Comments on: Malnourished Horses, Dogs Seized From Century Home

By: **

** — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:46:45 +0000

Animals should be given a better chance when seized instead of being euthanized just because of their breed or personality at first. Every animal can change and get better. You gotta give them a chance…look what they’ve been thru. And sending the horses to slaughter is more than cruel!!!

By: PerennialBulldog

PerennialBulldog — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:37:11 +0000

We visited the kennels last weekend, One of the pups has died, but they other two are doing well, we hear!

My husband I are adopting the pups this week. We have all the training equipment, and are getting lots of good toys this weekend.

The problem is funding a home for their mother. She is one of the sweetest dogs I’ve yet to meet. After she is spayed, she will make someone a loyal friend for life.

Momma Dog does have some special needs, considering she lived in a rabbit hut all of her life. Her heart is already healing – she just needs the right person to spend time working with her special challenges related to her ability to walk normally again.

By: funny

funny — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:35:08 +0000

David I guess i took your opinnions wrong and I apologize. With that being said, Once again there are other sides of the story to address. On the top pets thing. Most pitts or pitt mix dogs are not sold through stores so accurate counts on the amount of dogs sold wont be accurate. On the attacks, almost ALL attacks by pitts are worded like “appears to be pitt” or “looks like a pitt mix”. Im not saying that pitts wont attack because they will just like any dog. Its very rare for a dog to be tested on its breed when they attack. But you do seem fare in most of your assesments and you did look up stuff rather then just accuse the dogs and I thank you. Im just trying to show people that there is a big misconception about this breed. And once again if anyone like harley ever shoots my pitt ( my baby ) just because its out of my yard, There will be severe actions taken!

By: disgusted

disgusted — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:24:13 +0000

IF YOU CANT FREAKIN TAKE CARE OF YOUR ANIMALS, DO NOT GET THEM! THAT MAKES ME SO MAD! WHY DONT WE TAKE YOUR KIDS AND TREAT THEM LIKE THAT….SEE HOW THEY LIKE IT THEN?! ANIMALS ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT AS HUMANS AND THEY NEED TO BE TREATED WITH AS MUCH RESPECT!

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:11:27 +0000

REGARDING:
“and a lot of people are talking about the breed.”

In this set of comments, only harley 1 has definitely shown some dislike for unrestrained pit bulls attacking his animals and seems to consider them dangerous. You probably consider me anti-pit even though I’m mainly just amused at the statistics showing how harmless they are as long as they are properly trained, restrained, unprovoked by anything they might consider threatening.

Those specifically defending these loveable critters are “Amanda Barnes,” “Buckeye,” “Just saying,” “funny,” “J. Walston: and “Required.”

In 2005 the 10 most popular breeds in the United States were Labrador Retrievers, Golden Retrievers, German Shepherds, Beagles, Dachshunds, Yorkshire Terriers, Boxers, Poodles, Chihuahuas (although the Lord alone knows why), Shih Tzus. I just mention this to point out that pits aren’t overly common.

In most dog attacks:
Most dog bites occur in the home or another familiar place
Most attacks are perpetrated by unaltered males.
Dogs contained or otherwise restrained on the owner’s property are responsible for more serious and fatal attacks than those roaming at large. (territoriality)

Thus, those insisting all dogs be confined are insisting on making them more lethal. All kinds wander by my house to steal (share?) my possum’s food. I never worry about them since the possum doesn’t really need all that much anyway.

Though more than twenty-five breeds have been implicated in canine homicides over the last twenty years (including a 4 pound Pomeranian!!), pit bulls and pit bull mixes have been responsible for about a third of the fatal attacks between 1981 and 1992 and a comparable proportion of serious injuries.

Note: they don’t make up anywhere near a third of all dogs.

David for uneaten children
even if they are in the wrong

By: malle

malle — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:32:16 +0000

It doesn’t matter what breed of animal it is. If you are not going to feed and water it give it to someone who will. You should be ashamed to call your self a human being to allow one of Gods creatures to suffer like this.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:40:24 +0000

REGARDING:
“No, he said if there is a dog that LOOKS like a pit bull with out a collar, it could’ve escaped a bath,”

I wasn’t aware you took off the collar to bathe a dog. My bad. You win.

David the defeated

By: funny

funny — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:24:27 +0000

Isnt it funny how the people defending pitts are using their personal dealings with the breed as examples and the people bashing the breed are using what theyve heard or what they have read somewhere? Maybe you should just get one and learn for yourselves and stop hating a breed because you have heard that they are bad.

By: J. Walston

J. Walston — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:17:30 +0000

There are so many areas between the Alabama state line and the Gulf Of Mexico borders, where many animals are being treated like this. If you go down half the streets in Cantonment, Century and/or Downtown Pensacola; you will see several cases similar to this. There are dogs, cats and horses wandering around EVERYDAY that are starved, and the people that treat them like that get to sit in their homes, warm and well-fed while they have to suffer? Where’s the justice in that? Where’s the penalty in that? “Oh we’ll fine you 500 dollars now, 500 next time and 1000 after that. Then take your animals.” How is that justice?! Those animals suffer DAY and NIGHT..
My family and I used to live over off Eden Ln, in Cantonment. And our landlords had several horses, donkeys and sheep at the time. They did not feed those horses, or give them water, or anything. Instead my family and I went out and used what little extra money we had to make sure they had food. And anytime we called someone out there to look at them, and how they were treated, we were told they could not find any evidence of neglect or abuse. Even though there were signs of it everywhere. It’s disgusting how people treat animals these days. They have EMOTIONS just like YOU and I. They get protective, they get depressed and they get mistreated.
Pitts, for example, are not bad dogs. (And whoever said it’s an unwritten law in your neighborhood to shoot one on sight, you should have yourself locked away for a long time.) They’re very sweet dogs, and they will love their owners until the day they die. Yes, they are very protective, but if one bites you, it’s for a good reason. Not “Just Because”. My family and I had a Pitt for over 4 1/2 years, who had been beat and worse by her previous owner, and she was the most timid and sweet dog you could ever have. It’s all in how you raise them. If you raise them to be aggressive, BIG SUPRISE, they’re going to be aggressive. If you raise them to be sweet, they will be SWEET.

By: Required

Required — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:02:13 +0000

No, he said if there is a dog that LOOKS like a pit bull with out a collar, it could’ve escaped a bath, or wriggled it’s collar off (Which is actually something mine does) and a lot of people are talking about the breed.