hooooly...
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 28 March 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
yikes.
but also: so there's FIVE people home and the 12 year old is assigned to watch the toddler?
...
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
and they have seven free-roaming dogs
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Thursday, 28 March 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
my parents old neighbors raised these russell terriers and those little assholes would occasionally come over and terrorize my parents' rottweiler! if she was on a leash in the back yard they'd gang up and nip at her from multiple sides.
gangs of dogs are dicks, mostly regardless of breed
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Thursday, 28 March 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
i think it's more that you you have to be SUPER on your training game to manage a group of dogs, whether it's several breeds or multiple of the same breed. they can be good, and manageable, but only with heavy owner-involvement.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
my inlaws have always had multiple dogs -- from st bernards and a pitbull to german shepherd, mastiff and great pyrenees...never any problems but BiL and SiL were vigilant about making sure the dogs were social 'face dogs' (ie you could put your face right up in their face and they wouldn't blink an eye) and not aggressive from the time they were puppies.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i dogsat for my sister last week and walking her dog w/ my two i was like 'three dogs is too many for me' and we're talking a corgi, skye-yorkie mix, and a maltese here. a pit in town here got put down yesterday, two little boys wrestling in the yard, pit attacks the boy he doesn't know (pretty likely 'defending' his little boy in confused dumb dog mind), adults not supervising, kids needs stitches dog gets euthanized very very sad. pits are super sweet unless they've been trained by some scumbag but pretty much any dog has the capacity to lose control some when riled up and pits have been bred to have super effective jaws for that kind of thing, if you're not crazy responsible or you haven't owned dogs before maybe not the best breed (albeit the most common in shelters sadly), if you're the above and you have children maybe get a basset hound. i can remember a piece on profiling in the nyer a few years (gladwell alas) but in it it mentioned that the 'dangerous breed' w/ the most attacks has changed many times following fashion - pits, rottweilers, dobermans, german shepherds - but what i also remember was that chows were constantly second or third throughout the years for attacks, god help us if that ever becomes the fashionable breed for would-be badass schmucks.
― balls, Thursday, 28 March 2013 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
yeah my dogs are 'face dogs' apparently, i often wake up w/ one of their faces inches away staring at me creepy little weirdos.
― balls, Thursday, 28 March 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
adults need to be with kids around dogs, period. child-friendly dogs, or guard dogs, or whatever. kids grab and poke and pull and do all kinds of shit that dogs don't like, even placid dogs.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
pitbulls having a 'locking jaw' is a myth. they have a strong jaw, but the whole locking jaw thing has been exaggerated over time and has become accepted 'fact'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2013 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ when I was a kid, there was a party at a house up the road from us, and a guest had left their labrador in the car with the window down. A little kid playing hide and seek popped his head up in front of the window, startled the dog and the dog bit his face pretty badly. Xp
― just1n3, Thursday, 28 March 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i mean these things (ie dogs in general not just pits) have the cognition of a two year old and are carrying a pair of carpet scissors in their mouth which also happens to be their primary method of grasping things. potential for shit happening is there.
― balls, Thursday, 28 March 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
chows are crazy skittish, really friendly, though
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
yeah there's one around the corner from us that will just pop up on you w/o you knowing (he's fenced in but seriously one second empty yard next second that chow is right beside you and you wouldn't have heard a thing), when i got my first dog he'd pop up on us and i could tell it intimidated her (or, very possibly, she could tell it intimidated me). now my dogs are total bros w/ him, they'll try to drag me to it when we're near and i can see him get excited and do a little dance when we round the corner, i call him boo radley.
― balls, Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
Jesus wept people! don't start picking on labradors. I got a black labrador called Dogsby and he gets bullied by cats, is scared of pigeons and he doesn't even understand the concept of biting. I have had to rescue him from the kids at some of my son's birthday parties in the past. I have never seen a dangerous labrador in my life.http://s20.postimg.org/b13yumou1/SAM_0913.jpg
http://postimg.org/image/b13yumou1/#codes
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
no-one's picking on labs :) and that's a cute one!!
i think ppl are just trying to illustrate the point that there's no such thing as a 'safe' breed of dog.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
lol actually from the data i've read there is one breed of dog there are apparently no records of having seriously mauled or maybe it was killed anyone.
