• Pitbull attack leaves multiple party-goers injured after fight
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https://www.keremeosreview.com/news/pitbull-attack-leaves-multiple-party-goers-injured/ The attack reportedly started during some rough housing between two intoxicated adult men who were at the party. West Shore RCMP say it appears the dog was bumped into and became aggressive, injuring multiple people. “The pitbull had been recently adopted by the family as a rescue animal. A review of the attack and the dog’s history of aggression will be conducted by CRD Animal Control,” says Cpl. Chris Dovell of the West Shore RCMP. The dog’s owners managed to secure the dog inside a bedroom at the residence but sustained serious injuries. With assistance of police, the Capital Regional Animal Control Officer safely removed the animal. Four injured people were taken to hospital for treatment. One injured and heavily intoxicated man was arrested after removing his shirt and attempting to fight with officers.
Sounds like the family had no idea how to take care of a rescue dog. You don't get an animal with a possibly traumatic past and then throw a loud, rowdy party around it.
This kind of shit is what gives a bad name to pitbulls. It's not the dog's fault, I hope the owners don't give up on him.
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Everyone's going to hate me for not being on the dog's side, but what sort of shit dog attacks multiple people ravenously when it gets so much as simply bumped into. What happens when you get the innocent, little dog loving child who doesn't know any better wandering up to the dog and trying to pet it? Are we seriously going to keep copping out with "it's the owner's fault not the dog's" every tine this happens?
The sort of shit dog who has been abused/neglected/used for fighting by shit humans its whole life
The dog was probably beaten or something and doesn't like to be touched. It's the owner's job to be aware of this and make sure nobody does something to the dog that might trigger it, so yes, it is the owner's fault.
Doesn't say anywhere in the article that it's been through such an ordeal, and until the animal control concludes its investigating into the dog's history, we can neither confirm nor deny this. If it's the case, fuck the people involved in its abuse.
It says it's a rescue animal. Neglect or abused was just assumed.
It was more than just being bumped into though, the noise and chaos of a party would've put major stress on the animal and activated fight or flight instincts
When a breed of dog is massively favored by shitty people then it becomes a shitty breed by association.
One injured and heavily intoxicated man was arrested after removing his shirt and attempting to fight with officers. Stay classy.
Hm, I missed that part. My bad.
Yeah, it's ridiculously irresponsible to just throw a rescue animal into a situation like that without any attempt to slowly build up or restrain them. Hell, my dogs have no problem with meeting people at all but I still hold them back whenever someone first enters the house and while they greet, and would keep them cordoned off if I had more than 4 people over. Dogs like controlled environments, sudden changes, loud noises, and crowds often stress them out.
I feel bad for the dog.
I'm sorry but with the absolute absurd amounts of pitbull attacks compared to other dogs it's clearly more than the breed. Like it's not a coincidence that a dog breed that was selectively bred to be as aggressive as possible just happens to attack people near constantly. They're not people, they're a lot more instinctive. It's not only ones owned by gang bangers that blow up like this either.
Rescue dogs, more often then not, are every bit as fucked up as foster kids who were previously in shitty, abusive homes. You can't expect them to act the same way as the average pet as soon as you adopt them. It takes a lot of work to get them to overcome their ingrained fears and behaviors, and some of them never completely recover. I would know: my grandparents adopted two dogs that my uncle rescued from a puppy mill. They were both absolutely scared to death of fireworks and any other loud noises. They were like this until they died.
Except that's not true. The most common dog breed to attack people is Chihuahuas, pit bulls just get overreported because people think they're scary.
Pitbulls are responsible for approximately 66% of fatal dog attacks.
Also because a chihuahua attack is much less dangerous and a pitbull is bigger, stronger and has a much larger mouth.
a Chihuahua might be more likely to attack you than a pitbull will, but a Chihuahua attack is probably not going to kill you.
And I'm sure more than a few of these are seemingly unprovoked attacks with no warning signs done by Pitbulls with no previous history of abuse, neglect and attacks. I'm sure there are plenty of wonderful pibbles or whatever, but they are dangerous dogs and need to be handled correctly. I don't understand why people try to deny this. Pitbulls are not misunderstood and not kind little souls that can do nothing wrong. If you so much as look at them wrong or piss them off in any way, you're at risk. There is plenty about dog behaviour that people are uneducated or unaware about, and in turn they do things a dog sees as aggressive that pisses them off. Plenty of dog breeds don't really act out on this, but Pitbulls sure as Hell do. At least, the ones that haven't been properly tamed...and there's plenty of those since people suck at owning pits as evidenced by the people in the article. It really sucks.
