Bullish About Pit Bulls

I love dogs. I love cats, too. But when you put the two together, chaos can ensue. Last weekend I went out for some milk while my wife was home with the kids. Our daughter was riding her bike up and down the street while our one-year old was walking around in the yard with momma. Our neighbor hollered at my wife and said that a dog had our cat. After a bit of investigating, my wife found out that one of our neighbors' pit bulls had come into our yard, pulled our cat from underneath my truck (while our son was about four feet away), ran into the neighbor's yard, thrashed the cat in its mouth and then slammed our now lifeless cat onto the asphalt. He then scooped it back into his mouth and ran off into the woods.

After a little more investigating, my wife found out that our cat was the third cat killed that day by that stupid dog. It had also attacked two other dogs, but was beaten away by the owners. Animal control was called, and when they arrived, the owner of the pit bull became "distraught" (according to animal control) over the fact that her mutt was going to pound. She was given two options: 1) Build a cage that met strict parish (county for you Yankees) codes or 2) the dog would take a very, very, very long nap.

I wonder if the "distraught" owner realizes than my son was just a few feet from her dog when he killed our cat? I also wonder if she knows that two girls were playing in the yard in which her dog attacked a German Shepherd (and I'm assuming the Shep was trying to protect the little girls)?

I have absolutely no problem with anybody keeping pit bulls as pets. All I ask is that you contain and be responsible for your animal. If it gets loose and kills another animal, I say it should be put to sleep. If it kills a person, especially a child, I'd like to see at a minimum involuntary manslaughter charges brought against the owner AND have the dog ride the lightning.

In my former line of work, I came into contact with a lot of bad dogs. Chihuahuas and other small dogs usually started barking (a few brave ones nipped at me) and antagonized the bigger, meaner dogs. I have an especially bad taste in my mouth for German Shepherds (one bit me), Rottweilers, Pit Bulls and Dobermans.

PETA might think I'm a bad person for wishing an animal dead, but in my opinion, when a dog attacks a person, it's got to go unless it's in a K-9 Unit.