Quick Trips To Hell – Canine Edition!
Baby – It’s what’s for dinner
In May of 2007, Kristi Willis was warned about her dog, an 80-pound pit bull named Swisher. It had finally bitten one of her neighbors, and was known to be a rather aggressive beast.
That’s why these idiots keep these dogs, of course.
Pit bulls are “badass” and make people feel tough when they own them. Nevermind that these animals can very easily bite and kill your own kids, it’s important that mommy or daddy feels that he or she has an unstoppable force of nature on a short leash.
Well, as you can imagine, Swisher eventually got out again, this time on Wednesday, the fifth of September.
Swisher got out just as 32-year-old Angela Silva and her 4-month-old baby were entering their garage to clean out the family car.
While Angela Silva was holding little Tom Jr., Swisher walked into their garage, saw the vulnerable mother and her delicious baby, and went after them.
After the first lunge, Angela put Tom Jr. into an empty plastic trash can, to protect him from the pit bull. She shut the lid and tried to keep the dog away from her baby, which proved exceedingly difficult once the ghetto hound managed to knock over the trash can.
Still, her determined efforts to keep the vicious pit bull’s jaws away from her infant son proved successful. Two men who were across the street heard her screams and chased Swisher away with power tools.
Angela Silva was rushed to the hospital, where doctors put 50 staples into her arms along with a few hundred stitches. Due to his mother’s heroism, Tom Jr. was barely scratched.
After the attack, the dog disappeared. Kristi Willis initially said that it ran away, but turned the dog in on the 6th of September.
Kristi Willis and Charles Shelby were arrested the same day Swisher was euthanized; the 18th of September, 2007.
That day was a Thursday.
I’ve always liked Thursdays.
They’ve been charged with failing to protect the public from a known dangerous animal and conspiracy, for hiding the dog from authorities
possible charges of hiding evidence, because Swisher seems to have vanished and the authorities believe she arranged to have the dog taken in with a friend until this all blows over.
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44-year-old former dog owner and future prison inmate John Delmar Fladger, had had enough of the high price of dog food and walked his dog, a german shepherd mix named “Lil’ Mama,” into a local convenience store.
The dog, loyal through his pain, followed his master into the convenience store despite showing recent burns, which caused one or two onlookers to express their concern about the dog’s well-being.
Mr. Fladger silenced the queries with a stern, “I’m trying to kill him,” whipped out a can of gasoline and poured it all over his dog.
Actual, paying customers stared wide-eyed at his actions and the sensible ones backed away as far as they could.
Later, John Fladger attempted to impress local schoolkids by dousing the dog with gasoline and lighting him on fire while walking.
After authorities arrived and arrested Mr. Fladger, and were finally able to take “Lil’ Mama” to the local Humane Society for treatment, the veterinarians working there took one look at the poor burned creature and did the only thing they could – they euthanized it.
While John Fladger was being arrested he insisted that he wasn’t the one that burned the dog.
At his trial, however, John Fladger pled guilty to charges of animal torture and killing an animal.
He faced a possible four years in prison.
John Fladger’s judge, The Honorable David Groner, sentenced Fladger on the 13th of September, 2007 to 23 months to 4 years in prison.
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I wish I hadn’t read that now.. I feel utterly sick. I cannot believe the lengths people will go to to show just how horrible humanity is. That poor beautiful dog.
Why take in an animal if you’re not willing to be responsible for it?
First of all I am Offended… at your post! I happen to own .. what you called a ghetto hound <—- offensive. You need to educate yourself on the breed!! Before you throw out blame on them ! I have had 2 in my lifetime.. wonderful pet’s. Blame the Idiot’s that dont know how to raise them. The idiot’s that dont have time for them and just chain them up to a tree!! HELLO ???? Really Educate Yourself once again before you post crap about the breed
You know, I couldn’t help myself in not responding to this utmost retarded post.
Pit bulls are ghetto hounds. Maybe no one else wants to admit it but I will cause I’m just that kind of girl….
The majority of owners to pit bulls are Mexicans or blacks who live in the ghetto.
Furthermore, the majority of those blacks and Mexicans don’t raise them correctly, hence, they are “ghetto dogs”. These dogs are raised on fillet mignon for breakfast, ribeye for lunch and ground hamburger meat for dinner. They are trained to protect with force. They’re trained to fight and fight till the death. Why would anyone want to learn about these dogs? Look at statistics. Watch the news. YOU might learn a thing or two.
I lived in the ghetto once and let me tell you, it’s not the best place since Disneyworld. On a normal Monday, you might see people not walking poodles and minature pinschers but PIT BULLS! They are vicious animals usually walked on a towing chain because they are so powerful.
Since we can’t stop breeding the other two, stop breeding the pit bulls.
I’m black, lived in the ghetto, i own a pit bull, and he has been around a 2 month old BABY, laying by her to make sure nothing happened to her. kids have bit him, sat on him, pulled his tail..he loves kids. he does nothing. he lays there..licks them…ignores them. Any dog can haul off and bite a child or a human being. pit bulls are not any stronger than any other dog out there. why do you think german shepherds are used as military and police dogs? they’re trained to be violent. and i don’t own a pit bull to be cool. i own him because i took him from some people who wanted to train him to be mean. it’s not the breed’s fault in any breed. it is how any dog is raised and treated. i was bit by a chihuahua whom i did nothing to..what you got to say about that?
admin – Roll your child around a little bit in front of your pit bull and see what it does. Dip your hand in some dog food while you’re at it.
