So my kid and I are finishing up some baseball practice today, when two guys, a woman, and two little kids come up with their unleashed pitbull. The dog proceeds to run straight at my kid growling. I yell at the dog, and it proceeds to come over at me and growl. At this point I ask the douchebag who is just standing their watching to "control your dog, please." Admittedly, I didn't use my "friendly" voice, but I was still pretty surprised by his response of "she's friendly"--while she continued growling at us. He then went on--without taking one step toward controlling his dog--to tell me she's never bitten anyone. He didn't take me seriously until I told them we were not going to be the first and grabbed a bat out out equipment bag, positioning myself between the dog and my kid--who was a bit scared the whole time--and staring right at him. Now naturally, at this point he apologized and ran over to put the legally required leash on his dog. Oh...wait...no--he proceeded to swear at me and tell what an idiot I was for overreacting to a pitbull growling at my kid. I'm glad I didn't have to bash the dog in the head, but I wouldn't have minded introducing this yahoo to Mr. Easton.

Anyway, what is it that makes people think that--since their dog doesn't bite them--it won't bite other people? And why in the world do they expect other people to take that chance? I've never met anyone who said "watch out, my unleashed dog bites," yet I'm pretty sure people still get bitten by dogs. This whole trend of needing to take your dogs with you everywhere you go baffles me. The trend of ignoring leash laws (not to mention laws about clean-up), is just downright infuriating.

If you don't understand how singling people out because of their pets iis the first step toward discrimination, then I won't be able to explain it to you.

If you are truly interested in understanding people different than yourself, you will stop trying to lump them into stereotypes and try to understand individuals rather than groups.

Huh??
What are you talking about
I prefer cats

That would have been funny if you didn't misspell "iis." Let's see a little more effort.

I don't want to put in more effort. I was simply using your words and had a slight error when I had to edit it for context.

Wow--I thought the Stalin image was just an avatar, but apparently it's a symbol for your sense of humor...

Yeah, I hate that kind of people who think everyone understands their dogs. Maybe that guy was confident he had given his pet the proper care, but he needs to understand a lot of people don't and their dogs wind up causing harm to others. It's almost like flashing a gun for everyone to see and then getting close to others, then expecting everyone to know he won't mishandle it.

the fact you felt the need to tell us it was a pit bull tells me you have a prejudice towards the breed itself. to me it seems like you considered its actions dangerous because of its breed more than anything.

I have a prejudice against dogs growling at my kid--go figure? And by the way, storytelling 101 says include all the relevant details. Since I told you there were two men, one woman, and two kids does that mean I'm prejudiced against pentads?

i didn't see you caring enough to mention the race of the people involved so why inform on the breed of the dog unless you wanted to make it sound more dangerous based on preconceived notions of a pitbull. if it was a golden retriever i feel strong you would of left the breed out because no one considers them a dangerous breed. hell my hound growls when we play cause thats just how dogs act. were the kids with the dog owners around the same age as yours? perhaps he plays with them in that manner? you took it as a hostile action when by all rights if the dog was hostile he would of done something not stood there in an otherwise defensive posture. does a dog charging in and then stopping and acting defensive for no reason sound right to you?

you were right to take precaution but you failed to read the situation after the initial "attack".