heroic pit bulls save woman from attacking chow

[anxi80]

Heroic Pit Bulls Save Woman From Attacking Chow

POSTED: 7:38 am PDT April 13, 2005

OMAHA, Neb. -- A couple of pit bulls are being hailed as canine heroes.

The breed may have a mean reputation, but Angie Pecoraro is happy the pit bulls were next door.

She was attacked in her Omaha yard this week by a red chow. The dog had knocked her down and was biting her repeatedly. That's when the neighbor's pit bulls came to the rescue.

They jumped a fence and fought off the chow. The humane society has impounded the attacking dog.

Pecoraro was treated and released from a local hospital.

source: http://www.10news.com/family/4375157/detail.html

if this is a repost, i apologize. just notify me and i will request a thread closure. searched the following terms (sorted by date): pit, bull, pit bull, pitbull, pitbulls, pit bulls, heroic, chow, omaha

edit: fixed link

 

[anxi80]

i posted this because ive seen pit bulls get a really bad reputation. and i thought i would just emphasize that in most situations, it is the owner's fault for teaching the dog to be so aggressive. i am a former pit bull owner and unless my dog felt she was or a member of our family was seriously being threatened, only then would she spring into action.

ive heard some pretty bad pit bull stories also. one of the worst ive heard is a guy put weights on his dog's shoulders and pushed it down a hill. he would then coax the pit to climb up the hill to him, only to push it down the hill again once it reached the top. his reasoning? to build its shoulders to be bigger and stronger. this was the dogs training regime so it could become a fighter dog. so, my reason for sharing this story is to show that not all pit bulls are ruthless killer pets who hunt in packs. a lot of the blame in my opinion should be put on the people who cant keep their pet in check or train it to act out as so.

 

[Red Dawn]

Chows are mean and because they usually don't bark or even growl can be sneaky and hard to read.

 

[Amused]

Wow. Pretty cool.

 

[CraigRT]

they are not bad dogs. i have friends with them, and they are ultra friendly and playful.
there is a freaking ban on pitbulls in a nearby town... obviously the people there are just dog haters, because anyone with half a brain realizes the dogs only behave how they are trained to behave... frickin' morons.

 

[OrByte]

yup, only dog that ever tried to bite me was a Chow.

I think its because they have this ugly purple tongue and they dont like it.

doggy angst.

 

[Nitemare]

<Pitbull hater>He only saved her because he wanted to eat her for himself

 

[Miramonti]

I hate chows, for all the reason's listed above.

 

[Biggerhammer]

Originally posted by: OrByte
yup, only dog that ever tried to bite me was a Chow.

I think its because they have this ugly purple tongue and they dont like it.

doggy angst.

*LOL*

 

[PingSpike]

Yeah, their bad rap is mostly because a lot of people who get them want them for fighting. You can train any dog to be agressive I would imagine.

 

[jlee]

One of our cats was killed in our backyard by a neighboring pit bull..

There are a lot of pits in our area..a girl I work with used to have one, and she doesn't trust them anymore either. They're unpredictable, imho.

 

[maziwanka]

the title of the article is absolutely moronic.

the writers need some lessons in english.

 

[marvdmartian]

I have friends with pits, and they're both big babies. Oh, they can be mean looking, and they're very protective of their "family", but they're also really great around kids (seen all 3 of their kids crawling all over the big male, pulling on various body parts, with NO problems), and loveable as any other dog I've seen.
Chows, on the other hand, are not only p-o'd about that silly purple tongue, but also about their foofoo hair style, all puffed up all over the place!!

Oh yeah, and the only dog that's ever charged me, in my own yard, was a chow. I backed off, went inside, called the animal control (after hours), and told them they had 15 minutes to get out here and get that f'n dog......or they could come out and pick up it's body!! :|

 

[mobobuff]

Awesome :thumbsup:. Never had anything against pitbulls. The owners of the ones in the story probably knew how to properly train one, and the dogs realized that humans were friendly animals that give them food and shelter. They saw one being attacked, and decided to help. That rocks.

What is a Chow?

 

[her209]

I don't own a dog.

 

[Gibsons]

My brother is a vet, and there are three breeds he dislikes, all for their tendency to bite: Chows, Rottweilers and Cocker Spaniels. He likes Dobermans, doesn't seem to have anything against pit bulls.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
What is a Chow?

Google to the rescue!

http://www.puppydogweb.com/caninebreeds/chow.htm

Edit: Missed the perfect opportunity.

http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=chow+dog

 

[Coquito]

My cousin's pit spends all day in the back yard chewing on rocks. Nicest dog I've ever met.

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: Kyteland

Originally posted by: mobobuff
What is a Chow?

Google to the rescue!

http://www.puppydogweb.com/caninebreeds/chow.htm

Edit: Missed the perfect opportunity.

http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=chow+dog

D'oh!

I was expecting something more wolf-like or dingo-like.

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: anxi80
i posted this because ive seen pit bulls get a really bad reputation. and i thought i would just emphasize that in most situations, it is the owner's fault for teaching the dog to be so aggressive. i am a former pit bull owner and unless my dog felt she was or a member of our family was seriously being threatened, only then would she spring into action.

ive heard some pretty bad pit bull stories also. one of the worst ive heard is a guy put weights on his dog's shoulders and pushed it down a hill. he would then coax the pit to climb up the hill to him, only to push it down the hill again once it reached the top. his reasoning? to build its shoulders to be bigger and stronger. this was the dogs training regime so it could become a fighter dog. so, my reason for sharing this story is to show that not all pit bulls are ruthless killer pets who hunt in packs. a lot of the blame in my opinion should be put on the people who cant keep their pet in check or train it to act out as so.

You typed that in less than a minute?

 

[meltdown75]

Pit bulls are banned here. In order to own one you must have $1 million liability insurance on the dog, and that's only if you owned one at the time of the bylaw's inception. No new pit bulls allowed. There are upwards of 300 pit bull owners in the area who have opted to get the insurance and have their dog "grandfathered" into the new bylaws.

There is an extreme problem at the local humane society with the amount of pit bulls being brought in to be euthanized.

They even took a pit bull away from a blind & disabled woman, even after she pleaded to city council and explained that the dog was responsible for her well-being because it was her best friend.

I'm not a dog owner but I can only imagine the wars being waged.

 

[ggnl]

Originally posted by: anxi80

if this is a repost, i apologize. just notify me and i will request a thread closure. searched the following terms (sorted by date): pit, bull, pit bull, pitbull, pitbulls, pit bulls, heroic, chow, omaha

lol, are you really that scared of the repost nazis?

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: Kyteland

Originally posted by: mobobuff
What is a Chow?

Google to the rescue!

http://www.puppydogweb.com/caninebreeds/chow.htm

Edit: Missed the perfect opportunity.

http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=chow+dog

What's ironic is that that site says:
Chows carry a reputation of been aggressive, but this is undeserved though they are a tenacious fighter if provoked.

Yet multiple people in this thread are talking about being attacked by chows! People, dogs are bred to have behavioural tendencies. That applies to pit bulls and chows alike.

 

[Praetor]

Great to see Omaha is getting national recognition, bad to see it's because of kids offing themselves and evil attack chows.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

I just pictured a thug looking chow with a mowhawk and piercings and studded leather jacket mauling a woman, and the 2 pitbulls wearing red capes coming to the rescue.