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The blame for this tragedy should go to the person who apparently confined the pit bull to a yard, and gave the dog no human contact. Dogs become aggressive when they aren't socialized. I have 2 pit bulls, both rescued as adults from abusive situations. They live in my home, along with cats I had rescued previously, and cats I have rescued long after the dogs lived here. I've never had a problem. My dogs sleep with the cats, even let the cats check out their food bowls, waiting patiently until the cats walk away before they finish eating. Too many in our society have unfair opinions of the bully breeds. They just want love, care, and affection, like all dogs.

If you truly were an ASPCA supporter you would have already been educated about pits and not say something as ignorant as what you said. Maybe it's stupid people who should be put down but unfortunately we can't legally do it. ALL breed can be dangerous with a bad owner or a gene deformity. Just like humans, dogs can have mental disabilities and most of it is from inbreeding which happens a lot throughout all breeds. Also, certain charactoristics that humand find attractive in a dog are deformatity that people keep breeding. I personally have NEVER encountered a pit that was anything other than a big ole teddy bear. Their owners actually took care of them and didn't leave them locked up in the yard as "protection." This is what the ASPCA keeps fighting for, animal rights. They fight to keep bad owners from owning dogs & fight against these puppy mills inbreeding their dogs. Please, next time educate yourself before sounding like an idiot. If we lived by your way we'd have a lot of breeds banned unstead of educating communities and stopping idiots from having pets.

Don't blame the breed, blame the owners. Pit bulls by nature are very sweet and loving dogs. They were originally called "Nanny Dogs" and bred to take care of children. It's people who have made them bad. Ignorant people have bred, and trained them to be fighting dogs. A pit is a bulldog and will NOT let go when it gets started. But put the blame where it belongs. I'm sorry about the loss of your puppy; that had to be horrible to watch. I think I would have shot the owner of the pit though, not the pit.

What is the matter with you? This is supposed to be a page commenting on the calendar cover animals. Quit be confrontational about cat people and dog people. We all love animals or we wouldn't be on this site. Grow up!

You poor misguided fool. Dogs are not dumb, just affable, which is obviously not something you're overly familiar with. And my cat totally kisses my ass! What a load of crap. I say this I have a whole bunch of dogs too. Seriously, you're doing something wrong if you think cats are more aloof than cats.