, pit bull lovers have neglected the problem for too long. Worse, they have alienated the general public by failing to denounce the “nutters” who spread misinformation about the members of this breed, which generally are not “nanny dogs,” service dogs, or rescue dogs.

    The general perception about the pit bull is quite negative: it is regarded as the dog of choice among criminals, gang-bangers and others who cannot be relied upon to breed a better, gentler pit bull. And generalizations about the dog’s owners are just as bad: a study published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence confirmed a link between ownership of high- risk dog breeds and deviant behaviors, crimes against children and domestic violence.

    (Jaclyn E. Barnes et al., Ownership of High-Risk (“Vicious”) Dogs As a Marker for Deviant Behaviors, J. Interpersonal Violence, Volume 21 Number 12, December 2006 1616-1634.)

    It appears that the time has come for the big pit bull recall, at least metaphorically. If outlawing the dog is not politically possible, then let’s fix them, i.e., neuter them. This is a solution that has nearly universal acceptance. As stated in Animal People, “an effective response to pit bull overpopulation must target breeding, and must be legislatively mandated, since pit bull breeders have proved intransigently resistant to any and all forms of gentle persuasion.

    ” (Merritt Clifton, More adoptions will not end shelter killing of pit bulls, 2009.) Ingrid Newkirk, the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle on June 8, 2005, that PETA “encourage[s] a ban on breeding pit bulls.

    ” Even a state like California, which generally prohibits breed-specific laws, allows local jurisdictions to pass “breed-specific ordinances pertaining only to mandatory spay or neuter programs and breeding requirements, provided that no specific dog breed, or mixed dog breed, shall be declared potentially dangerous or vicious under those ordinances.”

    The intent of these laws is to permit cities and counties to regulate breeds by requiring members of the breed to be spayed or neutered.

    Like Chrysler agreed to fix the Jeep, the pit bull community should have decided to fix the pit bull. But that did not happen, and the sharp rise in mayhem and the number of these dogs seems to have ended the opportunity.

    At this point, states, cities and counties should enact breed specific laws that, at the very least, will prevent the breeding of pit bulls and thereby eliminate this clearly defective and destructive breed of dog over the course of time.

    (The author, Attorney Kenneth M. Phillips of Beverly Hills, California, is the only lawyer in the USA who does nothing other than represent people who have been seriously injured by dogs.

    Widely recognized as the nation’s leading authority on dog bite law, and the author of Dogbitelaw.com, he assists legislators in drafting dog bite laws, teaches seminars, and writes books and articles about dog bite law.

    He has been a frequent guest on CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, MS-NBC, and Fox News, and has been called “the dog bite king” (Today Show and Lawyers Weekly), “a leading expert in dog bite law” (Good Housekeeping), and “the nation’s best known practitioner of terrier torts” (Los Angeles Times).)

55. 17 Barks
    Thursday, September 5, 2013

    On pit bulls and their owners
    In 2013, there have been 18 canine homicides of which 17 were committed by pit bulls or pit bull mixes. Our dogs are not killing us. Pit bulls are killing us.

    And although pit bulls attack and kill strangers like Claudia Gallardo, 38 (killed by a pit bull in the front yard of its owner’s house in Stockton, California) and Pamela Devitt, 63 (killed by 4 pit bulls running at large as she took a walk in Antelope Valley, California), the usual victims are our children, parents and guests.

    I have come to believe that the modern pit bull should not be thought of as a dog at all. A dog is man’s best friend, but this is an animal that will kill the man, his wife, his children, his parents and the guests in his home. Clearly this is not man’s best friend; clearly it is not a “dog” in the sense that we think of a dog.

    Charles Manson was anatomically a man, sociologically a neighbor, and legally a citizen, but he is spending his life behind bars because he was a deranged individual who orchestrated mayhem and murder. Just because pit bulls look like dogs, they do not have to be thought of like we think about dogs such as golden retrievers and Yorkshire terriers.

    In almost all homicides carried out by pit bulls, the owners and neighbors express shock and disbelief because the animal never gave a sign that it wanted to kill anyone. But to me, this is like a drunk driver expressing shock and disbelief that his car could kill.

    In both types of cases, a person made a choice to do something incredibly reckless, either by getting drunk or by getting the animal that makes headlines because of the frequency and brutality of its killing. We need to stop people from doing these reckless things.

    Lawmakers have to stop listening to the nonsense about breed specific laws which is spouted by the owners of bully dogs like pit bulls. Since 2006 there have been 3 psychological studies which focused on the personality and behavioral traits of the owners of pit bulls and other high-risk breeds of dog.

    A study published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence showed a link between ownership of high-risk dog breeds and deviant behaviors, crimes against children and domestic violence. Another study concluded that “vicious dog ownership may be a simple marker of broader social deviance.”

    A third study established that the owners of high-risk breeds of dog displayed more antisocial thinking styles, have an arrest history significantly higher than owners of other dogs, and engage in fighting to a significantly greater degree than other dog owners.

    They also had higher levels of overall criminal thinking patterns to go with the actual criminal behavior. These people, who are fixated on the animals that kill, maim and terrorize, are not the people that a lawmaker needs in his camp. Reasonable people want fair laws that provide a solution to the obvious problems caused by pit bulls.

    Sincerely,

    Kenneth M. Phillips
    Attorney at Law

56. Results of mandatory breed-specific S/N in SF: success in San Francisco, where in just eight years there was a 49% decline in the number of pit-bulls impounded, a 23% decline in the number of pit-bulls euthanized, and an 81% decline in the number of pit-bulls involved in fatal and disfiguring attacks.

    Ed Boks, Executive director, Yavapai Humane Society (responsible Jan 2004 as director City Center for Animal Care & Control in NYC for trying to rename pit bulls New Yorkies; is pb owner)

57. Jordyn Arndt
    4-years old | Prairie City, IA.

    Jordyn Arndt, 4-years old, was viciously mauled by her babysitter’s pit bull while under her care. She was airlifted to Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines with life-threatening injuries. She died the following day. At the time of the attack, Jena Marie Wright, 24, had been babysitting Jordyn and her brother.

    The babysitting arrangement had started about two weeks earlier. According to news accounts, Jordyn was in the backyard of the home with Wright’s daughter, 3, when the dog attacked. Wright was arrested just hours after the girl died and charged with child endangerment resulting in death, a class B felony, and neglect or abandonment of a dependent person, a class C felony.

    The combined charges carry up to 35-years in prison. The Wright household told police the dog was an American Staffordshire terrier, an alias for the pit bull terrier since 1972, thus always included in the legal definition of a pit bull.
    [source citations]Date of death: April 23, 2013.
    Chained: No
    Breed of dog: Pit bull Relationship to dog: Non-family.
    Sex of dog: Male Owner of dog: Babysitter.
    Spay/Neuter: Uknown Multiple dogs: No
    On/Off property: On Criminal charges: Yes.

    Beau Rutledge
    2-years old | Fulton County, GA.

    Beau Rutledge, 2-years old, was savagely killed by his family’s pit bull at his Wexford subdivision home. The boy’s mother told police she went to the bathroom and came back to find Beau dead from the attack. Police, emergency medical personnel and news media swarmed the cul-de-sac street.

    Neighbors called the scene “surreal.” First responders said the scene was “horrible,” so gruesome, police hung a sheet over the doorway of the home to keep it hidden from view. “I felt like I was in a horror film,” said one neighbor who briefly saw inside of the home. The family had owned the pit bull, named Kissy Face, for eight years.

    Though identified as a pit bull numerous times, including by police and Fulton County animal services, the American Journal-Constitution began calling the dog an “American Staffordshire terrier-mix,” an alias for the pit bull terrier for over 40-years, thus always included in the legal definition of a pit bull.
    [source citations]Date of death: April 24, 2013.
    Chained: No
    Breed of dog: Pit bull Relationship to dog: Family.
    Sex of dog: Unknown Owner of dog: Parents.
    Spay/Neuter: Unknown Multiple dogs: No
    On/Off property: On Criminal charges: No.

    Rachael Honabarger
    35-years old | Coshocton, OH.

    Rachael Honabarger, 35-years old, was brutally attacked by her family German shepherd, sustaining life-threatening injuries. A neighbor driving by her residence saw that she was in clear distress with the dog beside her. As the neighbor approached to help her, the dog began attacking her again, this time biting into her neck. There were no witnesses to the initial attack.

    The man was able to pull the dog off Honabarger and secure it in an outdoor kennel. He then called 911 and administered life-saving first aid until EMS arrived on scene. Rachael was transported to a local hospital then airlifted to Grant Medical Center in Columbus. She died two days later. Another neighbor said the dog was very aggressive, but never went beyond the property line; the dog guarded the family home.

    The male German shepherd was euthanized the day after her death and transported to the Ohio Department of Health for rabies testing. The results came back negative.
    [source citations]Date of death: May 2, 2013.
    Chained: No
    Breed of dog: German shepherd Relationship to dog: Family.
    Sex of dog: Male Owner of dog: Husband.
    Spay/Neuter: Unknown Multiple dogs: No
    On/Off property: On Criminal charges: No.

    Pamela Devitt
    63-years old | Littlerock, CA.

    Pamela Devitt, 63-years old, was viciously mauled by four pit bulls while taking her morning walk. A passing motorist saw the woman on the ground being attacked and called 911. Authorities said her injuries included being “scalped” and one arm removed. The woman died en route to the hospital. Deputies began house-to-house ground and air searches to capture the dangerous dogs.

    County Supervisor Mike Antonovich offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to the “capture of the four killer pit bulls.” Detectives later received information that led to the service of a search warrant in a home near the site of the mauling. Authorities seized 8 dogs from the property — 6 were pit bulls. During the search, detectives uncovered a “marijuana grow” operation.

    Alex Jackson, 29-years old, was arrested on suspicion of cultivating marijuana. On May 29, after conducting DNA tests on the dogs, authorities charged Jackson with second-degree murder in connection to Devitt’s death.
    [source citations]Date of death: May 9, 2013.
    Chained: No
    Breed of dog: Pit bull (4) Relationship to dog: Non-family.
    Sex of dog: Uknown Owner of dog: Property owner.
    Spay/Neuter: Uknown Multiple dogs: Yes
    On/Off property: Off Criminal charges: Yes.

    Carlton Freeman
    80-years old | Harleyville, SC.

    Carlton Freeman, 80-years old, was dragged from his wheelchair by four dogs and savagely attacked. Freeman was a double leg amputee as a result of diabetes. Dorchester County Coroner Chris Nisbet said that Freeman was going down the side of the road in his wheelchair when the dogs attacked. He was taken to Trident Hospital where he died four days later. “He had bites and lacerations from his legs to the top of his head,” Nisbet wrote in a news release.

    “Mr. Freeman was basically helpless [against] the attack.” Neighbors said the dogs had been roaming the area for months. Barbara Goodwin, also a neighbor, admitted to caring for three of the dogs. Authorities seized those dogs; each had traces of blood on their fur.

    Freeman’s family members, who witnessed the attack, identified all four dogs as pit bulls. During the investigation, deputies determined all four dogs to be feral and did not belong to any one person. At the request of the victim and his family, no charges were brought.
    [source citations]Date of death: May 12, 2013.
    Chained: No
    Breed of dog: Pit bull-mix (4) Relationship to dog: Non-family.
    Sex of dog: Mixed Owner of dog: Ownerless.
    Spay/Neuter: Unknown Multiple dogs: Yes
    On/Off property: Off Criminal charges: No.

58. In the last thirty years pit bulls have killed 241 humans and disfigured another 1,302 (that we’re aware of). Fully half of these casualties, 126 of the fatalities and 640 of the disfigurements, have occurred in the last five years. That amounts to an average of 25 pit bull canine homicides of humans a year, or a death every two weeks.

59. Here is a comment from a pit bull fan club forum that really caught my eye. First they are telling me pibbles are perfect pet, but then we have a clause that they have to be supervised at all times when around everyone else…….

    Eg: I love pit bulls, they are wonderful dogs. They are very protective of their family members, especially children. But, they should always be safely contained when their adult masters are not present.

    A babysitter, even if the dog knows them well, is never fully in charge of a house containing a Pit bull. You never know what a dog will consider as a threat.

    Even with the most calm, loving and adoring Pit bull, reprimanding a child could turn deadly in an instant. Assure the health and safety of both dog and sitter, contain your Pit bull before you leave…

60. I don’t know why they all carry on about the Pits killed by BSL. There are hundreds of thousands more pits killed by not having BSL under the system they support.

