Pit bulls attacks redux
 

Sweet! A pit bull attacks this guy, and he kills it with his bare hands. Maybe this is another argument for CCW

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&id=4988044

Interesting note at the bottom:

We have some numbers on dog attacks in Harris County and pit bulls are at the top. In 2006, there were 244 pit bull attacks. Labradors were involved in 164 attacks, followed by German shepherds, Chihuahuas and chows with 55 attacks. Harris County tells us it has seen an increase in the number of pit bulls it's taken in.

Chihuahuas !!!!
o no death grip on a little finger the horror

Somewhere there's an owner that's gonna' sue now claiming his "right" to own whatever kind of dog he damn well pleases has been violated.

There are no bad dogs, only bad owners, but the world (and the dog) is better off today.

I had a couple of chili dogs for lunch and they're already attackin' my a$$....

Yep. Too bad some people already know what is better for everyone else.

tough old dude.

What surprised me was the stat at the bottom of the article. The second most number of attacks were by Labradors?!!

What, does everyone in that town walk around wearing ham sandwich costumes?!

My two Labradors wouldn't attack anyone unless it was to knock them to the ground to lick food off their face.

Same as my Pitt Bull.

You know, I've only ever known a few pits and they WERE sweethearts. Mean looking sweathearts but they were very friendly.

show me a link,
Lab's have seldom made any attack list..much less # 2
if a Lab attacks you..you just might have it coming.
Rika

Hmm, Harris County, Texas. I would be willing to bet they have a substantially higher population of hunting Labs than domestic pit bulls, by a factor of several hundred fold. Pit bulls are almost exclusively city and suburban dogs; you won't find many in rural America. They don't hunt. It would be interesting to see the number of attacks in Harris County expressed as a relationship to the breeds' populations.

If you CAN use your Lab to hunt, he would be very well trained, thus very controlled.
this a just another 'Pit eats grandpa, pics at six..with bullsh#t filler
Rika

Sure they do. They're used heavily for hog hunting. Quick, small, strong and tenacious (like all terriers). I can't think of a breed which is better suited for that task - they're excellent at it. Of course, the hog wins a lot of the time, which is I don't go hog hunting with dogs.

Rural America is full of Pitts. It's just the ones you hear about are inner-city.

- Skip

+1 - same as my mix:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1170359782.jpg

As a terrier, Chip is a tenacious hunter of lizards and gophers. He uses that mouth and those paws to dig like a trencher run amok - and catches them...

Who's Redux?

French guy, can't get rid of him.

My father was a cop/detective for 30 years and said that he never heard of a dog bit from a Retriever, only from Pit Bulls and terriers, usually "the smaller the more likely to bite"... It's interesting that Retrievers come in #2 on this list.

I'd love to see some news stories about those chihuahua attacks!

The recount from the victim would probably be pretty good, how he fended off 4 lbs. of pure terror.

AP Wire, San Diego, CA: Pedro Jiminez relives the day when he almost became yet another needless statistic in the string of fatal and near fatal Chihuahua attacks.

"I was just walkin' down the street, minding my own business. The beast was on the other side of the street. I made the mistake of making eye contact, which it viewed as a sign of weakness, I guess."

Without warning, the loose animal sprinted across the street, and threw itself at the terrified Jiminez.

"He leaped through the air, man, I didn't think he could get up so high!" Jiminez says softly, as he recounts how the creature latched onto his pant leg, several inches above his ankle. "I'm just glad that thing couldn't jump 3 feet higher, if ya know what I mean," Jiminez joked, without a smile. "Or, if it had been able to penetrate through my pants - it could have maybe broken my skin!"

After having to shake his leg several times to dislodge the crazed monster, the onslaught continued, as the animal ran about, yapping incessantly.

The terror continued, until the quick-thinking Jiminez, drawing on his days on the soccer fields of his native San Felipe, punted the would-be-killer canine a distance of approximately 23 feet. "At that point, I figured it was either me or him," Jiminez said with a shrug. "Plus, that yapping was getting really annoying."

lets see the list..all we have is a reporter spouting drivel.
if Labs were attacking folks in the #'s claimed ...we would hear more.
Like the Pit bash
Labrador eats mom, and 3 infants,
grandmother mauled by choco Lab.
my rottie knocked down a mail carrier who opened my screen door.
this was classified as 'attack'
had to pay for 2 weeks of observation / to make sure she had no rabies.
Pascha did nothing but lick the dumb b@tch.
Rika

My labs name is Redux...Earl Redux.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1170368271.jpg

Rika,

My 13 year old black lab - fully white around the snout and eyes, walks with a decided limp, can no longer run, blueish milky eyes....barked at the mail carrier twice in my front yard. USPS made my put up a curb mounted mail box because of my "vicious" dog. Make no mistake, he didn't approach the mail carrier (Hell, I'm not sure he SAW the carrier!, I think he heard him or smelled him).

Now, I have no doubt that a big black dog barking at you is frightening...no argument.

But...........PERHAPS you should have picked a profession OTHER THAN mail carrier if you're that afraid of dogs?

Hawk , that is fine looking dog,
Dan, wishing the old guy and you ... more time together,
believe in dog-heaven, god gives them treats that look like a those people that don't like animals...loads of fun

we eat them, ***** them..and Fred over there eats them again.
Rika

Harris county is where most of Houston is located. Not alot of rural area.

I have a Pit bull / Boxer mix. She is the sweetest dog ever. We adopted her from the Humane Society at 7 months old. Actually she adopted us! She does not have a mean bone in her body....unless....you are a stranger and try and touch my daughter. Our mail carrier got the brunt of just such a scenario. I had gone in the house for about a minute. My daughter was out in the front yard with the dog. The mail carrier decided to just walk straight up to my daughter and hand her the mail instead of putting it in the box like normal. Big mistake! The dog went nuts! I heard the first bark and ran out the front door just in time to see a cloud of mace in the air and the mail man getting planted on his butt at the same time. My dog never bit him. She came away immediately when I yelled "NO!" To this day she cannot stand any mail carriers. We have been working with her to recognize that "they" are not the enemy. For the most part I have to agree that Pits are nothing but big mushballs. The owners of them are the ones that mold them into the vicious dogs that we read about in the papers. Right now my pound pup is sitting here on the floor at my feet looking at me like..."How ya doin dad? Lets play"
Meet Snap (as in ginger snap cookie)
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1170381363.jpg

Dogs that bite don't warn with barking. They like the element of surprise. They will just wirl around and bite for all they have.

Some dogs can bark and growl and then nip at a pant leg etc. but that is not really biting and going for blood.

I have a mostly boxer, Rhodesian mix that may have some pit in her. I love that dog. She can growl (the boxer side) when playing and she can scare some people but she won't bite. I will leave her with my grand kids anytime. Looks a lot like syncroid's girl with a white chest and feet (boxer)

Here's a picture
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1170385576.jpg