Im white, live in the country, i own a Shitzu. He may be a wussy, faggoty little doggy, but i know for sure he is never going to chew the face off my child.
Pit Bull no stronger than any other dog? Have you actually had a look at the size of your dogs head lately? They are huge mother fuckers!!!
Please look into getting a muzzle for when your dog is around the 2 month old. I mean, you may be right, and he may never bite anyone, ever…bit personally, id rather be on the safe side. A muzzle doesnt cost much. But a childs smile is priceless….
I’m white and I lived in the country and I had a red nose. They are no different from any other dog. As long as the people raising the dog treats it right then they won’t be agressive. My red nose was the sweetest dog, I could let my neice sit there and play with him. The only time he was agressive was when a neighbor came to my house and was hollaring and cussing me in front of him.
So don’t say a dog is mean because of its breed, its the owners fault.
You want some facts here:
admin – Yes, but let’s read into this a bit, shall we?
A study, published this week in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science, with researchers questioning 6000 dog owners had some surprising conclusions.
admin – Surprising how? For conclusions to be surprising would indicate that the researchers had a bias going into the study. Hardly scientific. I wonder if this was a double-blind study.
“The dog breed most likely to bite was not the Pit Bull, Rottweiler, or German Shepherd, but …wait for it…the Dachshund. And second was the Chihuahua, followed by the Jack Russell Terrier. ”
What do you know its not a pit bill but a weiner dog.
admin – What do you know, I’d rather fight 20 pain-maddened Dachshunds than 1 very large and very hungry pit bull. How about you?
Let me throw some more facts at you.
admin – Please do.
“Dr. James Serpell said that smaller breeds might be “more genetically predisposed towards aggressive behavior than larger dogs.”"
admin – Might be, which also means, might not be.
But I bet you still think that pit bulls are the worse.
admin – I’ll let 5 jack russells bite me. You let 1 pit bull bite you. Let’s see who goes out to dinner later that night.
Let me drop some more facts in your ignorant ass lap.
“Previous research into dog aggression has focused primarily on dog bite statistics, but researchers said that these are misleading since most dog bites are not reported. Furthermore, bites from small dogs are less likely to require medical attention and are almost never reported.
admin – Gee, what a surprise. Bites from small dogs aren’t a big deal.
Breeds scoring low for aggression included Basset Hounds, Golden Retrievers, Labradors, Siberian Huskies and Greyhounds.
The Rottweiler, Pit Bull and Rhodesian Ridgeback scored average or below average marks for hostility towards strangers.”
admin – I wonder if the researchers interviewed owners of ghetto hounds by going into the ghetto and actually talking to them face-to-face. I wonder if they left with their wallets.
There is your facts you retard dumb fuck. Pits are the dog that is most likely to bite/ attack. They are just the one that gets the most media attention.
Do some research before you go spouting out shit.
admin – Being a student of the media, and following an unbelievable amount of news each and every day, I can honestly say that the only time I’ve seen someone killed by a small dog was when they were a baby, left alone and helpless, usually on a bed. Pit bulls, on the other hand, along with other ghetto hounds, regularly attack people their size or larger, other dogs, cars, cats, and signposts. I recommend that you pull your inbred head out of your over-sized ass and buy Basset Hounds to replace whatever crap breed you’re currently sucking off in your spare time.
Having raised Dachschunds and been around pit bulls, I might be inclined to agree that doxies are more prone to biting. But, Pits are more likely to kill you.
If a Doxie bites me I can reach down and grab it by the back of the neck. And hold it away until it calms it’s little butte down. I couldn’t even begin to move a Pit that was biting me that way.
Pits get news because their bites are violent and often deadly. You forgot that part of your research.
Wow. Racism, spite, and ignorance in one package. Lovely.
Pit bulls can be a very dangerous breed, but can you honestly blame an animal that was raised and baited to kill it’s entire life for it’s actions? I work with dogs, and in my experience, pit bulls raised by loving families are just as dangerous as any other dog.
As for the “black and Mexicans” comments…peddle your racism someplace else, please.
That’s “its.” sorry.
You actually brought up an excellent point. They are RAISED that way and do what they are RAISED to do. Proper raising produces fantastic and loyal pets. To be more specific the MOST loyal pet. Way, way, way back in the day these dogs were prized for their loyalty more than fox hounds across seas. It wasn’t until centuries later when the spaniards started training them to fight. Why? Because they have massive lockjaws and are incredibly powerful? Possibly. But, the main reasoning behind this is because this specific breed is so amazingly loyal to their master, seeking their approval above all else, would fight through torment and pain to the very death if trained for it. Another reason that is typically underestimated is they are very smart. Those two factors equal to a double edged sword when it comes to training.
Therefore I feel the need to make a correction here. The pitt bull breed is not, in fact, ghetto by any means. A specific dog or percentage may be, solely because their owners are. But, as a whole, if trained and treated properly (as with any dog), this breed should really be held with higher respect. Are they dangerous in wrong hands? Yes. Should potential owners need a permit to own one? Yes. Would I recommend adopting an older pit from a different home? By no means whatsoever. These dogs’ training is deep rooted. Especially with the things people are known to train them for. By the way, while a smaller dog’s bite may not cause as much damage statistics show they do bite much more often and tend to show more aggression than a pit trained as a calm household pet. They are small and therefore less comfortable with us ‘giant beasts’ being around, specifically strangers, newcomers, and children that bug them.