    These Nutters have supported mass genocide for years with their inaction and promotion of the breed.

    Considering they grandfather Pitbulls out when BSL is introduced, she should be mad at those who deliberately break the LAW and bring an illegal dog into a BSL community knowing the dog may be destroyed by LAW. They will never take responsibility for the suffering they inflict on the Pitbull breed with their misguided advocacy.

    They keep looking for someone to shift the blame onto, Pitbulls suffer because of them, not because of any other reason. Sadly, they don’t have the ability to see the big picture or their own complicity in the suffering of the breed they supposedly love.

    They are like drug addicts blaming everyone else for their addiction, until they take responsibility for the suffering they have created, the breed will continue to suffer.

61. 10 – 26 – 2013
    Barbara Kay

    It Should be Pit Bull BEWARE-ness Day
    On October 26, the Montreal SPCA and Pit Stop Montreal are celebrating “National Pit Bull Awareness Day.”

    Pit bulls may seem like an odd topic for a conservative journal, but as the (now) old saying goes, “the personal is political,” and nothing that affects our emotional lives in this heavily politicized world is exempt from the rule.

    Anyone who owns a dog, or knows someone who does, understands that dog attachment can be a deeply emotional phenomenon. And one of the most emotionally-charged issues in the canine world today is fuelled by an ideology I call multicaninism because it springs in spirit from the ideology of multiculturalism, and is peddled by a well-organized political advocacy movement.

    The crux of the ideology was enunciated in a remark by Alanna Devine, Director of Animal Advocacy at the Montreal SPCA in the press release detailing the events of National Pit Bull Awareness Day.

    Ms Devine states, “All dogs, no matter their appearance or heritage, are individuals and deserving of love and compassion.” If you took out the word “dogs” in that statement and substituted the word “children,” the statement would be both true and laudatory.

    But as it stands, it is a lie. Unless they are mongrels – and in this context, they are not, Ms Devine is warming up for her pitch to rehome pit bull type dog breeds specifically—dogs are not individuals in the same sense that human beings are.

    Human beings breed randomly. As line-bred, artificial constructs, dogs are bred to conform to a stereotype in which specific, predictable traits express themselves.

    Genetics play an enormous role in dog breeding and, once bred in, dominant characteristics are notoriously difficult to breed out. Greyhounds were bred for speed, and even the slowest greyhound is faster than the fastest bloodhound. Moreover, like all breed dogs, greyhounds take pleasure in doing what their physical nature suits them for.

    Pit bull type dogs—like the American Staffordshire, for example, whose neutral name belies the fact that he is genetically 100% pit bull—are endowed with a genetic trait called “impulsive aggression,” and have never been bred for anything but inflicting pain on other animals and humans.

    Their typical attack mode is relentless, their instinct to inflict massive damage with little regard for pain incurred in the attack. They are genetically programmed to seek opportunities to exercise their impulse to fight.

    Which is why dog fighters will not use any other breed of dog for their loathsome “sport”; no other breed of dog can be made to engage in fighting with such savagery.

    And it is also why, when you look at statistics, the rates of maulings, maimings, dismemberments and fatalities are so preposterously skewed to pit bull type dogs that any explanation other than genetics is simply untenable.

    Yet pit bulls, once a tiny fragment of the breed population in people’s homes, have over the last two decades risen dramatically in numbers. At about 6%, they are only surpassed in popularity by Labrador Retrievers.

    And as their popularity waxes, so too do the rates of maulings and killings. According to investigative reporter Merritt Clifton’s ongoing reports,1 the pit bull now represents 3000% the actuarial risk compared to other dogs. Hundreds of jurisdictions have banned them for that reason.

    All dog industry people know this, but in the last three decades, virtually all dog industry people have conspired to ignore that reality. The Montreal SPCA is typical of the shelter community in aggressively “pushing” pit bulls, marketing them as lovable family pets, even though pit bulls are five times more likely to kill a family member – usually a child – than all other breeds combined.

    Why the wilful blindness? The simple explanation is that when the pit bull was associated with white dog fighters – the Ku Klux Klan financed much of their operations through dog fighting – the breed was rightly feared, despised and shunned.

    But in the 1970s, as the KKK morphed into garden-variety gangs, members of the black criminal class took up the slack in dog fighting, as well as using the dogs to guard marijuana grow-ops and to intimidate people generally.

    Now white liberals had a problem. How could they despise a breed that was the darling of “racialized” youth? They couldn’t! So instead they embraced the pit bull as himself a victim of the same prejudice that afflicted blacks.

    The same theorists who gave us the canard that all cultures are equal in value, and any discrimination based in cultural judgment is unacceptable, projected this notion on to dogs.

    Pit bulls are to dogs what Blacks, natives, women and aboriginals are to multiculturalists: the Victim of a racializing, sexist, imperialist society. Read the pit bull advocacy movement literature, including academic theses by Phd candidates who are now flocking to the subject of the pit bull as a media victim, and you see words like “rights,” “racism,” “hate,” and “stereotyping,” words that are intellectually untenable in connection with creatures that emblemize the very word “stereotype.”

    And here are the trickle-down fruits of all that theorizing: humane shelters whose personnel know very well that pit bull type dogs present a high risk to other animals and humans, but are pushing them anyway. There is already a lot of blood on the humane movement’s hands, and if they do not own up to the reality of pit bull genetics, there will be much, much more.

    https://freedompress.ca/10262013_It-Should-be-Pit-Bull-BEWARE-ness-Day.php

62. Fatal Pit Bull Attacks
    Stop the Maulings
    A growing archive of U.S. fatal pit bull attacks dating back to 1858

    https://www.fatalpitbullattacks.com/

63. The total number of fatal and disfiguring attacks by all types of pit bull in the U.S. combined, Staffordshires included, came to just 103 in the eleven-year 1982-1992 time frame.

    The annual total reached 100 for the first time in 2003 (128), topped 100 twice more in the next three years, and has now risen for six consecutive years, from 74 in 2007 to 467 thus far in 2013.

64. Merritt Clifton Editor OF Animal People:

    Of the 4,558 dogs involved in fatal and disfiguring attacks on humans occurring in the U.S. & Canada since September 1982, when I began logging the data, 2,923 (64%) were pit bulls; 541 were Rottweilers; 3,696 were of related molosser breeds, including pit bulls, Rottweilers, mastiffs, boxers, and their mixes.

    Of the 523 human fatalities, 269 were killed by pit bulls; 84 were killed by Rottweilers; 392 (75%) were killed by molosser breeds.

    Of the 2,593 people who were disfigured, 1,753 (67%) were disfigured by pit bulls; 319 were disfigured by Rottweilers; 2,169 (83%) were disfigured by molosser breeds.

    Pit bulls–exclusive of their use in dogfighting–also inflict about 10 times as many fatal and disfiguring injuries on other pets and livestock as on humans, a pattern unique to the pit bull class.

    Surveys of dogs offered for sale or adoption indicate that pit bulls and pit mixes are less than 6% of the U.S. dog population; molosser breeds, all combined, are 9%.

65. Ryan Maxwell
    7-years old | Galesburg, IL.

    Ryan Maxwell, 7-years old, was attacked and killed by a pit bull while visiting family friends at a home on Whiting Avenue. Ryan had spent the previous night at the home. At the time of the attack, the boy had been playing in the backyard. Investigators believe the dog was tethered before the attack, but broke free. When police arrived, the pit bull was still clamped onto the boy’s neck.

    After police “disengaged” the dog, the animal was shot to death to prevent additional attacks. The boy was transported to Cottage Hospital where he later died from his injuries. The owner of the pit bull, Ashiya Ferguson, said she tried everything she could to get the dog off the boy, including beating the dog with a shovel. “I couldn’t stop it. I couldn’t stop it.” Ferguson repeated in anguish after the attack.

    She vowed to never own another pit bull again. In June, authorities announced that no charges would be filed. According to Knox County Assistant State’s Attorney Elisa Tanner, there was no evidence that a crime occurred.
    [source citations]Date of death: March 2, 2013.
    Chained: No
    Breed of dog: Pit bull Relationship to dog: Non-family.
    Sex of dog: Male Owner of dog: Family friend.
    Spay/Neuter: Unknown Multiple dogs: No
    On/Off property: On Criminal charges: No.

    Daxton Borchardt
    14-months old | Walworth, WI.

    Daxton Borchardt, 14-months old, was savagely mauled by his babysitter’s two pit bulls while under her care. Susan Iwicki, 30-years old, was babysitting the boy at her home on North Lakeshore Drive when her two pit bulls attacked. Iwicki called 911 stating that she and the boy were under attack by her two dogs.

    Capt. Dana Nigbor said that a deputy arrived at the attack scene just minutes after the call, which occurred outdoors. The deputy discovered Daxton in one of the rooms of Iwicki’s home. The toddler was fully naked and lying motionless on his back on the floor in a puddle of blood. He was barely alive. Daxton was transported to a hospital then airlifted to Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin with critical injuries.

    He died less than 3-hours later. Both pit bulls, each 3-years old and sterilized, were removed from the home and euthanized. No criminal charges against the babysitter are pending.
    [source citations]Date of death: March 6, 2013.
    Chained: No
    Breed of dog: Pit bull (2) Relationship to dog: Non-family.
    Sex of dog: Mixed Owner of dog: Babysitter.
    Spay/Neuter: Yes Multiple dogs: Yes
    On/Off property: On Criminal charges: No.

    Monica Laminack
    21-months old | Ellabelle, GA.

    Monica Laminack, 21-months old, was mauled to death by a pack of family pit bulls in the backyard of her home. Authorities believe Monica crawled through a doggie door unnoticed and was attacked — the dogs lived both inside and outside the home. A 911 call at 6:36 pm reported the girl’s grandmother woke up from a nap after hearing dogs barking, looked out the back window and saw the attack happening.

    She and other family members rushed outside to pull the dogs off the toddler, but it was too late. Bryan County Sheriff Clyde Smith said that when EMS arrived on scene the child’s body was already cold, indicating she had been dead for awhile. Authorities believe Monica was attacked at about 6 pm, a half hour before the 911 call.

    The child’s 18-year old mother, Summer Laminack, two adult relatives and two young boys were inside the home during the mauling. Summer was subsequently charged with second-degree cruelty to children.
    [source citations]Date of death: March 27, 2013.
    Chained: No
    Breed of dog: Pit bull (7) Relationship to dog: Family.
    Sex of dog: Mixed Owner of dog: Family.
    Spay/Neuter: Unknown Multiple dogs: Yes
    On/Off property: On Criminal charges: Yes.

    Tyler Jett
    7-years old | Callaway, FL.

    Tyler Jett, 7-years old, was brutally attacked by two pit bull-mix dogs while playing in the front yard of his home on April 2. Tyler was flown to Scared Heart Medical Center in Pensacola with life-threatening injuries. The boy suffered a punctured carotid artery and his head, face and neck were badly bitten. The two dogs, owned by Edward Daniels II, 21-years old, escaped their owner’s fenced-in property prior to attacking.

    Several days earlier, Daniels had been cited for allowing his dogs to run free and terrorize neighbors. Daniels was charged with a felony count of tampering with evidence; he washed the blood off the face and paws of one of the dogs after the attack. Tyler did not regain consciousness while in intensive care. He died five days after the attack.

    Authorities subsequently upgraded the charges against Daniels to manslaughter. On August 29, 2013, a jury found Daniels guilty of manslaughter after two hours of deliberating.
    [source citations]Date of death: April 7, 2013.
    Chained: No
    Breed of dog: Pit bull-mix (2) Relationship to dog: Non-family.
    Sex of dog: Unknown Owner of dog: Neighbor.
    Spay/Neuter: Unknown Multiple dogs: Yes
    On/Off property: Off Criminal charges: Yes.

    Claudia Gallardo
    38-years old | Stockton, CA.

    Claudia Gallardo, 38-years old, was mauled to death by a “big, nasty pit bull,” according to Sgt. Tom Rees of the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies received a report of a dog mauling in east Stockton about 8:20 pm. When deputies arrived, they found a woman in the driveway of a residence with massive wounds.

    She was pronounced dead on the scene. Neighbors said the same pit bull, named Russia, had been terrorizing the area for months. The owner of the dog, Brian Hrenko, was away when the attack occurred. His female roommate was home. She alleged the victim jumped over the front fence and claimed to be there to clean the house when the dog attacked.

