My grandad used to call dogs the phantom crappers because he'd never see them leaving their muck on the grass outside his house.
True, I agree lad, but atm with "austerity" economies are shrinking and young populations are rising. There are just not enough jobs. Right now Ireland has an unemployment rate amongst young people rivaling poor African nations. That's forcing people into welfare, the EU have sacked our country. The IMF took 9 billion profit alone from our coffers, 9 billion from a population of 6 million, of which only half that actual number are employed in full time jobs there abouts. IMF induced austerity is proven to stifle and growth, in fact it shrinks an economy. Savers, the cornerstone of a good economic system are being punished. spongers don't get depressed and kill themselves, people who actually want to earn a living and have a decent quality of life but can't do. I looked into being self sustaining in Ireland, if you don't own land it is nigh on impossible. last off topic post
Exactly Tobes. I read somewhere that, in terms of strength, you can double a dog's weight, so that in this case you'd be facing the equivilant of a 100kg man. That's a ****ing heavyweight boxer or wrestler, armed with bone crunching, flesh-serrating jaws. You're not facing a yappy collie or spaniel here. There was a picture a few years back of a bull terrier/mastiff cross attached to a copper's arm and they couldn't get the ****er off with tazers and trucheons. They literally had to wait for armed police to put several bullets in it. the copper was still off work a year later, as I remember.
american pitballs are like that, think they have similar teeth to tiger sharks and jaw locks. they are not to be messed with.
True that, they've killed enough people, but I have seen a few placid one too in Ireland. Get any dog off it's feet and it ain't a threat, you just need to be willing to accept a bite in the process but in a life death situation a bite is worth taking to win
well as a biologist have to take your word for it then lol. i thought there jaws did lock, maybe they are just very powerful then, but certainly not something you would want to mes with.
Not sure where you got the Tiger shark thing from, Jenners. You might be able to argue that their carnassials are superficially similar to the shape of Tiger shark teeth, but it'd be a stretch and all dogs have carnassials. As to the jaw-locking thing, it's an urban myth. No canine has a mechanism whereby the top and lower jaws cannot be separated. Certain dog breeds might, however, have stronger bites than others and have a tenacity once they have a grip on something. This trait is bred into hunting breeds and, especially, into fighting dogs. I wouldn't want to 'mess' with any dog with a hefty enough bite, although, to be fair, the whole 'dangerous breeds' thing is hokum, IMO.
There's a nasty new breed of half animal half mechanical/computer terminator dogs plaguing certain parts of the country.
Question: Do Pit Bulls have locking jaws? Answer: Prepared by: Al W. Stinson, D.V.M. Director of Legislative Affairs, Michigan Association for Pure Bred Dogs, and the Michigan Hunting Dog Federation, and a Member of the Board of Directors of the American Dog Owners Association The following quote was sent to me from Dr. Howard Evans, Professor Emeritus, College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, Ithaca New York. We were colleagues in the veterinary college for four years. He is the author of the textbook, ANATOMY OF THE DOG, (the world's definitive work on the anatomy of the dog). His statement was in a letter addressed to me on March 26. 2002. His quote was: "I have spoken with [Dr.] Sandy deLahunta (the foremost dog neurologist in the country) and [DR.] Katherine Houpt (a leading dog behaviorist) about a jaw locking mechanism in pit bulls or any other dog and they both say, as do I, that there is NO SUCH THING AS "JAW LOCKING" IN ANY BREED. We all agree that the power of the bite is proportional to the size of the jaws and the jaw muscles. There is no anatomical structure that could be a locking mechanism in any dog." As a Professor Emeritus from the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University, I agree completely with their conclusion. http://www.pbrc.net/mediacenter/mediaqa.html
