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Bulldog attacks seal pup news at 11
12 years ago
Well here’s the hot topic on yahoo for the next five seconds. This guy Mark Kelly; apparently he’s kind of a big deal (wasn’t aware people still care about astronauts) and no one really seems to like him, I’m not really political so I don’t care. His step kid’s dog attacked and killed a sea lion pup on the beach. I guess sea lions have been beaching themselves in record numbers on the California coast. It was caught on tape and everyone’s pissed, either at the owner, this Mark guy, the dog or the people that just have opinions on the matter. And since the dog was an American Bulldog mix 1. I’m interested 2. People are getting all up in arms about pitbulls, BLS and shit like that.
I’m more stunned by the response to the whole ordeal. Not as though it’s not sad, but nobody really likes sea lions in my area. You see trucks with anti sea lion stickers on them, you hear all kinds of stories about them being shot by an unhappy fisherman, they steal fisherman’s catches, they’re pretty mean (sorry territorial), they smell and are just kind of an over all pest on the northwest coast. Am. Bulldogs have an extremely high prey drive that is very hard to overcome. It’s clear the owner had very little control of the situation much less her dog.
This video is pretty graphic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUyoU-juHTk
The real thing that stuns me is the comments to the video and how cruel they are. How many people would much rather put an entire breed down just based on them having the word Bull in their title. The people for bulldogs seem to be equally as cruel.
If sea lions are getting stranded on shore in record numbers I highly doubt this was the first time a dog attacked a seal pup. And I’m even more suspicious of the idea that it’s always a bully breed.
My dog Bishop is a 1-year-old 95lb American Bulldog Mastiff mix (aka: a bandogge). He’s not the best trained dog in the world mainly due to his puppy ADD (god I can’t wait for him to mature a bit more); he knows sit, stay, lay down, shake (ect.). I hope to get him his good canine citizen certification so he could one day be a therapy dog (this will take years). He’s exhibited a certain sensitivity to people’s feelings and I feel he’d be very good at it.
I feel that I and many other bully owners would have been able to control or avoid the situation entirely. I will never say bully breeds aren’t killers. They were bred to guard, fight, and in certain cases torture other animals (bull and bear baiting). They were also bred to be gentle with their owners and their children. And with a firm hand they can be very good companions. You hear what happens when the training is lax.
I’m more stunned by the response to the whole ordeal. Not as though it’s not sad, but nobody really likes sea lions in my area. You see trucks with anti sea lion stickers on them, you hear all kinds of stories about them being shot by an unhappy fisherman, they steal fisherman’s catches, they’re pretty mean (sorry territorial), they smell and are just kind of an over all pest on the northwest coast. Am. Bulldogs have an extremely high prey drive that is very hard to overcome. It’s clear the owner had very little control of the situation much less her dog.
This video is pretty graphic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUyoU-juHTk
The real thing that stuns me is the comments to the video and how cruel they are. How many people would much rather put an entire breed down just based on them having the word Bull in their title. The people for bulldogs seem to be equally as cruel.
If sea lions are getting stranded on shore in record numbers I highly doubt this was the first time a dog attacked a seal pup. And I’m even more suspicious of the idea that it’s always a bully breed.
My dog Bishop is a 1-year-old 95lb American Bulldog Mastiff mix (aka: a bandogge). He’s not the best trained dog in the world mainly due to his puppy ADD (god I can’t wait for him to mature a bit more); he knows sit, stay, lay down, shake (ect.). I hope to get him his good canine citizen certification so he could one day be a therapy dog (this will take years). He’s exhibited a certain sensitivity to people’s feelings and I feel he’d be very good at it.
I feel that I and many other bully owners would have been able to control or avoid the situation entirely. I will never say bully breeds aren’t killers. They were bred to guard, fight, and in certain cases torture other animals (bull and bear baiting). They were also bred to be gentle with their owners and their children. And with a firm hand they can be very good companions. You hear what happens when the training is lax.
I actually went from over weight Chihuahuas to my 95lb Hellhound. I'd always wanted a mastiff I loved their personality. So when I heard there were some mastiff cross pups available I researched American bulldogs for a couple hours and decided oh the mastiff DNA will win out.
...Wrong! Bad MV! Stupid puppy! Never assume with Hellhounds! He was rather unruly when he was a younger pup. But rather than chain him up in the back and ignore the problem I sought out more experienced people to hit me in the nose with a newspaper and tell me what I was doing wrong (he and I both seem to enjoy the Dog whisperer *snicker snicker*).
A lot of these "Bad Dog" situations could have actually been avoided if the owner had just taken a step back "I have no idea what the f*ck I'm doing" and just asked someone for help.
As with most things in this world your life and the lives of others will go much smoother if you just opt to being an idiot in the beginning.
Well... on stuff like petfinder.com some of the descriptions say for experienced pitbull horse goat lama owners. But that's mainly from private rescues that will run a background check on your ass before they say ok to anything. Humane Society... "You want Killer? Great! Take Rabid too!" they just wanna make more room so they can make way for the next batch of poochies (not that I can really blame them).