And 20 minutes? I’m an animal lover but pet or no pet it wouldn’t take me 20 minutes to get a dog off a childs throat. Swift finger up the dogs bum is all that needs, failing that, find yourself a heavy blunt object and beat it off. If she’s gonna be in charge of a supposed aggressive breed of dog, know how to handle them! She may be tortured enough but imagine the fear and torture the child went through.

It’s amazing that Helen Keller – blind and deaf by the age of one – wasn’t mauled to death by her PIT BULL service dog. Or Michael J Fox. And look at the number of Bully dogs Cesar Milan has. That aren’t killing each other or attacking people. To date, the most vicious dog that has appeared on his show was a Chihuahua.

Those poor kids from Our Gang, working every day for how many years with an American Staffordshire Terrier (Petey), yet another Pit Bull type dog. How they survived is beyond me. Wait. Must be because the stereotype about the dogs being human aggressive and inherently vicious is WRONG. Who would have thought. Oh, wait. RESPONSIBLE bully breed owners everywhere could have told you that.

Vicious and aggressive dogs of ANY breed should be put down. Period. People think it’s cute when their teacup dogs go after people – just because they don’t do as much damage as a large dog doesn’t mean it’s okay.

Dog bites are poorly documented. Not every person who has ever been bit by a dog goes to the hospital in order for truly unbiased research to take place. Most people can’t accurately identify a dog breed either, which further skews things.

Did that dog need to die? ABSOLUTELY. He should have been shot just because they KNEW he was so aggressive that he couldn’t be around kids. But the fact is that a Golden Retriever can be just as aggressive and do the same darn thing. But no one wants to hear that the worlds best family dog ever *gasp* would bite someone. That woman was grossly negligent, that dog shouldn’t have been ALIVE, forget about being near a child. And I say that NOT because of his breed but because there is NO place for a dog with that kind of aggression. Even Police and Military dogs have to meet a standard of temperament for their aggression to be okay.

http://www.atts.org/statistics.html If you look, American Pit Bull Terriers and American Staffordshire Terriers scored a HELL of a lot higher than Chihuhuas, better than Cocker Spaniels and better than Collies (sorry, Lassie!) and many other breeds. Bred to attack my ASS. Golden Retriever: 84.4% pass. American Pit Bull Terrier: 86.4% pass. OH NO.

The unfortunate part is that you get most of your information from the media, which demonizes Pit Bulls. Just out of curiosity, in the last 50 years how long have Pit Bulls been making Headlines? In the 80s the demon dog was Dobermans, in the 90s it was the Rottweiler. Do some research.

I am a middle class american without a drug problem, no car parts in the yard (I do have a tractor out in a field, does that count?), I don’t live in a trailer, I’m married to the father of my children (who also doesn’t do drugs) and we both work full time job in the Aerospace industry. We have an American Staffordshire Terrier – a breed that generally does not do well at Schutzhund because of their RELUCTANCE to attack people. So looks like your stereotypes are wrong. Sorry.

as a pitbull owner, i don’t like the responsibility being put on the dog breed. that dog in particular was noted as being raised to be violent, as any dog can be. pitbulls in fact have been proven to have better than average temperaments as a whole (http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/pit-bulls-have-better-temperament-than-average-dog/)

that dog in particular was dangerous, but it has nothing to do with the breed.
and i of course think it’s completely wrong and irresponsible to allow an aggressive dog around a small child, especially when the adults have impaired judgment.

Was Jackie Simpson charged with child endangerment for being drunk and stoned while she was supposed to be taking care of her granddaughter as well, or was it just the manslaughter charge?