Another Pit bull attack

The truth is, I have lost several friends to motorcycle racing. Not one of them was an innocent bystander. Your analogy is patently ridiculous.

 

So we should take care of the this pesky group called humans right? After all they kill people on a regular basis. Can we euthanize them and stop them from reproducing?

 

Thats your issue..............you see cars kill people every day but you still own Two. Get it bud see what i did


Meet a few and see...you may just own one and may just save your life as Lots do and have done for many many years..

don't ever see a cocker spaniel waking up there pack members to get out of a burning house or look up Lilly the Hero Pitbull and let me know

 

Is it your intent to posit that humans are equivalent to dogs?

 

Mine are and family.....

 

Nobody was a passenger on a bike? Nobody hurt on the street when a car pulled out in front of them?

In the end it's no more the dog's fault than it is the motorcycle's. Large dogs (of any breed) are physically capable of killing a child, and ANY dog can be pushed to do so. Dog's don't have the brain power to premeditate an attack or have a personal vendetta against anyone or anything. They just react to their surroundings. You wouldn't let a little kid play with a gun would you? Gun accidents kill innocent people but do you allow them in your rentals?

 

some will never understand, or just can not face the truth.. are nearly all pit bull or similar dogs awesome? for sure! But when this breed decides "it's clobbrin time", that individual it set it's sights on is in for a horrific time.
People with babies should seriously consider not owning such an animal until. I just talked with a lady the other day at our injector shop. Jim was working on her kawi 636. She's a 49 yr old grandmother. Sitting at home, baby on the couch daughter outside. The pit that for 5 years had been the model family pet, lunged at the baby. She threw her arm out and the dog latched on. It took the daughter hitting the dog with a plastic whiffle ball bat and 2 neighbors to get the dog off her. The grandmother has had 9 surgeries on her lower arm and elbow. But had she not reacted, the baby might be dead. Nobody knows why the dog did this, and they raised it from a pup, but it was put down. THis lady is clearly still traumatized after 5 years of this happening. She showed me her tattoo on her arm and started talking about the scars, otherwise i never would have even know this occurred..
I have also heard of other breeds that as the dog got older, it's personality changed. My cousin on their farm had a large lab. Beautiful animal. But about age 8 or 9, for no apparent reason, turned very aggressive. Vet suspected a tumor on the brain.

I too won't have pits, large terriers, german shepherd, chow, etc. in my rentals. No way do i want to be complicit in a potential accident.

 

I get the rental thing - it's just numbers and apathy/CYA. There are PLENTY of potential renters that don't have large dogs so it's easy to just not allow them. It's also a monetary thing - large dogs make larger messes than small dogs, cats, or no pets at all, which ultimately means less expense/hassle for the landlord. What pisses me off is when a government bans a specific breed for no reason other an fear and misinformation.

 

No...most of them don't rank high enough to be a dog.

 

It is ridiculous from a down owner point-of-view but from a business standpoint it makes sense. It's also still the owner/landlord's house, so as long as he's not basing his decision on some sort of protected status (race, sex, etc) he's well within his rights to ban them if the market will bear it. When I was looking for a house in Nashville, lots were "no pet/no large dog", but it was rare for a house to sit un-rented for more than a few days. Go to a smaller town or one with a glut of rentals and there are a lot more pet-friendly options.

On the liability front, I'd be curious where that would fall depending the circumstances. Say a large dog got out of the fence and bit some kid. Would the landlord potentially be liable for not keeping the fence maintained well enough to keep the dog in?

 

Here's another major contributing factor with the misinformation and incorrect statistics surrounding Pitties:

http://nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com/uploaded_files/tinymce/Pit Bull ID Poster.pdf

I think the above may have been posted before in a previous Pit Bull rant thread here. With the exception of pup #7, you can be sure that if one of those dogs bit someone, the cops and the media would report it as a Pit Bull attack.

 

I'm not gonna take sides in the argument, but from a property owner's perspective, it isn't always a specific animal or breed. If the lease says not large dogs, odds are it is a matter of perception for neighbors and other potential liability sources. Lawsuits don't have to be valid to be expensive to deal with.