Former dog warden warns: watch out for pit bulls
Written by Brandi Barhite | Associate Editor | bbarhite@toledofreepress.comFormer dog warden Tom Skeldon loves people, not animals.
And while he believes that cost him his job with the county, he still believes the lesson he learned from his father was right.
Phil Skeldon was the first paid director of the Toledo Zoo. One day, the young Tom Skeldon noticed the gibbon, Blondie, and her baby were gone.
The elder Skeldon said the apes had died and no one knew why. He invited him to the autopsy.
When Tom started crying during the procedure, his father delivered a message that would help shape his career.
“Look at it; you respect these animals, you take good care of them, you treat them well, you learn from them, someday you may earn your living from taking care of animals like this, but you don’t love animals,” his father said. “Because if you love animals, you are going to get your heart broken all the time and you won’t be able to survive. You won’t be able to do the job and make the decisions that are required.”
Skeldon lived by this message in the U.S. Air Force, where he trained dogs in Vietnam, and later as he directed a small zoo in Wilmington, Del., trained dogs in the Philippines and served as Lucas County Dog Warden.
Even though he resigned Jan. 31 amid media and political pressure for euthanizing too many dogs, including pit bulls, he is still worried — about people.
He has a warning.
“This spring, summer, fall, here in Toledo, there will be a number of people mauled, maimed, disfigured and there may be somebody killed by a pit bull,” Skeldon said. “Now, it never happened in the 22 years I was dog warden, and part of that is luck, but part is that we had created a persona where the people with these dogs knew there would be consequences.”
Ohio law says “dogs commonly known as pit bulls” are inherently vicious and subject to certain regulations. The law went into effect three months before Skeldon became dog warden in October 1987.
Toledo’s law — recently declared unconstitutional by Judge Michael Goulding — limits residents to owning one “pit bull” or “pit bull” mix and requires owners to keep their animal leashed and muzzled when not on their property. A violation is a first-degree misdemeanor offense, which is compromised by the judge’s ruling, Skeldon said.
“Some little kid is going to pay the price,” he said. “The word is out in the City of Toledo — the dog warden is no longer enforcing the laws and we can do what we want.”
Not a good pet
Skeldon is also worried about the Toledo Area Humane Society board reversing its long-standing policy on adopting pit bulls. The first pit bull was recently adopted; a second adoption is in the works. Skeldon said this new policy, coupled with the city’s vicious dog law being in limbo will make the pit bull problem worse.
John Dinon, executive director of the humane society, said several safeguards are in place before a pit bull is adopted, including an industry-standard temperament test and pre-adopt visits. The staff also educates potential owners about the city and state laws.
Dinon serves on the Lucas County Dog Warden Advisory Committee, which has been asked to draft a new dangerous dog ordinance.
“We expect to have a draft ready next week,” Dinon said May 19.
Tom Skeldon
“We are really looking at dog behavior and owner responsibility. We want it to be preventative.”
Dinon said when Skeldon retired and Julie Lyle took his place, people might have worried about public safety. But they don’t need to be.
“We are really working hard to be a safe community … the deputies are still the same folks,” he said.
Lyle said her staff is only enforcing the state law, not the city law, which limits her options. For instance, state law allows for owning more than one pit bull.
“We need people to use caution when they see stray dogs. We need people to alert us to problems. We cannot solve problems if we don’t know about them.”
She used to work for the humane society in Marquette County, Mich., where pit bull adoptions were allowed. The Lucas County dog pound is not adopting out pit bulls, but it provides a limited number of pit bulls to the humane society.
“We offer ones that we consider safe, no health problems and no behavioral issues,” Lyle said.
Skeldon said no one can convince him that pit bulls make good family pets.
The No. 1 biting dog is the pit bull and, since 1982, there has never been a year where pit bulls didn’t account for about half of fatal and disfiguring attacks, he said.
“Pit bulls are bred to grab ahold, hang on, shake and not let go. They are bred to kill. And they are very, very good at it.”
Skeldon said he can train dogs, including pit bulls, but the average person who gets a pit bull is not a professional.
“Many people who have pit bulls view them as renewable resources, throwaway dogs, a means to an ends whether that is protecting my drug house, winning in a dog fight, just having the macho, toughest dog in town or breeding them to sell them to people who want them for those reasons,” Skeldon said.
Dawn Capp, director of Chako Pit Bull Rescue in California, said pit bulls have historically been called the “nanny dog” because they are good with children. She grew up with pit bulls. Her siblings rode their dogs like horses.
