Dog shot in city park

[xpur3l0g1cx]

It is tough to tell the difference. I think 9 times out of 10 it isnt reallly a pit. The media then steps in. Its just like someone shooting up a place with a winchester 93, and the media turning around saying he had an ak47 assault rifle. It drives me nuts

heres a few facts http://www.austinlostpets.com/kidskorne ... itbull.htm

[dustyb]

I am sorry to break it to all of you dog lovers but many of us have very good reason to suspect your pit bull is a dangerous animal regardless of your rosy view of its history. So if you don't want to be burying your pit bull then you had better keep it solidly chained, on a leash, and under absolute control while it is around my family. I'm not giving the dog the benefit of the doubt. Any action that looks like it might be threatening is too much risk for me.

Not having the dogs restrained was irresponsible. I would have acted the same way if my children were threatened. I personally believe pit bulls are dangerous. I base that on personal experiences, experiences of friends and family, and countless stories in the newspaper and meda. If yours is not, it is a shame that a few thousand bad apples spoiled the barrel.

[KD5NRH]

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

Got it first try.


Know your target.

[Shiner Bock]

On the surface, it doesn't sound like a good shoot to me.

[dihappy]

I'm with the shooter on this one. If an unknown to me and unleashed pit bull gets too close to me or mine I consider it a serious threat. Google pit bull attacks if you need some convincing.

For the gentleman who compared (above) a pit bull to a poodle or beagle I suggest please that you also Google poodle and/or beagle attacks to gain some perspective. All dog breeds are not alike in their capacity to kill or maim.

I shot a pit bull on our property last year. I didn't know where it came from, but it growled at my wife on our rural property and that was enough for me. Enough for the police also. I got a pat on the head (lots of cops hate pit bulls) and the owner, who lived 1/2 mile away got a citation.

I could care less if it was a "pitbull", if it was a large enough dog that i felt i could not handle with my hands or feet, i would also shoot it.

I am so tired of people who let their dogs run around off leashes while the rest of us law abiding citizens walk our dogs on leash and collar. These people fail to realize that some people are deathly afraid of dogs, some of them children. I once had a dog that almost killed someones dog that wasnt on a leash cuz their "well behaved" dog ran up to my dog in an aggressive manner.

Keep your dog on a leash in public people!

[dihappy]

TxRVer wrote:

He said the dog ran up to his kids growling and snarling.

Seems unlikely given the account from other witnesses:

Brianna Reyes, the owner of the pit bull, and another girl were with the dogs. Reyes admitted the dogs were running loose and playing in the water, but said they were not acting aggressive toward anyone. Witnesses in the park at the time of the shooting backed up Reyes’ claim.

“I see those girls in the park every day around this time,” said Jody Caudle, a witness. “I come to the park on my lunch breaks to practice guitar and I see them. The same girls are always walking them without leashes and the dogs are always well-behaved.”

Anna Slaughter, a witness, described what she saw.

“The dog wasn’t right up on the children, but he was closer than the rest.

[dihappy]

Statistically speaking, there was most likely only one person there that day with a gun. Isn't it odd, then, how the dogs weren't a threat to anyone except that person's kids?

http://www.politickermd.com/robtornoe/3 ... ges-police



I don't know if the shooting was justified. But I am certain that the official police response would be quite different if the shooter was Joe CHL, or Joe Unlicensed. Justification is justification regardless of the shooter's legal status, but you can bet the official response would be different.

It really doesnt matter if the dog would have actually attacked the children. The unleashed dog came at the guys kids, at least one eye witness says one of the dogs was closer than the rest. So the officer decided that he wasnt going to wait to see if the dog would attack his children or not, he didnt want to take the chance that maybe some of you would with your kids.

[03Lightningrocks]

Just lovable dogs. So misunderstood. http://pit-bulls.christianfunfair.org/attacks.htm

[Frost]

I know that pits get a bad wrap, but they do have very powerful jaws. I would probably do the same thing if i had kids and the dogs body language was even slightly unfriendly. Theres no excuse to let something that powerful out of your immediate control in a public area.

[03Lightningrocks]

They are only doing what they were bred to do. http://pit-bull-awareness-center.christ ... cestry.htm

[dihappy]

And just to clear things up... in case anyone is wondering: I do not own any pit-bulls, never have and never will, but not because I believe them to be the "devil dogs" that some here espouse.

Same here. I've encountered dozens of them over the years, what with my wife being a groomer and both of us generally being "dog people".

The biggest kick I get out of people's visceral reaction to "pit bulls", is that the majority of the time they couldn't identify a pit if their life depended on it. Any time a stocky short-hair dog bites someone, it's attributed as a "pit bull attack", even when it's just a mutt.

See if you can spot the pit bull:
http://understand-a-bull.com/Findthebul ... ll_v3.html

Great Link KB!

[03Lightningrocks]

LOL...a Google search for... Pitbull Attacks...turns up 1,010,000 results. That doesn't look like a poor ,misunderstood dog to me. Some of you fellers want to wait it out and pry a vicious animal off your kids face...great...more power to ya. I believe I will go with the same solution this police officer came up with.

[BigBlueDodge]

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!!

[03Lightningrocks]

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!!

LOL...it just gets sillier. Most of us can fend off a crazed goose without the aid of a firearm. Like I said before, if it is a poodle, we can kick it into tomorrow. A pit bull sized animal is not to be compared with a goose or a poodle.

[KD5NRH]

Most of us can fend off a crazed goose without the aid of a firearm.

One of my relatives got a couple of broken hand bones from a goose attack; they have extremely strong wing muscles.

(and no, she wasn't bitten by a m00se later)

"shoot the dog" got 645,000 hits, while "don't shoot the dog" only got 506,000, so there.