I am going to work on a letter...for all the good it will do me. Once you scare the crap out of people it is hard to undo. If you are going to report something useful then make it useful....if you are trying to discourage people from supporting any breed but the toy breeds, then publish this crap...but I bet those little ankle biters (hmmmmmmmmm "ankle biters", wonder how that little nick name came to be) bite at a nice clip as well. "Isn't Fee Fee so cute" as she snarles and yaps her little a** off at you. You know that if Fee Fee could break loose she would surely run right up to you and plant those razor teeth right in you. Train Fee Fee, you say????????? Oh she is harmless...viscous, obnoxious, loud........


Grrrrrrrrrr

Gotta love newspaper “logic.” My local paper (The Kansas City Star) will not accept classified adds for pitbull type dogs. However, they will take adds for alligators and wolf mixes. Sometimes I wonder what newspaper people are thinking when they publish things like this, but then I stop because I realize I won’t understand it anyway.

The Miami Herald is one of the worst papers in the country. Something to keep in mind as well, Pitbulls and related breeds are already banned in Miami-Dade county.

I just looked at it......that's it?? That's the "article"??? Just a list of dog bites?? What a bunch of idiots. Worse are the idiots who take that kind of stuff as gospel (there are so many of them).

Since this list supposedly came from Animal Control in those counties, how about a list of how many people abuse their animals, right alongside the list of dog bites. That would be a heck of a comparison, as I'm sure a list citing numbers of abusers would FAR outweigh any stupid dog bite list.

How about a list of the number of kids who turn to gangs, the number of kids who mouth off and scream at their parents, the number of kids who hit their parents, the number of kids who turn to graffiti as a means of ruining and taking over a neighborhood, the number of kids who vandalize other people's stuff, the number of kids who break into cars and steal whatever they find, the number of kids who bully others at school....that list could go on and on...what about those little criminals? What about the number of parents who don't give a rat's a$$ about what their kids do to others...

Newspaper reporters and tv "journalists", besides not knowing how to report facts anymore (even what they report is usually hearsay), have their own agenda and "report" based on that. Nothing they say is credible anymore - reader beware.

Newspapers and any type of reporting are now FUBAR. I don't subscribe and if I listen, it's with GREAT skepticism and a lot of laughter and cynicism thrown in.

I found this article somewhat entertaining since I spent last night in the ER b/c I was bit by a Jack Russell at work... I think the toy breeds should rank much higher on the list (they are called land sharks for a reason lol).

I think a lot of the problem is that pit-mixes, chow mixes and shep mixes are just such a large population in this country that it is inevitable that they would have a higher incidence of dog bites... I would like to see the PERCENTAGE out of this entire population that behaves this way. Plus in the years that I have worked in a vet clinic... its unfortunate the large number of idiots owning pets. I just want to shake some ppl and ask them what they were thinking letting their child crawl into the face of their dog... pull its tail... grab in its food dish when it's eating (I will tell you that if you grab at food on my plate when I'm eating I will probably punch you too lol).

We will never be able to solve all the problems but I think it's our responsibility as responsible dog owners to educate those people who don't know better. And yes, sometimes you just can't fix stupid...

Not to stray from the subject...but DANG Nicole, your dogs are stunning....I love those dogs and some day I am going to have one too!!!!

I have been bit twice in my life, once by a shephard pup with distemper, that hurt but it was bearable.

The other bite was actually more of an attack and it was a Chi, I had on leather boots and the rotten little thing managed to rip through them to ge a good bite at my foot and then got smart and went for my leg above my boots. By then time I got out of there I had three good bites that broke the skin and many many scratches.

That was a wasted day of vacation sitting in the minor emergency room.

The little dog was snarling and biting and in full blown attack mode and the owner was standing right there ignoring the whole thing and kept on talking to my husband and friend.
It was very hard and took all of my willpower not to drop kick sweet Cocoa across the room. Finally I managed to yell at him that his dog was attacking me..and he said ooooh whaaaat a baaaad little girl, picked her up and babytalked her all the way out of the room.

If one of my dogs so much as barks at someone or growls to defend from an intruder in their territory eyebrows are raised and I get the dangerous dog look.

I agree, the only dogs who have ever tried to *attack* (not just bite) me were chi's.
besides, arent most of those stories about "maulings" dogs in packs? that has alot to do with it too.

Well this is Miami we're talking about here.................... I don't think Miami Dade is known for its intelligent population