But dogs are dogs, Capp said, and parents should always watch children around any type of dog. She had a friend whose son ended up in the ER because of a Chihuahua.
Dawn Capp
“Pit bulls are basically dogs,” Capp said. “You just have to remember they have a terrier lineage and a pit dog lineage. It is important to evaluate that individual dog is a match for your family.”
Bred to kill
Skeldon was told by his superior, County Administrator Michael Beazley, not to speak to the press during the tumultuous year that led to his resignation.
But he had a lot to say.
When Skeldon became dog warden, he asked then-Lucas County Prosecutor Anthony Pizza about enforcing the law.
He was told if a vicious dog is improperly confined and he comes upon it, don’t leave the situation until the owner has put the dog away correctly or the dog is seized.
In that first year, Skeldon and his staff seized about 350 pit bulls, the next year, 140 and then 90, until it was down to 50 in 1993. It then began to rise again because of an increase in gang and cocaine activity.
“We were lionized for our stance on protecting the public and then we became the villains for doing what we have been doing since 1987,” he said.
Skeldon said the recent pit bull attacks in Toledo, including the one April 18 when a girl on the East Side was badly bitten, are a precursor for what is to come. As dog warden, he responded to pit bull bites each year, but they usually didn’t happen until May, when the weather generally gets nicer.
“On the street in Toledo, what is being enforced, and not being enforced, is pretty quickly known by people who would like to break the law,” he said.
In an editorial in Animal People newspaper, Merritt Clifton commended Skeldon for cutting the volume of shelter killing of dogs in Lucas County by 77 percent — a little better than the improvement in the national rate during the same years.
He wrote that critics “howled” that 54 percent of the dogs Skeldon killed in recent years were pit bulls. Yet the national figure in 2008 was 58 percent and, under Skeldon, the Lucas County rate of killing pit bulls per 1,000 people was 2.9, compared to 3.2 for the U.S., he said.
Skeldon was also outspoken on spaying and neutering when it was unacceptable for animal control directors to tell people to fix animals, Clifton said. Skeldon also fought against the use of the decompression chamber, which was a painful, although efficient, way to kill a large amount of dogs at one time.
“Tom was very much instrumental in changing that paradigm — trying to find ways to give animals a chance that might not otherwise might not have them,” Clifton told Toledo Free Press.
The choice
Skeldon, 62, is settling into retirement. He will receive his first Social Security check next month — something far from his mind during the media storm last year.
“It was harder on my family than me, my brothers, sisters and wife,” he said. “We are a big family and none of us have ever gotten rich serving the people of Toledo, but yet we have served the people of Toledo for four generations.”
Lucas County Commissioner Ben Konop said he doesn’t regret pursuing the dog warden and his policies. Change was needed.
“We are definitely heading in the right direction. I would say that Ms. Lyle has come into a very difficult, difficult situation and has done a really remarkable job in a short amount of time. Just in a month, the live release rate has gone up from about 39 percent to 54 percent.
“My concern with the dog warden is that too many adoptable dogs were getting killed and the killing of these dogs had no relation to public safety. What Julie has demonstrated in her first month is that reducing the kill rate at the pound and public safety are not mutually exclusive. You can do both.”
Konop does not have pet because of a policy at his condo. He said his childhood dog, Ernie, was adopted from the pound.
Skeldon said Lucas County Commissioner Pete Gerken took him to lunch in November and asked him to resign.
“Gerken sat me down at lunch and said, ‘It is not going to stop. They are just going to hammer you and hammer you and hammer you.’”
“The only politician who stood up for me, even in private, was Pete Gerken,” Skeldon said. “I didn’t get any other backing. Privately, some people who were not in my chain of command would give me a smile or a hug, but not come out publicly and say anything.”
Gerken said Skeldon served several commissioners, who found his work to be professional. He was dedicated in his view that the job was law enforcement, which he was told to do.
“I don’t fault him for not going beyond the charge. His mission was always to keep people safe,” Gerken said.
Skeldon said he wanted to retire at the end of 2011 to make sure he had a good enough nest egg to send his 17-year-old daughter to college. He and his wife, Fanny, adopted Danielle because they couldn’t have children after his exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam.
“I am not rich, but I am OK,” Skeldon said. “The house is paid for. We have always lived frugally. Both cars are paid for.”
What helped is Skeldon paid $200 per paycheck from 1992 to 2001 to buy his federal government time and military time. So instead of retiring with 22 and a half years, he retired with 31 and half.
