Slog - Comments on A Little Good News for Pit Bulls http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls From the PI: Four members of a family required hospital treatment after being attacked by a dog after it broke loose from its chain in their yard, the Yakima County sheriff's office said.... Two of the victims were girls ages 2 and 3. The youngest was sent to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for stitches from a plastic surgeon. The other girl, her mother and a grandfather were treated at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital for bite wounds, a nursing supervisor said. The sheriff's office said in a news release that one of the family's dogs, which appeared to be a... Copyright 2008 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:45:32 -0800 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:23:05 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Giffy Not to say they had it coming(especially the children) but to get a dog like that and then chain it up is a recipe for disaster. Chaining dogs makes them aggressive. My hunch is that the dog spent a lot of time outside on that chain and rarely spent time with the family, much less being trained. Idiots.

]]> Giffy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795594 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795594 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:08:09 -0800 Comment by KY. COL. of TRUTH Like having one's own personal I.E.D. - but pettable.

]]> KY. COL. of TRUTH http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795597 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795597 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:25:26 -0800 Comment by ARABIC PROVERB "The dog will not get free by biting his chain."

]]> ARABIC PROVERB http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795612 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795612 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:36:48 -0800 Comment by Ayden @1 - Kudos to Giffy for his good sense.

No dog - NO DOG - should be chained in the back yard. Dogs should only belong to someone who wants and loves them - and keeps them close. Like in the fucking house.

If you can't commit to that, you don't deserve to have a dog!

Yes - I am sorry for the childen. Maybe even for the mother. I just wish people would get the right lesson from this disaster. If you want a dog (or any animal) to be part of your family, you can't stick them in the back yard and expect them to have good manners and be good citizens.

And if you never intend that animal to be a part of your family - don't get it!

Yeah, Dan - I know you hate dogs, but think for a moment how DJ might have turned out if you'd chained him in the yard after he stopped being a cute toddler - and threw him food once a day.

]]> Ayden http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795630 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795630 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:45:37 -0800 Comment by Sean @4:
The Rottweiler species was bread to be vicious guard dogs. They have the genetic code of a killer. Doesn't matter how tame they are or how good they've had it, they are unpredictably violent.

But hey, feel free to pack your house with Rotts. Hope you don't have kids.

]]> Sean http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795740 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795740 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:58:11 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale Microscopic dogs are the way to go.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795789 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795789 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:48:52 -0800 Comment by oscar Here you go Dan - check out my viciously evil dogs. One's a pit bull, the other a pit bull/Rottweiler mix. Their names are Murder and Mayhem. Don't be fooled by the cuteness.

Oh, and Sean? Rottweilers were originally cattle dogs.

]]> oscar http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795795 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795795 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:00:06 -0800 Comment by unPC See http://www.petpublishing.com/dogken/breeds/rottie.shtml

Rottweliers are descendants of the dogs the Romans bred to fight lions in the Cicus MAximus. LAter they drove the cattle (weatlh) of the Roman Army, they were left in a German town with red tiles (rott weil) and the Germans esp. butchers used them to guard butcher shops and allegedly carry purses of money tothe bank, i.e., they are bred for agressiveness.

They come right after pit bulls in the frequency of bites. Of course those who love them blame the owners who supposedly are at fault for not showing the dog who's boss early on enough.

So to say they were "cattle dogs" like they are basically hereded or similar to Lassie the collie or something is pretty much wrong, wrong, wrong. They were the freakin' guard dogs of the ROMAN ARMY.

]]> unPC http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795799 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795799 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:34:33 -0800 Comment by me Off topic for a moment- What about the bear story? They're going to euthanize the momma bear just cause she defended her cubs? Can't they bike somewhere else until the babies grow up? I'm reliving the nightmare of Bambi all over again.

