Its the way they are raised. Have you ever seen PitBoss? The dogs can be friendly. Its very stereotypical of you to say that.

 

txchopper5,

You are correct that I made certain assumptions regarding your friend but these assumptions are based on the time I have spent volunteering at shelters. All to often owners drop their dogs (pits as well as other breeds) off citing a variety of "issues" the dog has but all too often the fault does not lie with the animal but the owner. I am glad with your friend that was not the case and he made an attempt to address the dog's behaviors.

My issue was your generalizations regarding pits based on a limited sample (your friends experience). As Chris@NLM stated, "I don't want people to assume all pits are bad dogs."

 

This will be my last post on the subject since it's gone too far already.

I realize Pits can be great and friendly dogs and wouldn't mind having one myself at all. My point was that a lot of these dogs, especially in lower income drug dealing areas, are trained to be aggressive and attack because they're very good at it. Even a dog that isn't trained for that will often react that way given that someone is breaking into their house and yelling.

In my opinion there isn't enough proof from the video to prove if the cops were right or wrong, but I could easily see them being justifiably using force. Sucks for this guy, but maybe next time he'll think twice before doing whatever he did to get a judge to grant a warrant and the cops to bust into his home.

Sorry for any offense anyone may have taken for what I said, I wasn't intending to cause trouble.

 

Mine are harmless i swear lol

 

I understand the reasoning for shooting the dog. However, my argument is that it appears that it'd be ok to shoot any dog >40lbs if he is running at you once you've busted open "his" door. Like I said, any dog who is worth a damn is going to run to the door to see what is making all this noise and find out who is in "his" house. My dog isn't going to bite you, but she will run towards the door and growl at you to let you know that you don't belong here. She does this when I have friends come over that walk in the door on their own. Once she realizes who it is, she wags her tail and showers them in dog kisses.

So we are saying this makes it ok to shoot any dog that runs towards the door? I understand that the cops don't want the dog gnawing on their arm when the home owner is on the other side of the wall with a gun. Perhaps, I give my dog to much credit and think she has equal rights. I know she's just a dog, but I treat her like family.

 

About the raid, the "mistaken home identity" theory is beginning to make sense. When a warrant is issued and a SWAT team is involved, it must be for a big drug operation, not for a supposedly minor maryjane bag. That whole situation is ridiculous and I hope the family will sue. I certainly would. And if I were that family and that maryjane wasn't mine or that I didn't use it for a while, I would've taken a drug/blood test right after the arrest to prove it in court.

About the dog breeds, it's very simple, guys. Some animal species have different animalistic behaviors than others, and some dog breeds have a tendency to be more aggressive than others. It's been shown in countless of scientific studies that pitbulls and rotts have a tendency to have very aggressive behaviors; there's no denying that and only an idiot would beg to differ. However, IF properly trained from puppyhood, they CAN be different, but that doesn't mean those breeds don't have a natural aggressive behavior. That's like saying all cat species have similar nature of behavior when we know that, for instance, an African wildcat is much more aggressive than a common household cat, if when trained.

 

[QUOTE=Steponme,May 6 2010, 01:48 PM] About the raid, the "mistaken home identity" theory is beginning to make sense.

 

Well, I just said it matter-of-factly, as I didn't read everyone's post to know whether someone has claimed so or not. The point was, with proper training, an animal's behavior can be modified, but it doesn't mean its natural instinct wasn't there from the start.

 

I have a Pug too Diego

I can't believe they fucking killed his dog. I wouldn't know what to do, I'd probably assault the cops and get myself shot

 

Also, after reading some other posts, I have to say that I've been at a house that was raided where police drug enforcement detectives broke down my girlfriends aunts house door one night raiding her for cocaine possession and she only had trace amounts on a compact and rolling papers. She's a casual blow user with some friends so I hear, and that's all. She was buying it from a 'pretty well known' dealer and they popped him and everyone down the chain. I think they thought there was something else bigger going on.

My girlfriend was living in her basement and I had the priveledge of staying over that night it happened

So anyways this situation could have happened by a number of ways, but it really sucks for just a stoner dude