One of the first things he did after retiring as dog warden was take off to the Philippines, where he served two tours in the Peace Corps.
“I stayed at my wife’s cousin’s house, went scuba diving twice per day, ate a lot of good food,” he said.
When he returned, he felt like he was stealing. He was used to getting up and going to work every day. These days, he is sleeping better, though.
“I would find myself watching the news at 11 and getting a little uptight before I went to bed, but then I would say to myself, ‘Wait a minute, you aren’t going to work tomorrow. You don’t have to deal with the union, you don’t have to deal with the politicians, you don’t have to deal with the press and you don’t have to deal with the drug dealers’.”
Barb Knapp, president of Ohio County Dog Wardens Association, said Skeldon is still the go-to person for pit bulls and court cases. She gets calls from dog wardens asking for him.
“Everybody makes dog wardens out to be dog haters … you need to have rules for people who own these type of dogs; the people are the ones who are going to make these dogs mean,” she said. “Our job, and people seem to forget that, is to protect the public.”
Knapp has seen older pit bulls who act sweetly, but lunge at other dogs when they walk by.
Skeldon is afraid that is going to become more prevalent in Toledo — or worse, pit bulls will also lunge at human beings.
“I love people — that was probably my undoing,” Skeldon said.
Tags: Ben Konop, Lucas County, Pete Gerken, pit bulls
Has Tom Skeldon learned to identify a ‘pit bull’ yet?
http://tinyurl.com/yegujts
“Dog Warden Skeldon acknowledged that even if a dog was 50 per cent pit
bull, if it did not “look like a pit bull,” the owner would not be charged. On the other
hand, if a dog did look like a pit bull,” it would be classified as a pit bull and the owner
would be subject to the “vicious dog” laws. No definitive description of a “pit bull” was
presented.
***The warden also acknowledged that there is really no way to tell if a dog is or
is not a “pit bull” and the determination is made by his or a deputy’s subjective judgment.
Regardless of its parentage or behavior, however, if a dog is labeled a pit bull, the owner
would be charged under the statutes and city ordinance.”
Take advantage of your Retirement Tom and do some reading.
You`re really behind the times.
http://tinyurl.com/yczojvx
“Each year, 4.7 million Americans are bitten by dogs. These bites result in approximately 16 fatalities; about 0.0002 percent of the total number of people bitten. These relatively few fatalities offer the only available information about breeds involved in dog bites.
*** There is currently no accurate way to identify the number of dogs of a particular breed, and consequently no measure to determine which breeds are more likely to bite or kill.”
Ohio Info
This comment was posted on May 20th, 2010 at 10:00 pmhttp://tinyurl.com/2aurkrk
There was a “pit bull”, running around Pt.Place, last week that kept me from exiting my car . Scummy N.Enders, take care of their mongrels about as well as they take care of themselves !
This comment was posted on May 21st, 2010 at 9:55 amI didn’t have a D.N.A., sample to verify that it was a “pit bull”.
However,this dog was prancing around as if in FULL HUNT/ATTACK MODE !
I did not leave my car until the thing split !
It did not look friendly at all…why chance an attack ?
And still, Tom, gets attacked for dog owners too lax or too stupid, in the care of their “pets”?!
A peculiar phenomenon I have yet to set any logical congruency to.
A majority of canines always give “unconditional love” day in and day out, every day;
This comment was posted on May 21st, 2010 at 12:53 pmhumans only give their own selfish love just when they feel like giving it.
What the newspaper with the assistance of Konop did to this good man was unfathamable. He was hired to protect the citizens of Lucas County from vicious dogs and he did it well. The publisher form of government must end in this region. Hold your head up high Mr. Skeldon! I also came to your defense everytime this subject arose in my world. I am happy my children and grandchildren left this city–at least they will not be mauled by one of these vicious dogs now that you are no longer at the helm. Good luck to you sir.
This comment was posted on May 21st, 2010 at 2:01 pmKonop’s praise of Lyle reminds me of Bush saying, “Yer doin’ a gud job, Brownie.”
While Lyle might be killing less dogs, Lyle is doing harm to the community. In the first 4 months of her tenure, there has been 4 pit bull attacks.
Also, I agree with Kathy. It is disgusting what Konop and that sleazy newspaper did to Skeldon.
This comment was posted on May 21st, 2010 at 4:24 pmRight on Dawn! When are the people in this community going to dump these idiots for once and for all.
