Yeah. Absolute nightmare fuel.

As a runner I spend a lot of time on the street. I haven't been threatened frequently, but whenever a dog comes after me the moron owner always says that.

Well, guess what? I've never sued anyone into extreme poverty, but if you're too stupid to leash your dog, I guess that'll be two firsts. I've been charged by dogs enough that I will absolutely get a late-night lawyer and sue you for everything I can get. I've lost patience with stupid owners.

The last time it happened to me was terrifying. A biggish dog was going to kill me until the stupid owner sprinted up and grabbed it. And then two hours later when I passed by the house on the way home, the dog was still running loose. That idiot is going to fund my retirement at some point.

Now, I probably should carry mace, but it happens infrequently enough that it's hard to justify carrying something around on every run. But this is reminding me that I should. Plus, I guess it'll train the dogs if the owners are too stupid to do so.

I've actually been charged more often than I probably remember. But if a dog charges me on a leash, the owner's good and they can always stop it. I did have a woman almost go down when she was walking two labs and one of them went insane when I ran by 30 feet away from her. But she hung on, so I tip my hat to her.

Of my three scariest incidents, two were labs, which surprises me. But labs are so common that I guess even a low attack incidence will produce a few problems due to sheer numbers.




We had a pit bull ban in Denver until about 18 months ago. Everyone seems to have one now, and these aren't thugs. They're pretty normal-looking (usually young) people. I have two theories behind this:

1. There was sweet and sad violin music for years about the ban and how it unjustly punished a lovable breed. I think that might have convinced a lot of the younger population that pit bulls are sweeties who have been persecuted, and now we're seeing a population boom by those people in an attempt to atone.

2. The modern internet culture makes it cool to go against advice, recommendations, and common sense. So maybe it's cool now to get a pit bull to show that "no one can tell me what to do".

I'm sure there's an appeal to thugs as well, but I live in a low-thuggery neighborhood so I don't see that.

With good owners, I suspect that most owners will be fine, and probably 1 percent of owners will get totally screwed because their dog will "never do that before" until it decides one day to maul a person.

there is but not sure its enforced. Mayor does all he can to look the other way from the hood

This is ****ing terrible. And these two tards look like the poster children for "My pittie cupcake wouldn't hurt a fly".

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Right, it’s always “well MY dog would never do that”

Probably the worst thing I've read here. :(

If you can get behind an attacking pit bull (easier said than done) they're one of the easier dogs to asphyxiate. You can just pull back on the collar and they'll go to sleep. Two dogs is a wrap though. Looks like the owners had the dogs before they had kids. Didn't do a good job of seperating the kids from the shitbulls. Unnecessary tragedy.

Terrible story.

My thoughts:

I don't have any issue with pits or any other breed, but you need to be able to control your animal at a moment's notice; therefore, I would not endorse having larger breeds of dogs around small children with only a weak man or woman present.

It sounds like the mother here did her best but I question her strength and decision-making. Laying on a child with two ferocious 40-65 pound dogs trying to kill her is just not a good choice. If the dogs had the child in their jaws, she should have been choking, kicking or stabbing the shit out of those animals. If they didn't have a hold of them, she needed to get them off the ground immediately. If she could have gotten them on the kitchen counter, she could have bought some time to get things situated.

Generally speaking, physical incompetence, especially in dealing with "wild" domestic animals really upsets me. Any viral video of an out-of-control dog or cat is bound to involve a handful of weak ass people just standing around having no clue how to handle the situation.

While your post is well thought out and is ideal, the one major flaw in your argument is "controlling" your pets.

What we see all too often, including this story, are that the pitbulls loose control and owners have no ability to get them to stop.

Those parents will be in therapy for the rest of their lives. If one of them was against the pets on the first place, divorce court and hate will be first on the agenda.

I can't even fathom seeing your two small children being mauled and torn apart by two dogs.

There is nothing positive from this, not a single thing.

Pittbulls kill 2 year old and 5 month old
 

I understand that you can't mind control your animal at all times. What I mean by control is being able to end the threat quickly if a situation like this arises. Emphasis on the "ability to get them to stop."

Cats are not very big, but they're assholes and will not hesitate to scratch or claw at an infant if it invades their space. For that reason, I'd say you should not have a cat with an infant/toddler around. If you do, you need to be ready to punt the shit out of the cat in a heartbeat.

On a similar note, pit bulls aren't as temperamental as a cat, but they're far more dangerous if that kill switch is suddenly flicked for whatever reason. Knowing that, controlling your pit bull, Rottweiler, German Shepherd, etc. would mean putting an end to the violence.

This woman was incapable of doing so. A lot of people are incapable of doing so.

Cats aren't killing babies, pitbulls are.

If some owners are able to stop an attack from becoming lethal, then that means pitbulls are even MORE lethal than the stats suggest because there could easily be more deaths.

Just sold my Pitbull concert tickets. I won’t be supporting anyone that harms kids. **** that guy!

Terrible story.


If you own a trailer park dog, I generally assume you’re a trailer park person.