# Five pitbulls... Poor me? Bloody story, period, the end.

Category: Animal House

## Post 1 by Sincerity (Generic Zoner) on Saturday, 30-Apr-2005 23:11:15

Well beep cilck to you all. Five pitbulls you ask? Yes! Five of them! All mine... I'm lucky enough that I don't have to feed them all of the time. The younger ones are very, eh... let's say rough, so I try to stay away from them when they are all together. I DO NOT need three dogs jumping me at once. The two others are the parents, who are old, so they can't necessarily hurt me, unless they wanted to. There is another reason I must stay away from one of the male dogs. He's a few years old so he's still young and powerful. Well, whenever I get my period, he chases me, and I do not need to be raped by a pitbull. So there, I stay away. It's disturbing to think about so I'll just end this right here and now.

## Post 2 by Jess227 on Sunday, 01-May-2005 2:17:52

awwwww thats so cute a tiny family of puppies.

## Post 3 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Sunday, 01-May-2005 9:29:51

More like a family of potential killers I'd have the young male neutered and if the aggresion continued treat him to a 1 way visit to the vet...there is nothing funny about an aggressive pitbull terrier...not when you have seen what these horrible dogs are capable of...

## Post 4 by sugarbaby (The voice of reason) on Sunday, 01-May-2005 16:26:19

why would anyone want to keep 5 pitbull terriers as pets. They're not pets - they're bred for fighting, a horrible sport which is actually illegal in this country, none the less people still practice it. They're everything but cute.

## Post 5 by Big Pawed Bear (letting his paws be his guide.) on Wednesday, 04-May-2005 6:03:35

pit bull terriors? for pit bull read killer. there's a reason why it is unlawful to keep these dogs as pets in certain states in America, and it should be unlawful here too.

## Post 6 by sugarbaby (The voice of reason) on Wednesday, 04-May-2005 6:32:16

must be something about the word bull in the breed name - bulldogs, bullmastifs, bullterriers ... they all seem to show tendencies for severe agression.

## Post 7 by rdfreak (THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE-BLUE KANGA-KICKIN AUSIE) on Wednesday, 04-May-2005 8:36:33

hey it was just tonight that I heard that they've pretty much made it illegal for pitbools in New south wales here in aus. and ppl are fighting for it here in victoria too :)

## Post 8 by loopylizzy (Newborn Zoner) on Wednesday, 04-May-2005 8:41:06

It's also illegal in the US to have dog fights (well any kind of animal fights for that matter..cock fighting is also big in the underground animal fighting rings)

## Post 9 by sugarbaby (The voice of reason) on Wednesday, 04-May-2005 8:51:12

yeh cock fighting has some following over here as well - just recently some people were arrested in connection with organized fights. but if you're not breeding these dogs to fight, why on earth would you want to keep them as pets!

## Post 10 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Wednesday, 04-May-2005 9:08:58

I have found most people buy or keep aggressive dogs, to hide their pitfully low self esteem,which the dogs can sense, so really they are just sitting on a time bomb

## Post 11 by Freya (This site is so "educational") on Wednesday, 04-May-2005 11:05:32

Do you have an aggressive dog Gobby? No, no please don't answer I know it's a yes.......

## Post 12 by Twinklestar09 (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Wednesday, 04-May-2005 16:47:48

I think a dog expressing aggression has a lot to do with the owner as well as the dog's temperment. So although a certain type of dog can be known to be aggressive, if the owner is firm with them, the dog will know whose boss in that whether he/she can "tell" the owner what to do. I know some neighbors who have Rottweilers and I've never heard anything yet that something's happened around here, and everyone pretty much knows everyone else in our neighborhood. We've also had a chow when my brothers, sister and I were kids, and she was very nice to us, maybe a bit too active, but friendly most of the time still. My point is that both rottweilers and chows are also considered to be aggressive, and I think Goblin would be right, that if a dog senses any kind of unsureness or fear in the owner, or is otherwise encouraged, that will show in the dog's behavior. But if the owner gets the dog, knowing that he or she will have the time and willingness to seriously train it, then I don't see why it would be such a big thing on the breed. But I notice that a lot of owners just want a dog or dogs but won't take the time to train them and either leave them in the back yard or inside without socializing them or teaching them how to behave around others. Our chow was not tied up and spent time with a small mix-breed male we had and also knew we'd be in and out because of school and that my parents would have friends over so therefore, she never attacked any of us. But she would jump on us (my brothers and me) and knock us down to lick us because although she was taught to socialize in a way, she was not taught that jumping on people was wrong. But if we were firm with training her not to jump, she would've stopped. She later did become very protective of her puppies though, but then there are some dogs that don't mind people handling their puppies and some that are more protective of them. So yeah, I think a breed can be known for being more aggressive because how there breed is raised, but one can't generalize that all dogs of that breed are like that, and if the owner consistently makes clear what is acceptable and what isn't and is also introduced to other animals and people, it shouldn't be as big a problem.
Leilani

## Post 13 by sugarbaby (The voice of reason) on Wednesday, 04-May-2005 17:07:43

Yes that is true to a greater extent, dogs are pack animals and if they are treated as such will learn their place in the pack and will respect their owners. In the case of dogs such as german shepherds, dobermans, rotweilers etc, although these dogs are generally known to be agressive, and make good guard dogs, they also do have other qualities, and in some instances do make good pets. In the case of pitbulls however, these dogs are bred exclusively for fighting. Agression is bred into them, and generally they do not possess these social qualities of the other breeds. While I imagine there are some of these dogs who are kept as pets, they generally do not make good pets as, however well you treat them, they do have the ability to turn and that makes them untrustworthy. It would be a bit like taking a lion cub out of the wild and rearing it, although it might grow up all cute and be friendly etc, essentiallly, it is a wild animal, and you would never know if it might turn. the same applies to a pitbull, I would never ever trust one, especially not as I have a young child.

