this comment is for Brightliner...Don't take this the wrong way but so you are saying that if someone owns a pitbull where ever,those people have to move to another state or get rid of the dog?.Thats messed up really but that is the way I look at it.Any dog can turn on someone no matter what. it is just the matter of who owns them and how they are treated!!..So no pitbulls should not be outlawed!!..They are not outlawed here where I live!!..

I have a best friend that has a full blooded pitbull and i am sitting here right now in the same house with her and she is the best dog I could ever be around!!..she is always giving me kisses and she never once snapped at me,never bit me,never growed at me or anything!!...No one should never put a dog down just cause she done that unless the dog does it more the twice!!..I mean I am very sorry to hear about that woman but at the same time the owner just needs to spend more time with the dog unless they had it put to sleep!!..I also have a cousin that has a full blooded pitbull and that dog never once done anything to me and SHE came from a drug house and you know how they can be and I can be left in the room alone with her also and all she does is lay on my lap and love on me!!...it's not the dog its the owner!!..If anyone has any comments feel free to leave them but please no nasty comments because I WILL not answer back

THANK YOU

I have a six month old pit bull and he is just a baby and we have already got him out of the nipping stage.My brother had one and it almost killed his fairly old neighbor.Yours is beautiful but they are dangerous.

I love dogs... dogs are best friends as we all know. But there comes a time that we need to draw a line. Saddly this time is a Pit, he is a guard dog. By what I've read it wasn't trained properly and have a record of two insidents. This is not good, we cannot wait unitl it happens again or worse. I feel that this should go for ANY dog breed plus fines ($5000 plus)for the owner.

I have 2 pitbulls and I have 3 children from the ages 4-9 years old. The pitbull is not a vicious dog, they get along well with me children, they are very playful they will let anyone into my property they will bark at the stranger but they will not attack I know cause I had this happen before plenty of times. My mother-in-law has 2 chihuahuas and they always attack me and my children when we go to visit her,and get this my children are afraid of those chihuahuas rather then my 2 pitbulls I have at home.

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The dog didnt fly out of the house and attack the woman the woman smelled like another dog and when the pit bull tired to smell her she kicked it a couple times until she pissed him off therefore the dog attacked her...that is what i hate about dumbass people first you kick a dog well that was your first mistake but to make it even dumber it was a pit bull then you try to lie and tell the cops it just attacked you if i was the cop that took her statement i would of let the dog attack her again just because shes a dumb hoe who needs to learn how to treat animals...i have two pit bulls and the only time they've ever attacked me was when i was playin with them a pissed them off...god i hate dumb people

i love pit bulls i have 2 and 1 American Staffordshire Terrier also and they are not vicious

Ok, I have read all of these comments. Just let me say this, those of you that put the pitbulls down Obviously never owned a pit for yourself. So many people love the pits and chose to have them because they are a smart dog and very easy to train. I have bred many different types of dogs, rots, pits, boxers, st. bernards, and dobermans. The pits were by far the easiest and most mild tempered out of the lot. Yes they did thier job as a guard dog, if you were a stranger and was where it knew you weren't suppose to be then yes they would get you. However if I or another person was there and they would let us know. If you possed a threat to anyone they would get you. As long as they knew it was ok for you to be there then all was fine. I have been around this breed my whole life not once have I ever witnessed an attack. The people as well as myself that raised them raised them right. Yes breeders do need to go about selling the breed properly. However buyers need to go about raising the breed properly. If a dog attacks then there was one of three things that happened, one: the dog wasn't kept the way it needed to be like on a chain or in a pin; two: the person that was atacked wasn't where they needed to be as in where the dog knew that person shouldn't be; three: the dog felt threatened in some sort of way. These three things will happen with any dog or animal for that matter it is called instinct. If you train them the right way which is to be used to people and other animals then these chances of atacks will be very small. I'm sorry that the lady was atacked, but I'm more sorry that because of a poor excuse for an owner now a dog that was only doing what he thought was his job, protecting his owner, may now lose its life. Those of you that don't trust these animals or hate them cause of all the bad publicitythey get in the media, why don't you go look at the most comon dog bites that are reported in the hospitals. It might suprise you. Not long ago the local news in my area showed the results. The most common was the lab. They showed the top ten and the pits only made it to the nineth spot. So don't put down an animal you know nothing about personaly. The media will streach things and bend them to where they seem worse than they are. Anyone with alittle common since knows that. If anyone would like to contact me on this subject please do. My e-mail is captainlatino1@hotmail.com. To all of you pit lovers and supporters please vote against breed banning. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BAD BREED, ONLY BAD OWNERS. Thank you for your time.

