A fucking aggro Belgian shepherd once grabbed a kid in my old neighborhood. A girl slammed it with a metal stick from their garden until it let go. Took quite some beating.

This shit does happen, and if a dog were to grab one of my family members, I'd probably try and kill it.

yeah if it actually attacked but are you seriously going to beat a dog with a bat because it growls at you? let alone beat its owner with a bat for it growling at you?

I wouldn't do it if it were only growling, but if the owner wouldn't leash it, I wouldn't mind threatening him.

the computer screen is mightier than the sword



dude. i'd kill it without question. or beat the shit out of it till it stopped moving. but the dog growled. hardly warrants hitting it over the head with a baseball bat. and even if it did, most people would be reluctant to act on their initial impulse to do so. smashing a skull with a baseball bat is not something which is easily unseen.

This post was edited by zeratul87 on Apr 3 2011 02:58pm

This post reeks of ignorance.

Pitbulls are feared more because they are a powerful breed not necessarily because they are aggressive.
Think about it, when a pitbull bites someone it is a big deal. When a small dog bites someone nobody cares.
Attacks by small dogs are far outnumber attacks by pitbulls, yet they receive no attention in the media. They have less devastating results and far less people will go out of their way to report an incident with a small dog.

The quality of owners of all types of dogs is quite low from my experience. I own a pitbull and my dog has been attacked multiple times. Not once has it fought back. My dog has been trained to be non-aggressive and it trusts that I will handle any situation as long as I am there.

The conditioning a dog receives in one's care is more important than the breed itself. A person who claims knowledge on this subject should know this.

I would say legislation for pitbulls is not because of the breed.
It is to curb the behavior of the owners who have no business owning something they cannot control.

ya see what you're saying is understandable for the situation. the other dude is trying to act like an internet badass pretending like he would beat the own and the dog even though no one was actually hurt from the dog.

There are racial tendencies. And the truth is that a Stafford will go for a child sooner than a lab.

I've known wonderful huskies, shepherds and the like. Big dogs aren't necessarily evil, but you always have to be watchful when there are children around, no matter what breed of dog you have.

/claps

Breed specific legislation is the states/country way of being as lazy as can be but appearing to be doing something.
Instead of addressing the issue, the dumbass dog owners, they ban the breed.
Problem with that is the dumbass dog owner will find another breed to be a dumbass with.
Most people don't realize but a chow chow or shepard is more likely to attack a person than a pitbull.



What truth is this? because pitbulls do not have a natural aggression towards humans unless their owners didn't train the dog correctly.
The truth of the matter is that the majority of pitbulls are fine, otherwise they'd be all over the news.
Instead you get these rare sensational stories where the media completely blows it out of proportion and uses completely flawed statistics to place the blame on.
Had you said the truth is that a untrained stafford will go for another dog sooner than a lab, then you would've been closer to the truth due to the breeding of the dog.

This post was edited by Arsenic_Touch on Apr 3 2011 03:16pm

I assume this is directed toward me. I actually thought we were having an intelligent debate, but now I realize you don't even care about the dog, or the child, but rather you just want to attack my character.