Pit Bull Week at the Huffington Post, a screaming success, with the emphasis on the screams. Updated AGAIN

As we have come to expect, the Huffington Post has again floundered into pit bull advocacy with their week long celebration of pit bulls currently in progress.

Pit bulls in the Carolinas apparently missed the memo on the festivities. Or, possibly this is how pit bulls celebrate.

Update - To add to the misery of Huffington Post's Pit Bull week we have sad news of the critical mauling of an 18 month old child in Fayetteville North Carolina last night.  The child was attacked while his grandfather stepped out onto the porch and his mother stepped out to speak to him.  The child is in very critical condition at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill.  The pit bull was euthanized. Child endangerment charges are possible. Video is available at the link, this was a massive pit bull.

Update 8/27/2015
Four Oaks North Carolina

Two people were injured in a pit bull attack at the Traveler's Inn.  When police arrived on scene they found the pit bull with it's jaws clamped down on a woman's arm.  Officers attempted to remove pittie from his victim but were not successful so they shot it.  One of the victims is in serious condition.  I suspect that the residents of North Carolina and of South Carolina will be delighted to see the end of the Huffington Post's Pit Bull Week. The link includes video of firemen hosing the blood off the parking lot.  One seldom sees this after Pug attacks.  

 
Still photo of the scene.

 

8/22/2015
Spartanburg North Carolina



Porsche Nichole Cartee, age 25, was killed by the family pit bull, inside the family home, while attempting to protect her mother from the berserking pit bull.  Spike, the pit bull, has been owned and loved by the Cartee family for 10 years.  Spike was euthanized after the attack.  A quote from GoUpstate "Authorities say the pit bull "just snapped" when it began attacking the mother. Cartee's sister was also injured. Her mother was hospitalized and her injuries may require surgery, while Cartee's sister received treatment on scene."

Keep that word "snapped" in mind, we will get back to it.  This was not Spike's first violent episode, he had attacked the victim's mother in the past resulting in hospitalization but this was not reported to local authorities in an effort to protect the dog.

More from GoUpstate "Beverly Powell, mother of the victim's boyfriend, said she advised the family to get rid of the dog after the previous attack. She also said she was once attacked by another pit bull in her own yard but managed to get away with no permanent damage so Cartee's killing hits close to home for her.

"The sadness is that I told Nicole's mother, ‘What is it going to take for you to get rid of this dog?' And now it's killed her daughter," Beverly Powell said.

Porsche Nichole Cartee


Spike the pit bull.



8/24/2015
Cathy Wheatcraft, age 48, of Davie County North Carolina was mauled to death by a pit bull.  Wheatcraft  was walking to the mailbox when she was attacked by her neighbor Latisha Young's pit bull, named Patch.  Sheena Truesdale, age 31, was attacked by Patch as well and is in stable condition at a local hospital. The attack was still in progress when police arrived on the scene, the pit bull was shot dead. Patch apparently escaped from Young's home through a window while Young was not at home.  Here is the official excuse "Young usually kept the dog in her home but on Monday a storm rolled through the Cooleemee area. Davie County Sheriff Andy Stokes said that may have riled the dog and caused it to escape from home through a window while Young was not at home."

Ms. Truesdale described the attack on Wheatcraft "“When I got out here she was just laying on her stomach; she had her hands above her head and her shirt was pulled up,” said neighbor Sheena Truesdale, 31, who soon became a second victim.

“I was like ‘Patch, go home,’ and he didn’t pay attention to me, he went on licking on the lady,” 

And more on the attack  " Truesdale said Patch was a good dog and she had no idea why it attacked; a testament which was echoed by Young’s mother, Frances Tyson.

“I got a call and it said that Patch had broken out the house and killed a lady,” Tyson said. “When I pulled up and I saw all the ambulances and stuff I’m like, ‘Oh my God.’ I said, ‘It’s true.’”