You know, your a pretty racist lady. I’m white and i have a pit bull and i live in a rural community. Everyone loves my dog including children and my other pets. Your just too stupid to realize that it’s the owner, but you must believe that humans don’t have a single bad bone in there body and everything bad is ultimately cause by something else. I’m more than sure that more white’s own stat ford shire terriers than black or mexicans. Ignorant people like you should be whipped out by evolution because you are too retarded to understand simple things. Judging a dog’s breed is like judging a person by their skin, but obviously you do that too.
You’re ridiculous for making this comment about blacks and Mexicans… I’m a young white girl in middle America suburbia and I have a Shepard/pit mix… He is by far the sweetest most well behaved dog I ever had… In fact I have an 11 year old beagle mix and a long haired miniature Datsun that would bite long before my precious pitbull. Sure he likes to hump, but who doesn’t? Get over yourself you condescending brat..
You don’t want to see the facts. I never said pits don’t bite, but the wrap that they have is ridiculus. Every dog is different, it depends on how you raise it.
Danger Zone: That study is on the agression of dog breeds as a whole toward strangers. Not on that a bigger dog is more likly to kill you, than a smaller dog. My point was that pits are not the most agressive dog breed. Not that if a pit attacked you it wouldn’t kill you.
And admin right now I have a malti-pek. So I’m assuming my small dog is a crap breed. And see above statement to Danger Zone. The study was on aggression toward strangers, not on dog bites and fatalities.
I am also white, and love pit bulls. They are beautiful dogs. That being said, I LOVE MY CHILDREN MORE, so I won’t own one, or let my children around them! I am sure there are plenty of pitts that love their families, I am just not willing to take my chance with one. All animals have the potential to be dangerous, just like people.
I completely agree with Sarah
WTF is wrong with people?
If this is how he treats a dog which is obediant to him, immagine how he’ll treat a child (assuming that he’ll either take responsibility, or one of his ho’s drops the child off) when it disobeys?
Lighting a dog on fire today…. how long do we have to share the planet with him? What does he have to do before we actually do something to him?
too bad we didn’t get a choice on whether or not he deserved hell….
Kristi Willis deserves to be fucking shot…just like her dog and every pit bull owner out there!
You know fuck you! I owned a red nose pit and you want to shoot me because i owned one, that never bit anyone. That raised a puppy, and was shot in my yard while it was on a lead and I was out of town. I have owned all kinds of dogs besides that pit; I had a chow which was the best dog I ever had, and a German Shepard.
How ignorant do you have to be to make a statement like that.
admin – As ignorant as someone has to be to roll their 2-month-old child around in front of a breed known for attacking without provocation.
And why was the dog shot in your yard Lindsey? And if the chow was the best dog you ever had, why are you so mad abut the pit?
why was the pit shot. a dog ran into our one acre yard and jumped on and started killing my dog, Baby, she was a black mouth curr. Barely a year old. Rock, my younger brothers pit, killed the dog before it killed my dog.
Both Baby and Rock was in our yard. This dog came into it and attacked without any provocating and tried to kill my dog. Rock was only protecting her.
Our Dogs stayed in our yard and never caused any trouble. The dog would never had died has its owner kept it in their yard.
The chow has nearly as bad of a wrap as a pit but this article isn’t about a chow its about a pit that attacked.
I personally think that pit bulls are cool dogs. I grew up with a Bull Terrier. We had that dog for 13 years and he was like family. Irrisponsible dog handling, such as not muzzling your dog in public and not keeping it in your yard, will often lead to dog attacks. No matter what the breed.
If Kristy had kept her dog secured in her yard, this would never have happened.
I know that there are people out there (like Lilly) who will SWEAR that pitbulls are the best pets in the world. They may be.
BUT – unlike a gun, which requires a human to cause an interaction, a dog has a brain and a will. And pitbulls have been bred over time to HAVE a very short fuse. The qualities that were desirable for them, and that were bred into them, were a strong jaw, and a short temper. They were bred to be FIGHTING DOGS, not snugglepuppies.
So, even though a pitbull may be perfectly well trained, and may be a wonderful pet – there is the POTENTIAL for that beast to go nuts. Especially when there are children around. Children that the dog sees as another dog in the pack, that they want to dominate. And once they get those steel-trap jaws on the child, it is all over.
And the pitbulls that are raised by people who can’t even raise a finger to help themselves are worse than a ticking time bomb. They are more like a bomb that is set with no timer. They WILL attack, as soon as they get the opportunity.
There is no need for the breed. I do not think that we need to go and kill every pitbull that is alive now, but we need to kill every one that attacks anyone, no matter how minor, and we need to stop breeders from breeding more. All the pitbulls that are alive now should probably be forced to be sterilized. I would happily offer up some of my tax money to pay for that.
For the people who swear that they are great dogs – go get a bulldog when the pitbull dies. Or an American Bull Terrier. They are very similar dogs, without the “triggers” that have been bred into pitbulls.
Loving a BREED is stupid. You should love the amimal itself. And there are plenty of wonderful, sweet dogs out there that would love to love you back – and which won’t rip your baby to shreds when you are not paying attention.
Yeah they where fighting dogs, so where rocs, chows, and german shepards. All of those dogs where used to fight. Where I live in the country, people have pits for hunting. And no I”m not saying all pits are good dogs. I’m saying its in how you raise them. If you raise a pit around children JUST like any breed of dog, they will be tolerant of childern.