## Post 14 by rdfreak (THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE-BLUE KANGA-KICKIN AUSIE) on Thursday, 05-May-2005 6:10:59

yes SB is right. when we're training at guide dogs, they tell us all about it. and you know, it's sooo important for anyone to be able to let their dog know that they are *not on the upper hand and the strongest. If the dog gets away with murder without the owners being able to have that control, that is just trouble with a capital T

## Post 15 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Thursday, 05-May-2005 12:00:37

Several years ago in Scotland there was a case of an 11yr old girl,who was mauled to death by a pair of Rotties, apparently her throat was ripped out..But what was covered up by the press was this... The Owners had kept those dogs locked up all day in a shed on a hot day, with no interaction,water,fresh air,or walks...
also they had been firing off shotguns near by,now I'm no expert on Rotties, but I do know that any dog would lose the heid if subjected to that kind of provocation and let's not forget,children annoy animals, it's no excuse but there were mittigating circumstances and the only one's who knew the truth were unable to account for their actions....Rotties were bred by the Germans to protect their livestock and used later by the SS, to round up Jews,its inherent in their nature to dominate and protect in saying that I've known 5 Rotts and love them for themselves...however having blind/vi children around, I would not want 1 as a pet,as they focus in on weakness and the consequences of that are too frightening to contemplate

## Post 16 by rdfreak (THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE-BLUE KANGA-KICKIN AUSIE) on Sunday, 08-May-2005 1:23:58

yep Goblin, agree with you. Kids can really be sooo cruel to animals! I was just astounded the other day on Doctor Phil when an out-of-control kid purposely killed the family hamster! .. and yes, dogs are going to react on the first victom if in those seveer circumstances as Gob mentioned. .. ya know .. on that note, it's funny. at home, one of our cats has always hated hated hated the high-pitched timer on our oven. think it must hurt her ears or something. so if it's going off and hasn't been able to be turned off quickly enough, poor Lucy will get so fired up about it that she will attack anyone who walks past her, or she walks past (whether that be my guide dog, our other cat Molly, or any of us unlucky humans. :)

## Post 17 by Sincerity (Generic Zoner) on Saturday, 16-Jul-2005 0:35:22

Dogs are like humans ok? You can treat a person badly and they become a heartless murderer who enjoys other's pain while seeing them die, and then you can raise them up with values and they become great people. Then again, they can be beaten and raped by their own parents and still, be good people eventually when they solve their issues. It's never too late for a dog to learn a new trick but you have to train them, not even... you have to raise them like a human and not expect them to grow up on their own and be cute and cuddley, they need to learn this.
One other thing, muscle bound men train to fight, put on gloves, and we pay to watch, and muscley people aren't banned? God, if you think of it like that, it's stupid, we value a dog more than a human, and then we fear the dog more? Really... if you raise someone to be evil, they'll be evil, and since pitbulls fit the criteria for fighting dogs, they were raised to fight over other breads, it doesn't mean that the breed is fucked up, it means we're fucked up.

## Post 18 by Twinklestar09 (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Saturday, 16-Jul-2005 1:17:56

I agree with what Sincerity said about dogs. We now actually do have a pit bull puppy (whom we got recently) and is already several months old, and although
she is very playful, as you would expect from most puppies, she is very nice and has never attacked anyone, including strangers. We even have an old chihuahua
and 2 chihuahua puppies who spend time with her once in awhile, and she's never intentionally hurt them, although they're not too crazy about her constant
wanting to play, the puppies because they're not used to being around bigger dogs and the old one because she's more serious and usually only plays when she feels like it. On the other hand, we have a mixed breed (a usually sweet and layed-back) dog that used to pick up and shake one of our (now older) puppies, and who seemed like she wanted to attack the pit when we first got the pit. (She's nicer to the pit now, but my point is that the pit never did anything to her to begin with. So I guess
I'm saying that breeds shouldn't matter, as none of our dogs were tought to be aggressive, yet they all have their diferent personalities. I could describe
how they all are, but I won't because there are 6 dogs: 3 chihuahuas, the pit, and 2 different mix breeds.
Leilani

## Post 19 by sugarbaby (The voice of reason) on Saturday, 16-Jul-2005 6:37:58

well on tuesday this week a 1 year old boy was killed by a pitbull terrier. the dog was the family pet and had apparently never attacked before. I would never ever have a pitbull as a pet - they're not pets

## Post 20 by Inesle1987 (Account disabled) on Saturday, 16-Jul-2005 15:37:43

Pit bulls? I'm realyl scared of dogs like that. Five of them ... I would not survive this. Sorry for this question, but why did you get them, anyway?

## Post 21 by sugarbaby (The voice of reason) on Saturday, 16-Jul-2005 17:21:51

well I think that's a good question, after all, most puppies are cute, but pitbulls aren't even cute when they're puppies! lol