“Something caused him to snap, they don’t know what it was,” Tyson said. “I just pray that the Lord just touch each and every one that’s involved.”

It was a pit bull and it went pit and killed somebody.  Why are people still wondering why the damn things snap?

The same pit bull was declared a nuisance last May when it was also at large and attacked another dog.  Young was cited at that time for failure to vaccinate.


Cathy Wheatcraft, killed by her neighbor's pit bull.


Latisha Young, owner of Patches the killer pit bull.



8/25/2015
Greenville South Carolina
Teresa Wells was attacked by her sister's pit bull, named Bull, losing an arm and a kneecap.  The dog had to be shot off  the victim,  but Heather Perez,  stated to reporters that the dog was not aggressive, he was a "good dog."  Perez purchased Bull as a Mother's Day gift for her mother, Angela Kennedy.

I'm going to let Fox News tell this story.

Greenville deputies said they heard the dog ripped off one victim's arm while en route to the scene. When they arrived on scene, the victim was still being attacked as the dog continued to chew on her arm, according to deputies. Kennedy, the owner of the dog said she and Bull, as the dog was called, were sitting on a porch when her sister pulled up on a moped. Family members said Bull would often react to loud noises and those noises would scare him.

Kennedy said when her sister, Teresa Wells, got off the moped, then called Bull's name, the dog attacked her sister.

"When Teresa come back, I had him on the leash and she called him over and when she called him over there he grabbed her by her leg- and it was from then on. He wouldn't let her go, he ripped her knee cap off," Kennedy said.

An on-scene deputy put herself in harm's way and fired shots, killing the dog, according to officers. The deputy then tried to stop Wells' bleeding. In addition to losing a limb, she also suffered several leg wounds. 

Kennedy said she tried to stop Bull, but he then attacked her. She has several gashes and bite marks on her arms and legs, but suffered non life-threatening injuries. 

Greenville County spokesman Bob Mihalic said the dog attacked its owner, on her own property. Due to those facts, there is no charge that animal control officers could file in the case.




Click here for an interview with a witness.  

Click here for a statement by law enforcement.

Who gives their mother a pit bull for Mother's Day? "Not aggressive"?  "He was a good dog"?



Here is a map showing the locations of the fatal pit bull attacks on Porsche Nichole Cartee and Cathy Wheatcraft, plus the traumatic amputation pit bull attack on Teresa Wells, and for context includes the location of the July mauling pit bull mauling death of Joshua Strother.

Keep in mind that this is Huffington Post's Pit Bull Week.

In the bizarre world of  Huffington Post pit bull advocacy we are treated to quotes like this one from HuffPo's Arin Greenwood "Pit bulls are dogs. Just dogs. Gloriously, dogs. Like all dogs, they need love, socialization, supervision -- the whole usual shebang."

Greenwood goes on to classic pit bull talking points and hysteria about breed bans legally passed by communities using their home rule rights to protect peaceful citizens and violated by pit bull owners who claim to be unaware of local law.  For added color Greenwood tells the story of her family pit bull.  My guess is that the owners of Spike, Bull, and Patch would tell similar stories.

Arin Greenwood, Huffington Post blogger.  An experienced journalist with valuable insights on public policy?  Nope, I don't think so either.

There is a great deal more claptrap included in the daily HuffPo Pit Bull Week blog postings but you will have to go looking for it.  I will not post links.  The hysteria to place these dogs jumps off the screen. Pit bull dogs posted on websites with rescuers in other states feeling instant mystical connections, marshaling networks of transporters and temporary fosters in order to import a specific dog while countless very similar dogs are warehoused in a local shelter.  There is no sense or logic here.

Jean Keating, Ohio's pit bull advocate has stepped up to blog for the HuffPo and she tells the story of pit bull rescue from the inside, while beginning with premise that "you can't define what a pit bull is and we need to move away from breed labeling."  How can you run a breed specific rescue when you can't define the dogs?


