A couple of yrs ago a Pitt Bull disected my cat in front of my 2 and 4 yr old girls

and in fairness to your bulls

twas a chow that bit my son in the face

any dog biting somebody is terrible. it just stinks that far too often you hear about certain breeds doing it. it's always hard to convince people that they are actually very good dogs with very good reputations amoungst those who take care of them. (ie. dont fight them, don't abuse them)
pitbull is also a generic term for several different breeds of dog. mine is an American Pit Bull Terrier. but others like Stafforshire Bull Terriers and American Staffordshire and Cane Corso's and even Bordeaux Mastiffs and American Bulldogs are sometimes called Pit Bulls.

eh. i understand the apprehension in some people. it's unfortunate. but they are really great dogs (weather i am believed or not).

hospital said that 90 of the children bitten by dogs in ER are

chows

chemmie said:

The friendly face of evil.

Pit bull attacks S.F. police horse
Cop, dog, pet owner hurt in Golden Gate Park

Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, November 24, 2003
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A pit bull was shot, a cop and a dog walker were rushed to the hospital, and a police horse named "AAA Andy" was badly hurt but alive -- all this after a chance encounter between two animals on a crisp Sunday at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

The chaos started at 12:50 p.m. as a young woman walked her black pit bull through the park near the Conservatory of Flowers. According to San Francisco police, she made an illegal and costly decision: She let the dog off its leash.

Witnessing the move was police Sgt. David Herrera of the department's mounted unit. He shouted at the woman, ordering her to re-leash her canine, said Sgt. Neville Gittens, a department spokesman.

That's when the dog turned its attention to Herrera's steed.

The pit bull charged AAA Andy, ripping at the horse's flesh on its back legs and its rib cage, Gittens said. The dog's owner, whose name was not released, tried to intervene. That's when things got really bad.

With the dog snapping away, AAA Andy threw Herrera to the ground. At about the same time, the dog's owner attempted to pull her pet away from the horse. But when she got close, AAA Andy kicked her in the face with a hind leg,

Gittens said.

She went down, joining Herrera.

"Then the horse takes off running," Gittens said.

AAA Andy galloped through the park along John F. Kennedy Drive, with the pit bull close behind.

About a half-mile away, near the Eighth Avenue/Fulton Street entrance to the park, another police sergeant got involved. Sgt. Peter Dacre of San Francisco's Richmond Station had heard Herrera's radio calls for help.

Seeing a park gardener and another citizen approaching the riderless AAA Andy, the uniformed Dacre climbed out of his car to help settle down the jumpy horse.

"Then somebody shouted, 'That buggering dog is coming back!' " Dacre said.

"The dog started having another go at the horse. I was between the horse and the dog, and I tried to kick (the dog)."

It was no use. Dacre said he unholstered his .40-calibre semiautomatic Beretta pistol and ended the attack with two shots -- one of which struck the pit bull and sent it scurrying into nearby bushes.

Both Herrera and the dog owner were rushed to St. Mary's Medical Center. Herrera went home in a few hours with back and neck injuries. The woman was treated for head injuries and a broken finger, Gittens said.

Meanwhile, the dog survived the bullet wound and was picked up by Animal Care and Control. Its condition was unknown Sunday night.

AAA Andy was being treated for puncture wounds late Sunday at the police stables in Golden Gate Park.

Herrera, reached at home Sunday night, declined comment.

Police will review the dog's history to see if it has ever been involved in other attacks. Then police will decide whether to cite or charge the dog's owner, Dacre said.

"I think this just goes to the basic unpredictability of certain breeds of dogs," he said. "The dog was frenzied. The whole thing lasted about 45 seconds.''

my girl is in my avatar...we have had her 8months, adopted her at a shelter..she is about 2..in fact, going through the terrible twos, so I am sure that is how old she is...

we used to have a rotti, but it kept attacking me. I was literally fighting with that dog, yet did not say anything for a long time...but now, that rotti lives in vermont and massachusetts, (a summer home and a winter home), has room to run and a buddy to boot. Somehow I got bit all the time, yet the dog gets two homes...hmmm.

I have a german shepherd cross (rescue, which all my animals r, apart from the rats I used to have), so the cat (R.I.P Misty) was used to dogs and didn't run. So while I'm scraping up her guts off the concrete in front of a street load of distressed kids the owner then beat the crap out of the pit bull...btw it was a staff

Sorry, I have no love for pitbulls. I think they should be banned from the US. I actually had an anti-pitbull thread a while back, but it got deleted cuz a certain member got stupid again.

My dog is a Siberrian Husky-Old English sheep dog mix. He was the size of a small pony when I got him now he is a friggin horse...but I love him.

I want to get a Great Dane next

butter said:

beat the crap out of it huh? and that is what is wrong with PitBulls. All too often they become a person's pet just for the machismo effect. Then the person deosnt know how to treat their dog. They beat it or train it to be more aggressive. Then shit like this happens.

In most all cases, it's not the dog but the way the dog has been brought up and treated.