This comment was posted on May 21st, 2010 at 7:42 pmI have to agree with Tom Skeldon. Most of this breed of dogs get into the hands of bad people. People that are irresponsible and let their dogs run, bark, chase people, and just aren’t good “parents” to the dogs should be locked up. I hope that the laws become stricter and that these owners stand to loose many dollars. If their dogs bites or kills then they need to pay the price AND go to jail. I would never own a dog that can not be trusted. Some people just should not have dogs. Some dogs should not be near the public.
This comment was posted on May 21st, 2010 at 9:08 pmWould be a great idea to add Gerken and Wozniak
This comment was posted on May 22nd, 2010 at 9:07 amto that list of those that was stated above to dump! They all go on and on with the dog warden and dog issue but ignore other local human issues!
Skeldon said: “The No. 1 biting dog is the pit bull”
There is not an ounce of truth to this claim:
There is no national database that tracks dog bites, and certainly not by breed – therefore there is no way to determine that “No. 1 biting dog is the pit bull.” It is simply false.
Skeldon said: “since 1982, there has never been a year where pit bulls didn’t account for about half of fatal and disfiguring attacks.”
This is patently false. While no one knows the number of “disfiguring attacks” in the U.S., since there also is no national database that records these incidents, however, the NCRC has been tracking fatal attacks for the past 30 years.
In 1990 there were 25 fatal dog attacks, only 2 were by dogs identified to be “pit bulls”
In 1991 there were 17 fatal dog attacks, only in 2 cases was a “pit bull-type” dog involved.
In 1996 there were 18 fatal dog attacks, only 1 was by a “pit bull”
In 1997 there were 21 fatal attacks, with 3 cases in which a “pit bull” was identified.
In 1999 there were 28 fatal attacks, with 5 cases involving a “pit bull.”
Space limits more examples, but suffice it to say that Mr. Skeldon’s claim can easily be proven to be false and simply a case of fear-mongering.
We already live in an overly fearful society, we do not need inaccurate “statistics” to make us more fearful – especially of dogs – who give us much more than they take.
This comment was posted on May 22nd, 2010 at 12:44 pmTom Skeldon is a wise and prudent man. There are too few of them left in animal control. In order to “love” animals, you have to love people first because they are the ones in whose hands the pets will be placed. There is no “predictable” pit bull because animal aggression is in their bloodlines. That is what the dog fighters count on and what they have perpetuated for years. They traditionally killed a “cur” that wouldn’t fight, in order to “preserve the breed.” Just watch for the keywords…they are always the same. The dog fighters now send the emotional humane advocates out to do their work, telling them that “it is the owner, not the dog” and describing how this wonderful breed will become extinct. Unfortunately, many rescuers will tell you that they only love animals–not people, so Tom Skeldon’s words are drowned out. Now that gangs are breeding pits for human aggression to protect their other illegal activities from law-enforcement, the breed has become increasingly dangerous. The dog is the victim no matter what happens, but that does not mean they can be temperament-tested for safety.
The answer is to ban the breeding of ANY dog (any breed) for fighting at the local and federal level. That would allow those who truly “love” pit bulls for their wonderful loyalty and tremendous intelligence to breed out the gameness, as they have in Boxers and other breeds that were previously used for fighting.
Until that happens, we should heed Tom Skeldon’s words and thank him for his many years for caring about people and truly caring that pit bulls did not fall into the hands of those who would exploit their inherent animal aggression and encourage traits of human aggression which end up in tragedy for everyone in the community. The new manager of the shelter undoubtedly “loves” animals and is a good person, but she is also naive.
This comment was posted on May 23rd, 2010 at 3:32 pmThis article is pretty biased. Using Merritt-Clifton? You do know he is an editor, not an animal behaviorist, not a geneticist. His “study” that is so often used is not only biased, but completely inaccurate! Several people came forward to offer him additional information in regards to dog attacks, but he refused to include them, skewing the results. Not only that, but he claims pit bull owners dock the tails of the dogs, which shows that he is either making things up, or totally uneducated about the very thing he is writing about. Either way, most experts agree that he is not a reputable source of information. Here enters Skeldon. He wants to ban a breed of dog that is at the mercy of its owners. Nevermind looking at the other places that have banned pit bulls and seen NO REDUCTION in attacks, nevermind taking something from the places that have opted for responsible ownership laws instead (who by the way have seen DRAMATIC REDUCTIONS IN ATTACKS), just go with the flow and the ignorance and ban an entire breed of dog for lack of competence. All it would take is a little bit of research to see that the media reporters and Merritt-Cliftons are not the people to follow. Read the CDC’s study to see what they say the real issue is. They are an unbiased source that obtained their information in a scientific manner. The CDC, the AVMA, the HSUS, the National Canine Research Council, as well as most veterinarians, animal behaviorists, and animal control professionals all agree that the biggest problem is irresponsible dog ownership, not a breed of dog.