    After being detained and questioned by police, Hrenko admitted that the victim had been to his home at least once before and had interacted well with his dog. As of April 25, 2013 there have been no additional updates. [source citations]Date of death: April 11, 2013.
    Chained: No
    Breed of dog: Pit bull Relationship to dog: Non-family.
    Sex of dog: Male Owner of dog: Property owner.
    Spay/Neuter: Unknown Multiple dogs: No
    On/Off property: On Criminal charges: No.

66. The Telegraph News
    The time is up for deadly dogs
    MIRANDA DEVINE THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AUGUST 07, 2013

    EVERY time a mere human is killed or mauled by a pit bull-type dog, all the professional apologists line up to declare: “It’s not the breed, it’s the deed”.

    It’s the same mantra spewed by the gun lobby after every massacre in the US: “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people”.

    Rubbish. The horrible death this week of two-year old Deeon Higgins in Deniliquin has to mark the end of the line for dangerous dog breeds as household “pets”.

    Deeon had just stepped outside his grandmother’s back door to get an icecream from an outdoor freezer when his 24-year-old cousin’s bull mastiff cross attacked him. For more than 15 minutes.

    Deeon’s frantic grandmother Joyce Higgins, and then his mother, Vicki Higgins, tried in vain to save him. But he died in Deniliquin hospital of “serious head and facial injuries”.

    You can only shudder.

    Pit bull-type dogs are inherently dangerous.

    They are responsible for a disproportionately large share of the most serious dog attacks, and yet politicians continue to bow to the dog lobby. Enough. A dangerous dog is a weapon which can be every bit as lethal as a gun.

    It’s time for a “dog buyback”, similar to John Howard’s gun buyback. There can be an amnesty of a few weeks before the owner of every pit bull, or similar vicious breed, is required to relinquish their dogs to the local council.

    They can then choose a safer breed from the tens of thousands waiting for a new home in pounds and animal shelters. The owner can be recompensed by the taxpayer for the small costs incurred. The dangerous breed is then humanely put to sleep, while a dog on death row is saved.

    A life for a life, you might call it.

    Those owners who choose not to relinquish their dogs should be subject to draconian laws, including mandatory manslaughter if anyone is killed by their animal.

    “Kingston”, was a 57kg bull mastiff cross. We don’t know what it was crossed with, but a bull mastiff is a big powerful breed considered akin to a pit pull because it is has been bred for the same aggressive traits and muscular, stocky build.

    Pit bull is a term generally used for the American pit bull terrier, American Staffordshire terrier and Staffordshire bull terrier. Along with similar breeds, they pose a clear and present danger to humans.

    For instance, in May, jogger Rob Nelson, 49, was savagely mauled by three American Staffordshire Terriers in Liverpool. When paramedics arrived, his heart was visible through his wounds, his abdomen was “hanging out”, his bicep had been eaten and his armpit had been ripped out. He only survived because of the intervention of bystanders.

    The dog’s owner is due in court later this month, to face a charge of owning an attacking dog, which carries a paltry maximum fine of $5500.

    In nearby East Hills last October, a 19-year-old man had his ear bitten off by two American Staffordshire terriers as he walked his dog down the street.

    In 2011 District Court Judge Michael Elkaim described two pit bull-type dogs that killed four-year-old Tyra Kuehne as “trained killers”. He awarded Tyra’s family $120,000 in damages after they sued Warren Shire Council for negligence. S adly, the Court of Appeal overturned the decision.

    In 2005, after three such attacks, then premier Bob Carr lashed pitbulls as “killing machines on a leash”, but stopped short of banning them.

    He declared certain pit bull-type breeds “restricted”, which means they cannot be imported, or bred and should be desexed, muzzled in public, and live in a secure enclosure.

    The idea was that they would die out and, hey presto, problem solved.

    But, almost a decade later, dangerous breeds are still killing and maiming people.

    Now Barry O’Farrell isn’t even trying to sound tough, saying dog owners need to be more responsible. Sure, but plenty aren’t.

    Compare O’Farrell’s response to that of Victorian Premier Denis Napthine, who is also a vet, and is planning a crackdown on after four-year-old Ayen Chol was mauled to death by a neighbour’s pit bull.

    “Let’s get rid of American pit bulls. They’re just bred for attacking and they can do enormous damage,” he said.

    Unfortunately, in NSW the Australian Veterinary Association view holds sway, that it is the “deed not the breed” and that breed-specific legislation is illogical.

    But there’s plenty of evidence to dispute that view.

    For instance, a paper in the Annals Of Surgery journal in 2011, found: “Attacks by pit bulls are associated with higher morbidity rates, higher hospital charges and a higher risk of death than are attacks by other breeds of dogs”.

    A study in the Plastic And Reconstructive Surgery journal found more than half the serious dog bites treated over five years at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia were pit bulls.

    Celebrity vet Dr Robert Zammit, of Vineyard Veterinary Hospital, near Windsor, admitted on ABC radio yesterday that: “Certain breeds are worse than others Certain breeds are very sharp and apt to attack.”

    He also said that any dog “in a bad situation, can attack,” and that no child under 12 should be left alone with a dog.

    Sensible advice, but sometimes children wander, and sometimes dogs escape. We need to minimise the risk.

    So, if 1000 pit bulls have to die, that’s a small price to pay to save one child.

    https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/lets-destroy-these-deadly-animals-once-and-for-all/story-fni0cwl5-1226692411504?sv=b997409ce77b0e4184fa789e939afbca#.UgGR0VdFMBs.facebook

67. A pit bull BSL works EVERYWHERE it is useful in almost eliminating all serious dog attacks that maim, disfigure, dismember, maul, cripple.
    or kill, this is a simply proven fact in all cases.The number of pit bulls is dramatically reduced as are the numbers of them put to death.

    The need to have BSL is to have a preemptive capability to avoid a pit bull attack from happening due to it’s extremely savage consequences.

    It is enacted against all pit bulls as they all have the genetic DNA propensity to carry out these horrific attacks that are non existent in 99% of all other breeds, ban the breed and you ban the deed, simple as that.

    Dealing with an attack after the fact is simply not acceptable due to the horrific nature of said attacks.

    With any other breed other then Rottweiler’s, wolf hybrids and Akita’s and a few others in very small numbers it is not a naturally genetic reality for them to carry out such horrifying attacks.

    Hence they need to be dealt with in an aggressive reactive modality where all of the breed are not looked on as one but rather based on the actions of the individual misbehaving dog.

    This can be done in a very aggressive proactive manner so that as soon as a dog like a lab lets say starts behaving inappropriately severe consequences can be brought to bare on the owner and their dog in an escalating manner as needed to deal with a situation that has developed.

    This duel track approach can deal with the pits issue as other normal dog breeds can be dealt with as well so vicious dogs of other mainstream breeds are also held accountable for their actions.

    There should be mandatory Spay/Neuter programs for all breeds but clearly the one that needs it the most and where the most change would be effected would be with the Pit Bull type dog.

68. An Ox be a Mutant Undog pit bull type dog by another name……………..works for me, this should be the outcome for all pit bull type dogs and pit nutter owners, we should include this in the next proposed BSL here, there and everywhere.

    28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

    29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

    https://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/exo021.htm

69. Beyond the Interview: Father of Child Killed by Babysitter’s Pit Bulls Speaks Out After Attack ‘Believing the Myth is What Left Us Without a Son’

    https://blog.dogsbite.org/2013/07/beyond-the-interview-essay-of-a-fatal-pit-bull-mauling.html

70. Country’s, Cities, county’s, Provinces, Military Services & Towns where Pit Bulls type Dogs are Banned or severely restricted:

    https://www.scribd.com/doc/56495216/Estimated-U-S-Cities-Counties-States-and-Military-Facilities-with-Breed-Specific-Pit-Bull-Laws

71. The truth about The American Veterinary Medical Association’s position on pit bull sterilization and animal welfare issues.

    The AVMA position against legislation to mandate sterilization of pit bulls is subsumed within the assertion that, “Banning specific breeds to control dog bite injuries ignores the scope and nature of the problem and is unlikely to protect a community’s citizens.” This claim is, first of all, blatantly false.

    In truth, the few large U.S. cities which prohibit or restrict possession of pit bulls have had markedly fewer dog attack fatalities and disfigurements over the past 30 years than any others of comparable size. Also of note is that these cities––San Francisco, Denver, Miami, and New York City––impound and kill just a fraction as many pit bulls as those without breed-specific laws.

    Bluntly put, the AVMA appears to oppose breed-specific legislation by way of pandering to the same “fanciers” who popularized “cosmetic” surgeries and were long a big part of many veterinarians’ clientele, even if they didn’t have many dogs neutered.

    Though dogs have bred prolifically without human help since long before the rise of human civilization, canine obstetrics has become a lucrative branch of the veterinary industry, for example because dogs often need help to birth breeds with disproportionately large heads.

    https://www.animalpeoplenews.org/anp/2013/04/18/editorial-feature-horse-doctoring-the-ethical-evolution-of-veterinarians/

72. Orlando Sentinel
    Saturday, May 25, 2013
    Letters to the Editor: Banning pit bulls
    May 25, 2013

    Banning pit bulls
    Regarding the Front Burner guest columns: “Should communities ban pit bulls?” in Friday’s Sentinel:

    The origin of domestic dogs is wolves and DNA-similar beasts. Intentional cross-breeding and selective breeding created the domestic dog of today, including the pit bull. That is to say, any living nonsterile dog can reproduce with any other nonsterile dog, regardless of its breed-specific title — including wolves.

    Other beasts have evolved in nature over the millennia. Consider poisonous snakes, big cats or the many reptilian species. Would we want such creatures living among a civilized society? Of course not.

    Thus, the argument against breed-specific regulations is phony. To say that there is no such breed as a pit bull is also phony. Civilized people know what a pit bull dog is. To deny their existence is sheer ignorance.

    Pit bulls should be banned from civilized society. It is just common sense.
    William H. Overbay Howey-in-the-Hills

73. The Front Burner: Banning pit bulls saves lives and protects the innocent.
    By Colleen Lynn Guest columnist
    May 24, 2013

    Whether to ban pit bulls is a human health and safety issue that should be steered by health and safety officials. Public safety is not the profession of animal advocates. Thus, public policy coming from animal advocates concerning protecting humans from pit bulls is fundamentally flawed.

    So far this year, 13 of the 14 Americans who have been killed by dogs — 93 percent — were killed by pit bulls and pit mixes. This is well above the average of 60 percent from 2005 to 2012.

    As the pit bull population rises, more human fatalities ensue. During the last eight-year period that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied fatal attacks by breed (1991 to 1998), pit bulls were estimated at 1 percent of the U.S. dog population. Pit bulls killed an average of three people per year.

    The pit bull population has since grown to 4 percent. During the most recent eight-year period (2005-12), pit bulls killed an average of 19 people per year.

    Miami-Dade County, which banned pit bulls in 1989, has avoided this loss of life. Other Florida counties — prohibited by state law from regulating dogs by breed — continue to experience deaths and disfigurements due to pit bulls. Since 1989, 18 Florida citizens have been killed by pit bulls — none within Miami-Dade.

    The threat from pit bulls results from the combination of the animals’ inclination to attack without warning — an essential trait of fighting dogs — and the type of injuries that pit bulls typically inflict.

    Most dogs bite and retreat, but pit bulls have a hold-and-shake bite style, and tenaciously refuse to stop an attack once begun.

    Often a pit bull releases its grip only when dead — the trait dog fighters describe as being “dead game.”

    Ban opponents often blame dismembering and fatal attacks on environmental factors, such as neglect. That, unfortunately, is the plight of too many dogs of all breeds, not just those who kill and maim.

    Opponents also fail to distinguish dog-bite-injury severity. They argue that bans “do not reduce all dog bites.” Of the 4.7 million Americans bitten by dogs each year, 9,500 require hospitalization for severe dog-bite injuries. The most extreme injury level, mauling injury, requires life-saving procedures at trauma centers.

    The purpose of a pit bull ban is to eradicate mauling injuries and deaths inflicted by pit bulls, the breed involved in more than half of all severe and mauling attacks.

    Since 1986, 18 appellate decisions have upheld lower-court findings that pit bulls are more dangerous than other dog breeds.

    Since 1988, four peer-reviewed studies published in leading medical journals have reviewed the severity of pit bull injury. “Mortality, Mauling and Maiming by Vicious Dogs,” published in the Annals of Surgery in 2011, concluded the following:

    “Attacks by pit bulls are associated with higher morbidity rates, higher hospital charges, and a higher risk of death than are attacks by other breeds of dogs. Strict regulation of pit bulls may substantially reduce the U.S. mortality rates related to dog bites.”

