LUCKY TO BE ALIVE Boy, 6, savaged by ‘loveable’ pet dog who ripped his face apart before being saved by his grandma

Myth #1: It's the owner not the breed

The outdated debate, "It's the owner, not the breed," has caused the pit bull problem to grow into a 35-year old problem.1 Designed to protect pit bull breeders and owners, the slogan ignores the genetic history of the breed and blames these horrific maulings -- inflicted by the pit bull's genetic "hold and shake" bite style -- on environmental factors. While environment plays a role in a pit bull's behavior, it is genetics that leaves pit bull victims with permanent and disfiguring injuries.

The pit bull's genetic traits are not in dispute. Many appellate courts agree that pit bulls pose a significant danger to society and can be regulated accordingly. Some of the genetic traits courts have identified include: unpredictability of aggression, tenacity ("gameness" the refusal to give up a fight), high pain tolerance and the pit bull's "hold and shake" bite style.2 According to forensic medical studies, similar injuries have only been found elsewhere on victims of shark attacks.3

Purveyors of this myth also cannot account for the many instances in which pit bull owners and their family members are victimized by their pet dogs. From 2005 to 2019, pit bulls killed 346 Americans, about one citizen every 16 days. Of these deaths, 53% involved a family member and a household pit bull.4 Notably, in the first 8 months of 2011, nearly half of those killed by a pit bull was its owner. One victim was an "avid supporter" of BadRap, a recipient of Michael Vick's dogs.5
Related articles:

The fact you decided to just ignore this, together with your own little circle of tards, speaks volumes

I hear ya.

Half the time it seems the owner is the target of their own pet. That should be enough of an incentive to think twice.

As a female I wouldn't feel comfortable with a 'pet' I knew could kill me it chose to.

If it ever killed, maimed, or injured a child or someone's pet..I would feel enormous guilt..knowing exactly how it feels when you're just minding your own business and suddenly confronted by a mean dog.

You can show SOL this list. He will ignore the overwhelming fact of which dog is killing people and other animals. All he will have is personal experience and deflections to argue with. If you can look at this list and still argue that Pitt Bulls are not the problem and its something else then you are mentally ill. Usually the first response will be "so we should kill all the dogs on this list" which of course is deflection.

[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]

Pit Bull owners don't think the way you do. You have common sense and empathy.

Are you still here? Shouldn't you be reading all the stuff i sent you or are you too busy jerking off your Pitt?

Thank you Seer.

They are a strong breed and like any larger dog require knowledgeable training in order to be well adjusted and fully safe in society (small dogs require this just as much, despite the threat level being lower)

This takes time, dedication, patience and love.



I can confidently walk mine off-leash thru any situation (and have). I speak from experience with this.

They are not like any other large dog you spoon. If so then Lions are just like any other cat. Wolfs are just like any other dog. You walk your dog off-leash because like all Pitt owners you are a clueless and don't care about others. You'll do this until your dog kills some kid then you will blame the kid.
[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]

What I would like to know is the real history of the dog.
I'm not defending this pitbull, but I own a pit/lab mix that just turned 5.

I would like to know....

Were these the original owners?
Nowhere in the article does it state this, SO, you don't know if the dog had been properly raised/disciplined.

The mom states the pitbull was raised around kids and never showed signs of aggression. This in no way clarifies that it was raised with this boy.

More often than not, when you hear these stories, they are either dogs that someone acquired later and didn't raise them from birth. OR, the dogs are in a 2+ pack. Packs can always be unpredictable and dangerous in my opinion because they feed off each other's behavior.

Either way, kids don't know boundaries with animals and will often test limits like pulling tails, etc. So NO, they should NEVER be left unsupervised with pets, period.

Ah personal attack time!
At the bottom of the barrel for attacks are we?

Unethical website of the month award.



[link to ethicsalarms.com (secure)]

The outdated debate, "It's the owner, not the breed," has caused the pit bull problem to grow into a 35-year old problem.1 Designed to protect pit bull breeders and owners, the slogan ignores the genetic history of the breed and blames these horrific maulings -- inflicted by the pit bull's genetic "hold and shake" bite style -- on environmental factors. While environment plays a role in a pit bull's behavior, it is genetics that leaves pit bull victims with permanent and disfiguring injuries.

The pit bull's genetic traits are not in dispute. Many appellate courts agree that pit bulls pose a significant danger to society and can be regulated accordingly. Some of the genetic traits courts have identified include: unpredictability of aggression, tenacity ("gameness" the refusal to give up a fight), high pain tolerance and the pit bull's "hold and shake" bite style.2 According to forensic medical studies, similar injuries have only been found elsewhere on victims of shark attacks.3

Purveyors of this myth also cannot account for the many instances in which pit bull owners and their family members are victimized by their pet dogs. From 2005 to 2019, pit bulls killed 346 Americans, about one citizen every 16 days. Of these deaths, 53% involved a family member and a household pit bull.4 Notably, in the first 8 months of 2011, nearly half of those killed by a pit bull was its owner. One victim was an "avid supporter" of BadRap, a recipient of Michael Vick's dogs.

Phopefully this animal was put down

I have a lot of time, dedication and love invested in my pet too..and due my own PTSD from watching my dog get mauled to death as a small child..same breed as my current dog, if an unleashed pitbull comes up to my dog..even if friendly I may not be able to control my reaction.

Even if you are confident..people that don't know you..are not and may have underlying fear that cause them to overreact in said situations.

PTSD is real. So are the flashbacks, the nightmares, the lingering fear and avoidance.

When confronted again by that scenario, the reaction can be instant blind violence to quell the threat.

