Comments on: Defending the pit bull http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2005/08/10/defending-the-pit-bull/ Blogging by a team of pet-care experts. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:26:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: dave http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2005/08/10/defending-the-pit-bull/comment-page-1/#comment-18634 dave Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:07:33 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/?p=994#comment-18634 Gina, I have read your stories/views on Pit Bulls. I noticed you never mentioned the Richard Stratton book. Odd I think since you really seem to be near clueless about Pit Bulls. Anyway , do some better research and let your readers know the REAL facts. Gina, I have read your stories/views on Pit Bulls. I noticed you never mentioned the Richard Stratton book. Odd I think since you really seem to be near clueless about Pit Bulls. Anyway , do some better research and let your readers know the REAL facts.

]]> By: Gina http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2005/08/10/defending-the-pit-bull/comment-page-1/#comment-1126 Gina Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:20:06 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/?p=994#comment-1126 "I think if a person gets a pit bull as a puppy it will grow up the way you want them to." Um ... Tiffany ... are you saying you wanted your pit bull to bite a child in the face? “I think if a person gets a pit bull as a puppy it will grow up the way you want them to.”

Um … Tiffany … are you saying you wanted your pit bull to bite a child in the face?

]]> By: Tiffany Nice http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2005/08/10/defending-the-pit-bull/comment-page-1/#comment-1127 Tiffany Nice Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:02:02 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/?p=994#comment-1127 I think if a person gets a pit bull as a puppy it will grow up the way you want them to. I'm the owner of two pit bulls and one is still being held in the city pound for being accused of bitting a kid in the face. My dogs have never been off a leash or out of a fenced in yard. I have raised my dogs with my children and they know what they can and can't do. People shouldn't blame the breed for his or her actions but the owner of the dog. All dogs attack not just pit bulls but those kind of dogs makes the news. That doen't make sense to me. Why should we put down dogs that are well trained, cared for, never alone, and is good around people? We should get rid of the peole that want to kill these dogs or the people that make faulse complaints about them to hide the real story. Dogs attack people for a reason and what reasons do we have to kill the breed? I think if a person gets a pit bull as a puppy it will grow up the way you want them to. I’m the owner of two pit bulls and one is still being held in the city pound for being accused of bitting a kid in the face. My dogs have never been off a leash or out of a fenced in yard. I have raised my dogs with my children and they know what they can and can’t do. People shouldn’t blame the breed for his or her actions but the owner of the dog. All dogs attack not just pit bulls but those kind of dogs makes the news. That doen’t make sense to me. Why should we put down dogs that are well trained, cared for, never alone, and is good around people? We should get rid of the peole that want to kill these dogs or the people that make faulse complaints about them to hide the real story. Dogs attack people for a reason and what reasons do we have to kill the breed?

]]> By: karen santo http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2005/08/10/defending-the-pit-bull/comment-page-1/#comment-1128 karen santo Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:08:14 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/?p=994#comment-1128 they should not get rid of pitbulls they are actually wonderful dogs! if people looked into their history they used to be the number one compainion animal until people started to realize their strength,and used them..most are still the most loving dogs!!! i blame owners for their attacks, not teh dogs..the owners should be put down not the dogs! im so tired of people sterotyping these dogs!! any dog can be trained to be mean, jsut like humans!!! they should not get rid of pitbulls they are actually wonderful dogs! if people looked into their history they used to be the number one compainion animal until people started to realize their strength,and used them..most are still the most loving dogs!!! i blame owners for their attacks, not teh dogs..the owners should be put down not the dogs! im so tired of people sterotyping these dogs!! any dog can be trained to be mean, jsut like humans!!!

]]> By: Overgrown Acres http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2005/08/10/defending-the-pit-bull/comment-page-1/#comment-1130 Overgrown Acres Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:28:24 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/?p=994#comment-1130 <strong>Good on ya, Dogma!</strong> Go and read it all. Good on ya, Dogma!

Go and read it all.

]]> By: Kim http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2005/08/10/defending-the-pit-bull/comment-page-1/#comment-1129 Kim Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:40:36 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/?p=994#comment-1129 I have to disagree with the idea that zero tolerance is in any way plausable. Read "Bandit: the Dossier of a Dangerous Dog." Poor Bandit was outside calmly sunning with his human companion when some wacko came flying across their front lawn waving a broom over his head. Bandit did the only sensible thing a dog could do. He bit him. I am lucky enough to own an incredibly good natured dog who I have the utmost confidence in. However, I shudder to think that if some stranger was walking past and stepped on him while he was eating... the results could land him.... dead. Every situation needs to be looked at closely. Zero tolerance in the sense it's being used here is about as useful as the ban. Plus it's bad enough already up here in Canada. If some nutjob breaks into my home in the dead of night and attacks me... and my dog attacks him in retaliation... he can and will sue my homeowners insurance for compensation. I have to disagree with the idea that zero tolerance is in any way plausable. Read “Bandit: the Dossier of a Dangerous Dog.”

Poor Bandit was outside calmly sunning with his human companion when some wacko came flying across their front lawn waving a broom over his head. Bandit did the only sensible thing a dog could do. He bit him.

I am lucky enough to own an incredibly good natured dog who I have the utmost confidence in. However, I shudder to think that if some stranger was walking past and stepped on him while he was eating… the results could land him…. dead.

Every situation needs to be looked at closely. Zero tolerance in the sense it’s being used here is about as useful as the ban.

Plus it’s bad enough already up here in Canada. If some nutjob breaks into my home in the dead of night and attacks me… and my dog attacks him in retaliation… he can and will sue my homeowners insurance for compensation.

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