    In April 2012, the highest court in Maryland declared pit bulls “inherently dangerous,” altering common law pertaining to pit bull attacks. Pit bulls are prima facia dangerous in Maryland and held to a strict liability standard. In instances of a tenant’s pit bull attacking, this liability extends to the landlord. The court cited the entire abstract of the 2011 Annals of Surgery study in its opinion.

    Influential pit bull advocates have supported regulation in the past and are doing so now. On its Facebook page, the Villalobos Rescue Center, founded by Tia Torres of Animal Planet’s Pit Bulls & Parolees — expressed support for a proposal in Louisiana on the heels of a mutilating attack on a woman by her own pit bulls.

    It is time for Florida pit bull advocacy groups to follow suit.

    Colleen Lynn is the founder of DogsBite.org, a national dog-bite victims’ group dedicated to reducing serious dog attacks.

74. Pulling our chain with pit-pull charm charade

    The Lowell Sun
    05/07/2013

    One group’s campaign to portray pit bulls as just another lovable pet took its dog-without-pony show to Lowell on Sunday, hoping to charm citizens of a city who apparently know better.

    BSL Awareness Walks, an organization that touts itself as “responsible pit-bull owners,” hoped that a 90-minute stroll through Lowell with their tethered animals would convince people to shed those unwarranted “stereotypes” associated with that breed. By the way, the “BSL” in the the group’s name stands for “breed-specific legislation.”

    That’s something our state Legislature struck down in 2012, which voided Lowell’s 2011 initiative designed to do just that. A city ordinance had required pit-bull owners to spay or neuter their dog, register it with the city clerk’s office, keep the dog on a leash when off the owner’s property, and require the wearing of a muzzle or be secured in a temporary enclosure.

    The council’s initiative was in reaction to a series of pit-bull attacks and the concern of overpopulation.

    However, our state lawmakers opted to protect the civil rights of dogs over the public-safety of humans, apparently assuming that pit bulls indeed were getting a bad rap.

    But the truth serves as a viable defense against libel or slander — something the BSLers and Statehouse gang apparently didn’t consider.

    A series of findings, compiled by DogsBite.org, a national dog-bite victims’ group, should lead any level-headed

    individual to an obvious conclusion:
    * From 2005 to 2012, two dog breeds accounted for 73 percent of the dog attacks that resulted in death: pit bulls and rottweilers.

    * More that 600 U.S. cities have adopted breed-specific laws since the mid-1980s, coinciding with the popularity of pit bulls as pets.

    * Several countries, including Great Britain, regulate dangerous dog breeds with breed-specific laws. One of the four breeds specifically mentioned in Great Britain’s Dangerous Dogs Act of 1991 is the pit-bull terrier.

    So, aside from personal experience, there’s plenty of evidence to suggest why the average citizen would feel threatened by this particular dog breed.

    And it’s going to take more than a pitbulls-on-parade road show and misguided politicians on Beacon Hill to change that perception.

    Read more:https://www.lowellsun.com/opinion/ci_23188037/pulling-our-chain-pit-pull-charm-charade#ixzz2TC4fa3MJ

75. Pitbull attacks owner
    By Gary Hamilton-Irvine, 27th Apr 2013 9:00 AM
    A Rotorua man was attacked by his 2-year-old American pitbull.

    A Rotorua man who has been praised for the caring way he raised his dog has been attacked by his own pitbull.

    The owner suffered severe injuries to his hand after his 2-year-old American pitbull lunged at him last weekend.

    The man, who had raised the dog since it was two weeks old, was sitting down at home when the dog growled and attacked him. The owner managed to get free and ran outside, slamming a gate between himself and the animal.

    Rotorua District Council animal control supervisor Kevin Coutts said when attacks of this kind cropped up there was usually something behind the attack. However, he said this case was different, raising a serious concern for dog owners.

    He said he would often check the condition of an aggressive dog and see it did not have appropriate care, exercise or was simply ill-treated.

    “But this dog had none of those. The condition of the dog was excellent. It had been well looked after, almost babied, and it was extremely well fed and exercised.

    “The owner, apart from not having the dog registered, was a very, very good dog owner.”

    He said the dog owner had even bottle fed the pitbull as a pup.

    “A lot of people will say dogs will only bite because of the environment they have been living in, and that may be the case in the majority of attacks. But in this case the owner ticked all the boxes and still got attacked by his own dog.”

    Mr Coutts said all dogs were capable of biting and owners needed to be more aware of the signs of aggression.

    “Always be aware that every dog can bite,” he said. “[And if they are aggressive] ask for professional help because there are a lot of dog trainers out there.”

    He said one of the worst things you could do was try and discipline your dog by kicking it or hurting it.

    He said the American pitbull was put down on Monday.

    The dog owner said he was gutted his dog was put down.

    https://www.rotoruadailypost.co.nz/news/pitbull-attacks-owner/1846390/

76. Toronto November 14, 2011
    Pit Bull Bites Down More Than 90% In Toronto
    By Dave Trafford Global News

    I know liars figure and figures lie, but the latest numbers from the City of Toronto make it pretty clear that breed bans and muzzle bylaws have put a major dent in the number of dog bite incidents over the past five years.

    For those of you new to the game, Michael Bryant was our Attorney General here in Ontario and the political muscle behind a 2005 province wide ban on breeding or buying Pit Bulls. Otherwise, you had to muzzle your Pit Bull and Terriers when they were out for a public stroll. All of this happened in the face of increased complaints about dog biting attacks.

    Since then, Pit Bull bites in Toronto have dropped from 71 in 2005 to six in 2010. My weak math says that’s about a 92 percent dip.

    A freedom of information request by globalnews.ca shows the number of bites reported to Toronto Public Health has declined dramatically. The stats also suggest the number of “legal” pit bulls has dropped almost in half. Not all that surprising, when it’s illegal to buy or breed the dogs.

    That’s not to say everybody’s buying our story.

    New Democrat MPP Cheri Di Novo tells Global’s Laura Zilke, “Toronto humane society did a study – a far-reaching study. They covered four years, this was five years after the bill was passed – and they found absolutely no difference.” But there are two things to consider here. First, the humane society was bent on opposing the ban and ignoring the attacks from the word go.

    Second, Di Novo’s trying to spin this into a political issue rather than a matter of community safety. We got these numbers from Toronto’s Public Health department. No spin. No political axe to grind. So…maybe…just maybe…Michael Bryant was more than a little bit right when he banned Pit Bulls.

77. This is based on actuary proof that mutants are different, violently do different and cause violently different outcomes compared to almost all other breeds hence their policy change based on facts, stats, and truths about the pit bull and the other breeds banned, they are saying in effect it is not the owner, they are all raised like other dogs and it is the Breed.

    Farmers Insurance no longer covering dog bites for certain breeds
    Owners of pit bulls, rottweilers and wolf hybrids asked to sign waivers

    Feb 11, 2013

    Farmers Insurance no longer covering dog bites for certain breeds

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) —A recent change in the Farmers Insurance policy is surprising many dog owners: The company is no longer providing liability coverage for dog bite claims when it comes to three breeds — pit bulls, rottweilers or wolf hybrids.

    “They didn’t send me a notice. My agent didn’t call me,” said Dawn Capp, who owns two pit bulls and learned about the change from a friend. “They are discriminating against me and my dogs, not based on our individual responsibility level or risk level, but just because my dog happens to look a certain way.”

    Erin Freeman, the chief communications officer for Farmers, told KCRA 3 the company is not canceling policies.

    Rather, she said, since mid-January, Farmers agents have been requiring customers to sign an exclusion waiver of liability coverage for the dog bites.

    Without the signature, the policy would not be renewed.

    “These breeds accounted for 25 percent of dog bite claims,” Freeman said in a statement. “In addition, these breeds cause more harm when they attack than any other breed.”

    Nicole Mahrt Ganley, of the Association of California Insurance companies, advises dog owners to explore the policies of different insurance companies.

    “Insurance companies have to manage their book of business. So, if they’ve seen an increase in claims from dog liability of certain breeds, they may decide (they’re) not going to cover that as much,” she said.

    Capp decided to switch to a company whose policy would cover her dogs — and argued there’s a better way for Farmers to do business.

    “Look at the individual owner. I think that would be a better risk assessment. Do they do obedience training?” she said. “Look at the dog in general, not the breed.”

    Freeman said Farmers is one of the last companies to make this policy change.

    According to the Insurance Information Institute, dog-bite claims paid out by all insurers in 2011 totaled $92.7 million for 2,400 claims in California.

78. National Post
    Barbara Kay: The attraction of killer dogs as retail pitchmen
    13/03/21

    There’s a reason corporations spend a fortune on their logos. “Branding” that captivates the public with instant, sympathetic recognition is the holy grail of merchandising.

    Animal mascots have proven very successful props in marketing all kinds of products, from insurance (the Geiko lizard) to cereal (Kelloggs’s Tony the Tiger) to web browsers (Firefox) to mattresses (Serta’s flying sheep).

    The common thread in the examples above is that they deliver on their task of creating positive brand recognition, but their popularity hasn’t resulted in a rush to acquire lizards, tigers, foxes or sheep as domestic pets.

    Before Michael Vick was imprisoned in 2007 for dogfighting, about half the dogs shot by police were pit bulls; post-Michael Vick, it’s about 85%.
    That’s not the case with dog mascots. People often acquire puppies or dogs on impulse. As we know from dog-buying trends, a successful product aligned with a particular breed of dog can have an enormous effect.

    Remember Nipper the dog listening to “his master’s voice” coming out of the first gramophone trumpet? It was probably the most successful dog-associated ads ever (the initials HMV come from the trope). You can be sure that dog was responsible for many thousands of people running out to buy their very own “Nipper.”

    For a more contemporary example, Taco Bell’s Gidget, their Chihuahua mascot introduced in 1994, proved immensely successful commercially, and created a run on Chihuahuas as pets, a breed that had never been popular before in America.

    While Taco Bell is a magnet fast food franchise for families, however, the Chihuahua is not a particularly good choice as a family dog. They are irritable and can be nippy. Their tiny size usually (not always) precludes them doing extensive damage, but who wants an aggressive dog of any size when little kids tend to put their fingers and faces near a dog’s mouth?

    And that brings us to retail giant Target Stores, recently arrived in Canada (here in Quebec we pronounce it Tarzhay, of course) and their branding mascot, Bullseye, a miniature Bull Terrier, with Target Corporation’s bullseye logo painted around his left eye.

    Why, I ask myself, would Target have chosen for its mascot a canine representative of the fighting breeds that are all genetically programmed for taking pleasure in inflicting a maximum of pain for the maximum of time on other animals and humans?

    Mascots are sometimes long pondered; sometimes they are the accidental inspiration of the moment. It could be that Bullseye was the end of a long process of deliberation, or it could simply be that the head of Target’s marketing department is a bull terrier fancier himself. Whatever, it was a bad choice.

    English Bull terriers are not pit bulls, but they are members of the same fighting cluster, and have been used for bear and bull baiting (still are in Pakistan). They are associated, rightly, with violence, dogfighting and criminality.

    I’ve submitted many statistics on pit bull attacks in the past, and I won’t rehearse them anew for this column. I can point any interested readers who contact me to my sources for previous columns. But here are some newly-discovered statistics I have gleaned via Merritt Clifton, editor of Animal People News, that I haven’t reported before:

    · Since January, 2005, police in the U.S. have shot 305 dogs. Of them 216 (71%) were pit bulls (pit bulls represent about 3% of the U.S. dog population). Keep in mind that police are only called out when human intervention in a dog fight or attack is considered too risky or has already incurred harm to those who have intervened;

    · Before Michael Vick was imprisoned in 2007 for dogfighting, about half the dogs shot by police were pit bulls; post-Michael Vick, it’s about 85%, which suggests that revelations of Vick’s kennel of horrors actually increased the desire to own these high-risk, unpredictable dogs.

    The bottom line is, and what’s important for Target Corporation to understand, is that their cute mascot will be responsible for many thousands of acquisitions of bull terriers and other pit bull type dogs. They will be acquired because people are not only impulsive, they are so sentimental about dogs, as the Vick case shows, that they are often impervious to rational discourse and statistics, remaining wilfully, even self-righteously ignorant about the genetically programmed nature of the dogs they welcome into their homes.