Not saying your dogs are a threat..I'm saying someone with PTSD that confronts an unleashed dog that fits a profile..can be.

lol written by Pittbull owner tards of America.

lol you found an opinion article. Fuck, guess i should pack it up and leave. TARD! LOL! Hold on, ill right a quick blog post and title it [link to ethicsalarms.com (secure)] wins the Unethical website of the DECADE award!

Typical Pitt owner using opinion again. Fuck off tard!

Yes yes, well done, Bravo, you've got me.
Utterly callous and unfeeling I am, with no direct knowledge in the subject of dogs, their raising and training, psychology or behaviour.

HAHA Please go to this site if you haven't. Read the comments! It's literally the same fucking argument as on this Thread! HA HA HA LOL.

Oh I understand. My base rule is if their dog is leashed, I will place mine on one and make sure their dog is friendly if we cross paths before interaction.

I've had people freak out at the Shepard before, perhaps the most amusing being a cop I helped apprehend a fleeing gent.

"I saw you run out and grab him and I thought "Brilliant!" Then I saw the giant dog and thought "oh god, please don't bite the guy!!"

I've had little dogs run up to mine, then had owners scream at me that my dog is dangerous when they notice there dog has run off (on or off lead makes no difference).

Fear can cause quite irrational responses.

This comments is a goldmine of evidence that Pitts are shit dogs lol.

[link to ethicsalarms.com (secure)]

the link in the comments for the peer received study. I'm reading it now. I assume you tards wont be?:
[link to www.avma.org (secure)]

You mean there's an opinion website, arguing your opinion website is wrong.

HAHA YES! But if you could focus on the part about the COMMENTS and not the Opion Article you would see your stupid is showing LOL

I would love to hear your opinion on this. Its not an opinion piece so it might be hard for you.
[link to www.avma.org (secure)]

I'm off for now. This is your chance to be right tards, i wont be here to respond!

Dont forget
[link to www.dogsbite.org (secure)]
[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]

Yup...he actually read the link he posted.

I tried to quote a few parts, something hit the ban filter.

Pit Bull Types

Owners of pit bull-type dogs deal with a strong breed stigma,44 however controlled studies have not identified this breed group as disproportionately dangerous. The pit bull type is particularly ambiguous as a "breed" encompassing a range of pedigree breeds, informal types and appearances that cannot be reliably identified. Visual determination of dog breed is known to not always be reliable.45 And witnesses may be predisposed to assume that a vicious dog is of this type.

It should also be considered that the incidence of pit bull-type dogs' involvement in severe and fatal attacks may represent high prevalence in neighborhoods that present high risk to the young children who are the most common victim of severe or fatal attacks. And as owners of stigmatized breeds are more likely to have involvement in criminal and/or violent acts46—breed correlations may have the owner's behavior as the underlying causal factor.

Aggressive Breeds

Based on behavioral assessments and owner surveys the breeds that were more aggressive towards people were small to medium-sized dogs such as the collies, toy breeds and spaniels.33,34,35,36,37 For example, a survey of general veterinary clientele in Canada (specifically practices in New Brunswick, Novia Scotia, and Prince Edward Island) identified Lhasa Apso, Springer spaniel and Shih Tsu as more likely to bite.43

While small dogs may be more aggressive their size means they are less likely to inflict serious bite injury except on vulnerable individuals or as part of a pack attack, which also allows dogs to seriously or injury healthy older children or adults.38,39 Referrals for aggression problems more closely approximate the breeds implicated in serious bite attacks, probably because owners are more likely to seek treatment for aggression in dogs that are large enough to be dangerous. Larger dogs (regardless of breed) are implicated in more attacks on humans40 and other dogs.41

The prevalence of particular dog breeds can also change rapidly over time, often influenced by distinct peaks of popularity for specific breeds. It seems that increased popularity is sometimes followed by increases in bite reports in some large breeds. For example there was a distinct peak in American Kennel Club registration of Rottweilers30 between 1990 and 1995, and they come at the top of the list of 'biting breeds' for the first time in studies of bites causing hospitalization in the late 90s and early 2000s

In her book Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon, author Bronwen Dickey writes that DogsBite.org accuses several organizations of being "co-opted by the 'pit bull lobby', a shady cabal that supporters of the site imply is financed by dogfighters."[14] In an interview with Psychology Today, Dickey says "The site's founder is also contemptuous of people in the relevant sciences, including those at the AVMA, the CDC, the Animal Behavior Society, etc. She refers to them as 'science whores,' which alone is enough to discredit her claims."[15]

In an article in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, R. Scott Nolen states that "DogsBite.org's claim that pit bull–type dogs were responsible for 65 percent of the deaths during that 12-year period (2005-2016) is disputed by some groups as inaccurate and misleading. The American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior, for example, says identifying a dog's breed accurately is difficult, even for professionals, and visual recognition is known to not always be reliable."[2]
[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]

[link to www.avma.org (secure)]

Thats from your link, the non-opinion piece.

So...end thread?

Very much so. Knowing a dog is aptly trained/friendly when it is coming toward you suddenly..is not something that can be gauged quickly by eyesight.

Little dogs can be mean too..they just don't kill/maim people on a regular basis like we're seeing with these events. I watch my dog at all times around other dogs and any small children. Like a hawk.

It's good to know about the people who influence your opinions. You might want to google, "Colleen Lynn - Seattle Animal Control Records
What Really Happened on June 17, 2007
The Evolution of a Preventable Accident to the Myth of a Vicious Pit Bull Attack"

Never mind, I'll do it for you. This is the famous Colleen Lynn dog attack which allegedly began her crusade.
[link to debunkingdogsbite.blogspot.com]