i dont think dogs should be put down like that i think is ther owner who needs to be more awer of the dog he has i have 2 dogs a blue pit and a rottweiler and i have a 5 year old son and gess what ? ther nothing like they say they are they protect me and my family and there good with kids

even if ther not ours but i allways know that i got to be carefull with them so i try to teach them to be good and spend time with them i know one day im going to let them go but ill remember them as i allways emagine. so i think that who ever has a gard dog (dangerous dog) the owner has to be responsable for what happens.

I agree that it is the owner's fault that these incidents occur... but lets face it, the dumb people always breed; Whether it is their own deficient off-spring, or violent dogs, stupidity breeds stupidity. Until we can ban the most stupid and the irresponsible people of this society from reproducing themselves, we must try to limit their avenues for harming those around them (ban pit bulls, guns, etc)... so much for natural selection

This is absolutely tragic. I extend my deepest sympathy to that poor woman and her family. Reading some of the comments written by others on this page saying pit bulls should be outlawed in the city is simply ignorant. I have 2 pitbulls that cuddle up with my grandma and sleep with her. PITBULLS ARE NOT INHERENTLY DANGEROUS. the FACT IS THIS: pitbulls are strong. they can out muscle any other breed pound for pound. They aren't vicious or mean. However there are plenty of people who are vicious and mean; they are the people who exploit the physical attributes of this breed. The dog will be as gentle or as vicious as it is trained to be. If you look back to the 80's it was Dobermans that were being exploited this way and before that it was German Shepards (the dog used by our law inforcers) I trained my first pitbull, who was aggressive due to the abuse of her former owners, into the most gentle loving animal in the world. It's all how you treat them. I have an adorable labradore in my building who has tried to attack me and my dogs on 5 different occasions. My dogs who could easily shred this dog into chopped meat just sat there looking to me help them. If you want to stop pitbulls from attacking people, remove them from the violent hands of drug dealers and criminals and use this incredablly intellegent, loyal breed for police work.

And another thing- That picture is not the dog who attacked that woman. I don't think they could have picked a more intimidating picture. The dog is chained and obviously aroused. My dogs are just as big and muscular and they are currently curled into a ball of fur at my feet as I write this with two cats in the room.

Half of you are completely rediculous. I was once attacked by a poodle, lets go ban them. Or... Would you like to see the damage a Scottish Terrier could do to a defensless little child? Pitbulls are sweet dogs, I know cause' I own one, and by far, she is the most loving animal I have ever cared for. True, they can cause' a lot of damage, and they could very well rip the face of anyone, but you'd have to let them. If your dog is going out biting people, you should know better than to keep them loose, even in your backyard. But that's besides the point. If the media would announce all the other dogs in the world biting people, I think you'd laugh when you all realize that pitbulls aren't even top 10. Its just that they have the POTENTIAL. I have the potential to kill, and so do all of you. Does that mean we should walk around wearing muzzles? Or perhaps we should be banned?

I think people need to lay off.

