Attacked by Pit Bull - GET RID OF THEM!

Hi,

I am not a regular reader of this group, but I wanted to tell a
story. I was walking my dog this evening (on a leash), an Amerian
Eskimo standard 20lbs (9 kilos), when a loose Pit attacked. I quick
picked up my dog and the pit left, I put him back down and it ran back
and I tried to get my dog back up but I couldn't, so I lifted the
leash straight up and his Collar broke. The Pit attacked and
immediately went for my dogs neck. The Pitt was completely on top of
my dog and put his mouth on his neck. I kicked the dog and beat him
with the leash and a passer by hit him with a metal trash can and he
got off and my dog got away, almost getting hit by a car in the chase.
Another second or 2 and my dog would have been dead. My dog is like
one of the familly. I love h im every bit as much as you love your
pit. I cried when I got home (I havn't cried in years) because I
thought he was hurt (he ran home (but wasn't running right) and got
there before I did, he was shaking on my porch bench). Loosing my dog
would be like loosing a familly member. He does appear to be ok now,
he was just really shaken up.

Pit Bulls need to be at minimum, baned from cities, probably suburbs
as well and just be country/farm dogs where the only people and
animals they can attack and kill is their owners and their owners
other pets. Pit Bull lovers stress how important it is to raise these
things in the right environment, but people just aren't doing that.
The reality is, people get the dogs, don't socialize them, mistreat
them, walk them off the leash etc, etc and most of the time, it's
someone else who pays the price, not the dog owner (sometimes it's the
owner or the owners familly, but most of the time it's a neighbor or
neighbors animal). Pit Bulls are too strong and too capable of
killing to be in a city where you have thousands of people in a square
mile, like philadelphia (where this happened). Had this been any
other dog I would have jumped on it and pulled it off my dog, but I
didn't want to loose an arm in the process.
You can't understand how I feel until this happens to you or
someone you love. I always thought Pits were a bit much, but never
thought about it past that, but now that I am a victim (and damn near
the death of my dog) because of other people not raising their dog
right I can see it from a prospective that you can not.

Dogs living in the city/suburbs need to be relocated or killed. That
is the only realistic option. The city can not possibly go out and
inspect every Pit Bull home and be sure that it is being raised
properly and remove the ones that are not. And it's unfair to give
every one the benifit of the doubt and just wait until the dogs kills
someone or some pet before removing/killing. I do believe that every
familly needs to be given the opportunity to relocate their pets, but
within a reasonable time, say 30-60 days. You can always move to the
country if your Pit means that much to you. But in the end, these
dogs are killers and need to be away from people and pets. People
should have the right to own a dog that might turn on them or their
children or other pets, but the general public shouldn't have to share
the risk.


Chris
If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
and thats to laugh and smile and dance and sing!