You're sorta right, pits are insticive and pretty violent, but that just means you have to be more careful with them. I don't think the dogs should be blamed when it's just doing what you should expect of that dog. If pitbull owners were actually fucking responsible then i'd wager there'd be a lot less attacks like this.
they bumped into the dog while they were rough-housing. The dog probably panicked due to the body-language of the situation and due to its history of neglect and abuse.
A rescue dog that didn't like being touched. They could have locked it in a room, or hired a dogsitter, or had the party somewhere else, something to ensure the dog didn't get triggered, but they didn't. They're irresponsible.
I sat in my parents pitbull kennel when I was very young playing and being quite rough with them, they can be a very friendly dog, but usually these dogs have been fucked over by there owners. You don't own a dog unless you can maintain training and a relationship with the animal I think the real issue is people using them as accessories and neglecting them anyone coming to the thread to drop some edgy pitball hate is pretty much just showing they follow media trends and have no true experience with them outside of the internet and interviews with idiots. Awesome dog that requires alot of elbow grease ruined by shit people, sad to see so many uninformed posts on the subject.
I think Pitbulls require a re-branding. Somehow I get the feeling that if we renamed them Pibbles that people wouldn't think they're all vicious unruly killers. Seriously though, every pitbull I've personally known have been the nicest dogs ever.
I keep seeing news like this and everyone's reaction to them about how pits are nothing but dangerous animals and do nothing but attack people or something similar to that general message. I find this interesting because every single pit bull I have ever met, and that's quite a few due to a family member running a pit rescue, have been the sweetest damn things in the world and would never attack unless you made the first move, attacked their owners, or just wouldn't attack at all. They're more than happy to kill you by licking your face to death though. Now don't mistake this as me being ignorant to the situation. Much like any breed there are hyper aggressive members out there that will attack at the drop of the hat. But there happens to be more of pits because of what they where bred for, fighting. This is also why the media focuses on them so much. It makes them perfect targets for the media to point at and go "See their evil I tell ya". There are quite a few pits out there that are rescued from fighting mills where they are constantly physically assaulted by humans and other dogs to try and develop that sense of aggression in them to make them fighting dogs the ones that don't fight get turned into dummies for other dogs to rip apart for practice. Think about it. If you where in that same situation would you not come out with some serious physiological damage and aggression issues? Dogs experience trauma and PTSD much like we do. From what I can tell in the story they appeared to have adopted a rescue pit not really understanding what it would entail. Most rescue pits are really hesitant to trust new people due to their lack of trust in humans because of their past. So they tend to be timid and distant for a while till they start to develop trust with their new owner. They also relatively need a calm environment for a while to do this. Seeing as how they recently adopted it I am going to guess that the pit did not have that trust quite yet and they rowdiness of the part was probably triggering some of its trauma. Dogs are pretty sensitive to body language and emotion so it probably picked up on the fact that these two people where about to start fighting each other and didn't help the situation. And then when it got bumped into it kicked into full gear and the dog went into fight or flight mode and it chose to fight. Then I am sure everyone was trying to get the dog off the dude it was attacking so it attacked them as well perceiving itself as being attacked. Its easy to say but the guy only bumped into him without taking into account what kind of hell that dog has gone through in its past. This is my best guess as to what happened using my experience I have with rescue pits. The fighting is really only scratching the surface of the issues because we are not even taking into account the dumb asses that train their dogs to be aggressive to anything that isn't them because hur dur guard dog. I also want to touch base on the whole statistic thing because someone mentioned that earlier in the thread. In 2017 pits where responsible for 74% of dog related fatalities. Seems like a big number till you take into account that there was only 49 reported fatalities of that type the whole year. Bigger percentages are easy to get when the occurrence of an event is small.
And literally the only reason is because their jaws are the strongest of any dog breed. Labrador retrievers attack far more people than pitbulls, its just that they aren't fatal quite as often.
You can't really use an owner who understands how to deal with rescues of this breed as a baseline because they're not the norm. Every pitbull I've met have been the sweetest dogs ever but that's because my friends are very kind to their pets and treat them well, but I exercise very healthy suspicion around all big dogs because we are talking about pack predators by nature here. The dogs may be fantastic in the right hands but all creatures can return to base instinct given the right circumstances, and you'd be very naive to assume any large carnivore is inherently safe.
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