Pit bulls getting a bad rap here?
We have heard countless stories about Pit Bulls Terriers attacking and often killing someone in the news as of late. The dogs do have a reputation for violence, mainly attributable to many of them being bred to fight and used by drug dealers and other criminals as both a status symbol and protection. The dogs can be dangerous, becuase of their powerful jaws they can kill or maim someone very quickly, although in the case of children many other dogs are capable of doing the same thing. I won't get into whether or not the breed is inherently more prone to violence when bred and raised correctly, not sure if there really is a way to prove that either way.
But this last story is just scary. Not so much because the pit bulls killed a small child. Yes that is scary, but it sounds like the one to blame is the mother of the boy that was killed by the two dogs. Here you have a woman who leaves to run errands and leaves her son in the basement with instructions for him not to come out of the basement until she gets home, or something of that nature. There are two pit bulls in the house, on male and one female, and with the female being in heat. Apparently the woman was so concerned for her sons safety because of the aggressive nature of her dogs while the female was in heat, that she locked him in the basement (instead of the dogs????).
Why in the hell would she not 1.) Take her son along instead of leaving at home with two dogs that she considered dangerous and 2.) Maybe she should get rid of the dogs if they are that dangerous that her son's life was in danger.
I don't know if there was any evidence that the dogs had been mistreated in anyway or not.
Here is a link to the story from AP via Yahoo:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050612/ap_on_re_us/fatal_dog_mauling;_ylt=ArvJofztSgdisvmR7rQcTZ9G2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
But this last story is just scary. Not so much because the pit bulls killed a small child. Yes that is scary, but it sounds like the one to blame is the mother of the boy that was killed by the two dogs. Here you have a woman who leaves to run errands and leaves her son in the basement with instructions for him not to come out of the basement until she gets home, or something of that nature. There are two pit bulls in the house, on male and one female, and with the female being in heat. Apparently the woman was so concerned for her sons safety because of the aggressive nature of her dogs while the female was in heat, that she locked him in the basement (instead of the dogs????).
Why in the hell would she not 1.) Take her son along instead of leaving at home with two dogs that she considered dangerous and 2.) Maybe she should get rid of the dogs if they are that dangerous that her son's life was in danger.
I don't know if there was any evidence that the dogs had been mistreated in anyway or not.
Here is a link to the story from AP via Yahoo:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050612/ap_on_re_us/fatal_dog_mauling;_ylt=ArvJofztSgdisvmR7rQcTZ9G2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
posted by bigalsbeans at 11:27 PM
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