The body of an 85-year-old Texas woman was found in her home Monday after police say she was apparently attacked by two large and aggressive pit bulls in the home.
Dorothy Hamilton's body was discovered in the home Monday by her son, police said. The dogs belonged to her son and were normally locked in a bedroom. Police believe the dogs broke through the door to get at the woman, Kaufman police told MyFoxDFW.com.
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This is why these dogs are designated a Vicious Dangerous animal by the AKC, many states, and every insurance company!
The AKC has never designated Pit Bulls as dangerous or vicious. Many insurance companies have a whole long list of dog breeds they won't accept. Half the time when everyone screams pit bull attack that's not even what the dogs are. Just as many other breeds injure people but reporting on them doesn't make headlines. It's not about a specific breed it's about socializing and training your dog reguardless if breed.
Shoot.Shovel.Shut Up.
Thank You 12:17 - I am so sick of people like (:55 and 12:50 for lands sake it is the owner not the breed
and no one knows what actually happened
and how is it that he had more than 1 dog out there and what was he using them for
Thank you again 12:17 I really am sick of the B. S.
" It's not about a specific breed it's about socializing and training your dog reguardless if breed."
You are wrong. All breeds are not created equal and have their own inherent traits. For instance, you are going to have a hell of a time trying to get a Great Pyrenees to go and retrieve the duck you just shot. A Great Pyr will hardly even chase a duck or a deer because they have a low chase instinct. Their inherent trait is to be a guardian to livestock, so they tend to not chase other animals unless they detect a threat.
Training one of the retriever breeds to retrieve is relatively easy as it's one of their inherent traits to retrieve. Border collies as well as Corgis have an inherent trait to herd. Anyone who had been around either breed has surely been herded by them.
On the other hand pit breeds have an inherent trait to chase, run down and potentially kill prey.
You cannot "love" an inherent trait out of a dog. It's not possible. It's always lurking and any number of triggers may set it off.
Nature always overrules nurturing when it comes to animals including dogs.
12:17-The Centers for Disease Control (a fed govt agency)keeps yearly tallies of dog attacks statistics. The information is provided to them by hospitals. I believe it's upwards of 80% or more that involved pit breeds or pit breed mixes. 93% of the fatalities were caused by pit/pit mixes. When you consider pit/pit mixes only make up approx. 4 percent of dogs owned and their is a disproportionally amount of attacks occurring by them.
Now I would think as a pit lover which it appears you are, you would want to see some kind of restrictions placed on these dogs since shelters are averaging a nearly 90% pit/pit mix rate. This equates to 10's of thousands of these dogs being euthanized a year. About a 1000 a week in CA alone.
Hog wash. Dog discrimination.
It's very simple. This breed of dog is used as an alarm system for illegal activity. You know and I know it.
In Baltimore recently a disabled lady was mauled to death by her pit bull. By all accounts this particular dog was treated as well if not better than a lot of children. She had had him since he was a puppy. At one point the dog was hauled in because due to a food aggression had attacked a family member. The lady pleaded with the board that oversees animal issues for the area and the dog was returned to her, only to kill her in the end.
If genetic problems run through families it only makes sense that genetic problems also run in dog breeds. This breed really seems to hit the news more often for being more aggressive and "snapping" at any given point. I am a dog lover but I would really consider the breed as high risk and would not own one. Too much of a risk around family members. Genetics will tell in the end.
Absolutely 7:34 but I would like to make a correction. Not so much genetic "problems" as genetic traits. In humans if blue eyes run in the family a child may have blue eyes. In the dog world if a dog has a genetic trait to be fearless and fight until the perceived threat is over, the dog will act in that fashion. A dog does not see his inherent trait of fighting or agression as a "problem."
The "modern" way of dog training is so bad. First of all, people try to humanize dogs too much and it's bad for the dog. Secondly not all dogs are created equal, and the modern methods of dog training do more harm than good.
Then when a dog acts up they make up faux conditions like "separation anxiety." There is no such thing. A dog becomes or is destructive because and only because of lack of stimulation. And a dog will thrive better if the stimulation is in line with his genetic makeup. For instance a Border Collie thrives when he has a flock to herd.
Shelters are overwhelmed because people get a dog breed because they think it's pretty. Then the dog grows up and it's not so pretty when it is out of control. Shelters are a bit at fault also because they lean towards the one size fits all in dogs. Some require you to take the dog to obedience class. Bad idea for some dog breeds that have an inherent trait to not like other canines. Forcing a dog to go against it's inherent traits could potentially be an ingredient in the recipe for disaster. They say a dog needs to be well "socialized" to people. A big huge NO. Some breeds prefer to only be around their home and with their own people-their pack so to speak.
The crating method used by so many to contain a dog isn't very smart either.
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