    I have no illusions that Target Corporation will change course midstream when Bullseye is proving such a commercial success. But I hope I have provided kibble for thought for other responsible corporations considering dog mascots in branding their enterprise.

79. Are pit bulls the problem, or their owners?

    Pit bulls are back in the news in Broward, although I’d like to see them banned rather than be in the news.

    But that won’t happen, even though county commissioner Barbara Sharief would like to see the state give Broward permission to ban pit bulls.

    Won’t happen. Miami-Dade is the only county in the state that bans pit bulls, and that happened before the state said breed-specific legislation was a no-no. That won’t change now.

    Instead, we’ll get the usual rhetoric about how it’s not the dog that’s the problem, it’s irresponsible owners.

    While it’s true that irresponsible pit bulls owners are a part of the problem, you don’t see people yelling about irresponsible owners of cocker spaniels. Because it is the DOG that’s the main problem.

    You hear the same thing from gun nuts – it’s not the gun, it’s the person behind the gun that’s the problem. Sorry, the GUN is the problem. Just like the pit bull is the problem.

    Pit bulls have no place in an urban area like Broward. If I had a small child, I wouldn’t want him walking anywhere near a neighbor walking a pit bull. And no way would I let him hang out in a home that had a pit bull.

    But don’t worry, pit bull lovers. You’ll still keep your dogs And you can still whine that it’s the owner, not the dog.

    In fact, you can come up with other slogans that gun lovers love.

    Maybe “When pit bulls are outlawed, only outlaws will have pit bulls.”

    Just don’t tell me the gibberish that the owner is the main problem. It’s the dog. Just ask somebody who has been mauled.

80. L.A. NOW
    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — THIS JUST IN
    Lancaster’s dog ordinance is cited in helping to drive down gang crime January 21, 2010

    A Lancaster ordinance imposing stiff penalties on owners of “potentially dangerous” and “vicious” dogs is reaping positive results, and may have even helped to drive down gang crime in the city, officials said.

    The law, adopted in January 2009, was primarily aimed at preventing gang members from using dogs, such as pit bulls and Rottweilers, to bully people or cause physical harm, officials said.
    City officials said that 1,138 pit bulls and Rottweilers were impounded last year by the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control. Of those, 362 were voluntarily surrendered by their owners in response to Lancaster’s ordinance.

    “A year ago, this city was overrun with individuals — namely, gang members — who routinely used pit bulls and other potentially vicious dogs as tools of intimidation and violence,” Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris said in a statement.

    “These individuals delighted in the danger these animals posed to our residents, often walking them without leashes and allowing them to run rampant through our neighborhoods and parks. Today, more than 1,100 of these animals have been removed from our city, along with the fear they create. Lancaster is now a great deal safer because of it.”

    Parris believes there is a correlation between the results of the dog ordinance and a drop in the city’s gang crime rate. Lancaster’s violent gang crime, which includes homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, fell by 45% last year, and there was a drop in overall gang crime by 41%, Parris said, citing statistics from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

    Under the dog ordinance, a hearing officer can deem a dog to be potentially dangerous, for example, if the animal becomes aggressive when unprovoked.

    The dog can be impounded, and the owner must have it properly licensed, implanted with a microchip and vaccinated at his own cost before the animal’s release.
    Dogs deemed to be vicious can be destroyed if they are determined to be a significant threat to public safety, according to the ordinance.

    It also requires owners of potentially dangerous dogs to ensure proper leashing and muzzling, complete a dog obedience training course, spay or neuter their animals, and pay a fine of up to $500 for each offense.

    Owners of dogs deemed to be vicious face fines of up to $1,000 per offense, and they could be prevented from possessing any dog for up to three years.

    Though city officials praise the dog law, some residents continue to challenge its fairness. They argue that “breed-specific” legislation is an injustice to canines, because irresponsible owners are to blame for a dog’s behavior, not the dog.

    — Ann M. Simmons

81. Barbara Kay: Delusional pitbull owners and their predictable denials.

    Barbara Kay | Jan 2, 2013 10:12 AM ET |.

    It’s happened again. In southeast Calgary on New Year’s Eve afternoon, three dogs savagely attacked two other dogs. Can you guess the breed of all three attacking dogs?

    Pit bulls, of course. Tip: anytime you read a story in which animals end up dead or needing to be euthanized after being attacked by a dog, or children being wounded seriously enough to need hospital attention, you’ll be right most of the time if you guess the attacking dog was a pit bull. Even though pit bulls only represent 3% of the dog population.

    In this case, Scott McDowell and his teenage children were walking their Pomeranian, Patrick, and their Great Pyrenees, Max, in an off-leash park — that is, a park meant specifically for dogs to socialize and exercise with other dogs — when they met up with Stephen Jaquish, walking three pit bulls on leashes.

    One was his own, the other two belonged to a friend. They attacked McDowell’s dogs, and could not be subdued. Patrick had to be euthanized; Max was badly injured. McDowell’s daughter needed stitches for a gash to the hand when she tried to intervene..

    It was reported that Jaquish was horrified, but “suggests his dogs were provoked.” He said: “[My] dog would never hurt anybody. She’s being deemed dangerous, but I think she was just protecting like any other dog would do.”.

    As surely as I would have predicted the breed of the attacking dogs, I would also have predicted this response. Just as their canine-shark pets are a breed apart from normal dogs, pit bull owners are themselves a human breed apart from other dog owners.

    Pit bull owners live in a dream palace, where all dogs are good, and when they are bad, it can be attributed only to bad ownership or the dogs being “provoked” by the animals or people they ravage. Never to genetics, never to the fact that pit bulls were bred for impulsive aggression of exactly this type.

    At a certain level, pit bull owners understand very well that their dogs are programmed for joy in fighting. They understand very well that when pit bulls attack, it is almost always suddenly and randomly, almost never defensively.

    But they can’t admit that. So when their pit bull lunges at a cat and bites its head off, they tell themselves this is the way it is with animals, even though it is rare for any other breed to kill any other animal for no reason. They tell themselves, for a real-life example, when their pit bull attacks and practically scalps a three-year old girl climbing out of a car, that the sudden opening of the car door was the trigger — in other words, the kid had it coming. It’s never the dog’s fault.

    Of course real dog fighting men have no such illusions. Dog fighters want pit bulls precisely because they are “game,” because they know that this is the only naturally aggressive breed that can be counted on to fight to the death. They’re not pets, they’re weapons. As the famous, revered, pit bull-loving dog whisperer Cesar Milan put it, when explaining why pit bulls cannot be treated like ordinary dogs:

    “This is a different breed … the power that comes behind bull dog, pit bull, presa canario, the fighting breed — They have an extra boost, they can go into a zone, they don’t feel the pain anymore. … So if you are trying to create submission in a fighting breed, it’s not going to happen.

    They would rather die than surrender. … If you add pain, it only infuriates them … to them pain is that adrenaline rush, they are looking forward to that, they are addicted to it. … That’s why they are such great fighters. … You’re going to have these explosions over and over because there’s no limits in their brain.”.

    Mr. Jaquish likely doesn’t want to know the statistics on pit bull attacks relative to other breeds. If he took seriously the fact that pit bulls or pit bull crosses were responsible for more than a third of dog bite related fatalities, or that in the first 8 months of 2011, nearly half of those killed by pit bulls were the dog’s owner, he might have to admit that he was putting his own children at special risk. He doesn’t want to go there.

    The dogs have been seized by Animal Services and will undergo “behaviour testing” to see if they can go back to their owner. What’s to test, dude? They’re pit bulls. They get “explosions” in their brains. Q.E.D.

    National Post

82. The Province, Vancouver B.C.
    Barbara Kay: Pit-bull owners are right. They are the problem
    October 24, 2012

    This Saturday in Tucson, Arizona, Pit Bull Awareness Day will commemorate the victims of dangerous dog attacks. It will be a heartfelt, but modest affair. Those sympathetic to the (mostly) children and elderly who have been mauled, maimed and killed by fighting dogs are not as well-funded or obsessive as those infatuated with the breed responsible for these tragedies.

    The pit bull advocacy movement (PBAM) never sleeps in its campaign to portray pit bulls and their close genetic kin as normal dogs unjustly maligned through media bias. In challenging breed bans, their spokespeople are well-versed in the discourse of civil and human rights (“racism,” “discrimination,” “profiling,” “genocide”). The result is widespread acceptance of the seductive dogma of “multicaninism”: There are no intrinsically dangerous breeds, just “bad owners.”

    Even brilliant thinkers are susceptible to this specious category crossover. Malcolm Gladwell’s pit bull defence in The New Yorker, later incorporated into his book, What the Dog Saw, argued that profiling dogs indirectly sanctions racial profiling. But to conflate line-bred dogs — the epitome of the eugenically constructed stereotype — with naturally evolved humans is intellectually untenable and insulting to African-Americans.

    Major dog-industry stakeholders — breeder associations, veterinarians’ associations and humane societies — all toe the multicaninist line, even though they know, and often privately acknowledge, that it is pit bull genetics — their inbred high prey instinct and impulsive aggression — rather than “bad owners” that account for a huge number of pit-bull euthanasias a year in North American shelters. A litany of “good owners” and their children, mauled or killed by their “loving” pit bulls, quashes the multicaninist mantra.

    Nevertheless, multicaninism is the prevailing wind in dog-policy sails. Edmonton’s councillors just voted to repeal their 25-year ban on pit bulls. And a private-member’s bill to repeal Ontario’s 2005 ban gathered bipartisan momentum before the House was prorogued last week.

    In his newly-published memoir, 28 Seconds, former Ontario attorney-general Michael Bryant says he enacted his province’s controversial 2005 pit-bull ban on principle: He was confident it would pay off in improved public safety and dramatically fewer dog euthanasias (it did, as all such bans do).

    The ban was international news. Bryant was vilified, threatened with violence and compared to Hitler on Facebook. (I sympathize; I also field Nazi tropes when I write about pit bulls.) Bryant writes: “The decision actually changed my political life. For years afterwards . . . the average person knew me as the guy who banned pit bulls.”

    What buoyed his spirits was grass-roots support. A poll reported the pit-bull ban was the most popular public event in Canada since Newfoundland premier Brian Tobin’s public spat with foreign fishing trawlers.

    It seems that when consulted, ordinary people would rather “offend” pit bulls than expose their children and pets to heightened risk. For example, Miami-Dade County recently endured a relentless PBAM onslaught in a referendum bid to repeal its 23-year-old pit-bull ban.

    The pro-ban population did little politicking. But PBAM spent a fortune on publicity, marshalling support from celebrity athletes and wooing compliant local media. It was quite a shock to them when their noisy repeal campaign was shot down in flames 63 to 37 per cent.

    According to longtime Animal People editor Merritt Clifton, pit bulls and Rottweilers are 11 times more likely to attack another animal or human than the average dog. Pit bulls have represented half the total actuarial risk for injury since 1982.
    Add in Rottweilers, he says, and it is 75 per cent of total actuarial risk.

    Since 1851, Clifton notes, in any given 10-year period, pit bulls alone have accounted for more than half of all fatal dog attacks in the U.S. and Canada, even though for most of that time they represented less than one per cent of the dog population. They are about three per cent today.

    The “domestic dog” is a species. But all dog breeds are artificial constructs. Since they were invented 200 years ago, pit bulls have never been bred for anything but blood “sport,” including hunting and savaging slaves. Their sole raison d’être is causing animal and human suffering. And therefore, those who are drawn to pit bulls above all other 400-plus breeds — apart from those naive souls who have been duped, and plenty have — are morally bound to interrogate their motivation in fetishizing this canine anomaly.

    It follows that those politicians charged with protecting the public, who see the numbers rising in pit-bull ownership with a concomitant rise in animal and human suffering, are morally bound to ignore anecdotal sentimentality and trickle-down political correctness alike in the creation of responsible dog laws.

    Barbara Kay is a columnist with the National Post.

83. Barbara Kay: Beauty queen becomes target of the pit bully lobby
    Barbara Kay | 12/09/06

    There used to be a time when beauty contests were only about beauty. Fortunately that all changed, and beauty queens today hold and express confidently strong opinions on how to make the world a better place.

    Indeed, the motto of the Miss World competition is “beauty with a purpose.” Canada’s Nazanin Afshin-Jam is a Canadian treasure in that respect, because she has used her 2003 Miss World Canada title effectively, and to great public approval, to further women’s rights under the misogynistic regime in Iran.

    But another Canadian beauty queen, who also wants to use her title to contribute to the public good, is presently under attack. More than 2,300 people have signed a petition, demanding that Sahar Biniaz be stripped of her title of Miss Universe Canada 2012.