A bit of background here.   It should be remembered that Keating's rescue, run out of her home, is considered a problem in her hometown.  She has been notified by city officials that she is in violation of city law limiting the number of dogs that may be kept.  Here is a quote from the wildly Keating supportive Toledo Blade "Resident Jean Keating questioned council recently on why she was told by Bob Oberly, zoning administrator, that she was in violation of a city ordinance limiting the number of dogs on a residential property. She told council she wanted limits on dogs removed from the code. “I think dogs are considered property, and people should have as many as they can care for," she told council at a recent meeting."  She went on "“Why do we need this? I could effectively manage eight or 10 dogs on my property,”  City code limits residential property owners to three dogs.     

Evidently Keating's neighbors do not share her opinion and don't think she can care for as many as she houses, the violation notification was sent to Keating because of a complaint by a neighbor but Keating demanded a change in local law to suit her personal preferences.  Apparently the city did not cave to Keating's demands.  Click here for a link to a July 2014 interview at Keating's rescue facility in what appears to be a commercial location.  On camera Keating makes the absurd claim that passage of HB 14 makes Ohio safer by allowing dog wardens to identify dangerous dogs before an "incident" but fact does not bear this out.  In the three years since the passage of HB 14 ten people have been killed by dogs (half of those by pit bulls).  In the previous DECADE?  Six fatal attacks in the state. A bill has been introduced into the Ohio Senate to clean up the mess created by the passage of HB 14. You can't make this stuff up. But I digress.   

Breed specific advocates would make better use of time, money, and effort by EDUCATING PIT BULL OWNERS TO NEUTER AND SPAY THEIR DOGS.  The only way the pit bull problem will be solved is by a drastic decrease in the numbers of pit bull produced and the peaceful public can't do that.  Only pit Bull advocacy can create a humane solution here.

The summary for this rambling post is this.  While the HuffPo's string of pit bull advocates are creating feel-the-love pit bull advocacy posts, women and children in the Carolinas are not feeling the love. Two of them are feeling nothing because they are dead, another will be learning to manage her life after the traumatic amputation of her arm and massive injuries to her leg.  A difficult transition for a woman who formerly tooled around town on a moped.

So far Pit Bull Week has not gone well.  Possibly the HuffPo might consider a Pug Week, or a Beagle Week for a bit less controversy, and blood.

Death and Excuses, part 3

Sadly, this is another Death and Excuses post.  Pit bulls have killed three more Americans since my last post just a month ago.  All three victims were children.  How many deaths will it take before legislators stop selling out to the special interest lobby of  breed specific advocacy? How many of these posts will be required before pit bull owners realize that it is inappropriate to use the mauling death of a human being as place to advocate for their deadly breed of choice?

Garland County AK
On June 9, 2013 five year old Ayden Evans was killed by a dog reported to be a Bullmastiff, which is a mastiff/pit bull cross.  Later reports from local officials calls the dog half mastiff and half pit bull.  For a bit more information on the history of "bulldogs" and pit bulls please click here.

Fox19 gives the basic information  the attack. ""The child was putting on some shoes and was crying and upset," said Garland County Deputy Scott Hinojosa.  "The dog possibly took that as being aggressive and at that time the child was attacked." 

Hinojosa said a 50-year-old woman named Lynnn Geiling owns the dog with her husband.  Lynn told police she tried to pull the dog off the boy, but by the time she got them separated the boy had injuries described by deputies as "major lacerations" to the head and neck.

He was pronounced dead at Mercy Hospital in Hot Springs.

Deputies said the boy and his two-year-old sister are from Moore, Oklahoma.  They'd been staying with the family friends for about two weeks while their parents tried to rebuild after their home was destroyed in the recent tornado.

After the attack the dog ran off but was later shot by a neighbor and is expected to be euthanized.  Later reports clarify the status of the child.  Per his mother's statement Ayden was staying with her sister for the summer and had been given permission to visit a neighbor.  There is no familial connection between Ayden Evans and the owner or family that harbored the dog.

