You have some good points, however I am who I am and will not have a dog that bites one of my GK reguardless.

I don't see why owners can't always be responsible for their dogs. I have a dog (red heeler x staffy cross) and she is in a fully fence yard. Every time I take her for a walk she is on a lead. As I approach people I shorten her lead or get off the footpath and allow them to pass without obstruction. If you're going to have the responsibility of being a pet owner then you have to take the responsibility to ensure that no one is inconvenience by your choice.

I don't necessarily agree, but fair enough...

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When my kids were in grade school one of my daughter's friends was attacked by the family dog. Same fate happened to it. Father took down the gun and shot that sucker right there on the spot.

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I was attacked once by a neighbor's dog. My father took down the rifle and went to the neighbor's house and shot the dog. They, as well as my father, had seen the attack and they did nothing to stop it. They also did nothing when he shot the dog. (Lucky for THEM!) The thing that is so bad right now, is that I am afraid of most dogs and have been since the day the dog attacked me. They sense my fear and act up, too. My neighbor across the street has two dogs who never make a peep. But one WILL bark at me occasionally. Not often, thoug. When I was carrying my son a neighbor's German Shepherd cornered me snarling and baring his teeth. The neighbor gave the dog to a warehouse owner in town. A few months later the warehouse burned down and burned up the dog. I wasn't sorry. I thought that thing was going to kill me.


Here is a website that you will like: All Dogs Bite

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A dog is personal property, just like your car. You are responsible for your car. Why not your dog?

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Why in the fuck would your father have done nothing to stop the attack?

if I were you, I'd probably be more afraid of your father's inaction than I would be of the uncertainty regarding whether or not a dog might bite me...

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I was referring to the neighbors. My father did. He ran the dog off me then he went and got his gun.

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So, if all dogs bite, why would anyone own them?

That link is woefully lacking in information. Case in point, let's look at the first entry under April 2005:

"Chow attacks"

Wow. How compelling.

I had a dog that would attack the beam of a flashlight. The fact that a "Chow attacks" means nothing. There's no information to explain what led the attack. Did the dog just walk up to someone and start mauling them? Did the dog attack someone who was attacking its' owner?

Honestly, if you're going to post a link, it's simply a common courtesy to see to it that the link is worth a damn...

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Oh, got it...

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Mrs M, back to your link, this has got to be the funniest listing:

"Chihuahua terrorizes mail carrier"

I was unaware that the USPS permits complete pussies to be mail carriers...

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Exactly! It's the lack of personal responsibility that is perhaps the greatest threat to modern society.

That is a strawman argument, and in no way addresses the point.

Pit bulls kill. 82% of the fatalities are small children.
We are not talking about protection of an owner, we are talking about unprovoked attacks by these very specific breeds.

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There are stories of dog attacks all over the internet. I will look some of them up later, but today I'm busy having the flu.

And I have owned a chihuahua, and the CAN inflict some fairly serious damage.

As to who gets to carray the mail,I have never seen a civil service ad that said "no pussies allowed."

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That's an odd way of saying "I'd rather not address your valid point, Steve"...

If we're going to discuss the people that dogs bite, let's discuss everyone they bite, and let's discuss the reasons they bite them.

Don't get me wrong; I'm no fan of Pit Bulls. But all too often, people are willing to see a dog put down just because it's a Pit Bull. If a Poodle bit child, and a Pit Bull bit a child, which dog do you think people would want to see put down more?

Of course, it would be the Pit Bull, despite the Poodle having proven itself every bit as likely to bite. But people reasct to these things emotionally, and they're conditioned to accept that, if a Pit Bull bites, it must have been an unprovoked attack...

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