    What controversial and offensive opinion has Ms. Biniaz expressed to receive such condemnation? Merely this: Ms. Biniaz has called for Breed Specific Legislation (BSL) to ban or severely restrict the movement of pit bulls in the province of British Columbia.

    Like many advocates of BSL, Ms. Biniaz arrived at her stand on pit bulls through lived experience. She was herself severely bitten in an unprovoked attack on her when she was 14 by her family’s pit bull.

    Reason is on her side. Anyone who follows my Twitter account knows that I regularly post news reports of pit bull attacks in Canada. Lately British Columbia tops the list for nauseating stories.

    Just 10 days ago, four-year old Emma Cranford of White Rock, B.C. was at a family gathering when the pit bull of her uncle’s girlfriend suddenly lunged at her face. He took off part of her ear and tore a gash in her face that, a few inches lower, would have ripped out her jugular. The attack was completely unprovoked, as pit bull attacks on people and other animals typically are.

    Like Ms. Biniaz, Emma’s mother Elizabeth now realizes that pit bulls are not like other dogs. She says: “This was an unprovoked incident. I want parents to be aware. I don’t want this to happen again.” Those who know their nature use the shorthand of SRUV for pit bull attacks: Sudden, Random, Unprovoked, Violent.

    Pit bull advocates are quick to voice their mantra that the problem is bad owners, not bad dogs. There are certainly many bad owners of pit bulls, just as there are bad owners of all other types of dogs. But bad ownership cannot explain the fact that pit bulls kill twice as many humans yearly as all other breeds of dogs combined.

    When they attack, they are machines. In northwest Calgary, on September 5, it took a stun gun and three officers to restrain a pit bull that had escaped from a nearby backyard as it attacked a man and his dog. The pit bull was described as “unstoppable” and even a beating with a fence post “didn’t even faze him.”

    Pit bulls – and pit bull types: “gripping” dogs of the same genetic strain — are a serious public health issue. They kill a North American every two to three weeks. They maul, maim or dismember at least one North American every day.

    The petition against Ms. Biniaz is not a spontaneous phenomenon, but the fruit of a well-oiled, extremely well-funded propaganda campaign by the pit bull advocacy movement (PBAM). The PBAM is wedded to the fiction that the pit bull, sadly victimized by a biased press, is a gentle, affectionate, child-loving dog.

    They are — until suddenly they aren’t. And nobody knows when or why they will strike with their rending, crocodile teeth and implacable to-the-death grip, except that the answer lies in their genes. The pit bull is a genetically manufactured ambulatory grenade and deserves every bit of condemnation it receives.

    The PBAM is a powerful lobby group that has successfully coerced complicity in the propagation of pit bull myths from kennel clubs and humane societies, and shamefully misled gullible media.

    Ms. Biniaz is the best thing to happen for public education about pit bulls in a long time, and I urge her and the Miss Universe organizers to turn a deaf ear to her detractors, and use her high public profile to grow a spine in the dog industry’s institutional spokespeople.

    The PBAM is surely the oddest breed fan club in human history. All other groups exist to promote the proven virtues of their beloved breed. Only the PBAM exists to promote denial of their beloved breed’s proven vices.

    National Post

84. In Sept.2012 in only 5 days there were 4 children attacked by Pit Bulls for no reason in four separate areas of the Prov. and badly mauled with severe facial injuries, a child’s throat was literally ripped open, another child’s face looked as if it had been ripped off.

    Calls from their parents, Miss Universe Canada once attacked by a Pitt Bull as a child and others have come for a Prov. ban

    on all Pit Bulls and Pit Bull crosses in BC.

    The Prov. Govt. will be presented with these concerns with the intent being that said ban be in acted throughout the Prov. as soon as possible.

    The facts below illustrate the positive outcome of such a ban for all members of society and their safety.

    The number of dog bites reported in Toronto has fallen since a ban on pit bulls took effect in 2005, public health statistics show.

    A total of 486 bites were recorded in 2005. That number fell generally in the six years following, to 379 in 2010.

    Bites in Toronto blamed on the four affected Pit Bull breeds fell sharply, from 71 in 2005 to only six in 2010. This accounts for most of the reduction in total bites.

    The fall in bites blamed on the four breeds tracks a reduction in the dogs themselves,

    Some 1,411 Toronto dogs were in the four breeds in 2008, as opposed to 798 in mid-2011.

    The severe mauling’s & crippling attacks almost disappeared after the Pit Bull ban took effect.

    You can’t walk a Lion, Tiger, Bear or a Wolverine down a street, neither should a Pitt Bull be allowed in public or within city limits.

    Pit Nutters say it is the owner, crazed gangster types that create monsters, the vast majority of Pit Bull owners are everyday dog owners, the Pit Bull creates itself and is what it is, a Genetic Monster & it needs to go now.

85. Cesar Millan quote unquote:

    “Yeah, but this is a different breed…the power that comes behind the bull dog, pit bull, presa canario, the fighting breed – They have an extra boost, they can go into a zone, they don’t feel the pain anymore. … So if you are trying to create submission in a fighting breed, it’s not going to happen.

    They would rather die than surrender. If you add pain, it only infuriates them…to them pain is that adrenaline rush, they are looking forward to that, they are addicted to it… That’s why they are such great fighters.”.

    He goes on to say: “Especially with fighting breeds, you’re going to have these explosions over and over because there’s no limits in their brain.” Wow, is that what you want in a pet? A dog that has “explosions over and over” in its brain?

86. Sadly one does not even have to search for the many attacks of these savage mutant undog’s on humans and pets, there are literally hundreds of new incidents every day carried out by these disgusting creatures, here is another.

    These are all major daily newspapers and network TV station accurate factual reports with direct access to Doctors, ER’s Animal control officers, Police, the victims family, witnesses, the guilty pit nutters, all in news reports from major city newspapers and TV stations, as legit therefore as it possibly can be.

    There is only one breed that has every been or is a threat to public safety and that is the pit bull, the sooner they are exterminated the sooner tragic attacks like the one below will be ended.

    Ban the breed and end the deed.

87. Sunday, July 28, 2013.

    Pit shelter and euthanasia stats.
    Merritt Clifton, Editor at Animal People recently shared some pertinent information about the number of pit bulls in shelters and their ultimate disposition.

    I think it bears repeating because it refutes the idea that “BSL” is somehow to blame for all the pit bull deaths.

    The current U.S. pit bull population is about 3.2 million, and it has been about three million for about 10 years now, according to the annual ANIMAL PEOPLE surveys of classified ads offering dogs for sale or adoption.

    About one million pit bulls per year enter animal shelters, about two-thirds surrendered by their keepers, most of the rest impounded for dangerous behavior.

    Most of these dogs have already been through three homes — their birth home, the home that bought them, and a subsequent pass-along home, before they arrive at shelters.

    An average of just over 900,000 pit bulls per year over the past 10 years have been killed in shelters after flunking behavioral screening, with a peak of 967,000, a low of 835,000, and 910,000 killed last year.

    This is about 60% of all the dogs killed in U.S. shelters today, up from about 50% in 2003. The average age of pit bulls killed in animal shelters is about 18 months.

    So what we have at any given time is a third of the pit bull population having not yet reached maturity, a third (at most) in homes they will still occupy at the end of the year, and a third flunking out of homes and being killed — which translates into a 50% failure rate among adult dogs in homes each & every year. Among all other dog breeds combined, about 5% enter shelters each year.

    Animal people news.

    https://17barks.blogspot.nl/2013/07/pit-shelter-and-euthanasia-stats.html

88. A pit bull type dog is what it is and does what it is.You can no more alter it genetic makeup then you can a collies to herd, a hounds to track, a retriever’s to retrieve, a labs to swim, a pointers to point, a sled dog to run and pull.

    They do what they are and a pit bull type dog is a mauling violent killer that has been bred to be a land shark, nothing you do can change that, even if you have them from birth.

    No matter if you love them, or how you nurture, train, rehabilitate, raise them optimally as normal dogs from birth, you can not change their Genetic reality to Kill, Maul, Maim, Disfigure, Dismember, cause Life Flights or trips to the Intensive Care Unit.

    For over 600 years the current pit bull type dog was brought into being through careful selective genetic breeding to create the most violent murderous fighting dog possible.

    Alexandra Semyonova canine Behavioral and Dog training Expert:

    The history of the ‘bull’ dog began in England, somewhere in the middle ages. It took hundreds of years of selective breeding to create dogs aggressive enough that they were fit for bull- and bear-baiting. The sport had its heyday during the reigns of Henry VIII and his daughter Elizabeth I, but as the law slowly abolished the torture of humans, public opinion began to turn also against the torture of animals for sport. In 1835, Britain passed a law that abolished bull- and bear-baiting.

    The people – in particular the breeders supplying the dogs and those who ran the gambling rackets – had to turn to some other avenue of livelihood. Pitting ‘bull’ dogs against each other became the thing. No need to have, sustain and hide a bull or a bear. No need for an elaborate fighting pit that was big enough to protect the audience from a bear fighting for its life against a bunch of bulldogs.

    The bulldogs were cheaper to keep, required only an improvised fighting pit, and could be quickly hidden if police were on the way. Some lines were modified by adding terrier. This didn’t lead to losing the bulldog’s love of a fight to the death but made the dogs smaller. These smaller bulldogs were easy to transport on Naval ships, and so the British fighting dogs spread around the world.

    It had taken a thousand years of careful breeding to create these specialized fighters / baiters that are so unlike any normal domestic dog. The British breeding program was so successful that these fighting dogs were used all over the world to increase the fighting tenacity of indigenous fighting and/or mastiff breeds. Never before or since was an experiment in changing the domestic dog so successful as the British thousand-years bulldog one. Even today, mixing in this type of dog is the only way to create new aggressive ‘breeds’. It doesn’t matter what you mix the bulldog type with, the trait will prevail — it’s genetic and strongly heritable.

    Every single living ‘bull’ type dog is a direct descendent of these vicious Elizabethan baiting / fighting bulldogs.

89. Occupy Maul Street.

    Tuesday, August 13, 2013.
    Count Me In As A Hater.

    “That’s Canine Racism!”
    A common tactic used by the pit bull industry to shut down any public safety discussion is throwing out the pit bull race card. The Pit Bull problem is an entirely man made creation which could be solved by breeding safer dogs in responsible numbers.

    Instead, the breed community seems to be locked onto the blaming others and creating excuses for the situation they’ve created. Pit Bull attacks are always the fault of the owner or victim, and never caused by reckless breeding or the dog fighting industry.

    Then the tone deaf advocates hide behind the excess pit bulls they created and blame society for the “Hate”…. totally oblivious that the hatred is not toward these poor animals, but that it is aimed toward the grotesque and criminally irresponsible breed stewardship that they toil day and night to perpetuate.

    Race Card Phenomenon:
    Frederick Schauer, who teaches a course on the first amendment at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, was reading about some dog lovers who claimed ”canine racism” in response to measures to curb attacks by pit bulls in New York City.

    That particular race card, he said, was an extreme example of how society has become so obsessed with avoiding any stereotypes that it ignores reality.

    Pit bulls are more aggressive than other breeds, he said, just as statistics show older people have slower reflexes than the young, and there are more bad drivers in Massachusetts than in Vermont. A fair number of generalizations, he insists, turn out to be accurate.

    Let’s explore reasons to hate the $Billion dollar a year tax free Pit Bull Industry:

    I hate it when a kid is laying on the coroner’s table.

    I hate it when someone’s Grandmother is poured into the life flight helicopter.

    I hate it that dogfighters kill 250,000 pits a year…hell bent on engineering a better mauler.

    Fatal dog attack, Rosie Humphreys.
    I hate it when a nice lady and her dog are killed by a chain breaking pit bull and the owner gets a mere $150 ticket.

    I hate it that the dog lobby is behaving as corruptly as the tobacco lobby in the 50’s and 60’s.

    I hate it that Pit breeders pump out one Million excess dogs that the taxpayer has to euthanize….to top it off they don’t pay taxes.

    I hate it that only convicted felons seem to be able to properly identify Pit Bulls.

    I Hate it when well intentioned Dog Safety Legislation is perverted into a Pit Bull Breeder’s and Dog Fighters Bill Of Rights.

    I hate the grotesque breed stewardship exerted by the Pit Bull community.

    I hate when family members of Officers in a state Pit Bull club are busted trafficking fighting dogs.

    I hate The Nanny Dog Lie.