A final quote from Fox16.  "After getting the news, Ayden's parent drove the six hours from Oklahoma to Arkansas to carry their son back home.

"From what we gather from the funeral director is that (Ayden) can't be seen. It has to be a closed casket. We still don't know the extent of the injury, we have to have him cremated," said father Greg Moore. 

Ayden's family is planning a service to remember him in Oklahoma. He would have entered kindergarten next fall.

"He should be home. I should not be taking him home in an urn," said Evans."

 
Ayden Evans, his mother is right, this beautiful should not have been taken home in an urn.

Unsurprisingly, Garland County AK is considering regulation of dangerous dogs.
7/2/2013 update, It appears that BSL is coming to Garland County.  If pit bull owners are unable or unwilling to control their dogs then they can expect to be regulated.

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June 17.2013
Union City CA  T

Six year old Nephi Selu, recent kindergarten graduate, was mauled  by a family pit bull and died several hours later at a local hospital.  The boy was staying in his grandparents home with extended family including seven cousins.  Early reports indicate the child was actively playing with the dog, a pit bull mix when he was bitten on the head.  Nephi's aunt, Iona Keanaaina stated the dog was  " "good with kids, very obedient, he was never allowed in the house, he stayed right at the door, so we never had any problems with him at all. It's a huge shock."

The dog was owned by  San Mateo Police officer, Kelala Keanaaina,  who is apparently being represented by Attorney Michael Rains.  Rains made a statement to NBC news that the attack was "almost inexplicable" because the dog had been around the children for two years without incident.  This is a pretty predictable comment after a pit bull attack that leads to the death of a child.  Per family reports Nephi and the dog were "best friends."  A family spokesperson has stated that family does not want the dog returned to them.

For more information on this attack please click here.



Nephi Selu with the pit bull that killed him.

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Effingham SC
June 25, 2013

Five year old Arianna Jolee Merrbach was mauled to death by a chained pit bull owned by a family member.  This makes the third pit bull fatality in South Carolina since the first of the year.  Animal Control seized three pit bulls from the home, the killer pit bull was humanely euthanized.

Herbie Christmas of Florence County Environmental Services made the following statement "Pitbull type dogs are in my opinion like a loaded gun, you need to treat it like a loaded gun, you need to make sure that people from the public can't get into that area, and most importantly, you need to make sure that your dog doesn't go to someone else's dog and cause that person injury," The animal in question was on a chain, and we do have a tethering ordinance in Florence County, which prohibits that activity."

 Neighbor Lulu Waddell contacted County Environmental Services about the pit bulls last year stating that she was frightened of them running loose in her yard which prompted the tethering of the dogs.  "I was afraid of them because I don't bother nobody's pitbulls, so when I called, they made them tie them up in the back." 



Arianna Jolee Merrbach in the loving arms of a family member.

For the death notice for this beautiful baby please click here.  Vocal pit bull promoters need to be reminded of the suffering caused by their poor choices.

An interesting side story here, Effingham SC is considering the relocation of another pit bull to a "rescue" in New York state.  This dog mauled a local child last year.  It is unlikely that a change of address will change the dog.  Please note that this DOG has a court appointed attorney.  The family of the injured child strongly opposes the re homing of the dog.


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These comments are from articles on the three deaths I have written about today.  Three dead children and these pit bull advocates feel that these remarks needed to be made?   It is a difficult time for breed specific advocates, what with sixteen Americans killed so far this year but "when in doubt, advocate" just looks ugly to the rational public.

American Pit Bull Terrier Assn Inc (NZ)

Here we go again - all the stiff necks exposing their ignorance.

Any medium breed is capable of breaking the bones in an adult human's forearms. 5lb lapdogs kill people. And here we have again the hysterically inflated 'statistics' taken from media reports stacked up by those with an agenda.