]]> me http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795800 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795800 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:37:51 -0800 Comment by glasspusher I never met a pit bull that wasn't a sweetie. There are no bad dogs, only bad owners who make them that way :(

]]> glasspusher http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795811 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795811 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:11:48 -0800 Comment by Ayden @5

Nope - Neither Rotties nor Pits are my dogs of choice. I prefer the hairy kind that were originally bred to work WITH people.

I have Sheltland Sheepdogs and Belgian Tervuren. (Perfect breeds unless hair everywhere bothers you... Oh, yeah - or barking...)

Nonetheless, my advice holds, unless you WANT a dog, don't get one. And know what a breed is like before you get it.

I have known really nice Rotties and Pits - and I still wouldn't want them. Nor would I let them around MY kids.

Hairy, barking dogs are best ;-))

]]> Ayden http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795834 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795834 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:28:38 -0800 Comment by Big Sven re: bear. Sounds like there were cubs around, but at the risk of disagreeing w/ the battalion chief of South Kitsap Fire and Rescue, it was likely the dogs that set the bear off. Bears *hate* dogs. The surest way to get attacked by a bear in the wilderness is to bring a dog. Taking dogs into grizzly country is even worse. Bad for the dog, bad for the bear, bad bad bad...

]]> Big Sven http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795842 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795842 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:10:56 -0800 Comment by UNPAID BLOGGER I wish I'd been attacked by a bear this weekend...

]]> UNPAID BLOGGER http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795888 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795888 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:33:41 -0800 Comment by infrequent when i was growing up, we had a dog that spent most of her life in the backyard. why is this bad? the dog was too big for inside. we played with her all the time, we trained her, and took her for walks everyday.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795909 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795909 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:19:15 -0800 Comment by Cat Lover Forever LOL at you Dog Lovers!! See what you get with "Man's Best Friend"? Now Fritz the Cat never attacks me because I do all Fritz tells me to do without question. Oh Mighty Fritz! Praise to the Master of the House. (If you do not do as he says he will steal your breath in the middle of the night!)

]]> Cat Lover Forever http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795910 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795910 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:20:03 -0800 Comment by OR Matt My x-girlfriends rotweiller LOVED me, or at least liked but wanted to tear the throat out of the previous boyfriend.

Not that it makes that much of a difference, but meeting that dog was one of the scarriest momments of my life.

I thought rottweillers were bred to take down bears ... or something like that.

Still think they are cool dogs and ... less frightening than dobermans, they still scare me.

]]> OR Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795948 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795948 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:56:00 -0800 Comment by sam hill "They come right after pit bulls in the frequency of bites. Of course those who love them blame the owners who supposedly are at fault for not showing the dog who's boss early on enough."

Show your source please... For I don't think this is correct.

]]> sam hill http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795982 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c795982 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:36:20 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi @17,

Here you go. This was posted in an earlier comment thread about pit bulls. In the past 24 years, Rotts came in second with 409 attacks causing bodily harm while Pits and Pit-mixes were responsible for 1,182.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c796034 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c796034 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:38:39 -0800 Comment by cris To keshmeshi,

Take note that "Pit-mixes" are often mislabeled mutts,... or they are pit-labs, pit-goldens etc....So you have to realize that many of those bites were also from Labs and Golden's etc....

]]> cris http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c796046 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c796046 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:00:46 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi OK, well, plain old Pits were responsible for 1,100 attacks causing bodily injury.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c796061 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c796061 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:17:27 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale OR Matt - Behold the Mini Pin.

http://z.about.com/d/dogs/1/0/P/j/1/carlee_minpin_guard.jpg

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c796143 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c796143 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:22:47 -0800 Comment by tmsgrl I am new to this page and may have missed a few things while scanning the posts and please forgive me if it was pertaining to my post.

I am disappointed that the only source I see from keshmeshi regarding his previous post plainly states in the first paragraph "from press accounts". Is this all you have?

If several news stories claimed that Paris Hilton was a virgin would that make it a fact or merely press?

]]> tmsgrl http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c802952 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/a_little_good_news_for_pit_bulls#c802952 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:23:05 -0800