Also, why don’t some of you read about the pit bull? You seem to be stuck on this idea that the dogs are just aggressive monsters, but the fact of the matter is that the dogs have a very long history as reliable, hard-working family pets. For just as long as the dogs were bred for hunting vermin, bull-baiting, or dog fighting, they were also bred to be very human-friendly. No one wanted a working dog they could not handle, especially the dog fighters, who needed to be able to separate two dogs in the heat of battle without having the dogs turn and bite them! I am not sure why this is such a hard thing for people to grasp, unless it’s simply unwillingness to see the dogs as anything other than horrible. Perhaps if people were more willing to learn, banning a breed of dog would not be an option, and there would not be such a large amount of people willing to follow someone so obviously under-qualified to lead.
Here are some links, if anyone is interested in learning the truth for a change:
http://www.cdc.gov – There is a study on this site that spans several decades, but most people get stuck on the dog breed table, never bothering to read what they actually have to say about it. Because of this, many have misunderstood the results of the study, thinking it proves that pit bulls are bad. That was not what the authors intended. Please read the whole thing before making up your mind.
http://www.atts.org – This site reports all breeds of dog. They are tested on unprovoked aggression. You can see where your breed ranks compared to all the others, and you can also see that pit bull-type dogs rank higher than many “friendly” breeds.
http://www.kcdogblog.com – This site is chock-full of information, including all fatalities from last year. It goes into detail, considering the breed of each dog, the situation that created the tragedy, the care the dog received, and even the median income level of the area, all factors that should be considered, as is proven here.
This comment was posted on May 23rd, 2010 at 7:13 pmThe statistical claims above, attributed to the National Canine Research Council, are contextually false.
I have been tracking fatal and disfiguring attacks by U/S. & Canadian pet animals since 1978, and have been tracking the dog data by breed since 1982.
In the time frame claimed by the poster, the decade of the 1990s, there were 93 U.S. & Canadian dog attack fatalities, 27 by pit bull terriers and 29 by Rottweilers. There were 477 disfiguring dog attacks, 206 by pit bulls and 117 by Rottweilers.
Those look like the good old days now. In the past decade there were 239 dog attack fatalities, 137 by pit bull terriers and 40 by Rottweilers. There were 1,055 disfiguring dog attacks, 603 by pit bulls and 123 by Rottweilers.
Pit bulls & their close mixes make up about 5% of the U.S. dog population. Rottweilers are under 1%. Yet these two categories of dog account for more than 70% of the fatalities and disfigurements.
If any two makes of car constituting 6% of the cars on the road accounted for 70% plus of the road accident fatalities and disfigurements, you can bet those cars would be recalled.
Incidentally, failure to firmly and effectively stop pit bull breeding has had an even more appalling effect on pit bulls themselves. Over the past 10 years, approximately 30% of the U.S. pit bull population has been killed in shelters in each and every year, and about two-thirds of those dogs were owner-surrendered, primarily because they could not be kept or handled safely. In the 1980s, pit bulls were about 5% of shelter admissions and 10% of the shelter death toll. In the past 10 years pit bulls were about 25% of shelter admissions and half of the death toll. In 2008 U.S. shelters adopted out more pit bulls than any other breed. About 13% of all shelter adoptions were pit bulls. Yet 58% of the dogs killed in shelters were pit bulls — almost a million dogs total, and that was actually fewer than the year before.
Cumulatively, U.S. shelters have killed approximately 10 million pit bulls in 10 years. That isn’t because shelter personnel want to kill pit bulls; it is because nothing effective is being done to keep people from speculatively breeding them, casually acquiring them, carelessly passing them along, and ultimately dumping them at shelters, who have little choice except to kill most, because even if they all had the personality of Lassie, there just are not enough adoptive homes out there for that many dogs of any one breed.
Merritt Clifton
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To Merritt Clifton,
Your numbers are a joke – there are meaningless, but worse, they are purposely manipulated.
There is NO national database that tracks severe attacks by dogs.
Again, NO organization has this information, it simply is not available.
ALL your information comes from newspapers and you are a newspaper editor – that is the sum total of your knowledge about dog attacks.
Enough said.