Let's just continue to ignore the science and qualified opinion and let the facts escape the notice of the public in the interests of selling copy and boosting ratings, and pushing the ideologies of those who would have a pet-free world.

Learn to spot the difference between the hate/fear-mongers and those actually qualified to make a statement. It's not hard to spot.

American Pit Bull Terrier Assn Inc (NZ)

The world is my backyard. Who are you anyway? The forum police. I'll visit and comment wherever I like!

Jim Crosby ·  Top Commenter

Once again the dog was destroyed in a hurry, with no need and apparently with no behavioral evidence gathered. Why can't we take our time and investigate these cases completely and correctly? EVERY case is different, and EVERY homicide, no matter what the weapon or cause of death, deserves a full investigation.

Theresa Matech · Follow · Animal Behavior College

First Of xxxxxx......Pitbulls Aren't Bred To Be Vicious It's The Irresponsible Owners Who Raise Them WRONG! You Don't See People Banning Or Singling Out German Shepherds Or Rottweilers And They Have Had Reports Of Killing People And Attacking People Or Dalmatians Who have Had Reports Of Aggression Towards Children! It's So Easy To Single Out A Breed And Attack Them Because The Fact Scumbags Raise Them Wrong For Fighting Purposes And Gives Them A Bad Name So The Dogs That Are Actually Raised Right Get Looked Down Upon. Its Pathetic! And That Child Should Have Not Been Left Unattended At All! Where Was The Parent? Seems You Are More Focused On Blaming The Breed Rather Then The Fact The Parents Weren't Even Watching Their Child Either!

Theresa Matech · Follow · Animal Behavior College

Yea xxxxxxxxl Your Forgetting About All The Other Breeds Who Have Been Reported For Attacking Kids And Killing Kids! Look Online For Other Breeds Who Have Killed Kids. I Have 2 Pitbull Bullmastiffs And They Are The Best Dogs I Have Ever Owned! I Know Tons Of People With Pitbulls Who Never Have Had Aggression Problems Or Reports Of Attacking Someone! So If You Wanna Ban Pitbulls You Gonna Ban Rotweillers Or Dobermans Or German Shepherds? How About Dalmations Which Are Known For Their Aggression Towards Kids? Its So Easy To Attack A Breed That Has Been Destroyed By The Media As A Viscous Dog. And People Like YOU Are The Ones That Feed The Fire More To Give Them Bad Names. You Can Preach All You Want About The Breed Being So Dangerous Cause That's What The Media Tells You! How Many Attacks Are Pure Breed Huh? How Do You Really Know The True Bloodline? You Know What The Media Says And You Listen To That Without Questions. If You Wanna Preach Bad Breeds Name All That Have Killed Kids On The List As Well Before You Single Out Just The Pitbulls. That Kid Should Of Been Supervised No Matter What Breed The Dog Was. If You Can't Keep And Eye On Your Kid You Shouldn't Have Kids In The First Place That Was Extremely Irresponsible Of These Parents But You Don't Take Note On That Just Blaming A Dog Though Right?

Phillip Matthews · Sales Trainee at Fastenal

xxxxxxxxxx It sounds like you're making the argument that because pitbulls have a higher attack rate than other species, they should be exterminated. First of all, I would like to reference you to a person named Adolf Hitler. The two of you have a lot in common. Secondly, let's look at some other statistics. An overwhelming percentage of criminals (human criminals) are from the same race. Therefore, would you argue that people of that specific race are natural born criminals and should be exterminated as well? Human psychology and dog psychology aren't very far off, so I guess your opinion is that people of a specific race are naturally bad... wait... you're starting to sound like a bigot for some reason.

