If you think the idea of banning PITS is redic...

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Originally Posted by mainbutter

There is one good argument that hurts pits.

Some 90% of dog-related fatalities in the US are caused by pits.

It's not because they're "more aggressive", it's just that they are stronger and deadlier when they do attack.

Just like with pythons, there are thousands of bites to people, but most are from small baby snakes and aren't more than a pinprick.

However I still do not agree with breed-banning of any sort.

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Please show me where your getting your numbers from ?

I don't know if its been said already, but I don't consider anything that weighs less than 15lbs a dog :P. might as well spend all that money on a nice breed of cat.

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Originally Posted by aybe.sea

I don't know if its been said already, but I don't consider anything that weighs less than 15lbs a dog :P. might as well spend all that money on a nice breed of cat.

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AAAAAAgrEEEED!!! :gj::rofl:

http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreation...ogbreeds-a.pdf

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00047723.htm

most of the data comes from the hsus from 1979 to 1994 so i wouldnt treat these as actual real data

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Originally Posted by GoingPostal

I think there's a place in Ohio that bans dogs over a certain size, like 50 pounds? OH is really bad for BSL though. Italy used to have a whole ton of breeds banned, like corgis even but they repealed it due to ineffectiveness. A lot of places have huskies and dobes banned as well.

Cute dog though, I love her ears! That was my only "must" in adopting our second one, he had to have ears since our first has a bad home crop job. These are my two
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...edogpic007.jpg

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Can you tell me about ohio BSL? I did a project for school on it a few years ago and I found out that there was a ban on all "pit bull like" dogs. Which included like 10 different breeds of dogs. It said like you need a fenced in yard, or a kennel with a top, and locks, and like certain type of leash that cant be over 6'ft i think it was? It also said stuff about specific insurance to own them... Have the laws changed? I did the whole project because I wanted a pitbull. Unfortunatley my parents were to ignorant to even listen to me so they fed me the bs that theyre dangerous and all that, sort of like they did when I wanted a ball python.. Now we finally have our own dog, who is part rottweiler. Shes 11 months and around 60 lbs.

German shepards used to be the bad ass dogs, then dobies. Now it's pit breeds and rotties. Filos and Cane Corsos seem like the next wave. Banning one breed will just make another more popular, and people will always use dogs as status symbols/ protection/ "living guns." I'm sure we've been doing that for tens of thousands of years.

Beautiful pups, GoingPostal.