What a joke. People just gots ta have dem Pitbulls. Have fun, getting your A** SUED OFF, lol.

People are just so friggin' dumb.

Wth. I meant dogs should not be put down. They ate abused. Can u imagine tied 24/7 in the backyard. These people should be jailed.

i hate when dogs eat abused. it tastes so gross.

If you have dogs why do you keep them chained outside? I never understood why people do that to animals. Maybe the owners should be chained outside while the dog lives inside.

Dog should be put down but the peopleshould be incarcerated and fibedfpr abusing these poor pits. :(.

Either the owners were bad trainers or the victims were perpertrators of evil deeds in this lifetime or in the previous who deserved karmatic justice; it couldn't have been the dogs' fault.

rachel ray has a pitbull, didn't it bite a few people?

so I'm guessing she's a bad owner, too.

You say that like it's somehow unlikely that a celebrity cook could be a bad dog-owner?

yes I said that because we're on gothamist.

you know it's usually thug gansta's who own them, oh whatever. I'm tired. I'm going shopping for some anti freeze for winter time.

doesn't say much about her cooking either.

sorry, the dog bit another dog's ear off.

The other dog obviously didn't read the signs that were posted.

EVOOhhh... Zing!

Oh Christ, why does it always have to be pitbulls. Makes me sad for the breed's reputation.

When I was growing up, it was German Shepherds, Dobermans, and Rottweilers that were always in the news. Now you never see stories about those breeds, and it's always the pitbulls.

I guess it's the rise of that idiot "gangsta" mentality and it's association with the breed.

Maybe it's because Pitbulls tend to be owned by a certain type of people.

Maybe it's because the media really does like to report on Pit Bulls.

The CDC states that there are, on average, 4.9 million people bitten by dogs in the U.S. every year.

Of those, about 800,000 require medical attention.

That's just under 2,200 persons per day.

We hear about five 'attacks' daily by Pit Bulls vs. people nationwide.

We don't hear about the more than 2,100 others.

Remember: lies, damn lies, and statistics. The nip given to the roughhousing eight-year-old, requiring a quick once-over by the pediatrician, counts as a dog bite needing medial attention. The chunk ripped out of a retiree's leg, made by the dog that leaped over the fence and chased him down the street, requiring a response by paramedics, police, and animal control is also a dog bite needing medical attention. The news will jump on any dog bite story like the latter, regardless of the breed.

Right.

Like this news report that screams "PIT BULL SCRATCHES YOUNG GIRL" or this one: "Second pit bull incident involving children in two days", which originally included the word 'attack' in the headline in place of 'incident'.

Need more? I've got them...

It's obviously the fault of the people walking the street. They were totally illiterate in English and couldn't read the dog tags on the dogs that said they were dangerous. Those dogs were there just to protect that public sidewalk from people. They were just doing what they were trained to do.

Wow. Wish I had your wit.