Dweezel

Actually the stats point to this. It's not a personal observation. Those 3 breeds I listed and their mixes account for something like 76% of all dog attacks/bites in the US. If what you said where true Labs would be the number one dog for bites and attacks since there are so many more of them than any other breed.

I have a Lab and I wouldn't come into my house unannounced especially if you are male. Which sucks because that means I'm the one who has to take time off work everytime a maintenance guy or something has to come by. ...but... My friend had a Rot that would roll over and hope someone who broke in would rub it's belly before they stole everything and left. We do know it let the house get broken into once, not 100% sure on the belly rub though. See isn't anecdotal evidence fun?

taken from; http://www.healthypet.com/library_view.aspx?ID=16

Breed characteristics

It's difficult to determine just how much a dog's genetics determine his behavior, just like it's hard to know how much of a person's personality is nature and how much is nurture. It's true that some breeds were bred to perform tasks that require more aggression than others. Pit bulls, for example, were bred to fight dogs and other animals for sport. Some people theorize that pit bulls' genetics make them more prone to violence than other dogs, and pit bulls have in fact been involved in more fatal attacks than any other dog over the past 20 years. But breeds that are not bred for aggression, including golden retrievers, cocker spaniels, and Yorkshire terriers, have been involved in fatal attacks as well.

It's also true that some breeds simply have more ability to injure people than others do. Though it's no more likely to bite than a smaller dog, if it does bite, a Great Dane can do much more damage than a Maltese, for example. (Even very small breeds can be dangerous to children, however.)

A study performed by the American Veterinary Medical Association, the CDC, and the Humane Society of the United States, analyzed dog bite statistics from the last 20 years and found that the statistics don't show that any breeds are inherently more dangerous than others. The study showed that the most popular large breed dogs at any one time were consistently on the list of breeds that bit fatally. There were a high number of fatal bites from Doberman pinschers in the 1970s, for example, because Dobermans were very popular at that time and there were more Dobermans around, and because Dobermans'size makes their bites more dangerous. The number of fatal bites from pit bulls rose in the 1980s for the same reason, and the number of bites from rottweilers in the 1990s. The study also noted that there are no reliable statistics for nonfatal dog bites, so there is no way to know how often smaller breeds are biting.

There are potentially millions of other dog bites that are NOT reported because they don't do much damage and people move on. Hell my woman gets bite by a damn tacobell dog EVERY time she goes to her grand mothers. EVERY TIME!! you want to talk about overly ferocious little bastards those are them! BUT they're tiny, and don't do any damage other than break the skin so they go mainly unaccounted for.

addition; The larger the dog, the duller the teeth are. small dogs have very sharp teeth BECAUSE they don't have much jaw strength, large dogs have very dull teeth because they don't need them, they have the force to push them through just about anything, this also does more damage as they are pushed through flesh because they aren't as sharp. Hell my dogs canine teeth had flat spots on the top that were the size of a #2 pencil eraser. I'd look at them and think, those don't look very useful. Then I'd look at the jaw muscles and remember, oh yeah, there's a good reason they're not very sharp, they don't need to be.

However there are three breeds that are much more aggressive than the others: Pits, Rots and Presa Canarios.

Can't agree with this. Especially as the owner of a pair of rotts. Their no more aggressive than my cousins Golden. The difference is if you come into the house unannounced, the Rott will rip into you, and because of their size they are very efficient at it, while the Golden will help you load the TV and home stereo.

also in this point you need to remember, to a dog, anyone it hasn't seen before, and even people it doesn't see regularly, is a stranger, and they are weary of them.

[edit] I can't even say they will rip into you. I have a friend Nick who moved back from Florida and had never seen the dogs untill they were 4 years. He's not stupid, and is very good with dogs, he didn't know about the dogs and walked into the house un announced. They backed him into a corner and kept him there. As a gaurd dog (the original breeding of the Rotts for the roman empire) they have a natural instinct to corner and hold people unless they resist or run, THEN they'll attack you until you stop resisting, which unfortunately for most people is when their dead.