You think pits are so bad but I bet you have never had any type of contact with them. All you know is what you read or hear from the news. I bet you have never actually knew someone who cared and took time to love and raise a bulldog.
So basically until you can give me some first hand experience you’ve had. Shut the fuck up
admin – I hear the moon doesn’t have much air to breathe. Would you agree? Oh wait, you don’t have first-hand experience with it, so I guess you should shut the fuck up. Most people learn from their own mistakes. Intelligence is when you learn from the mistakes of others.
We aren’t talkin about the moon we are talking about a breed of dog that most people hate and have no other reason except what they read in the paper or see on tv. What I am trying to say is don’t judge a whole breed of animals just because some of them are bad. Its like saying all white people from the south are ignorant racist, or all mexicans are illegal. Its taking a sterotype and applying it to everyone and everything.
Well, that quote didn’t make a whole lot of sense. Saying that is like saying that what’s popular is always right and what’s right is always popular. Learning ‘intellegence’ from others is nothing more than going with what is popular or whatever rumor is going around, which does not seem to intellegent to me. Matter of fact it seems more like just going with a fad. I have raised pitt bulls before from puppy to old aged natural death as well as raising and training dogs of all breeds for years. Started with helping my mother at the age of 7. If you really are open to ‘gaining intelligence from others’ may I suggest learning from me and also researching the actual history of this breed a bit more. Pitt bulls, btw were not ‘specifically bred’ for aggression. They were not bred by humans at all. There is a reason dogs don’t go to hell.
I feel terrible for the many ppl that spent their life studying all areas of life scientifally and so forth to give the future generations what we know only to receive a slap in the face with that comment. Learning from others in this specific circumstance, in my opinion, is sheer laziness and ignorance.
heh you said…love the animal!
Any animal can snap and attack it’s owner, but as you said mazzi, thats all a pittbull has been bred for.
There have been many many stories of pitt bull attacks, and they seem to only be increasing.
you’re officially insanely ignorant. congrats.
you’re officially insanely ignorant. congrats.
eh. double post. feck.
Hehhehe. Did you get too excited?
It doesn’t matter because dogs like peanut butter.
the only reason you see so many pit bull attacks on the news…that’s the only thing you people want to see so that’s the only thing the media lets you see
admin – No, that’s why we see so many car crashes in the news. The media wants us to see car crashes. And innumerable varieties of “Law and Order.”
I thought the media wanted us to see innumerable O.J. Simpson trials.
I prefer the Law and Order re runs myself.
I like the news stories about Seattle baristas serving coffee while wearing bikinis.
People get so defensive of their dogs. I love my German Shepherd and can’t imagine her not being around…but teh second she snapped at my child or any child, I would break her neck with my bare hands. I have never had to do that with any of my dogs however, but I know any dog, even teh most gentle dog has it in them to revert to wolfkin and attack. It can happen and does happen everyday and people don’t know the triggers that are wired into every dog and what they are wired to attack. Be very careful with animals which man has domesticated…they still have wild in them, just gets buried more in some then others.
Thank you Kenny. That was all I was trying to say. That any dog will attack for any reason. Not just one breed of dog. And I agree with you on breakin a dogs neck. I have two step daughters and I would kill my dog or any other dog that threatened them.
What i find appalling about that statement is that you will RISK having a dog savage your child.
Ok so once the damage is done, you’ll snap the dogs neck. Do you think that snapping the dogs neck will put your childs face back together again? It may, ( we are theorizing here) make you feel better to know that you have killed the dog that mauled your child, but i doubt it will make your child feel any better when she is sitting in a hospital bed, drugged up to the nines and wishing she had her face back.
Please, keep that dog away from your child. Or at the very least muzzle it when she around.
My friend Stacey’s parents used to have 2 pitbulls. They were amazing dogs – they grew up with us kids, played with us, were always so friendly and nice. Never a problem in any aspect.
One day, Stacey went to feed the dogs – Maggie and Samson. Dogs were eating, Stacey went to take a shower.
As she got out of the shower, she was attacked by Maggie. Samson must have heard whatever was going on and went running. Totally joined in. Stacey has had to have MANY surgeries – including lifesaving surgeries to put her back together. She’s still undergoing surgeries to try to make her look somewhat ‘normal’ — and that attack was 9 years ago.
Dogs that grew up around kids. Perfectly happy, healthy upbringing for the kids and the dogs. Hell, these are two dogs that didn’t even attack three men that broke into the house while the family was out for dinner!
But they turned on the girl they were raised with.
You can’t predict when it’ll happen. Or if it will at all.
But you can do the smart thing and not own a dog that’s pretty likely to turn on you.
Yup. We had the same experience. We had a Bull Terrier named Pig Dog. He was our piggy when he was a pup and grew to be a huge dog.
We taught him to be a gentleman at meal times and we grew up with that dog. He was like family. When my youngest brother was 13, Pig Dog was sleeping out the front on the porch. Bazz ( my bro) walked past and touched Pigs head and said, “hello piggy.”
That was all it took. The dog lunged at Bazz and snapped at his face. He was lucky the dog didnt get a better grip. He ended up with his lower lip peirced through and grazes above his eye lids. He could have gotten his face ripped off. He was very lucky to get away with a few stitches and a tetnus shot.
Dad took the dog out to the back paddock that day and shot him.
It was sad to lose him, he was a good mate and we had spent years playing with him. But dad did the right thing.
Those dogs, as gentle as they can be, can turn in the blink of an eye and attack.
I personally would not risk having that type of dog around my children.