Clay Hundenshire ·  Top Commenter · Virginia Tech

Amazing, huh!!! But no, pit bull biased doesn't exist. It's scientifically proven, that 95% of the time the media blames a pit bull, it has no American Pit Bull terrier DNA. Most of these dogs reported as pit bulls are look-a-like mutts. American Pit Bull Terriers rarely attack humans. You are more likely to be mauled by a lab than an American Pit Bull terrier. The media uses pit bull as a loosely generic term for the look of a dog, but people actually buy that it's a pit bull. media hype and misunderstanding is what it boils down to.

Clay Hundenshire ·  Top Commenter · Virginia Tech

haha.... BS Stats!!! You are not only an idiot for believing it, you are more of an idiot for announcing you believe in it.

Summer Cribb · Georgetown High School

I own 5 Pit bulls and I love them to the moon and back. Very gentle, kind, and they have never let me down. I give my condolences to the family, but I still think the dog is not at fault. The animal was on a chain by its self and the child came up to it. I very much love my dogs and I hope this does not continue to ruin their reputation.

Stephany Morris Scott

Really truly sad that all these people have anger and animosity of the fact of the matter being a dog is the killer. ANY bread of dog could be a killer it just so happens that cruel people have raised "pits" to be fighters because they are of such strong breeds. So that being said yes.....fighting is hidden way down in some pits bloodlines and some it is more aggressively shown than in others....but it still refers back to a reflection on its owners. Regaurdless of breed this is very saddening that no one was watching this little girl close enough to where she could still be here today!! Its also sad that not once have I ever seen as many discussions, like on this page, on a page of a rape charge or a pedofile incident. SO many people have their priorities in the wrong place and push forward their oppinions on the lesser valued problems. ....You better realize it all though, its all a sign of the times!

Most dog bites aren't even reported, unless its a pit bull, why they have higher stats than other breeds. Most people can't even correctly identify the breed, but hate the breed. Makes perfect sense

Mark M. June 12, 2013 at 2:23 pm

elissa Rimes · Works at Zookeeper

I FEEL SO BAD FOR THEM. BUT DUMB PEOPLE NEED TO STOP BLAMING THE BREEDS OF DOGS! I'VE HAD PLENTY OF PITS AND BULLDOGS BEFORE ITS ALL HOW YOU RAISE THEM.MY SO WAS ATTACKED BY A ROTTWEILER WHEN HE WAS 3. I DID NOT BLAME THE DOG.THE PEOPLE WHO WHERE KEEPING THE DOG LET THEIR NEPHEW BEAT HIM.HE WAS A SWEET LOVING DOG BEFORE THAT.AND THE DOG PROBABLY WAS PROTECTING ITS OWNERS. THE DOG MIGHT HAVE BEEN SCARED AND JUST FREAKED OUT.EITHER WAY I DO FEEL BAD FOR THEM BUT THE DOG SHOULDN'T BE PUT DOWN. AND CLOSE MINDED PEOPLE SHOULD NOT EVER BLAME A SPECIFIC BREED OF ANY DOG. JUST LIKE PEOPLE IT'S ALL ABOUT HOW THEIR RAISED.NOTHING IS BORN THAT WAY.

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Vin King - 6/11/2013 8:39 AM

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Welp, if the parents had trained their offspring to not throw fits, this wouldn't have happened and the poor dog wouldn't have to be put down. I blame bad parenting.

Ronnie Keith Van Zant • 20 days ago

• It's sad when a reporter who wants attention attaches themselves to two polarizing topics and uses the death of a child for the attention, and on top of that, doesn't actually research the facts before typing up an obviously misguided and nonfactual article. first she attached herself to the tornado story, then to pit bulls, all while using the death of a child to grab attention. Well, sorry to tell you Geetika, you chose the wrong group of people to try and slight in your attempts at attention. We will call you out on your BS reporting skills, your erroneous "facts," and your attempts at furthering the stigma of any type of dog. The attention you wanted is obviously not the attention you are getting and will continue to get until you correct your story with actual facts.

