Neighbors - Do you have control of your dogs? Time for a posse...

[Dftodd]

German Shepherds are responsible for a lot of *bites* but not deaths. They don't seem to *snap* and turn into killing machines like pits and rottweilers and a couple other breeds. Go ahead and actually read the compendiums of dog attack stories and you'll end up with PTSD. And there are recurring themes there.... "Was a member of the family....no problems for years....then it just snapped and ate someone."

There's a reason the shelters are full of pits. And believe me I also have sympathy for these overbred, misbegotten creatures; they didn't ask for this. People who choose to put themselves and their families at risk by owning breeds that are known killers in the hope that theirs is an exception, well that's Darwinism at work. I just ask you to keep them secured at all times.

I was bragging on my kids pit the other day. But, after last night there is no more bragging. Grandkids were home alone when the pit who is around a year old tore into there 3yo blue healer.

Tore the healer apart in front of the Grandkids.

Daughter in law was at work when the kids called and an hour away. Sons out of town for work for 2 weeks.

Daughter in law called a friend who lived down the road. He went up with his fiance. She consoled the kids, he grabbed both dogs and hauled them off. Wife told me about it this morning when our daughter in law texted her about it. Told my wife, that if he hadn't done what he did last night, I was fixing to leave work and take care of it while the kids were at school.

 

[atsah]

I was bragging on my kids pit the other day. But, after last night there is no more bragging. Grandkids were home alone when the pit who is around a year old tore into there 3yo blue healer.

Tore the healer apart in front of the Grandkids.

Daughter in law was at work when the kids called and an hour away. Sons out of town for work for 2 weeks.

Daughter in law called a friend who lived down the road. He went up with his fiance. She consoled the kids, he grabbed both dogs and hauled them off. Wife told me about it this morning when our daughter in law texted her about it. Told my wife, that if he hadn't done what he did last night, I was fixing to leave work and take care of it while the kids were at school.

Luckily this isn’t a another horror story, but it could have been, I’m sure it was for the kids..

 

[bigtiller]

This is when I started carrying a .38 on my afternoon walks. lab/terrier mix.

 

[atsah]

I don’t mess around either, my firearm have become part of my daily attire, dogs, moose and drug addicted lunatics, I would rather have it and not need it then not have it and need it.

 

[goeduck]

I was bragging on my kids pit the other day. But, after last night there is no more bragging. Grandkids were home alone when the pit who is around a year old tore into there 3yo blue healer.

Tore the healer apart in front of the Grandkids.

Daughter in law was at work when the kids called and an hour away. Sons out of town for work for 2 weeks.

Daughter in law called a friend who lived down the road. He went up with his fiance. She consoled the kids, he grabbed both dogs and hauled them off. Wife told me about it this morning when our daughter in law texted her about it. Told my wife, that if he hadn't done what he did last night, I was fixing to leave work and take care of it while the kids were at school.

I have heard this same story many, many times, people thinking their pit would be okay in social situations. I would never own a pit. Too bad, since the dog used to be called the nanny dog until wackos bred them to be fighting dogs. I hope the heeler survived and that the pit was put down. It could have been one of the grandkids....

 

[2LaneCruzer]

This is when I started carrying a .38 on my afternoon walks. lab/terrier mix.

My old secretary, before I retired, has a brother who is a plastic surgeon. She told me that the major part of his practice was replacing noses, primarily of children, that were bitten of by dogs.

 

[D2Cat]

My old secretary, before I retired, has a brother who is a plastic surgeon. She told me that the major part of his practice was replacing noses, primarily of children, that were bitten of by dogs.

It makes a good conversation starter, but I bet most plastic surgeons keep busy trying to improve the bodies of women in general!!

 

[Sigarms]

In my experience, the most aggressive dogs are Chihuahua's. I have never met a docile Chihuahua.

Nice to know LOL Out of all the dogs I've ever worked with, I've come to the exact same conclusion you have, but people think I'm joking.

Would we go out of our way to "get" any dog? No. That said, after my first American Staffordshire Terrier that we got by luck of th draw, my opinion on the breed changed drastically.

Likewise, I love beagles as well. Our mix that I found at a gas station on a hot 100 degree summer day in NC as a pup that someone apparently left abandoned.

 

[Sigarms]

My old secretary, before I retired, has a brother who is a plastic surgeon. She told me that the major part of his practice was replacing noses, primarily of children, that were bitten of by dogs.

Breast implants due to breast cancer is HUGE business.

 

[Sigarms]

I just ask you to keep them secured at all times.

The reality is that ANY dog that has a master should be secured at all times. The added reality is people even on this forum own dogs and let them roam without supervision.