All the holier-than-thouness in this post and comment makes me not want to come here anymore. The dogs are not guilty for being “ghetto dogs”, the owners are. The dogs are also hardly guilty of having stupid and irresponsible owners. OH LORD THEY ARE THE DEVIL IN DOGSKIN.
Now goodbye.
Someones feeling a little emotional…..anyone have a kleenex handy?
I live in an “interesting” part of town, and own a smallish (45 pound) dog, mixed breed. I don’t like walking her because one time some young men were walking their Rott off the leash, and it came running across the road to get at my dog.
A car ran it over, and it went limping back to it’s owners. No lie. Maybe those dumbfucks will get a leash (or chain) now.
That said, I’m not as anti-pitbull as my husband (he’s from Minnasota, which bans them). I still would not have one in a house with small children-a ferret either. There’s a lot of animals that need to be kept away from toddlers.
German people were bred to be the ultimate human and to kill jewish children and other “lesser” people… With the logic going around now, we should euthanize all germans!
Oh do us a favour and fuck off. Germans were not bred to be the ultimate humans. A crack pot who thought it was a good idea to kill Jews TRIED to breed an ultimate human. But all he bred were monsters.
And yes, all monsters should be shot. Not all Germans…all monsters.
Hey fucknut where do you get your information? Funny how a little man who later would change Germany, Europe and the world was born in………………….wait for it………………………………..yep it’s comming……………….AUSTRIA! His birth name was Adolph Schiggelgrueber. During WWI he moved to Germany so he could enlist.
Now I have been living and working here since 1994. I was born here in Germany and lived 9 years before I myself joined the Army and was stationed here.
You know shit. You do understand that don’t you? You know shit about shit.
Now you have the freedom to form you own opinion. As I have the freedom to express my disgust with your ignorant self by breaking your fingers and dislocating your right arm so that you can no longer jerk off to internet porn.
hehehehhe nice one mulch :)
/tips hat
Mam
/rides off in to the sunset
Cue cool Eastwood western 70′s music
A crackpot Austrian to be more specific.
(I know this is a really old post but still) My grandmother is 100% German. and you know what? her WHOLE family was killed by The Evil Dude Who I Won’t Name! It wasn’t just jews! it was Germans too! She was ten when her family was killed. I know this is an old post but i got kinda mad!
Ignorance is a terrible thing. Pitbulls are not “ghetto”… perhaps some of the people who raise and own them are. Actually if YOU do YOUR research and educate yourself about the breed, you will realize that pitbulls are one of the most child-friendly breeds (if raised right of course). Due to their high pain tolerance, pitbulls have shown to be very tolerable of small children and their abusive behavior–pulling the dog’s tail, tugging on it’s ears, etc. I own 2 pitbulls, 1 male and 1 female and have a 3 year old son. NEVER have my dogs EVER been aggressive towards him. They protect him with their lives. If ANYONE comes close to him or my family, the dogs are the first to stand guard, as a loyal family dog should. We raised our dogs in a loving and caring environment. They eat regular Purina dog food (not raw meat) and are a favorite of our local veterinary’s office. Our male has even won several costume contests during Halloween at the vet’s office!… WOW what a mean dog, huh! Please don’t be ignorant. YES some pitbulls are mean. YES some pitbulls hurt people. But any other breed is 100% capable of doing the same damage if raised in an abusive home. More than once, the MEDIA has been responsible for misleading the public when “dog attacks” are reported. Instantly, the dog is immediately referred to as a pitbull, when at times, there isn’t a trace of the breed in the dog!!! It’s sickening! Perhaps we should punish the deed, NOT the breed!!! If you want to refer to a breed of dog as “ghetto”, I can only imagine how you refer to certain people of certain races. Grow up, educate yourself, and get a life!
there may be a few nice pitbulls, but when some jerk feels he needs a vicous dog more often than not a pitbull is his 1st choice. Last summer, one day on the freeway some tweeked out toothless methhead was charging in and out of every lane of traffic in his pickup, it was a warm day and most folks had their window down. Well this punk was getting his jollies pulling up along various cars and then have his pitbull hang it’s head out the window and let loose a fury of snarling and growling at some unsuspecting motorist and then laugh hysterically while the startled driver swerves from shock. You can thank assholes like this for the repuptation. Damn things are ugly anyways.
So very true…
I had to wipe away tears from my eyes when I read about what happened to poor Lil Mama. So HORRIFYING! Can you imagine what that poor dog was thinking when her owner set her on fire AGAIN? Poor thing was most likely screeching in extreme pain while she wondered (in whatever way that dogs think), “What have I done? Why is my master doing this to me?”
I gave my wonderful Golden Retriever a hug and a kiss on her forehead in memoriam to Lil Mama after seeing this.
And don’t get me started on Pit Bulls! I HATE those friggin’ dogs! And it seems like Pit Bull owners are in some sort of MASSIVE denial. Yes, I’ve met many nice, sweet widdle Pitties, but you can bet your ass that I’ll NEVER own one! I don’t have enough money to pay for medical bills if it bites someone.
And MikeJones – I agree with you. Pit Bulls are ugly as SIN!
