My 30 pound dog was attacked by three unleashed pit bulls

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79. The local shelter is filled with dogs

and I'd estimate that about 80% are pit bulls or pit bull crosses. The shelter really tries to push them on you when you go there to look at what is available for adoption. I never consider a pit bull. Years ago, a friend of mine was dating this man that had one and his name was "Chopper". That told me all I needed to know about this breed of dog -- one I do not want.

I constantly see young people with litters of them around town (I live in a college town area). These young folks aren't in college, they are just hanging out with their packs of pit bulls and the puppies and their friends and their drugs aplenty (crack central around here, no kidding).

One time some kid came up to my car that was parked in the disabled zone in front of a store I shop at quite often. As I was creeping out of my car with my cane, this kid had a pit bull puppy and was swinging it around by its neck as it squealed. He laughed and thought it was funny and kept doing it. I told him to STOP doing that to the puppy and that it would grow up to be mean! He walked away to another area outside of the entrance to the store with the puppy cursing me and calling me "a bitch".

I did not like this one bit and went into the store and reported them to the manager of the store who I believe contacted animal control. A few days later I noted that my car had been "keyed" doing probably close to $700.00 damage to the paint on my car. Thanks a lot idiot "young folks" or better yet stupid idiots! I never had the car fixed as it costs too much and my deductible for acts of vandalism is $500.00, so yep, they got me alright and got me good.

I'll admit it, pit bulls scare the hell out of me especially when you see owners like I describe above with them. It is terrifying and if you were grabbed by your neck and swung around by some asswhole high on drugs until you squealed, you'd probably grow up to be a mean SOB too I'd suspect.

It is not necessarily the dog's fault. In my opinion, it is the owner's fault for not taking all and I mean ALL of the responsibility that comes with owning a dog, especially one known to be very vicious at times, especially if provoked or bred to fight like the pit bull breed is.