Ming did what he had to do. He had to do a terrible thing, but he had no other reasonable options left to him.
And watching his own dog die was not a reasonable option. Good he had the knife, and good he was physically able to take control of the situation.
The fault lies on the owner of the dogs. No dogs should be left out in the open without a leash or in another way unrestrained.
An owner of trained pig dogs should know better. I hope he is prosecuted.
Stupid owners get once good dogs into trouble because of the own idiocy.
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68shakenbakemopar wrote,
A lot of states are beginning to euthanize all pit bulls, unfortunatly not their owners.
Not sure how this thread got turned into
yet another ignorant "I hate pitbulls and their owners" collection of idiot rantings , but somehow it did. As usual. This time even here in the general knife discussion forum.
Ming's description of the dogs are as pig dogs. They might have some pitbull in them, as Ming said, but there are a lot of different breeds in them.
The most popular breed for pig hunting is the Dogo Argentino, which might look a lot like a pitbul, but it certainly is not.
Not that most people even know what a pitbul looks like. Today any dog that attacks is immediately called a pitbul, whether or not it was infact that specific breed.
But hey, who cares about the truth when we have an entire breed of dog to mass murder for the fun of it.
Because of ignorant dumbasses like you they're killing innocent pets.
You know, the first facial transplant was for a woman in france who got her face mauled off by a Retriever. Not sure how forcebly taking and murdering innocent pitbulls would have helped that, or all the other examples of other dogs attacking people.
Any dog can be dangerous when it's treated badly, or if it hasn't had the right training or care.
http://www.safety-council.org/news/sc/1999/dogbites.htm
Breeds that bite
In the Netherlands, the breeds responsible for the most bites were Rottweiler (20 per cent), and Golden and Labrador Retriever (15 per cent). CHIRPP ranked the most common breeds causing a bite injury as German Shepherds, Cocker Spaniels, Rottweilers and Golden Retrievers.
Pit bulls were bred to fight and kill. So who would own such an animal? You cant train that out of a pit.
Like the name suggests they were bred to fight bulls. Also used to fight other dogs.
I have first hand experience in the fact that if you socialize a pitbul well it won't have any problems with new dogs.
As for other animals, no problem. All my pits, and my parents pits, were imediately best friends with our cats. ALL our cats, and ANY AND ALL NEW cats that we present to them. I have NO worries about presenting ANY new cat to ANY of our pits, without guarding or holding the cat in my arms. Our dogs immediately love all cats. In general our pitbulls, and all the pitbulls I've come across have not shown any aggression towards anything or anyone.
Aside from owning pits I've been involved in pitbul rescue for years now, will a lot more in the future, so I do know a few things about these dogs.
My parent's red nosed pitbul for example actually recently adopted a couple kittens as her own that my parents took in as strays from someone else. Yes, she, the pitbul, honestly considers those kittens as her own. And the kittens love her too. But I guess nothing will change the minds of someone on an anti-pitbul crusade.
Pitbulls were specifically bred NOT to attack humans. In Pit fighting the two dogs were always bred not to attack neither it's own owner when he goes in to seperate the dog, but also the owner of the other dog has to be able to seperate the "opponent's" dog also without getting bit. Imagine that! In the heat of battle seperating a dog that doesn't know you, and not getting bit! Any dog that bit it's master OR the other owner (or anyone for that matter) would be put down immediately. So.....they were bred not to bite humans.
How many other dogs do you know of that were specifically bred not to bite humans? It takes A LOT of abuse to make a Pitbull go nuts and bite a human. It's simply against it's nature. Unfortunately a lot of humans abuse these dogs. ANd THAT is something that needs to be looked into stopping.
Dog fighting is abhorrent. But euthanizing pitbuls just because of the fact they are pitbuls is equally abhorrent and wrong.
Quite frankly, anyone trying to take my dogs away from me will be met with the same force as if I catch anyone dog fighting. Simple as that.
These dogs are truly the most loving dogs I've ever had, and I've had them all, from great danes to beagles to a schutzhund bred german shepherd.
All of our pitbulls are from previous owners that abused them. These dogs are very thankful to be in a home with owners that love them. They're amazing dogs, really the best I've ever had, not that my other dogs weren't great too because they surely were. But there's something very special about pitbulls.
They're the best dogs I've ever seen in every way, and I am simply astonished at all the misconceptions many people have about Pits, and especially about how much hatred these dogs can generate for no reason.
Some info:
http://www.pitbullsontheweb.com/
http://www.realpitbull.com/temperament.html
http://www.nopitbullbans.com/?page_id=36
Here's my pit Dixie together with my cat. They're almost always together.
What a vicious dog indeed.
I'm glad your dog is healing, Ming :thumbup: The neck wounds don't look too horrible, in the big scheme of things, and terriers are tough animals. I think that, with time and care, your lil pooch will be just fine, physically and emotionally.