This comment was posted on May 24th, 2010 at 6:54 amDenise said: There is no “predictable” pit bull..
Well, Denise and Tom Skeldon – I predict that millions and millions of pit bulls in the U.S. will never harm a soul, will never bite, attack or kill anyone this year, next year or the year after.
I assure you, my prediction will be fulfilled way before your “dire” predcitons are filled.
This comment was posted on May 24th, 2010 at 6:59 amMr. Clifton,
In a SINGLE year, 2008, over 7,000 people were hospitalized in the U.S. for severe injuries infliect by dogs.
I would imagine that if a doctor admits someone to the hospital that in their professional opinion that is a pretty “disfiguring” attack.
Over the 25 year period of your “study” – over 125,000 people were hospitalized from injuries inflicted by dogs.
So, how can you only have 2,000+ maimings for your entire 25 year study?
Oh, that’s right, you only collect newspaper articles —
This comment was posted on May 24th, 2010 at 7:17 amThank you, Aladar and Perrian! Merrit Clifton’s data comes from newspapers! What kind of a study is that? NOT one that is statistically correct! News reporters are completely BIASED when it comes to reporting on pit bulls because they have been needlessly sensationalized. Reporters will report hundreds more times on pit bulls stories than they will on stories on other breeds.
Terri’s comment “People that are irresponsible and let their dogs run, bark, chase people, and just aren’t good “parents” to the dogs should be locked up. I hope that the laws become stricter and that these owners stand to loose many dollars.” is good and hits the nail on the head. It’s the PEOPLE that need to be punished, NOT the dogs. PEOPLE are the ones that are irresponsible not matter what breed they own. The laws should pertain to punishing the people, not banning a breed of dog!
Most people who own pit bulls are NOT thugs or criminals. I’ve owned them for over 10 yrs and I make over $100k a year. Most pit bulls are good family pets.
This comment was posted on May 24th, 2010 at 10:39 amYou know, Tom, has to be perplexed at the very same folks who never thought he was doing anything but exemplary work ( the Yellow Blade, psychotic Demonrat-pols ,animal lovers / human haters, etc….SUDDENLY ,pounced on him like a pit bull attacking a little East Side girl !!
This comment was posted on May 24th, 2010 at 7:54 pmMan, it came out of NO WHERE ,like a sucker punch at the pub !
Tom’s, heritage,his 3 decades of work,his personal duty/ responsibilities, didn’t buy him a gram of good will from some of the most disgusting, despicable, character rapists in the World !
Demonrats: eat their own, Piranha style!
Oh Tom, Your Shepherd, looks as though he is as content and well taken care of, as any dog could be. Great looking pup indeed.
This comment was posted on May 25th, 2010 at 11:55 amWe always had German Shepherds, growing up on the farm. We never locked the doors and never, ever, had a break in !
At one time even Shepherds, got the Yellow Blade, treatment usually reserved for R’s, conservatives, Christians, businessmen,or anyone not buying into psychotic leftist/Marxist idiocy.
Welcome to the “Club of Those Hated By Yellow Blade”!
Myself, I am quite proud to have an America hating ,yellow rag of faux journalism hate me.
Kind of like having Pol-Pot,Castro,Hitler, Stalin,Mao, Idi Amin,etc. all hate you.
Which of course , puts you into the category of a reality…something the Yellow Blade, is not and, hasn’t been since the silver-spooned nancy-boys took over !
BullyBob, is that $100K from your pit bull breeding and all you are doing is protecting your “product” with your propaganda? I doubt seriously that anyone making that much money would have the time to go all over the country spamming and pimping pits like you do. Seems you spend a lot of time making these comments. Would you happen to be one of those pit bull spammers caught by the Washington Post last year?
This comment was posted on May 27th, 2010 at 10:59 amThat’s right Jeanette, when you can argue intelligently or discuss facts, accuse someone of being a pit bull breeder– or heck just toss around any old accusation like “pit bull spammer” (whatever the heck that is!)
This comment was posted on May 27th, 2010 at 2:14 pms/b “when you can’t argue intelligently….”
This comment was posted on May 27th, 2010 at 2:15 pmBenit, just pointing out the pit bull spammers/breeders/dogmen that are spreading lies about pits and thus it results in more people being killed and mauled. Here’s the link to the Washington Post article so you can see the “accusation” is correct. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/08/AR2007120800094.html
This comment was posted on May 27th, 2010 at 10:10 pmThen google BullyBob and see how many hits you get from it. If that isn’t a spammer, I don’t know what is.