Pitbulls - How many have them?

[Stevenjhow]

I have two, I know there are many people out there that think they are blood hungry, child mauling, crazy, "mean", for all of those people, go kill yourself...just kidding but seriously

I think it's funny how the pit was Hellen Kellers choice of dog, a pitbull is the breed that sniffed out a bomb on a washington ferry, pitbulls make great service dogs, yet the media blows up when a pit hurts somebody. Personally I know of more labs that have bit children than pits. Any vet you go to will tell you that they have never had a problem with a pit ( at least the 3 vets I have gone to in the past) These dogs are great loyal dogs, even more so than labs in my opinion.

I know there are mean pits out there, and I think the owners should be fined for having a "mean" pitbull. There is only one way a pitbull grows up to be mean, and that is if it is trained to be mean.

My dogs go crazy when people come over, all they want to do is crawl into their laps and be touched, they get so excited when kids come over to play with them. My 5 year old twin neices (who only weighed about 35lbs) used to pull my male (who weighed 65lbs) into the yard by his collar, and he'd let them, with his tail wagging because they were touching him.

How many people have them? Who else can attest to their personality?

[DefTrap]

I think it's more to do with the high incompetent-owners-to-pitbull ratio to be honest. I don't think they're all as responsible as you sound ...

[Stevenjhow]

I think it's more to do with the high incompetent-owners-to-pitbull ratio to be honest. I don't think they're all as responsible as you sound ...

You are 100% right! The whole problem here in the states is that the IDIOTS that own pitbulls for the image. Too many thugs, gangbangers, drugdealers, whitetrash are irresponsible and get the pits to be "tough" that's not even the nature of the breed. By nature, Pits can be aggresive to OTHER DOGS, but not towards people, that is what they were bred for back in the day in Europe. The owners were in the fighting pits w/ the dogs and were supposed be able to reach into the fight and grab their dog without getting bit, if a pit even showed aggresive tendencies towards a human it was to be put down.

I still don't agree with fighting dogs even under the old day laws, but idiots today and taken it to a whole new "sport" by making the dogs viscious. Alot of dogs die from this "sport", not like back in the day in Europe, hardly any dogs died, in fact, if a dog was losing the fight they would stop it before the dogs get hurt.

In my opinion people like Micheal Vick should be put into a pit w/ two lions as bait, just like he did with other dogs to bait a dog fight. It's sick!

I can go on and on with this subject because I run into so many ignorant mother f*ckers who tell me my dogs should be banned. Does that mean that Black people should be banned because a few black people are criminals? Or white people should be banned because a few white people killed somebody? WAKE UP!

[jaysun0ne]

growing up with dogs in the house I understand its not a bread of dog but how they are raised that dictates the character of the animal.

and ignorant people believe what is spoon fed to them by the media.

its like racism how can you really classify a group of people based on one factor (skin color). you cant, because in that group there will always be an exception to the stereotype.


when ever I approach any animal I ask the owner if its friendly even pomeranians lol

[dagus]

Lemme throw another breed that gets a bad rap into the mix here - Rotties. I love them. I think they're beautiful, intelligent, loving dogs. Every Rottie I've ever known, thought it was a lap dog....

By comparison, my great aunt had a chihuahua, and that f*cking thing tried to eat me! I like big dogs, mostly because I grew up with them. It's the tiny dogs that tend to have the aggressive personalities half the time!!! My neighbor back in Queens had a pit bull, friendliest dog imaginable. He had a toddler, the dog loved that kid. And he'd walk up to a total stranger and lick their hand.

The "watch us! watch us!!!" media sucks. And wanna-be badasses who buy Pits and Rotties and Dobies to look the part and then neglect/abuse them, or train them to be bad...

[Stevenjhow]

Oh yeah Rotties are really stereotyped too. My cousin had a 130lb rottie that his little boy (2yrs) used to sit on the rotties stomach, grab it paws and pretend to ride it like a motorcycle. The dog loved it! his little nub of a tail would go nuts!

What I've noticed about these dogs is that they are extremely protective, but they have always been all bark, no bite. When my pits bark at someone, it is usually something wrong or someone hanging around my car....or something, because most people that walk by (even total strangers they have never seen) my dogs wag their tails and watch them go by, and then look depressed if no one comes up to see them. The great thing is, when people see pits, they stay away

[surferdude]

Dogs are animals, and we try to humanize them...that leads to a whole host of problems for the dogs. Rotties and Pit Bulls are not aggressive animals by nature, but people associate those breeds along with a couple of others as being deadly. Dogs don't need people, but we need them - they're pack animals and when we throw in human psychology, you have a frustrated dog that can easily become deadly. Add moronic owners to the equation and you have a huge problem on your hands and it's never, IMO, going to be the dog's fault....we're to blame.

Just ask Cesar Millan.

[icycle]

I went a few years ago in the winter to a trailer where an elderly man was lying on the ground just outside the door in a pool of blood. Next to him was a bloody mouthed Pit Bull on a LONG chain. A neighbor tried to help but was attacked by the dog. After several attempts to gain control of the dog had failed we managed to get the dog trapped inside the trailer to get care to the elderly man.
Now you may think as we did this was an owner with a bad dog but, once we got the old man in the ambulance and he came too we found out he had slipped on the ice and split his head open. He was in alot of pain and too lod to get up in his condition. The dog was licking him and being a VERY good watch dog. A little too good. He spent the night in the hospital and we left the dog in the trailer where it was warm. The old man was fine after he got out and the animal control officer who went to check on the dog once the owner got back said the dog was very friendly when the owner was around.
Its a really long and funny story on how we got the dog in the trailer but to make it short we broke in the rear of the trailer and used myself as bait . I came VERY close to getting my arse bit. The chain was longer than I anticipated...

Just food for thought.

[Stevenjhow]

Here are some pics of my blood thirsty child mauling killers





This is how they actually sleep.

I caught the dogs in action while they were mauling my twin neices!




J/K by the way, the dogs can't get enough attention from those girls

[bk94si]

I've had a pit bull come after me also. Fortunately, missed my arm and ripped my jacket instead. A neighbor whacked it with a metal pipe and it ran off.

The problem is that so many dogs are out of control from lousy owners and pit bulls unfortunately not only attract bad owners but can be deadly if not properly trained and socialized. An out of control cocker spaniel is only going to hurt you, not kill you.

[squirrelman]

definately a quality bike stand front or rear.

i have 2 squirrels.

[dagus]

definately a quality bike stand front or rear.

Yes but will it fetch my paper?

[drinmotoracer]

definately a quality bike stand front or rear.

haha... smartass!