    I hate it that Law Enforcement is continually having to shoot these animals.

    I hate it that the Animal Control Professions and Animal welfare Community have abandoned their public safety responsibility.

    I hate it when a pit bull owner leaves a blind person and their injured service dog helpless.

    I hate it when radicalized Humane orgs like the Toronto Humane Society spent in excess of $400,000 saving a Pit Bull that attacked on 4 separate occasions, yet this woman can’t get plastic surgery:

    Marie-Helene Tokar

    I hate it that Pit Bull mauling victims have to hold bake sales and blood drives to pay medical costs, while some Pit Bull advocates live in 500K plus houses.

    I hate it that nearly 130 Americans have been killed by Pit Bulls since the Vick Bust in 2007, yet they claim success.

    I hate it that Michael Vick’s Beagles have been erased from history.

    I hate it that Pit Bull advocates show zero respect to their victims by not wearing black on Pit Bull Awareness day.

    I hate it when the neighborhood Mail Carrier is put on the disability rolls.

    I hate it when a neighborhood dog is ripped apart by a Pit Bull.

    I hate it that Pit Bulls are approaching 500 world wide DBRFS yet their breeders insist they aren’t human aggressive.

    I don’t mind it so much when a consenting adult pit bull owner is attacked by their own animal, but I do hate the first responder costs…just being honest!

    Oh well…Hose the blood off the sidewalk and pump out another litter!

    https://occupymaulstreet.blogspot.nl/2013/08/count-me-in-as-hater.html

90. Marines tighten leash on pit bull policy.

    By TERI WEAVER.

    Stars and Stripes.

    Published: October 5, 2009.

    Each year, dogs bite 4.7 million Americans, according to Gail Hayes, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On average, 386,000 of those bitten go to the emergency room. About 16 people die, according to the CDC. The CDC does not keep statistical data on bites by breeds, Hayes said.

    TOKYO — Last year, a pit bull fatally attacked a 3-year-old boy at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

    In August, a pit bull mix at Yokota Air Base in Japan climbed out of its enclosure at the base kennel, killed one dog and wounded another.

    During the past year, military bases and privatized military housing began banning certain dog breeds and types.

    Now, the Marine Corps has issued the first worldwide policy banning pit bulls, Rottweilers, wolf hybrids and any dogs with “dominant traits of aggression” from all U.S. Marine Corps bases and housing facilities.

    The policy, issued in August, allows Marines and families currently living in base housing to keep their pets if they apply for a waiver by Oct. 10 and if their dogs pass a behavior test. That waiver will last only as long as the family remains at the same base or until Sept. 30, 2012, at which time all Marine housing and Marine-controlled housing should be free of any full or mixed breeds considered pit bulls, Rottweilers and wolf hybrids, according to the policy.

    The policy comes as more local governments and public housing facilities are instituting similar bans, said Daisy Okas, a spokeswoman for the American Kennel Club in New York.

    “We’re seeing breed-specific bans pretty regularly,” she said. “We’re very against it. We look at how a dog behaves. It’s a frustrating topic.”

    It can also be a terrifying one, some say.

    “It’s pretty horrifying to see the jaws of one of these dogs ripping into you,” said Colleen Lynn, who was attacked by a pit bull two years ago and now runs a Web site, http://www.dogsbite.org, dedicated to tracking attacks. “It never goes away.”

    Marines living on a base where another service controls housing will continue to follow that base’s rules. On Okinawa, where housing for all services is controlled by the Air Force, Marines may keep their dogs in family housing, at least for now, 18th Air Wing spokesman Ed Gulick said last week. The base is reviewing the policy, however.

    Tiffany Jackson works for Marine Corps Community Services on Okinawa and volunteers with the Okinawan American Animal Rescue Society, a series of foster homes for abandoned pets in the military community there.

    Currently the network is caring for 30 dogs and 30 cats. Jackson is the only one who will take pit bulls.

    She can care for three abandoned pit bulls at a time, and her house is currently full. Many dogs she sees had owners who wanted the dog as a token rather than a pet. That neglect, she says, leaves both their bodies and their temperament in need of much care.

    “Yes, it’s an aggressive dog,” Jackson said. “It takes a lot of patience and trust. It’s a step-by-step process. They learn you’re not there to beat them.”

    She’s been able to find new homes for all the dogs she’s cared for in the past.

    Even though the ban might not affect Okinawa Marines, Jackson and her fellow volunteers are worried about a wave of abandoned dogs as news of the policy spreads. When asked what the Marine Corps is doing to discourage abandoned dogs, a Marine spokesman said that would be up to each base commander.

    “I think the calls will come more,” Jackson said of dogs needing homes. “We have already talked about it. And we don’t know how we’re going to handle that.”

    Waiver application deadline Oct. 10

    Policies and changes.

    MARINES

    Under the Marines’ rules, anyone seeking family housing after Aug. 11 may not house a Rottweiler, pit bull or wolf hybrid with them, according to a Marines spokesman. Anyone in family housing before Aug. 11 with those dogs must apply for a waiver by Oct. 10.

    The dog then must pass a “nationally recognized temperament test” by a certified tester at the owner’s expense, the policy states. The waiver must be approved by base commanders.

    Owners of banned dogs will still be able to bring their pets on base for veterinary care, the policy states.

    The ban covers mixed breeds, and it will be up to a military or civilian veterinarian to determine classification if registry papers do not exist, according the Marine spokesman. Installation commanders may ask for a base wide exemption from the policy, though that had not happened as of the middle of last week, the spokesman said.

    ARMY

    Early this year, the Army endorsed a similar dog ban at its privately run housing facilities, according to William Costlow, a spokesman for U.S. Army Installation Management Command.

    There is no ban for Army family housing in.

    traditional on-base settings, Army spokesmen said.

    NAVY

    The Navy’s policy allows that certain breeds may be prohibited, though local commanders have jurisdiction, according to Navy spokeswoman Rachelle Logan.

    AIR FORCE

    The Air Force allows each base commander to decide on the issue, and some have banned the same breeds, according to Air Force spokesman Gary Strasburg.

91. Dead dog sparks debate

    After a service dog is shot, a Quebec town questions how it deals with runaway animals. Max Harrold has more.

    https://video.theloop.ca/news/watch/-/2824680727001#.Un8qD0DyUow

92. Your Future:

    $300K Pit Bull Case Settlement by PA Dog Bite Lawyer, Thomas J. Newell
    On Nov. 5, 2013, PA dog bite lawyer, Thomas J. Newell received court approval for a $300,000.00 settlement for a Gettysburg area pit bull attack victim.
    November 06, 2013

    On Nov. 5, 2013, PA dog bite lawyer, Thomas J. Newell received court approval for a $300,000.00 settlement for a Gettysburg area pit bull attack victim. Judge Thomas R. Campbell of the Adams County Court of Common Pleas received testimony from both the 9 year old girl’s mother and Attorney Newell in civil case #13-S-392.

    As detailed in Attorney Newell’s 14 page Petition for Minor’s Compromise, the little girl had gone next door to visit her friends in Fairfield PA on April 13, 2011. As she opened the front door, the pit bull jumped out and bit off a portion of her nose. Surgeons re-attached the nose and she received 23 treatment sessions in a hyperbaric chamber. In the summer of 2012, plastic surgery was performed.

    The court documents noted that the homeowners insurance company for the pit bull owners had agreed to pay its maximum liability policy limit of $300K. A structured settlement annuity policy will be purchased which will guarantee the pit bull attack victim payments, during her college years, totaling $287,650.00.

    “I am extremely happy to have obtained the maximum amount possible for my client as well as ensured that neither she, her family nor her neighbors would have to endure the difficulties associated with depositions and testimony at trial,” said Attorney Newell. “An additional bonus is that the insurance company paid the entire settlement amount with the neighbors not having to pay a penny out of their own pockets.”

    Attorney Newell has represented a number of serious dog attack victims in Central PA. On 10/1/12, Judge Blackwell of York County approved Attorney Newell’s Minor’s Compromise Petition for case #6712-1559 which resulted in a $508,613.93 settlement for a Hanover PA pit bull attack victim.

    On 1/19/10, Judge Jones of Lebanon County approved Attorney Newell’s Petition for Minor’s Compromise in case #2009-02973 which resulted in a $100,000.00 policy limit payment to a 10 year-old Palmyra PA pit bull bite victim.

    As a solo practitioner, Thomas J. Newell, Esquire provides personal service to all of his dog attack clients. He uses his 32 years of personal injury litigation experience to aggressively fight insurance companies to maximize his settlement results. Dog bite victims from 19 Counties have trusted Attorney Newell with their PA dog bite claims.
    Visit his website: https://www.PADogAttackLawyer.com/.

    https://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/11/prweb11305326.htm

93. The Truth about pit bull type dog owners:

    https://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ec4753777b/pit-bull-psa

94. The Burnaby council recently responded with great courage to the growing pit bull menace by reinforcing their dangerous dog bylaws. According to an account in the Burnaby NewsLeader the belief persists that irresponsible owners are at the root of the problem.

    There have been twenty fatal dog attacks on humans so far in 2013; pit bulls have accounted for nineteen of those attacks. There have been four hundred twenty-one disfiguring attacks on humans this year, three hundred seventy-seven of them by pit bulls.

    Pit bulls undoubtedly attract irresponsible owners; is there any question that fighting breeds would be the weapon of choice for these people? But this alone doesn’t account for the astonishing fact that pit bulls are responsible for 96% of the fatal dog attacks, when they comprise only 5-6% of the canine population. Too many of these attacks occurred in the homes of those who have unwittingly adopted pit bulls, and the victim is often a family member who has loved the dog until the moment of the attack.

    Strengthening local bylaws is a good beginning to the control of this public safety menace. But strengthening the provincial laws which allow unregulated entry of these dogs is the surest way to control the long-term effects of a burgeoning pit bull problem.

    https://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/importing-pit-bulls.html

95. Man Dies After Pet Dog Bites off His Testicles
    1 November, 2013

    A man who had his testicles bitten off by his pet dog on Monday has since died of his injuries, Italian media reported.Man Dies After Pet Dog Bites off His Testicles
    The 30-year-old man was rushed to hospital on Monday evening, after his girlfriend became worried that she had not heard from him.

    The fire brigade then broke into his Milan apartment and found the dog owner unconscious.

    It is believed that either one of his two pitbulls attacked him, or the diabetes sufferer became ill and was bitten after he fell unconscious.

    According to local media, the man died from his injuries on Thursday morning.
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    https://news.naij.com/51196.html

96. Myth #1: It’s the owner not the T-rex

    Myth # 2: It’s impossible to identify a T-rex

    Myth #3: Human-aggressive T-rex’s were “culled”

    Fatal attack statistics about T-rex’s are false

    The media conspiracy against T-Rex’s

    T-rex’s are not unpredictable

    T-Rex’s do not have a locking jaw, they just eat you alive

    T-Rex’s used to be the most popular dinosaur in America

    T-rex’s pass the American Temperament Test

97. Punish the deed not the breed (of dinosaur)

    T-rex’s originally were “nanny dinosaurs”

    T-rex’s were once known as nanny dino’s.

    T-Rex’s will lick you to death.

    There’s no need to muzzle and leash your T-Rex in the Doggy Park.

    Don’t forget to attend our ‘Million T-Rex March’ on The White House. President Obama loves T-Rex’s and he thinks everyone should own one. Except him.

    Its not an attack if the T-rex is wagging its tail.

    There no bad T-rex’s…only bad owners.

    I’ve seen chihuahuas more aggressive than my T-Rex.

    *giggles*

98. TSL has been proven not to work in Denver

    Best babysitters ever….NOT

    MY T-rex is the sweetest dino ever.

    T.Rex’s make the BEST Therapy Dinos ever. And are wonderful as Guide-Dinos for The Blind.

    velociraptors bite more than T-rex’s.

    Let’s set up a T-rex kissing booth for our kids.

    Let’s bring a T-rex into school and let the children read books to a perfectly trained T-rex

    Let’s bring our T-rex to the walk for the victims of T-rex’s in Houston to show them they don’t have to be afraid of T-rex’s

    T-rexBite.org

    Hey now…educate yourself guys.

    My T-Rex likes coconuts!

    you’re all just racist against T-Rex’s!!!

99. please leave t~Rex’s alone my family had bred them for years and the only time i was bitten was by a pibble.
    educate yourself you hater,I hope get mauled by a chihuahua.
    t-rex make the best nanny dinosaur, its all how they are raised don’t you know.

