my dog would never do that...

meet "sigourney".

a complete picture of innocence.

my girlfriend insists that, even though sigourney has ripped my flesh on multiple occasions while "nipping" me, and half of her friends are afraid to come over, that this dog is NOT dangerous.

i beg to differ.

this dog is the spawn of satan himself. or, at least has undergone years of breeding malfeasance which has emphasized a killer instinct.

thursday night in interlachen, florida, about 20-25 minutes from where i live,
19-year old Amanda Boyles was playing on the floor with the family's pit bull, when, out of the blue, this playful pup latched onto her face and clamped down. her father, Felton Boyles, pried the dog's jaws off of Amanda's face as it was shaking her head back and forth. i've seen this "shaking" thousands of times. substitute "infant's head" for "grown woman's head", and you probably have a pit bull with a head in it's mouth, wagging it's tail, and the rest of the infant in a bloody pool nearby.

it took 900 stitches to sew up Amanda's face, according to her father. 900!!!

Boyles declined to comment further, except to say the dog did not make any aggressive noises when he attacked Amanda and that the dog had not been aggressive in the past.

the gainesville sun talked to Putnam Sheriff's Dept Capt. Steve Rose. i'm not quite sure what the writer's point was here:

Rose said his department does not get dog mauling reports very often, and he said it simply illustrates the unpredictability of owning pets like pit bulls.

...i guess the "unpredictability" explains the infrequency of reports. okay, now that i read it like that, it makes sense. Capt. Rose continues:

"This father said he's had pit bulls for years and has never had a problem until now," Rose said. "Pit bulls are notorious for sometimes being unpredictable, even as pets. And that's what we tell people when they are considering getting a pit bull."