Date:         Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:14:35 -0800
Reply-To:     fortinoj@SPEAKEASY.NET
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From:         Joseph Fortino <fortinoj@SPEAKEASY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Slowly Disappearing Vanagons
Comments: To: John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
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good point hey i have a wife and at times she gets pit rage
shhhhhhhhhh.. hehe



On 08 Feb 2003, John Rodgers wrote:

> My comment about getting a pit bull was mainly
> to point out that these days it seems that one
> needs an "Intimidator" around to deter
> thieves.
>
> All animals are....animals! And there is
> "always" a certain unpredictability about them
> no matter what we think about them.
>
> In my own experience Pit Bulls are very loving
> animals, love children,get uuset when a child
> is seemingly in distress, are protective of
> what they percieve as their family or their
> turf. Make great pets.
>
> On the other hand, I have see pit bulls
> that were obviously trained to be
> dangerous. And that is to bad that people
> do that to the breed.
>
> But even so, all animals are unpredictable.
> Most deer run from people in the wild., but in
> my region a man was attacked and skewered to a
> tree by a Buck whitetail deer. Family pets
> have attacked their owners for no
> understandable resaon - at least human
> understanding. Who knows what the pet thought.
>
> There is always a risk with any animal we keep
> as pets or protectors.
>
> John Rodgers 88 GL Driver
>
> Andrew Grebneff wrote:
> >> Time to get a Pit Bull!!
> >
> >
> > Yeah, like the one that ATE an 8-year-old
> > girl in NZ a couple of days ago.
> > --
> > Andrew Grebneff 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001,
> > New Zealand
> > <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
> > Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
> >