Funny bit, Rotts have a natural instinct to herd too... It's pretty funny to see them around a group of small kids.

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heh, I've been doing that for quite some time now.

The 4.0 liter motor is awesome and will run forever if properly maintained.

I think you meant to say they will run for ever with no maintaince. hell I had a 78 CJ-7 with the I6, I thought the oil pump was dying, it had at most 10 psi. So I dropped the pan, replaced the oil pump. always knocked so i grabbed the big end of the rods and shook them... Yeah the best one had over 3/16" of play, the worst was about a quarter inch of play. I buttoned it back up, filled it with 3 quarts of straight 30 weight and 2 quarts of lucas oil Damn thing ran STRONG for another 8k miles like that untill it was stolen. bastards, I loved that jeep

god I fuckin hate Ozzy.

only in the morning, should clear up by the time they get in

ehh.. i wouldn't screw with family. Keep it personal. Leave his family out of it, it's not their fault he's a douche.

i've had several jeeps, get the L6, stay away from the 4 banger. their junk, but the 6 cylinder will last you forever, I picked up a Cherokee a few months ago just for that reason. I know if I let it sit for 3 years, there's a nuclear holocaust, and it's another 20 years before we can come above ground again, I know that the damn thing will start and run after all that.

Umm...uh..someone I beat up one time said that's a place he used to visit. Yeah, that's it.

Really, I only know of it because r1crusher has one of their downloads as the desktop wallpaper on his laptop. And a 12 year old philipino boy in a cage in his garage for those "bad days".

I'm more bothered by the fact that you know there is a site called philipinoladyboys.net...

here's where you start signing him up for all kinds of free junk. especially feminin products, and other really crappy shit like that.

At the bare minimum you should at least have, in your opinion, 100 dollars worth of fun at his expense. Fbody.com did this to someone a few years ago over a rather expensive watch, It was termed the Gasper treatment. Made into the Urban Dictionary. here.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?defid=1111863&term=Gasper+Treatment

also remember to shift your weight and hang off the sides, if your going left, your right foot should be on the peg (also always keep the balls of your feet on the pegs, not the insole or heel), and your underside of your knee should be on the seat, and thigh across the seat, and your ass should be almost completely hanging off the left side of the bike. Put your helmet low and to the left of the wind screen as well, and just look at the exit point of the corner and you'll be there! Good luck! Twisties are the greatest especially once you start moving around and shifting weight, you just think to yourself, God, I could have put on another 20mph through that corner...

Good luck!

I say we kill all people, because some are violent. not to mention stupid.

...when the levee breaks, we'll have no place to stay...

Second Tuesday of next week I though? I may be wrong though

what?! they canceled on you?

Is it too late to vote for Ross Perot?

I was gonna say, haven't these idiots noticed, he's out in January no matter what? at this point it's kinda a non issue.

I'd like to pass legislation to kill all Poodles, and Jack Russels. These are two useless, worthless dogs that I feel would be a great service to the world if they were gone.

Thank you

i love my bike.. $13 to fill up.. and get about 180miles/tank

how big is the tank, and is that premium or regular? If I fill up with regular it takes about 13 and I get about 180 miles to the tank as well.

if you gonna do that, I'd use one of those 10 ft long matches, and maybe an extension pole.

Pull the plugs again, check them out. see if you have a hole or two that looks wierd, or is carboned up. you can tell allot about how a IC engine is running just from the plugs. compare to this

http://www.dansmc.com/Spark_Plugs/Spark_Plugs_catalog.html

sooo.... I say we get about 1000 Jap-Crap bikes and go down there and follow them. maybe..

sweet, I bet the air cooled MV's will sell like lemonaid on a hot day. because you know HD is perfect and won't use any of their tech to better their bor-duct. instead they'll kill the MV and make it more "American" aka fat, loud and slow.

if it's half the bike the old one was, you can't go wrong. not to mention it's got to get killer gas milage.