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/346/cache/basset-hound-howard_34698_990x742.jpg
fucking hippies
― balls, Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
lol!
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
Unless they're armed.
http://thesportshernia.typepad.com/blog/images/2007/06/01/droopydog2.jpg
― nickn, Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
Balls otm, chows will fuck you up
― Look, Brian, about the afro wig... (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 March 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/389025_593362934010111_1633195883_n.jpg
― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 07:41 (eleven years ago) link
I see murder in its eyes.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 08:00 (eleven years ago) link
j/k i wub pitties
Also, my parents have a bassett and she is adorbs.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 08:01 (eleven years ago) link
what a cutie!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
this thread title has been making me mad for like a decade now.
elderly pit bull content:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d49u7gwavrsvpqo/ellie1.JPG
ellie dont give a fuck
― adam, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
old pit bulls are the best
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
Good grief, kingfish! what an adorable dog.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
stupid dropbox image. imagine an old pit bull draped over a chair just like what.
― adam, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/1014346_4971035589468_1689669209_n.jpg
― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Friday, 21 June 2013 04:29 (ten years ago) link
The whole first round of this thread still makes me angry.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 21 June 2013 04:38 (ten years ago) link
squee @ those two
And yes, me too. Every time this thread gets bumped I hope it's not b/c someone's posted something defamatory about them.
― Je55e, Friday, 21 June 2013 12:46 (ten years ago) link
Pit Bulls.
They're not in a Pit, and they are not bulls.
― Mark G, Friday, 21 June 2013 12:47 (ten years ago) link
From a craigslist "free" ad, picture may not last too long.
http://images.craigslist.org/00n0n_5hxcpIXXNTk_600x450.jpg
― nickn, Monday, 12 August 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
omg send them to me asap all of them
dying
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
http://www.pinterest.com/edgertor/pibbles/
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 06:52 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPyXnSzhclQ
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 05:27 (ten years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=284115365093532
Puppy loves you for your songs
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Saturday, 14 June 2014 05:52 (nine years ago) link
<3. omg the end was adoooooorable
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 June 2014 06:29 (nine years ago) link
the ears when he says "cookie"
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 14 June 2014 07:56 (nine years ago) link
Jesus. Just saw two pitbulls go for each other in the street - one had its jaws locked into the other's face for about two minutes while the owners were simultaneously trying to separate them and freaking the hell out. I assume the police have been called as the owner of the dog that came off worse is camped outside the house of the other. I'd estimate well over 50% of the dogs in my area are pitbulls and, while I appreciate they can be very sweet dogs with the right owners, there are a heck of a lot of wrong owners out there.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
realness
― tone pulising (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
what did the owners look like
One was the Bangladeshi wide-boy who lives across the road from me, one was a blonde in her twenties wearing earmuffs.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
they do seem to have a more heterogeneous ownership cohort that staffies
― tone pulising (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
I love pit bulls but people have to be careful when adopting and raising them. Some are dog-aggressive and some are not. It's important to raise them from puppyhood or be very careful & spend time with the dog before adopting an older pit.
― Whitney Di-Ennial (I M Losted), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
Alex in NYC is such a fuckhead
― mister brevis (clouds), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
In better news, here is a man under the onslaught of muchas smoochas from his pittie.
http://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10204444138397369&pnref=story
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
this is such an oddly incompetent cartoon
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PNESGwoU4lk/S--JQSM0TYI/AAAAAAAADEc/HaDEubGcf0Y/s400/storage.canoe.jpeg
― soref, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
"camo pants" look like leopardskin jeggings there.my sweetheart pit spent a few days with me and I took her to cancer treatment. She was very well mannered and is in remission which is a blessing.
― MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link