Taleisha • 20 days ago

• How is it the dogs fault? Dogs are raised to be vicious not born that way. It could just as well have been a sheperd, boxer, doberman or any other dog. Blame the owners not the animal, they are the ones that made him mean. I have a blue pit that is the sweetest thing alive and is awesome with my children.

Brandy Burns Carey • 20 days ago

• I am soo sorry for the loss of this child. But the dog did not attack because of its breed.. That is just stupid to even say, or blame it on why the dog attacked. The dog must have though the boy was hurting the woman. We need to stop putting sterotypes on breeds of dogs. Maybe the dog was sick and the yelling child over stimulated the dog and he just snapped. Rip little buddy, let the lord take you under his wing, and show you how to comfort your family from above.

Nick Openshaw

• In 2004, 311 of 578 (53.8%) children under the age of five were murdered by their parents in the US. Parents kill roughly 15 times more children than pits do people each year. You're making a mountain out of a mound. I can go find countless causes of death more common that a pit attack

• You would think parents would be held to a higher standard, huh? If you didnt like that one, maybe you'll like this one ---- "There were 28 lightning fatalities in 2012 in 17 states." Thats more than pit bull fatalities for the same year. Therefore, you are more likely to die by lightning than a pit bull. You can quote me on that

EulaFrey

12:41 PM on June 20, 2013

What ever happened to responsible journalism? Henry K. Lee, the use of your source regarding the number and percentages of dog bite fatalities automatically renders your article useless and nothing more than garbage. That site was created in response to Colleen's experience after she ran up on a dog walker and a dog on a narrow path and spooked the dog. The dog paid with his life and she gets her kicks by contorting facts. What she cannot do is face the fact that she is responsible for the event in the first place. Please do your homework before using such trash and discrediting yourself in the process.

adios_pelota

7:41 PM on June 19, 2013

Prepare: Here come come the reactionary kindergarten cops who want to tell me about the dogs they don't understand. They're usually the ones that come out to say we should ban everything they read in a tragic story.

It's amazing that no one wants to hold the owner responsible in these cases. My dog is a reflection of the environment, training and socialization I have provided for her. She also happens to be a Staffordshire. From day one she has been exposed to children and other dogs and treats them with respect the way I have taught her. So before you say we should ban a breed think about the number of bad parents that are out there. There's easily that many horrible neglectful dog owners. Usually it's these idiots that adopt a bully breed. It's usually for the wrong reasons. It sometimes ends badly.

I know I'm gonna get your thumbs down for sticking up for such a polarizing animal, but before you do you should know I've got a finger up for you.

adios_pelota

10:13 PM on June 19, 2013

Chicken_Bacon - You really want to check out my junk?!? You know you can get random hookups for that kind of thing on Craigslist.

wassupwithyou - Really? If anything I was suggesting that Chicken_Bacon is a creeper that wants to check out my junk. As far as the finger goes, I reserve that for people I disagree with. Usually they're driving like idiots in front of me, but sometimes it goes out to folks like you. If that makes me a tough guy, than your bar for such things is set a bit low.

Clay Hundenshire ·  Top Commenter · Virginia Tech

Yeah, yeah, yeah..... More DBO propaganda. You're nothing but a puppet xxxxx. I see you pasting the same old nonsense every single day. Any canine expert will tell you to your face you're wrong.

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Clay Hundenshire ·  Top Commenter · Virginia Tech

Thanks guys. You do acknowledge that 15 states now have outlawed BSL. More states to come. Stay tuned!!! Who's losing the battle? Vets and canine behaviorists stand behind it. Wonder why these experts don't blame breeds. Could it be that they understand that any dog can kill a kid. I think they do. Besides, you haters just defeat yourselves with all of the babble and lies. Your small, obnoxious group provoked people from placing anti-BSL laws. You are too blind to realize that, and rather than encourage responsible behavior, which prevent injuries, you make the dog more taboo, which it becomes more desirable. We all know not all breeds are for everyone, but when you make a dog taboo, you advertise the heck out of the dog. Do you truly want public safty, or do you want more people owning large breeds that aren't responsible. Bully breeds are not going to go away at all, as we can see in recent years with anti-BSL. You guys are just so tunnel minded and wrapped up in your own agenda, you don't see the reality of it all.

