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To: D. Long who wrote (217140)	8/27/2007 1:55:04 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793927

In Houston where dog fighting is rampant, you take your life into your hands in some parts by walking down the street. I've had pit bulls literally ripping their heads apart trying to push through wood fences to get at me on the sidewalk. They're a public menace. Just ask this woman what she thinks about the vicious tendencies of pit bulls. komotv.com

To: D. Long who wrote (217140)	8/27/2007 2:43:10 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793927

Pit bulls are real popular in Houston certainly. Dope dealers keep them to protect their turf and slow down anyone who attempts to raid their places. Blacks and hispanics here view them as macho status symbols. My neighbor in sw Houston years ago had one. When I was moving in, it did its best to get through or over the fence in their backyard. It impressed me enough to carry a .357 when walking up and down the driveway - I figured it'd eventually get through or over the fence and I intended to do my best to immediately kill it at the first legal opportunity or even the first sight of it in my backyard. Was also giving serious thought to fixing up some rat poison in ground beef balls (why wait on the inevitable?). But before I got to that, I met the owner and once he shook hands with us, the dog accepted us as belonging there and the theatrics ended. If I heard it bark after that - say if a stranger came on our property - we'd just tell the dog, "Hush, Rocky", and he'd quiet right down. The owner would walk the dog every day with a choker chain with barbs that dug into his neck when he strained on the chain - and he still pulled that old man down the street. Those dogs are very tough, thick skinned and not very sensitive to pain. If they do feel it, it just makes them madder. Our oldest, when in his teens, dragged in a pitbull pup he'd gotten from someone. I told him he needed to return it but they wouldn't take it back. We tried keeping it awhile. But we had another dog already - a Lab/Keeshond mix - and before the pup was full grown he wouldn't let the other dog eat at all - you had to go hold him off the food while the other dog ate. Plus he was too aggressive with the other dog even though it was still bigger. I could see that the relationship between those two dogs was only gonna get worse so I put in the car one day and took it for a drive. Found some black guys at a basketball court and sold it for $40. Now I'm in Spring and haven't seen a pitbull in years.