I’ve been looking for a dog for a couple of years since my last one passed away, so I thought I’d check out some Humane Society shelters (which I have never done), somebody’s always given me a dog.
My local shelter for the last decade and even before that usually maintains about 90 to 95% pitbulls, so all monies that are going to these humane shelters are going there to keep pits alive and fed. Nobody wants them.
I know that if I was in a survival situation I probably want to have three or four pit bulls around me but then that would be a survival situation.
Is there really a need for pit bulls? They were bred for fighting and still retain that hereditary aspect.
I have met some good pit bulls but as far as I’m concerned it’s a role of the dice on that.
Homeowners insurance won’t cover people with dogs such as mastiffs and pitbulls, or if so, the insured will pay a much higher premium with mandated options where the homeowner has to keep the blacklisted animal behind a suitable fence inspected for certain codes and on a chain in addition to the fence.
I wouldn’t generally use the registration word but these animals are time bombs in a lot of cases, and some people train them to be this way as an extension of their own psychopathic violent tendencies, I just don’t think there’s any place for those mastiffs and pit animals, Any dog can fight but a territorial dog like a big terrier that’s full on capable of maiming and killing by instinct? In an instant? No.
I have a Pitsky.... a husky / pitbull mix.
She retains ALL of the behavioral traits of a husky. Loves people, not a guard dog AT ALL, knows how to do tricks but is quite willful and won’t do one unless she knows it will get something for it, loves to pull on the leash when going for a walk, vocalizes a lot ‘ARHOOOooUHHHoooo’, in the husky world they call that ‘shouting’. Not an aggressive bone in her body.
“I have met some good pit bulls but as far as I’m concerned it’s a role of the dice on that.”
A good pitbull IMHO is like a fifty year old case of dynamite: It looks harmless but it can go off at any second and for any reason or for no reason at all.
These dogs are advertised at shelters as terriers in the headlines. Upon further scrutiny you see the word “bull” terrier.