Lee Huggins ·  Top Commenter

Bob Cronk xxxxxxxxx a scumbag bottom feeder and nothing more, they never blame the true cause of this attack not anyother attack and they never will. This is one reason their side and BSL are beng crushed over the past 3 years

Lee Huggins ·  Top Commenter

xxxxxx paste this same paragraph over and over. guess he is too drunk to type something new

Clay Hundenshire ·  Top Commenter · Virginia Tech

Really folks, bans, which you desire, are not going to happen. Face it, you are losing the battle. If you do not want people getting attacked by dogs, then focus on another alternative, because you aren't doing anything but whining and telling lies to try to get a ban. Not going to happen, so what's your next step?

Karen,

Not sure who you are referring to as far as celebrating, but every time something happens like this, these DBO freaks (you are probably one also, because you used the made up term "nutter"), get so hard so they can spew their nonsense. Well, the DBO thing and people aren't doing anything but creating opposition of their agenda, and since it stifles their efforts completely, they should come up with something new. What if the US took Calgary's approach, which has no BSL, and has the least amount of incidents. Seems to work really well, and no one is offended or will fight that, so why not go with what works. Not many people are for bans anymore, as we can see BSL being outlawed left and right, and existing BSL being repealed. You folks can keep doing what you do, as you probably will, but as we can all see, it's not working in your favor one iota. Good luck

Bob Cronk ·  Top Commenter · Atco, New Jersey

Lets see the link...funny I always thought a pit bull was a type of dog... so what was the 80 percent.. american staffy... abpt... be specific... or it makes you look like a f*** stupid hater..

Bob Cronk ·  Top Commenter · Atco, New Jersey

Denise you are dumb a** a pit bull is a type of dog not a breed. and there are plenty of dogs with stronger jaws like a Rotti and GSD.

Lee Huggins ·  Top Commenter

Funny all the haters run and hide once we come to tell the TRUTH huh?

Lee Huggins ·  Top Commenter

xxxxxxx and it is your side that hopes and wishes and celebrates attacks just to push your failing agenda, FACT is you only care about pit victims instead of the other 1,000 dog attack victims that require ER attn. every single day in the US. go hang out with your boy xxxx at the drug motel

Lee Huggins ·  Top Commenter

Californians for Regualting Pit Bulls Ummm over 6 breeds of "family dog' have done this kind of thing this year. Actually over 2,100 did today alone

Mary Bishop Olson ·  Top Commenter

here we go again...did you know that mexicans were bred to make taco's? it has nothing to do with what they are taught...they come straight from the womb ..with a corn husk in thier hands...

Charity Mundt

Sad but the owners here are sad not caring about what happens to the dog. What a shame

Mary Bishop Olson ·  Top Commenter

I don't see anyone blaming the victim here..but I have seen you people from dogsbite.org blaming the victim when the parent refused to drink your kool aide....and have gone as far as turning them in to social services and stalking them..that old propaganda that we blame the victim has been used and abused by your group for far too long...xxxxx you understand very little about dogs...or you would know..there is no such thing as meeeen genes...unless you can provide a link from a reputable source..no one will ever take you seriously..I am so sorry for that little boy.. and what his parents are going through...shame on you xxxxxx and shame on all of you dogsbite people for jumping on this like like vultures on a dead rotting carcass all you care about is your genocidal agenda...

Lee Huggins ·  Top Commenter

once againj xxxxxx you must be drunk or lockd up in a hotel room with xxxxxxi smoking crack

Lee Huggins ·  Top Commenter

Ummm aren't you a registered sex offender Chris?

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