Of course they make cute pets. We all know it is not the dog but the owner, it is well known that a poodle with an irresponsible owner attacks humans and 900 lbs horses at an alarming rate. And watch out for those Pugs.
http://www.southernpitbulls.com/history.html
Pitbull attacks 900lb horse
By chrismyers - Posted on April 7th, 2008
So what's your point?
it was not a Pug. I can't imagine what a vicious Pug would have done, especially one with a bad owner. We all know any dog will viciously attack a 900 lbs horse or a baby in a stroller for no reason if the owner is bad. It is the owner that makes the dog bad. Forget that some dogs were bred for hundreds of years to specifically kill (specifically large livestock), like Pitbulls, because that is just breeding. It is the owner and how they take care of them that counts. I think the other day I heard a french poodle ripped off the face of a postal worker, because it had a bad owner. And no telling what a Pug would have done.
So you and Dog Wardens Skeldon and Skeldon would do what? Run house to house searches for anything that looks like a vicious dog and shoot it? Make sure you get the cats too! And don't forget the birds. And the squirrels - they may be rabid, you know.
While you and the Skeldons are at it, you'd better be sure to confiscate any firearms you find. Especially handguns, because you never know when one of those eeeevil handguns will get loose and kill or corrupt someone. And cigarettes! Tobacco in all its forms must be confiscated and destroyed. Liquor too, just to be on the safe side. And don't forget those bad food stuffs that you may find in the homes of the massively challenged. Take those too.
Then you can start burning the books.
Your argument does not hold water, because unlike a dog, a gun does not have its own brain hardwired to attack and kill. Explain how all the things you argue are the same? Which one of those things have brains hardwired to kill? None, not even the rabid squirrels, which by the way they government will remove if that is the case. Why can't people own a lion or tiger?
Pitbulls are bred to attack and kill and tell the family in my neighborhood whose child was attacked in the stroller by a pitbull and now has a mangled face, explain to that family how it is the owner. I will agree the instance any of those items that you suggest do the same thing. It is impossible.
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=news/local&id=5339406
Of course those will say it is the owner, but owners for hundreds of years bred that breed for one purpose, to kill livestock. You can't just toss that away in one or two generations. British Bulldogs were originally bred in a similar way (and looked very different), but they have shaken off their and have become a lovable chunky dogs, but that is after many generations.
From:
From 1979 to 1998, at least 25 breeds of dogs have been involved in bite related deaths. Pit Bulls and Rottweilers were involved in more than 50 percent of these incidences.
http://www.dogexpert.com/Dog%20Bite%20Statistics/DogBiteStatistics.html
Either bad owners are attracted to those breeds or something is going on there.
Hey the dogs are legal, and I have not said they should be banned, but for owners to sit there and say their dog bred to kill will never snap is just stupid and irresponsible. If you play with fire don't complain if you get burned. Responsible dog owners will stay away from such breeds because they know the bad they can do.
BTW I have been bit by a dog when I was out in Bono in 04. It nipped me, and left a red mark on my leg, and guess which type of a dog it was? It was a white Lab. And it was funny when the owner came around the house after being snipped and said oh don't worry the dog won't bite. Of course I am glad it was a lab because they were not bred to kill.
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chris,
i never knew you had such a dislike for dogs, at least some of them anyway. reminds me of how i feel towards fire ants. :)
just particular breeds. I think some border on being more wild than others.
chris, this made me think of you.
NEW YORK - When Aaron Jones walks Gozer, his Rottweiler-hound mix, people cross the street to avoid them. Mothers scoop up their children. A lost motorist once rolled up the windows and drove off after spotting the dog. One woman screamed.
"He's the nicest dog I know," Mr. Jones, 33, of Oakland said. "It's hard to understand all the fear."
Gozer isn't aggressive and doesn't look mean or bark, Mr. Jones insists - people are afraid of the dog purely because it's big and black. As a puppy, Gozer was passed over for at least a month before Mr. Jones took him home........
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080410/NEWS14/80...
Sometimes the best things about us are the things that work against us...in my case it's a true love of dogs.
Some time ago a family pet attacked a boy in a family that was friends with my family. It was a vicious attack. A young man was eviscerated while lying on his own sofa.
At that time we did spend some time trying to understand the attack - we'd often kept dogs ourselves and I keep dogs to this day. But I'm careful about what breed because we do have small children in my family and I am obligated that if I am going to make the decision to bring a dog around them - that they will be safe around those dogs.
Dog breeding is a very precise business we found. Different breeds have remarkably different tendencies and personalities. Some dogs just cannot be trusted around children and they do not like them, these are more of the smaller nervous breeds.
Dogs are bred together to bring out traits that are appealing. For a variety of reasons. Some dogs, it's the body shape, the facial features, the bulldog type chest......and for some who do not have altruistic intentions - dogs are bred to be mentally unstable.
For mindless fighting with their own kind.
The bulldog is an interesting breed - they were bred for their jaws and their body size and type. They were to be able to stop a bull by hanging from its' neck. To help with control and herding.
Pit bulls were bred to be vicious and unstable so that they would fight in a pit. That's the entire story - this breed of dog was created to kill other dogs in pit fighting so that people could gamble for money.
It is not the animals fault. They have nothing to do with the purposes of these people - but they are, by design, unstable and no amount of nurturing can overcome that.
That's what I believe - and I believe that people who engage in that conduct should be in jail. These dogs are living, breathing creatures.