Disclaimer: This post is not a rant against pits or off-leash parks, simply about the following incident and the sheer stupidity of some people.
I was out at the park this morning and met up with my normal group. It's quiet at 8:30 in the morning and it's always the same people, so it's about as safe a time to go as any. Both dogs love running through the woods. Anyway, as we were walking, the guy who owns to CC's, one of which is a 1 1/2-ish year old male named Bear. Nice dog. He was telling us how on Tuesday evening a group of effing retarded junkies decided it would be a good idea to bring their SUPER-aggressive pit bull to the park, take him off leash right next to Bear and stood back to the watch the fight. The pit immedietly latched on to Bear's neck, while Bear took full-advantage of the loose skin, whipped his head around and lit into the pit. I don't know how long the fight lasted, but after the junkies pulled the pit out of Bear's mouth, Bear didn't have a scratch on him while the side of the pit's head was now a big gaping wound. I'm not one to cheer on a dog's suffering, and the dog was only doing what he was being trained to do, but serves him right! The guys were just dumbfounded, that their dog had just gotten his as* handed to him in a sling. Apparently this was one of those HUGE pits too.
It made my blood boil to hear this, because the guy also has a 3 month old female CC, and I shudder to think what would have happened if the pit got her instead of Bear. Bear's owner didn't call the rangers, because by the time they would have showed up the group with the pit would have been long gone, and he was afraid they were going to tell him he had to keep Bear on a leash from now on as well. Bear is a very soft dog most of the time; Sawyer likes to wrestle with him.
I just can't fathom what in the Sam Hill those pit guys could have been thinking! What a way to get arrested, your dog put down and probably their as*es handed to them in a sling as well, because I can almost guarantee that had anything else happened, they wouldn't have made it back to the parking lot in one piece.
I was out at the park this morning and met up with my normal group. It's quiet at 8:30 in the morning and it's always the same people, so it's about as safe a time to go as any. Both dogs love running through the woods. Anyway, as we were walking, the guy who owns to CC's, one of which is a 1 1/2-ish year old male named Bear. Nice dog. He was telling us how on Tuesday evening a group of effing retarded junkies decided it would be a good idea to bring their SUPER-aggressive pit bull to the park, take him off leash right next to Bear and stood back to the watch the fight. The pit immedietly latched on to Bear's neck, while Bear took full-advantage of the loose skin, whipped his head around and lit into the pit. I don't know how long the fight lasted, but after the junkies pulled the pit out of Bear's mouth, Bear didn't have a scratch on him while the side of the pit's head was now a big gaping wound. I'm not one to cheer on a dog's suffering, and the dog was only doing what he was being trained to do, but serves him right! The guys were just dumbfounded, that their dog had just gotten his as* handed to him in a sling. Apparently this was one of those HUGE pits too.
It made my blood boil to hear this, because the guy also has a 3 month old female CC, and I shudder to think what would have happened if the pit got her instead of Bear. Bear's owner didn't call the rangers, because by the time they would have showed up the group with the pit would have been long gone, and he was afraid they were going to tell him he had to keep Bear on a leash from now on as well. Bear is a very soft dog most of the time; Sawyer likes to wrestle with him.
I just can't fathom what in the Sam Hill those pit guys could have been thinking! What a way to get arrested, your dog put down and probably their as*es handed to them in a sling as well, because I can almost guarantee that had anything else happened, they wouldn't have made it back to the parking lot in one piece.
I can't believe how people can do something like that just for pure entertainment!