I tend to react more strongly to stories involving animals than I do to stories involving humans (not that I’m unsympathetic to human victims) and that poor little dog….It had obviously been abused prior to that incident and then to be set on fire? Let alone set on fire in PUBLIC? I’m glad it’s finally out of pain. :(
I don’t agree with this. I think pitbulls can be lovely creatures if they are raised properly. I’ve been attacked by two dogs a Dachshund and a Chihuahua. I’ve also been attacked by a ferret. My friend had a pitbull. He raised it from a puppy beautiful dog. The only thing it ever did was hump and attack your face with it’s tongue. You can’t judge all dogs by it’s breed. That’s as bad a rascism to me.
any person who is ignorant enough to blame the dog and say they are the most dangerous dogs need to go look at statistics / Through January 20, 2002, the log of life-threatening and fatal attacks showed that pit bulls had committed 592 (45%) of the 1,301 total attacks qualifying for inclusion, including 280 (21%) of the attacks on children, 222 (60%) of the attacks on adults, 51 (34%) of the fatal attacks, and 321 (45%) of the maimings and disfigurements.
Rottweilers had committed 291 (22%) of the attacks, including 24% of the attacks on children, 63 (17%) of the attacks on adults, 36 (24%) of the fatalities, and 159 (22%) of the maimings and disfigurements.
Combined, pit bulls and Rottweilers had committed 72% of all the attacks, 45% of the attacks on children, 77% of the attacks on adults, 58% of the fatalities, and 67% of the maimings and disfigurements.
In theory, more closely regulating pit bulls and Rottweilers could markedly reduce dog attacks. In practice, breed-specific legislation has rarely succeeded. In Reading, Pennsylvania, however, the city council in early January 2002 renewed an ordinance which requires a special permit to keep any breed of dog which accounted for 40% or more of the dog attacks in the city during the previous year. Pit bulls accounted for 48% of the attacks in 1998, the year the ordinance was first adopted, and accounted for 41% in 2001–but the total number of attacks has fallen from 113 to 56, and the number of pit bull attacks has declined from 54 to 23.
most of the posters on this story need to be taken behind the woodshed and beaten mercilessly……it doesnt matter the breed, any animal you take under your care, its unpredictable….i own a pitbull and a chocolate lab and the wost offense my pit bull comitted on me was elaborate “death by slobbering” my sister had a rottweiler that passed away from cancer a year ago that was one of the most lovable dogs ever concieved. the media only chooses to vilify breeds such as rotties and pits. esp after the michael vick scandal. i do agree with the fact that most people who own pits (and i dont live in the ghetto) are stupid jerkoffs who get them because they want to look “badass” but dont vilify something just for that sake. its only another way to make yourself come off as really ignorant and racist and honestly, just shut up because you sound like an asshole.
there are no bad dogs only bad owners the dog does what it is taught
Not true. There are bad dogs. Contrary to your belief, dogs are very intelligent and can make their own decisions. Who’dathunkit? You can train and train and train all you want, but some dogs are just, well, bad dogs.
Before you tell me I’m stupid, my mother is an animal behaviorist and a dog trainer. She has owned and operated her own kennel since 1998.
NavyCop, you’re stupid! (Kidding! Just feeling oppositional today!) Actually, I agree with your post 100%, as usual. Dogs are very intelligent and are completely capable of independent thought. They are born with a personality just like humans; although, it can be somewhat shaped by experience, just like humans.
I had a blue heeler that knew exactly what emotionally-valuable thing of ours to destroy to show her anger. She knew how to take down dogs twice her size by grabbing their collars and twisting, causing the other dog to fall down. She had a brilliant mind and was a amazing reader of people.
oh good lord………i was brought up with the ‘mentality’ that dogs were so cute/good wouldn’t hurt a fly whatever, and i too have had the experience of being bitten by a rottie, when i was 16 (it was my fault because i teased it)…never mind the fact that i could at the time sprout water from my top lip) lovely scar i have now!! that was the family pet, treated like a king (seriously) it was dad’s dog so when anyone went near him we got growled at, but (that was our fault as we didn’t love him like dad did??!!) you couldn’t go to the petrol station and (back when they used to fill the car up for you) get fuel, we had to do it ourselves and let me tell you it was a sad sight to see, the rottie used to go spaz at “anyone” ( me, my brother) who was near the car it was quite freaky to see actually (hence the car windows used to get cleaned alot). Sorry digressing it just annoys me IMO that “ANY” dog can (who cares what breed) turn against anyone, to say that its bad owners and not bad dogs is just plain NUTS….I have a shutzi thingy at the cost of $400 (given to me last year as a pup) and i love it to death, i also have two cats (love them to death too) but would i trust my dog “alone” with a child HELL NO…every child that comes through my house gets a pat and a rub on the tummy all the things you do with a pup/dog (while i’m standing there) then gets put outside…why tempt fate??…dogs are beautiful creatures, as are cats and as are humans (well some) but as someone pointed out they are all “bred” differently “raised” differently but they are still just that… ANIMALS…
Oh and why has my thoughts changed since my teens…..I look at my niece’s picture, the scars that she has along her cheek and forehead remind me everyday that any dog can hurt/maim/kill…just on the turn of a dime..so to speak
Mexican and black? So offensive.
http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/56364367.html
cause i’d leave my baby around a big fucking dog. what a brilliant idea.
When there are so many other breeds available, why chose the animal that is more dangerous? There are plenty of intelligent, loyal, amazing breeds, why raise a pit bull? Why risk it?
Dogs are like people, in that no one thing is completely responsible for the way they act. Genetics, their surroundings, the way they were raised, as well as any number of other things, all contribute to how they act or react.
Even a dog raised well, can lose it’s temper, just as a person could. Everyone does have their limits, after all. It’s just unfortunate that (sometimes) innocent people get hurt because of it.
