MY DOG WAS ATTACKED BY 2 PITBULLS TODAY

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krichardson said:
My Spartacus almost ended him as he throttled him and had him pinned down within minutes of breaching my property line.The owner literally had to pick him up and carry him back home.
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Thekid said:
I would tell the owner he's been warned.

The thing I'm having trouble with when finding a new breed is the lifespan of the larger breeds. My friend had two Great Danes and neither lived to see their 8th birthday. My German Shepard will be 10 in March but has blood cancer and is living day by day. It's sad that all the dogs I listed were all bred by credible breeders. My girls breeder suffered from a stroke and had to surrender all his dogs. My old sheltie was pedigree perfect to breed standards but at 13 he got lymphoma and keeled over half way through chemotherapy.
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my friend's Pitbull died just before it's 17th birthday........


.....and it was from a gas leak inhalation, not old age or natural causes. My oldest just turned 11 in November and he still acts the same as when he was a puppy. Full of energy, always excitable, licks your face, roughhouses with his mate and daughter.....and me. Raised him in a house with kittens, cats, an alligator and a Burmese python. Talk about socialized lolol

There are a lot of good choices for mid-sized dogs that live long....have you checked out the other "Bully" breeds? I also own American Bulldog, but there are also English Bull Terrier and Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Boxer, English Bulldog as well as American Staffordshire Terrier for starters. I love Husky, Malamute, Eskimo-Spitz, Border Collie, Labrador, Old English Bulldog, Mastiff, Irish Wolfhound, Elkhound, Akita, .....and of course Shepherd and Sheltie - I think everyone loves those 2
 
Frank Castle said:
There are a lot of good choices for mid-sized dogs that live long....have you checked out the other "Bully" breeds? I also own American Bulldog, but there are also English Bull Terrier and Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Boxer, English Bulldog as well as American Staffordshire Terrier for starters. I love Husky, Malamute, Eskimo-Spitz, Border Collie, Labrador, Old English Bulldog, Mastiff, Irish Wolfhound, Elkhound, Akita, .....and of course Shepherd and Sheltie - I think everyone loves those 2
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My uncle has an English bulldog. It's a tank but it suffers from over breeding traits. The back elbow got so bad they were considering euthanasia or amputation for it. But the weight distribution Is 80% front 20% back so she manages with pain killers.

I might go for a springer spaniel so I have a pheasant hunting buddy. It'd be a different challenge for me and they're high energy and I can hone my skills in dog training...
 
Thekid said:
So what you're saying is that if 72 people out of 100 were killed by hand guns, we should ban hand guns and ignore the fact that 28% of the people killed were from shotguns and rifles?
Wouldn't it make more sense to ban all guns?

What about the rest of the people who responsibly owned a gun and have had the self control to not kill someone? Why not reward them for not getting into trouble instead of punishing them for something that they weren't part of?
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Hello; Sorry but this analogy doesn't add up. By that I maean comparing non living objects to a self directed living being.

The point is that there is a much higher incidence, by a large percentage, of fatal attacks by an identifiable type ( breed) of dog. If i recall correctly the pit bulls make up about 5% of the total dog population, yet are responsible for around 67% of fatal maulings. This is a significant set of numbers not to be wished away by a persons affection for their particular dogs.

Not sure about these numbers but I seem to recall something like 80 million dogs being around from some source. Five percent of that will be several millions of pit bulls. That no where near all of them attack people is understood. Most do not kill people is also understood. But they do lead the statistics by breed in fatal attacks.

The question arises. How can someone tell the difference between a good one and a bad one?
 
Thekid said:
My uncle has an English bulldog. It's a tank but it suffers from over breeding traits. The back elbow got so bad they were considering euthanasia or amputation for it. But the weight distribution Is 80% front 20% back so she manages with pain killers.

I might go for a springer spaniel so I have a pheasant hunting buddy. It'd be a different challenge for me and they're high energy and I can hone my skills in dog training...
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LOL you REALLY wanna cut your dog-training teeth, try training a Jack Russell terrier. Crazy little nuts.....OMG, they're INSANE

skjl47 said:
The question arises. How can someone tell the difference between a good one and a bad one?
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By the owner
 
skjl47 said:
Hello; Sorry but this analogy doesn't add up. By that I maean comparing non living objects to a self directed living being.
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I'm pretty sure it adds up. It's using your idea of banning one problem. The pitfall of that is there's going to always going to be a new "top killer".

It's like when I was taught about how to control my anger when I was little. My dad took me into the woods and gave me a stick, he said that the sticks left end poked me in the eye and that I could hurt the stick in revenge by breaking off the end. When I did he asked where I could find the left end at I pointed at the pice laying on the ground but he pointed out that there was still a left end where I had just "removed" one. You can either go with knee jerk reactions or you can think about something logically and solve the problem.
 
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Frank Castle said:
LOL you REALLY wanna cut your dog-training teeth, try training a Jack Russell terrier. Crazy little nuts.....OMG, they're INSANE

By the owner
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There was at the humane society that would climb it's cage walls and use its bed as a trampoline. I think I would try it if I could get an adderal perscription for one..
But then I'd just have a mini border collie.
 
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Thekid said:
I'm pretty sure it adds up. It's using your idea of banning one problem. The pitfall of that is there's going to always going to be a new "top killer".

It's like when I was taught about how to control my anger when I was little. My dad took me into the woods and gave me a stick, he said that the sticks left end poked me in the eye and that I could hurt the stick in revenge by breaking off the end. When I did he asked where I could find the left end at I pointed at the pice laying on the ground but he pointed out that there was still a left end where I had just "removed" one. You can either go with knee jerk reactions or you can think about something logically and solve the problem.
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That was a good one. Do you still have both eyes?
 
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