    I will be posting this at the dinosaurs love kids and kids love dinosaurs.
    don’t you know the famous dinosaur barney?
    president roosevelt had a dinosaur and fred flintstone.
    helen keller had 25 of them.

    wiggle tails?

    educate yourself its haters like you that give dinosaurs a bad name.

    come over to my house and meet my t-rex

    awww you really hurted my feelings, Im going to go eat worms!!

    My brontosaurus bites and my T-Rex never does. In fact the T-Rex is scared of him!

    T-rex only bite if they’re trained to

100. my vet says t-rex is the only dinosaur that doesn’t bite

     I have 8 t-rex and I’m a vet tech

     I’am a vet tech too and i have a therapy dinosaur, it reads to kids at schools

     64 kids crawl all over my t-rex, and he’s never shown aggression

     Get the FACTS!!!

     there’s no such thing as a t-rex

     people are so quick to label anything 20 ft tall with a 5 foot neck and muscular as a so called “t-rex”

     all dinosaurs have teeth

     Their are over 30 types of dinosaur mistaken for a T-Rex, not only that, their is a media conspiracy against them. T-Rex attack stories sell.

     My T-Rex saved my life; he roared at a bit of smoke & we evacuated the house. Last week I read that a T-Rex killed a child; that is SO rubbish – there is no such thing as a T-Rex! Get educated! I’m so done with this – I’m going to feed my T… I mean my Giant Lizard. Goodbye!

     t-rex aren’t real. nothing is real.

     1. Thomas McCartney,
        You need to go back on your meds before you hurt yourself. You give Canada a bad name. Sitting in your underwear typing away all day isn’t going to make you an important person. Get a life,please.

101. omg u ppl r so ignorent!!!!!!! i had a terradactle an that little basturd was way meaner than my t-rex!!!!!! only ppl who fight t-rexes make them mean an bite so dont judge the hole bread just cuz a few buttwipes train there dinos to attack i raise my t-rex with love an he kisses us all the time!!!!!! U PPL R RACIST AN U MAKE ME SICK!!!

     t-rex built this great nation

     ROTFLMAO!

     You haters only have 153 likes. Our T-Rex breeders club has 4000! TAKE THAT, HATERS!!!

     It’s a nannysaurus!

     Parents need to teach their brats proper kindness and respect around t-rex. ANY dinosaur has it’s breaking point when TERRIFIED!!

     Good news, T – Rex went extinct and no longer prey on communities.

     T-Rex’s are as safe as any other dinosaur. You guys are just racist.

     more kids are injured falling down, so what are we going to ban falling down next?!!!

     My T-Rex smiles at me every time I walk in the door. He even lets my two year old ride his tail. Was this T- Rex neutered??? This wouldn’t happen if he was. Do not spew your hate towards MY T-Rex! Responsible T-Rex ownership 101. WE ARE WINNING. OUR T-REX’S ARE WINNING. SUCK IT HATERS

     1. Keep foaming.

102. My T-rex pulled a baby from a burning building. He is the best nanny t rex god ever made. He wouldnt hurt a fly.

     My T – Rex is an ambassador for the breed. He passed his T – Rex Good Citizenship test performed by my best friend and passed with flying colors. I bring him to dog parks and he is a perfect angel. He even loves cats!

     my t-rex is gorgeous and sweet but would defend me to the bitter end

     It isn’t my T-Rex you need to worry about; it’s ME. They might have culled the man-biters out of HIS lizard-lineage, but they let them live in MY ancestors! Grrrrr!

     sorry to have to report this but
     my T-rex just killed my Dino dog, it had always been sweet and had never bit anyone before.
     The -Rex will be going to the flintstone dinosaur rescue farm for unstable dinasaur’s

     My t-rex is tattooed on my *#@!

     omg did you vagazzle it too!?

     My T Rex lets my 5 year old put press on nails on him.

     My t rex only wants to love and kiss you all over . Lmbo

     see you later i am off to see the T-rex fights tonight.

103. The owners need to wash the T-rex’s before the fight so that proves they are safe? right???

     T Rex’s are not fighting dinosaurs!!!!!! Please educate yourself about the bread!

     blame the deed not the bread

     1. Bread is something we eat. Breed Thomas.

        1. You don’t get humor do you Karen??, who do you think you are Sheldon Cooper Hhahahhahahhahah…………..come on you have to admit this is creative and funny, kiss a T-Rex today, it is probably the best your going to do anywhere anyhow. 🙂

           1. Actually, Thomas, you aren’t funny. You don’t get crazy, do you.

104. Yeeeeeeeah we WON, the pit bull type dog BSL stays in place in Burnaby BC and actually the fines and punishment structure us made more severe and tougher. :):)

     Burnaby September 30, 2013 8:19 pm
     Burnaby votes for new rules and higher fees for pitbulls and dogs deemed vicious
     By Justin McElroy Global

     Burnaby council has voted to increase fines on pitbulls and other dogs that attack people.

     Council unanimously passed a bylaw tonight that increases fines and impounding periods for vicious dog incidents. The motion came from a report brought forward from city staff at last council meeting.

     “The number of bite incidents involving pitbulls in Burnaby is concerning, and further compounded by this breed’s potential to inflict significant injuries,” the bylaw presented to council stated.

     MORE: Burnaby council looks at new rules and higher fees for owners of ‘vicious dogs’

     The bylaw establishes a $500 fine for vicious dog incidents and a $200 fine for aggressive dog incidents without bites. Off-leash fines increase from $100 to $200, and the impound period goes from 10 to 21 days.

     In addition, vicious dogs must also be registered.

     https://globalnews.ca/news/874049/burnaby-votes-for-new-rules-and-higher-fees-for-pitbulls-and-other-vicious-dogs/

105. Mix Master Bogart (Jeff Borchardt)(Six months ago today)

     Six months ago today, the well funded, huge lobbyist, pro-pit bull organizations, backed with millions of dollars, killed my son. Six months ago today, the Best Friends Animal Society that claims pit bulls are “just like any other dogs”, killed my son.

     Six months ago today, Michelle Serocki from the “Brew City Bully Club”, that flat out LIED about the condition of Susan’s pit bulls, is now receiving the Allstate community achievement award at a Brewer game that my wife attended last week, killed my son.

     Six months ago today, everyone of the pro pit bull citizens that regurgitated the same lies over and over, the 2 Watertown city councilmen that changed their vote due to national pressure by the pit bull lobbyists at the meeting on Tuesday, killed my son.

     Six months ago today, Karen Delise (NCRC/AFF), Ledy VanKavage (BFAS), Donna Reynolds (BAD RAP), Donald Cleary (NCRC/AFF), Fred Kray (Pit Bulletin Legal News Network) killed my son by hiding the truth about these monsters.

     Six months ago today, Cynthia Bathurst (Safe Humane Chicago – responsible for changing laws so fight bust dogs can be adopted out in Chicago and Milwaukee), killed my son.

     Six months ago today, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) admits the dog-aggression heritage of the breed, but holds to the false claim that pit bulls were “nursemaid” dogs, killed my son.

     Six months ago today, channels like Nat Geo, Animal Planet with shows like “Pit Bosses”, “Pit Bulls & Parolees” “The Dog Whisperer” with Cesar Millian that keep pushing the LIE “it’s not the breed, it’s how you raise them”, killed my son.

     Six months ago today, the vets or members of the (HSUS) that tells us, “Responsible ownership is all it takes”, killed my son.

     Six months ago today, the C.D.C. that dropped the issue in 1998, made my son the 211th American killed by a pit bull and the 358th in recorded history.

     Six months ago today, July Time magazine feature article: “The Great Pit Bull Makeover” with gagging imagery of so-called gentle pit bulls, killed my son.

     Six months ago today, Laurie Hoffmann (former board of director at the Watertown Humane society) that called us “negligent” about six times in the Watertown Daily Times editorial, killed my son.

     Six months ago today, The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) that says “the owner’s behavior as the underlying causal factor”, killed my son.

     Six months ago today, the “no kill” policy in animal shelters that get money from the government, killed my son.
     Six months ago today, Jane Berkley from the Animal Farms Foundation, backed with millions of dollars, killed my son.
     Six months ago today, the “nanny dog” myth killed my son.

     Six months ago today, “All dogs bite”, killed my son.
     Six months ago today, all you parents that like to use your kids as guinea pigs by putting up pics of your pit bulls and children on FB in an attempt to prove a point that “YOUR pit bull is sweet and innocent”, killed my son.

     Six months ago today, the Walworth county detective that told me what happened to my son was a “perfect storm” (a perfect storm happens once every 300 years), killed my son.

     Six months ago today, channel 12 news that refuses to use the sound bites that could save lives (pit bulls have killed 16 out of the 19 Americans killed by dogs this year), killed my son.

     Six months ago today, my son was killed by the truth not being told to the American public.

     Six months ago today, we were DUPED by a myth, misinformation and a LIE that has taken the life of 14 month old Daxton James Borchardt.

     All of the people and organizations that I just mentioned are just as responsible for the death of my son as the pit bulls that turned “dead game” on March 6th, 2013. “holding and shaking” him for a sustained 15 minute attack that ripped his face off and crushed his skull.

     NOTHING Susan could do to get those monsters to let go. Including kicking, punching and gouging their eyes out.

     The truth not being told is what killed my son six months ago today.

106. I swear you could not make this stuff up, only a nutter could think he was Aquaman:

     Man Tries to Save Pit Bull, Ends Up Arrested
     Benjamin Pimentel, Teresa Moore, Chronicle Staff Writers
     Published 4:00 am, Thursday, March 9, 1995

     A man who jumped off the San Mateo Bridge Tuesday in a failed attempt to save his pet pit bull, Nitro, was later arrested by Foster City police on suspicion of possessing drugs and weapons.

     “This case just kind of blew up,” said Lieutenant Ross Roberts of the Foster City Police Department. “It started out as a nice human interest story, and then it got ugly.”

     Brian Hrenko, 41, of Lathrop in San Joaquin County had to be doused with pepper spray before police apprehended him and booked him on suspicion of possessing a loaded firearm in a vehicle, having a silencer, possessing drugs for sale and resisting arrest, according to Roberts.

     Police said the incident began about 10:50 a.m. when Hrenko’s truck struck the side of the bridge while he was driving east with his pit bull.

     The truck got a flat tire. When Hrenko stopped to inspect the damage, Nitro jumped out and over the railing of the bridge.

     Apparently without thinking of his own safety, Hrenko followed the dog, plunging 25 to 30 feet into cold water.

     Hrenko managed to reach a support piling and took his wet clothes off. He was then thrown a life ring by bridge workers to help him hold on.

     He was rescued by the Coast Guard shortly before noon and was taken to the San Mateo County General Hospital suffering from mild hypothermia and later released, police said.

     As of late Tuesday night, the dog had not been found and was presumed drowned, Roberts said.

     Witnesses told police they thought Hrenko was attempting suicide. Roberts said an officer was searching Hrenko’s truck for a suicide note when he found a bag containing a loaded .45 caliber pistol and a silencer.

     Hrenko’s rescue interrupted the search. When the officer asked him about the gun, he said it was not his, Roberts said.

     “The car was not registered to him, but to a family member,” Roberts said. “At that point, there was nothing to arrest him on or to connect him to the weapon.”

     After leaving Hrenko at the hospital, the police continued to search the bag and found personal documents belonging to Hrenko as well as what police suspect are cocaine and methamphetamine.

     Two officers went searching for Hrenko, who resisted arrest when they found him walking back to his disabled truck.

     Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Man-Tries-to-Save-Pit-Bull-Ends-Up-Arrested-3041745.php#ixzz2QIvNF4tF

107. Did you know that over 2,700 pit bull type dogs were put to death today in US Animal shelters alone, that this happens every single day, so 2,700 to one, oh yeah baby…Winning.!! 😉

108. Thomas McCartney
     It is so sad that these dogs are being destroyed without being given a chance. I doubt that the number of dogs that you say are being killed on a daily basis are all pit bulls, but even if they are, I don’t think that you are “winning”. The Nazis felt that they were “winning” when they tried to exterminate the Jewish people. Thankfully, that didn’t work, and neither will breed specific laws. Too many of us have pit bulls that we have raised that are gentle and loving and have no signs of aggression. My dog is loving with my grandchildren and gets along with my 2 cats. But I don’t leave him unsupervised with strangers. One thing I have learned and believe….ALL DOGS BITE. No breed is immune. But I can’t imagine a world without dogs as companions.

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