I get what you mean, but dogs are not like people. Huge problem these days. Everyone, I beg of you.. do not treat people like dogs or dogs like people.
If you treat a dog as a person it does blurr the lines for them as well. So how could anyone be suprised if they turn around, lose their temper and snap on a human like they would a dog. Treat a dog as a human, they’re bound to treat a human as a dog.
If you do treat a dog as a human, he snaps, and you’re left crying wondering why after you treated him as your human baby, there’s the flaw in your training right there. I really hate bursting that bubble for people and I am waiting for the backlash. please believe me, it is a well known fact among educated dog trainers.
What backlash? I grew up with dogs. I pray that someday I’ll have the time to again have a dog. Now I have so very little time that it would be so cruel to have a dog.
I agree with you. There is a line between people and thier pets. Just as a line should exist between parents and thier kids. I am my daughters FATHER and not her friend. Someday I have to be an asshole. Somedays I can spoil her. But I am never her friend.
I agree 100%. Dogs should be treated humanely, but not like humans. Owners need to recognize that dogs don’t think the way that humans do. If you try to raise a dog like a human child, you’re likely going to end up with an animal with dominance-behavior on your hands. Learning the proper way to raise a dog isn’t even difficult. Take him or her to classes, read a little bit about pack instincts and study the traits of its breed and, presto, you’ll know how to raise the dog. It’s what’s best for you, your family, the people around you AND the dog.
It’s not the breed (or, more accurately, breeds; ‘pit bull’ actually refers to three different breeds) that’s the problem, it’s the idiots who have jumped on the “big, bad” pit bull bandwagon and started saturating the market with aggressive dogs who are to blame. An aggressive dog shouldn’t be bred, yet these morons keep producing litters with one or more aggressive parents.
Once upon a time, Staffies and pits were considered some of the most popular family dogs. A pit bull bred and trained as a pet is generally a loyal, eager-to-please companion who is very unlikely to attack of human. Bull-type breeds often have strong prey instincts, however, so even good owners need to be careful about small animals and screen the animal before letting it near young children. You should always know the breed before you raise one.
On the other hand, dogs bred for fighting (whether pit bulls or another breed) are NOT good family pets. Buying a dog because it looks and acts tough is a horrible idea, both for you and your neighbours. Children are often the biggest victims here. However, you cannot lump in family pits with fighter pits, given that the differences in breeding and training are so drastic that any similarities between the two are entirely superficial. The behavior of one group is totally different than that of the other.
Of all dog breeds, pit bulls are one of the most likely to be abused (whether they’re being fought, starved or tied up in a backyard alone as a “watch dog”). ANY dog that is mistreated, from a pit bull to a border collie to a chihuahua, is at high risk for developing aggression. For this reason, I feel that breed-specific legislation only serves to make the problem worse, as it encourages the bad owners by making the dogs seem ever more “bad ass”, and pushes good owners away… which, in turn, leads to more abused pit bulls, and more incidents of dog attacks. On top of being unfair to the dogs, this is putting people at risk too. We need to target the idiot owners who use them as fighters, guards and weapons in order to repair the problem. There needs to be more action taken against dog fighters, and better legislation and prison time for what they’re doing.
Like I said, if dog owners could be more responsible, this wouldn’t be an issue, and all the people who have been injured or lost their lives in dog attacks wouldn’t have been subjected to that kind of terror. I’m just so tired of selfish idiots who are willing to put other people (and animals) at risk in order to look ‘cool’.
All dogs have the ability to bite. I am a groomer and a pit bull owner. My husband and I have had her for eleven years. We raised children around her. We also took the step of taking her through numerous obedience programs to properly socialise her and ensure that she was a safe dog to be around. She has never bitten any living thing, (she does like to hunt the mice in our back yard, but she’s a bit clumsy and never catches them.) Sadly, she has cancer, and will be euthanised soon so that we might ensure her quality of life.
It disgusts me that ignorant people would castigate me for owning her because they listened to media hype without doing ANY research.
Pit bull fact no. 1: They are pit dogs, bred to be dog aggressive, but not human aggressive. This goes for many terrier breeds including fox terriers, rat terriers, min pins, cairns, westes, lakelands… the list goes on…
Pit bull fact no 2: While pit bulls have a bad reputation today, they were once considered an patriotic breed, dubbed the American breed at the turn of the century. Such notables as Mark Twain and Helen Keller owned pit bulls, and Pete, from the Little Rascals, was a pit bull.
Pit bull fact no 3) The myth of a locking jaw, excessive lbs/sq in. pressure on the jaw,all the ‘horrifying’ details the media and sites like this like to use to foster efforts for breed-specific legislation were at one time used on ‘nice’ dogs like German Shepherds, Mastiffs, Bull Terriers (the Spuds McKenzie dog), Rottweilers, and Dobermans. All these breeds are acceptable today, because the myths that were propagated against them are now applied to the new “devil dog.’
Lastly, any reputable pit bull breeder will tell you, if a pit bull bites a human, it needs to be put down immediately. Gameness (the desire to act aggressively towards another dog/prey) is a key trait of ALL terrier breeds. Aggression against humans is not.
Please quit publishing your reactionary propaganda against this breed and instead put the blame where it needs to be, on the humans who are irresponsible.
Oh, and by the way, I have been bitten by more small dogs in my chosen profession than large dogs.
