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#26 2007-09-21 9:47 pm
- MuckSavage
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Re: Pit Bull attack
Meh, easier to blame the dog.
You have an absolutely breath-taking... heiney. I mean, that thing's good. I wanna be friends with it.
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#27 2007-09-21 9:56 pm
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Re: Pit Bull attack
My dog used to lunge at people. He ended up flat on his back gasping for breath more than once.
He just wanted to plant his paws on their leg and say hello. But, whatever.
Of course, he was not only a slow learner - he was also a third the size of the averag Pit. Made it easier.
If you can't exert your will on an animal, you shouldn't have it.
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#28 2007-09-21 10:05 pm
Re: Pit Bull attack
dvpierce wrote:
My dog used to lunge at people. He ended up flat on his back gasping for breath more than once.
He just wanted to plant his paws on their leg and say hello. But, whatever.
Of course, he was not only a slow learner - he was also a third the size of the averag Pit. Made it easier.
If you can't exert your will on an animal, you shouldn't have it.
This was the first time the dog lunged, from what i was told, and it was the last time it ever did it.
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#29 2007-09-21 10:09 pm
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Re: Pit Bull attack
doc-robc wrote:
Anyway, I don't mean anything by it. Don't Taser me bro!
I laughed long and hard.
On a more somber note, one of my friends from high school was involved in a dog attack (I THINK it was a pitbull but I'm not going to guarantee it was). He was playing frisbee golf at a park and saw and old lady getting attacked by the dog so he tried to help. He somehow ended up breaking the dogs jaw and killing it but in the process got quite a few injuries himself.
Although I think having a dog that is trained to be vicious is understandable in some situations (very limited imo), those dogs should be kept away from the general public (i.e. protecting the area they're supposed to, not wandering around untethered). I also think the owners of these dogs don't get prosecuted enough but I don't know enough about laws to make any kind of argument in that direction 
...but hey, what do I know
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#30 2007-09-23 6:49 pm
Re: Pit Bull attack
New development. To me, anyway.
I have no more sympathy for my friend/coworker. I didn't know her daughter still lived at home. One of the victims is her next door neighbor, and she has acquired a real dislike for the victim. She knows there's the possibility she could be sued since it's her house and the victim (afaik) can not work anymore, at least for a long time. She has taken the same attitude that the 18 year old girl that hit my friend in the car did. She doesn't understand what the big deal is. The woman is getting donations. She doesn't care that this woman may not be able to work again because of nerve damage.
People at my work are looking at her in a whole new light now. She made some very loud comments about the victims in front of a few bosses, and apparently they were shocked. I wasn't there because it was on day shift the other day, but it kinda sounds she was looking fo sympathy for herself and her daughter.
I've known her for about 18 years. She's the poster child for white trash. To be fair, though, she can be nice, but she's also had her over the top behaviors that people have overlooked. This, they aren't going to overlook.
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