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ronnie, read article, so sad. i had a pit bull come in my yard and kill my 15 year old lab. i always worried when my granddaughters, 8 and 13 come to see me on account of these pitbulls running loose. i called before this took place and asked what i could do about this. the guy asked me if these dogs have ever attacked, i say not that know of. he say nothing could be done if they had not attacked. i should have looked into this more so this is what ended up happened. hey i love animals but i feel if anyone has one they should be sure and see to it. by the way i lived in county and was told there was no leash law.
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Originally posted by savinforarainyday:
I know someone who has at least 8 dogs staked out around his house. Anyone know if we have some kind of ordinance that governs this?
Thanks


Eight pit bulls staked out...hmmm...sounds like this may be an undocumented pharmacy. Sometimes these places also place cactus plants on the property for an added layer of security.
Before you start complaining about pitbulls, please go to this site and identify the Pit Bull Terrier:

http://www.pitbullsontheweb.com/petbull/findpit.html

Then, if you identify it correctly in the first 3 tries, you can come back and complain about them some more. Many people call any stocky dog a "pitbull" when it isn't. This has caused pits to take the blame for attacks that were actually done by other breeds.

Blame the owners, not the dogs. As Cesar Millan has proved - vicious dogs are the victims of irresponsible owners. I've seen vicious labs, dobermans, dalmations, chows, poodles, and pekingese. In the right circumstances, any type of dog can be dangerous.

Check out the dog that killed a 2-month old baby in this story:

http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=8746561

A puppy. A 6-week old black lab puppy killed a baby. ANY dog can be dangerous.
I worked at a vets office for quite a while in high school. The only dog I ever got bit by while working there was a chihuahua and it about took my fingernail off. Also when I was 3 our miniature schnauzer bit me just below my eye (very narrowly missing my eye). It bit so hard I had a black eye for several months and I'm 28 now and I still have a scar on my face from it. Give me a pit bull dog anyday over a small dog. To me the small dogs are more nervous and snappy and unpredictable. Like I said this is based on personal experiences and experiences from when I worked at the vets office.
The deadliest dogs

Merritt Clifton, editor of Animal People, has conducted an unusually detailed study of dog bites from 1982 to the present. (Clifton, Dog attack deaths and maimings, U.S. & Canada, September 1982 to November 13, 2006; click here to read it.) The Clifton study show the number of serious canine-inflicted injuries by breed. The author's observations about the breeds and generally how to deal with the dangerous dog problem are enlightening.

According to the Clifton study, pit bulls, Rottweilers, Presa Canarios and their mixes are responsible for 74% of attacks that were included in the study, 68% of the attacks upon children, 82% of the attacks upon adults, 65% of the deaths, and 68% of the maimings. In more than two-thirds of the cases included in the study, the life-threatening or fatal attack was apparently the first known dangerous behavior by the animal in question. Clifton states:

If almost any other dog has a bad moment, someone may get bitten, but will not be maimed for life or killed, and the actuarial risk is accordingly reasonable. If a pit bull terrier or a Rottweiler has a bad moment, often someone is maimed or killed--and that has now created off-the-chart actuarial risk, for which the dogs as well as their victims are paying the price.

Clifton's opinions are as interesting as his statistics. For example, he says, "Pit bulls and Rottweilers are accordingly dogs who not only must be handled with special precautions, but also must be regulated with special requirements appropriate to the risk they may pose to the public and other animals, if they are to be kept at all."
I whole heartedly agree that people should have to meet certain requirements to own a pet. Nothing irks me more than to see a dog on a chain, tied behind someone's house, neglected and ignored. A close second is to hear someone make an ignorant claim such as, "I aint never took my dog to no vet and she aint never had no heartworms or rabies or nuttin".

I also think that people should have to meet certain requirements to breed, but that is another topic...

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