News: pit bulls attack and kill chickens and scares children

[WisconsinChick]

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[Cloverleaf Farm]

I am a vet tech, and some of the sweetest, nicest, easiest to work with dogs I see (while sick or injured, I might add, as I work in an emergency clinic) are pit bulls...I completely agree that this never would have made the news if it were any other breed. I will have a pit some day, when I don't have cats and other small dogs. This was entirely the dog owners fault. When you have ANY breed with a strong prey drive, you HAVE to know how to handle them and how to train them, and how to set them up for success, not failure!

Unfortunately, pits have gotten the bum rap because they are a "macho", or "tough" breed and stupid people with their heads up their backsidees get them as "guard" dogs, or as some kind of a status symbol, and over breed and over breed and over breed them. I swear pits are the poor-man's answer to the red sports car to make up for one's "short-comings"!!

On the topic of the kids....my inlaws had a dog in their neighborhood (not a pit, but I'm not even going to say what breed it was) that would go after people in their own yards (and yes, the owner was BREEDING this dog!) even went after my husband once, and had him stuck up on the hood of his truck...anyway, it jumped over the fence into the neighbors yard where their kids were playing, literally ripped the dress off the little girl, and because he didn't actually break skin, animal control wouldn't / couldn't do anything! (though the animal control officer did tell my husband that he would look the other way if the dog came back into the yard and he shot it). Anytime there is a dog running loose, call animal control, because if they get enough reports, they WILL do something, and THAT may save a child's life!

 

[Funky Feathers]

Pit Bulls are NOT human aggressive! They can be dog aggressive, but they love their humans. I worked as a Vet Tech for 10 years, and out of 400+ pits I saw and handled, only 2 were mean! Of the 200+ Rottweilers I dealt with, 198 were mean. What does that tell you?? There are no bad dogs, just bad owners! Some people are SO confused....

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[Sugar Sand Farm]

I have three dogs. A farm collie, a golden and a GP. I would not trust my three in with the chickens at all. My daughter who lives next door has two fo the sweetest pits around. They are always over here and lay among my chickens all the time. They hav enver even thought of attacking the chickens. I can't say that about my coolie who is from farm stock. He has gotten some of our chickens when they have flown into his yard. It doesn't matter the breed its the individual dog and their prey drive. I agree if it was anything but a pit or a Rottie it would never had made the news.

 

[Ducklove334]

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here here!

we have two pit mixes, they're both as nice as they can be!, albeit neither like the cats, but they're both tied, so they can't get them.

but neither have also never killed a chicken.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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OMG!! That is absolutely ADORABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Brindlebtch]

fattie, the expression on your dog's face is PRICELESS!

 

[19hhbelgian]

OH COOL!!! I have a "dangerous dog" breed

Now I know I can feel safe when my chow runs the other direction because he sees a stranger

Honestly I almost wish this type of thread wouldn't be posted... It just gets people all riled up, and doesn't seem to do any good

 

[Brindlebtch]

Oh yeah, this will rile people up!

Lulu the Fairy

Burbus with Dixie, his girlfriend.

 

[chickencoop31320]

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AMEN!