I own a pitbull, hes my Shih tzu favorite toy, not a mean bone in his body. You cannot blame the dog for the stupidity of the owner. These dogs are not born vicious, they are made vicious by the ignorance of their owners.
Only 4 years in prison? What this n****r needs is a good old fashion lynching.
well aren’t you the intellectual pinhead. was it really necessary to bring up the racist crap?
-editor
Now, tossing aside all of the racism, I do feel a bit of a need to comment. Personally, I think a pit bull is a great dog. However, they ARE violent by nature. It’s why they were bred. It’s how you raise them that tempers their aggressiveness. A pit that isn’t well taken care of, or ignored, will be much more likely to hurt someone than one that is well raised. I have a two pit bull mixes actually. One a Boxer/Pit mix, the other is some sort of mongrel. We’re thinking he is Pit/Alligator or Pit/Grizzly. It’s the only way to explain teeth bigger than a black bear’s.
And yes, we had ways to check.
Now, joking aside, I have been bit by the latter one twice. It was my own fault, I admit. I had been stupid to stick my hand in front of his muzzle to break him and the other apart when they were playing around.
And yes, I was dumb enough to do it a second time a few months later.
Both times, he broke the skin, and both times, my hand went instantly numb. His bite is that strong. Even so, on both accounts, he recognized what he did was wrong, and would act submissively and depressed for several days afterward. He’s actually intelligent enough to realize all of this.
No, I’m not saying he’s not at fault, after all, he DID bite me, even though I am mostly(if not all) at blame.
Now, to put it all into perspective, let me explain how and where we got him. My parents found him in a shelter in New Jersey as a puppy(just a few weeks old really), so we adopted him since we wanted another dog. At the time, we obviously knew he had been bred as a fighting dog at the time, but it wasn’t until several years and a move later, we figured out how MUCH of a fighting dog he would have been. By now, he’s lost all but 2 of his nipples to barbed wire chasing off coyotes from neighborly cow herds, feels almost no pain, and what he does feel, he ignores. He weighs over 100lbs and has fangs over an inch long.
On the other side of things, he has a wonderful sense of humor(he can let himself out the backdoor of the house and open the front door to sneak in behind a guest before barking ^^), is loyal, very intelligent(for a dog. I’d say he’s about as smart as a 7 year old except he can’t do math. But then, how many 7 year olds can?) and is very protective of his “pack”. The “pack” being all the other pets, near by farm animals, and anything we call a Baby.
He’s getting rather up there in years now, and getting slightly hard to handle, but only in an Onerous Old Coot kind of way.
The Pit/Boxer on the other hand, hasn’t bitten anyone, and is mostly boxer. The worst she’s ever done was steal dinner and just wants to be snuggled, so I won’t bore you with her details.
Now, a lot of you may be thinking that the bigger dog is simply lovable, and he honestly IS. However, like all the other dogs of his type, he’s simply one trigger away from ripping someone’s arm off(he could do it too. I’ve seen him bite a 20lb possum in half in a single go). All we’ve done, is raised him to different KINDS of triggers.
I have a pair of rather nasty scars on my left hand that remind me that he is a natural born killer, even if he doesn’t realize it himself.
(As a bit of a footnote, I once heard a story of a cop who was mauled by an old woman’s 20 chihuahuas, but for the life of me, I can’t find the story. And by mauled, I mean he got 2 stitches. Yep. They really did a number on him.)
Where is that “deserves hell” poll option? This guy deserves it.
My two cents….ive owned Rottweilers, german Shepherds, pitbulls as well as small dogs and family dogs. but i can tell you this…when my son was younger i had a lab-mis chow chow. i still monitor him always. he was a family dog but i did not let my son to be alone with him, never! i had the big dogs when i was a bachelor. awsome dogs well trained and never bit anyone but….. they can and will if jealous or trying to protect me. they are big dogs and even well trained accidents can happen. so please do not have big dogs around little children it is just not safe. one can never know!
Finally some common sense. Thank you!!
A lot of bad people have been, and ARE, dog owners… in particular, they’re owners of pitbulls and rottweilers, either because of trend or for horrific moneymaking purposes. For the most part I’ve only associated with good people in my life. Many of them have been dog owners. Every single pitbull, rottweiler, and german shepard I’ve had (regularly in my life somehow) or actually family-owned in my life has been extremely gentle. This by-nature-they’re-vicious thing is total b.s.
No pet should be raised with pain or restraint, ya know, the way the bad people do. Treat them respectfully, gently, and with extreme compassion, and they’ll turn out fine. Never hit.
My ex-BF and I used to own a Pit (white chick, small town, decent neighborhood). He got her as a puppy from the pound (this was almost 18 years ago). He said he fell in love with her before he found out what she was but then decided to keep her anyway. She was in my life 4 years ’til my BF and I broke up. He kept her.
She was the BEST dog. Never aggressive toward any one. SOOO loving. She was just a big goof ball. One of the best dogs I ever had. We took good care of her.
HOWEVER!!!! I have a 1 year old baby now and I would never EVER, let Daisy (that was her name) or ANY big dog around my baby or small child if the dog was unrestrained. They might be the best dog in the world but the fact is that they are still an animal and “what if”. . . . .
And besides the danger issue their is the cleanliness issue. Call me a germ-phobe, I don’t care. I love dogs. I really do but they are not the most sanitary creatures on the planet. I do not want any dog big or small wallowing around near my baby just based in the sanitary issue alone. Not to mention the danger issue.
Common sense seems to be in short supply these days while apathy and disregard for your fellow man is rampant.