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Yeah, it doesn't matter if there aren't any aggressive dogs around, accidents happen. Especially when a little tiny dog goes running across the field, dogs' (like Kingsley) herding instinct kicks in or something and they all start chasing this little tiny dog. I always get soooo scared because when Kingsley's mind is focused on running, I can NOT get his attention to make him stop chasing, and I trust him, but when seven or eight dogs get together to chase one little dog, the pack instinct kinda kicks in I guess because there have been a few times when the other dogs (thank goodness not Kingsley) have growled and barked at the little dog once they catch up to it.

I'm guessing A was big news b/c it was a person that was attacked, and by 2 dogs.

A is the obvious answer, that's why I picked B. I think she's being sneaky

I'm guessing B was big news.

Also...this website is really bothering me. Makes me wish that pit sympathizers were sent to every pit attack story to see what was really going on.

http://www.understand-a-bull.com/BSL/MistakenIdentity/WrongId.htm

Thanks ?Brandon? for posting that website.

I wish I could help you, but I can't figure out how to get Laika to quit barking, either. I swear, if she hears a fly buzzing from across the street, she starts barking. Last night the wind was blowing really hard and the neighbor's umbrella blew up against his fence and my dogs sat at the back window and barked at it for two hours straight. I thought I was losing my mind!

Off Topic...... this was interesting to me , its a "find the pitbull quiz"

http://www.pitbullsontheweb.com/petbull/findpit.html

I got it right on the 2nd try, my first guess looks just like a pit to me. (#17)

I got it on the first try, but if you hadn't said something about #17 I probably would've mistaken it for a pit.

I think it's because the media loves to scare people and they love to get a reaction. When they report on a person being attacked by a lab, there's not going to be a huge public outcry demanding that labs be banned from their town, because everybody knows somebody with a lab. But when they say a pit has attacked someone, they know that everyone is going to watch/read that story because it's just so controversial.

I remember when I was a little girl, a neighbor had a pomeranian (sp?). This dog would attack me each and every time I'd walk in front of her house. My dad repeatedly asked the mayor to do something about it, but everyone always just said "Oh, it's a pom! What damage can it do?!" My legs were covered in bites. Then when I was twelve or so, a big black stray named Joe decided I was his human. He followed me around and was extremely gentle. One day I was walking by the neighbor's house, though, and the pom came out and attacked me. Joe grabbed the pom by the neck and threw it back. Unfortunately, the pom died from the injury. The entire town rallied around this neighbor and a week later we found Joe a couple miles away, shot. It turned out the mayor himself had shot Joe. The local newspaper ran an article on the incident. It didn't say that the pom had attacked me and Joe was protecting me, it said that an innocent pom had been MAULED to death by a chow-mix. They knew that that story would get more papers sold than the truth.

EDIT: They completely made up that Joe was a chow mix. We didn't know what the he** he was, he was a mutt. He didn't have the black spots on his tongue, and to me he looked more like a lab, even now when I look at pictures of him.

Oh, this all makes me want to crawl in a corner and cry for all the innocent dogs being stereotyped. I'm sorry, but it's just another stereotype that HOPEFULLY will be shattered soon, because if many people have their way, these beautiful breeds will become extinct.

Actually, pit bulls VERY rarely attack humans with the intent to kill. Some of them have very strong dominant traits, and if they see a human walking around that they perceive as weak, they try to dominate him/her. Even Cesar Milan's dog pack, which is famed for having so many rehabilitated aggressive dogs, will bite a person if they don't approach it correctly.

About the porcupine thing, why are you guys blaming the dog and acting like it's a character flaw of the dog? If that dog was a farm dog and trained to protect livestock or chickens, it was probably trained to kill any predators like raccoons, porcupines, oppossums, etc. Also, while porcupines usually don't attack bigger animals, if that particular porcupine was guarding its young, it doesn't matter if the dog just happened to be walking by, that porcupine will attack to kill. Too often people forget that animals live by their own rules, not ours. The first thing I thought when I saw that picture was "Oh my god, that poor dog!"

Also, I've been threatened with BSL, even though I don't own a pit. I own a purebred Neo, but she's going through a growth spurt and her wrinkles aren't as abundant, and one landlord thought she was a pit mix and threatened to call animal control on me. There are so many nice mix dogs out there that will be killed if BSL goes into effect.

As much as I love pit breeds, I myself never want to own one. I know that I'm not a strong enough owner to control their DOMINANCE issues. Everyone keeps saying they have aggression issues, but it really comes down to their DOMINANCE. With a good enough owner and trainer, they are great dogs.

I know that no amount of talking will convince people who are very strongly anti-pit, and that's what makes me sad. If we could just all recognize the REAL problem and issue, then maybe we could actually do something about it. But if us pro-pit people have to keep trying to convince anti-pit people not to go out there and kill all the pits, then we're never going to get anywhere.

Shouldn't be any stuffed animals around here...I strictly forbid them in my house. It took me over six months to get the last bits of stuffing and cloth from the last one out of here!

And I haven't noticed anything out of place or moved. I think I'm just going to chalk this one up to my dogs having a party while I'm gone or something.