Pit bulls tend to be much gentler with people than many other breeds. They were bred to fight bulls and other dogs, NOT people, and pit bulls that bit people were traditionally put down, so the breed evolved to be very gentle with humans. Golden retrievers and spaniels are much more likely to bite people than are pit bulls. Sure, some wackos mistreat pit bulls and encourage them to be aggressive against people, but it's a lot harder to train a pit bull to be aggressive toward people than to train most other breeds. Pit bulls do tend to be dog-aggressive, as they were bred to be, so you do have to be careful with them around other dogs, especially if they weren't socialized well when young. All this hysteria against pits is so crazy--for much of the 20th century, they were viewed in America as the best family dog, because they are so incredibly gentle with kids. Our pit-boxer mix loves every child (or adult) she sees--she would be utterly hopeless as a guard dog. The only danger she presents to people is when she wags her tail so hard she falls over--she might trip someone.

pitbulls, like any other breeds, are still dogs... domesticated dogs! it's up to the owners to raise their dogs to behave or not to behave. why descriminate against pitbulls? we've brought them to this world and now all we can do is to be responsible as pitbull owners. that's the bottom line! banning them would definitely solve the problem in that area, but only to a certain extent. the same irresponsible owner can own a rottweiler and it will soon maul another old woman! then what? ban rotts too? WAKE UP! if it's your dog and you wanted to have that dog, raise it properly! to all those ignorant about the american pitbull terrier breed, research about it and don't just base what you know on hear-says. they do more good than bad regardless all the irresponsible owners out there!

Nice quiz. I'll post the link again in case anyone missed it.





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





I brought my dog to the local "pet fest" this year and last year. Nobody screamed "Pit Bull!" and ran away. They all asked what my sweetheart of a dog was. When I told them, almost without exception, they stared in disbelief or told me that I was wrong.





The dogs in the news are not Pit Bulls. People think they are and perpetuate any number of myths, but they are not. Go to a dog show and see the registered show dogs. Learn about the breed.

Am Staffs are also not 100+ lbs, like most of the dogs in these horrible attacks. 9 times out of 10, the dogs in the news are crossed with Rotts, Mastiffs, etc or are an entirely different breed, like the Canary dogs that killed that woman in San Francisco.

"Real" Pit Bulls were bred to be dog aggressive, not people aggressive. How in the world would you get handlers into the pit for a dog fight if there was a chance the dogs would attack people????

There is no such breed as "pit bull." Usually what people are talking about when they say "pit bull" is some variation of the American Staffordshire Terrier, a breed of dog known in England as the "nanny dog" because they are so good around children.

More to the point, though, is that any dog that is mistreated will be a mean dog. That really should be obvious.

American Staffordshire Terriers (aka "Am Staffs" or "Staffies") are wonderful, loving, friendly and smart animals. Mine prefers to spend much of her days on her back, playing with stuffed animals.

If you live by the Fox News reactionary damn them all way of thinking, then you might be in favor of breed banning.

A lot more dogs could live happier lives and people would be safer if those found to have abused an amimal were forever banned from owning another animal, and if the criminal penalties for animal abuse were stiffer.

A good friend of mine was attacked and badly bitten by an Akita. He never thought to initiate legislation banning Akitas; he did go after its owner's assests in court, however.

If Dude didn't care about his dog like how he says in the article, he should not have had one in the first place. Maybe if he cared about it, it wouldn't have attacked anyone.

And hey, Brightliner, from your other comments on other posts, I'd figured that you were some sort of environmentalist person. Now I see you are for banning breeds. Save the trees; kill the dogs? Hypocrite.

I am convinced it is nurture. Me and my Great Dane were attacked by another Great Dane who wasn’t socialized properly. We both have scars. I was also bitten in the face by a German Shepherd when I was a kid. Again, the dog was not properly socialized.

Now another dog that gets a bad reputation is the Rottweiler. I had one that some relatives couldn’t keep anymore, and he was very sweet and loving towards everyone, yet people were either deathly afraid of him or thought he was sweet.

The problem isn’t the dogs, it’s the humans (or in some cases sub-humans) who take care of them.

since people are the ones who start wars, commit murder, rob, rape, and otherwise commit acts of violence on other people, maybe we should just ban people. BAN EVERYTHING!