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I googled "poodle attacks" and came up with 632000 hits. I say we shoot threatening poodles too!!

Also, I googled "goose attack" and it came back with 2,050,000 results, so it appears as though geese are more dangerous than pit pulls. Next goose that starts eyeing me down is gonna have lead chasing him!!

So people automatically automatically equate pit bulls to dangerous dogs. But how many people even know what a pit bull looks like. You may think you do, but you may be surprised. Look at this page and find the pit bull (click on the picture to see if you are right or not).

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

I'm quite sure that all of you who condemn pit bulls will come back with "I picked in my first choice. It was easy....", etc, but EVERYONE I've showed it to has never picked a pit bull in their first 3 selections. If you know what a pit bull looks like, it shouldn't take you long to find it. The point I'm trying to make is that so many people are quick to condemn pit bulls when they don't even know what one really looks like. There are many breeds of dogs that look close to a pit bull, but in all actuality aren't pit bulls.

Just to set the record straight, I don't own a pit bull, or any dog for that matter. My mom had a poodle when I was a kid growing up, if that counts for anything. I don't care what people think about pit bulls, that poodle was the meanest ball of fur I ever knew.

Elvis wrote:http://www.dogbitelaw.com/PAGES/statistics.html

In 2007, there were 32 fatal dog maulings in the USA.

Hmm, that would make dogs safer than humans.

I want to know what he was carrying (caliber) when he shot the dog. He hit the dog in the head, at near distance and the dog did not die?

On a side note, when I read this story I think of the National Park System gun ban, because I can see the same situation happening there. Guy goes to Yosemite and get's out of car to take picture of buffaloes eating on side of road. Buffalo get's irritated that tourists are around, and buffalo makes a false charge at tourist to assert his space. Tourist construes false charge as an attack, pulls out gun and proceeds to shoot buffalo.

The problem we have is that most people aren't animal biologists and understand animal behavior. In this article, the guy saw that the dog was a pit pull and automatically assumed that it was viscous and threatening. Would he have done the same if the dog was poodle or beagle, or any other breed? Was the dog truly trying to attack his kids, or was he just being curious. I think there are so many better ways for dealing with dogs rather than using a gun. This is an unfortunate case. There is no convincing evidence that the dog was being agressive to this mans kids. His innocence seems to be based on the fact that the dog did get close to his family. Two facts seemed to have sealed the deal, the dog was a pitbull, and the dog got in close proximity to his family.

I fully support drawing a weapon to put down any threat to one's self or family, in the face of an attacker (be it human or dog). But this story just doesn't seem "convincing" that anyone's life was being threatened.