Sunday Newspaper Parade trying to stir people up to Ban Pit Bulls

[papbouv]

As educated people who know dogs everyone knows it is the people that own these dogs you either make a dog mean or Good by the way you treat it. Any dog can bite so they ban Pit Bulls then other breeds they get crazy one of these years they will get to your breed.All of us need to stop this banning of  breeds. Make the laws stronger for the people that own untrained dogs,fighting dogs, no chaining of dogs(usually makes any dog mean if chained up all the time.)Thanks
if you want to vote go to  Parade.com/dogs

[klsb]

When i was at the Paws for a Cause thing yesterday there were hundreds of dogs.. and lots of pitbulls! They were so happy  to play with the other dogs and were even gentle with the little ones.

They are beautiful amazing dogs, as long as their owners dont get them with bad intentions.

[Dee Dee and Hallie]

Good grief. You are exactly right! They need to change things! Pit Bulls "can" tend to be more aggressive than some breeds, since that is what they were bred for, to hold a bull by the nose so the butcher could kill it, and eventually in the barbaric sport of dog fighting. Just like border collies tend to herd things, scent hounds tend to follow their noses, sporting dogs tend to love water, etc. So some breeds (and not all individuals of that breed) require more responsible owners to avoid a bad situation. The problem is there aren't nearly enough owners like that and people get pit bulls for the wrong reasons. Some pits of course are not aggressive but that is the tendency of the breed just like many individuals of other breeds. Pits though were bred to be aggressive to other dogs, so they would make good fighters in the pit, but they were also bred to NOT be agressive to humans as they wanted them to be easily handled by anyone in the pit ring during the fight and not bite the handlers. So when pit bulls bite people that goes against what they were bred for. My friend who does the pit rescue and fights for the breed (her dogs are wonderful. But most can't be left unattended alone together although some can) has the right idea, that the owner of ANY dog that bites, needs to have a much stiffer penalty for it. If pit bulls are banned, then the next breed down is going to get the attention and that breed is banned and so on, so it does not fix the biting situation. If owners had to pay huge fees or went to jail for a long time, etc, then people would learn to be more careful with containment and control of their dogs to keep them from situations that could get them into trouble. Banning breeds is a ridiculous idea and won't solve anything.

[JetEd73]

I'm actually of the opinion that people should have to have a license to have pets and children.

[Dee Dee and Hallie]

I'm with you there JetEd. Plus required to take a class! Breeders included.

[klsb]

Cocker Spanials are the breed most likely to bite, with or without being provoked.

One of my clients has a cocker that cant be near any children, it will bite them in the face!

But you never hear about that on the news, now do you?

[Lowriders in Ohio]

Pitbulls really suffer for what people have done to them.  The people who train them and fight them get a slap on the wrist while the dogs get euthenized.  It makes be so sad.  If pitbulls are banned, these people will just find another breed to victimize.  Plus, the people involved with dogfighting are usually very unseemly people who are also involved with gambling and drugs.  I see these people all the time in my job as an assistant prosecutor.  To them, having a pitbull is like a status symbol for how tough they are.  The whole thing makes me sick!!  I wish Ohio would toughen up their animal cruelty laws.

[Teresa]

When Meg is home from grad school, she works at a centralized leasing company for apartments nationwide. She has told me several times that the list of dogs not allowed in apartment complexes is unbelievable long. One place even had doxies on it! I'll have to ask her sometime what the dogs on the list were (before she completely blocks it from her mind). I just remember that some of them didn't seem to make any sense at all.

[papbouv]

Remember sometime back someone posted a survey that Dachshund were on the mean dog list ? Think was the UK can't remember for sure. Please vote last time I looked the for was ahead of the no do not ban ? Us dog people have to stick together.

[Dee Dee and Hallie]

One year, there was a doxie on the list of breeds that killed someone. My guess it they tripped over it!