Letters to the Editor
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Good point Annie W when you say:
"An unlocked door or open window does not excuse ANYTHING." To say it does is just victim-blaming. My old neighbor's Rotties busted down a four foot cinderblock fence that was between our properties. Amazing that they could do that.
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How do you know the breed?
How do you know the breed of dog that attacked the disabled woman?
Are they sure they were pit bulls? Did they have the UKC registration papers tied around thier necks?
They were actually "lab mixes", you say? Actually, it was two basenjis?
So many of these reports first scream "pit bull" and later it comes out that the dogs were actually something else entirely, or mixes, or whatnot. Anytime there is a dog bite, the media first screams "pit bull!" and fails to correct the errors. Most reporters can't tell a basenji from a basset hound. And when it comes to unregistered, mixed dogs, it's anyone's guess.
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re: awesome-o
Sorry, but I never claimed that my "lady" was more important than any child. It seems that you made that "leap of reason"--and quite a giant one at that. Come on, now.
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Linear Chaos - are you blind, or just stupid?
Being disabled is even more reason to lock your doors. I guess being disabled allows one free reign to neglect even the simplest of measures to prevent prowlers? Like lessons taught to school pre-elementary school children?
Um, did you even bother to read any of the stories posted here regarding the disabled lady who was mauled by two, count 'em two sweet, loving, marauding pit bulls? She apparently had a caretaker dog of her own, from what I've read. She had a doggie door for her dog. The pit bulls came in thru the doggie door.
Here, read this and educate your ignorant self:
http://www.kirotv.com/news/13943140/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=southsoundnews
Are other dog owners now supposed to lock their doggie doors so that rabid pit bulls won't invade their homes in the middle of the night?
I love that you're blaming the victim for this vicious attack, by the way. I suppose you also blame children for being molested, and blame women for being raped, right?
I have a simple solution for the pit bull problem - when a pit bull engages in one of its vicious random freakout attacks on some innocent victim, just kill the owners. Not only would it reduce the "cool factor" that surrounds this ticking timebomb of a breed - hopefully bringing about its eventual extinction - it would also serve to chlorinate the human gene pool.
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ok, I'm curious
AKA Smith: You might rethink a bit when you understand that there are places which have tried and sometimes succeeded in banning these breeds.
I'm curious as to where Labs have been banned.
Also, I am not really in favor of going out and killing every pit bull. I AM in favor of destroying any animal that hurts a person or another person's pet, and also sterilizing existing pit bulls and pit mixes (and maybe some other breeds too.) This seems like the sane thing to do, given the number of horrific attacks we've heard about recently.
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oh and
Anonymous, I didn't mean to say that you, specifically, said your "lady" was more important than a child. Someone else originally made the comment about treating dogs as people, perhaps because of the level of concern voiced here about the dogs vs the victims- indeed, one person has even decided that the victim was really a victim of her own stupidity, and not the dogs that attacked her.
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What's wrong with existing dangerous dog legislation?
Awesome-o, what is so wrong with existing dangerous dog laws?
In states that have good dog laws, ANY dog that bites a human or another animal is declared dangerous and must live under certain restrictions (muzzle, always fenced, never free to roam, etc.).
If a dog that has been declared dangerous injures again, the dog is euthanized.
Why do you support another scenario? This is a sensible and fair approach, and the one the Humane Society and ASPCA and many many lawyers (personal injury and others) support.
It works for all breeds of dog and holds owners responsible.
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More dog bites!
Here is a list of this summer's news of dog bites.
All kinds of breeds of dog.
http://www.understand-a-bull.com/BSL/OtherBreedBites/AllDogsBite.htm
Non-breed specific legislation is the most effective there is to keep us all safe from bad dogs/bad owners, no matter the breed of dog.
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Pit bulls break into home, maul woman -- Aug 21, 2007
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8R5QR1G1&show_article=1
It wasn't standard poodles who broke into this woman's home unprovoked, mauled her in her bed, killed a small dog who entered the home when it heard the cacophony and attacked firemen called to the scene. It wasn't Dobermans, it wasn't German shepherds. Whatever it is about the type of dog pit bulls are -- whether it's their potential for violence that makes some crazy people think it would be cool to exacerbate this part of their personality or a genetic predisposition or both or something else -- the fact remains that Molosser-type dogs (pit bulls, Presa Canarios and others bred to fight and ignore pain) are the ones who attack people with tragic results most of the time. This fact can't be argued by a sane person. (Presa Canarios are the ones who killed Diane Whipple in her apartment building in San Francisco while their owner looked on.) It's the combination of dog and owner that's deadly. Dog owners have a responsibility to ensure that their pets don't harm other people and people's property -- including other pets. If it takes controlling the population of these dogs in densely populated areas is required to ensure the safety of everyone, only the irrational would argue against it.
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US Customs uses pit bulls as working dogs, hospitals welcome them as therapy dogs
Pit bull used to smell packages for US Customs:
http://www.pitbullsontheweb.com/petbull/articles/popsicle.html
Search and Rescue pits:
http://www.forpitssake.org/sar.html
Pitty therapy:
http://www.forpitssake.org/therapy.html
The customs dog was a former pit figher, nonetheless.
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re What's wrong with existing dangerous dog legislation?
um, that they don't seem to be working too well?
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In the news 8/22/2007
Interesting that this report would appear in MSNBC.COM today.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20392503/