Posted on 08/28/2015 10:41:30 AM PDT by DallasBiff
I know some on FR have a bias against Pit Bulls, but they are the nicest animals on Earth, IMO.
Also I will probably get banned for stating this, but the crazy liberal Huffington Post should be congratulated for their advocacy of pit bulls.
I am a Trump/Cruz leaning conservative, but don't understand the hatred against this breed.
We are on our second pittbull. The most loving creatures.
And it continued well into the second half of this one. My point is... unlike English Bulldogs, the fighting traits which have been bred out over the decades, the popularity of breeding pits for fighting continued and those traits are still very much present in many of them.
So, yes... Rly.
I have a German Shepherd. She’s a sweet, obedient and loving dog.
A pet’s personality has to be matched to yours and fit your lifestyle or its never going to work out.
You and the animal have to be comfortable together.
My advice would be do your homework and due diligence before you adopt a dog.
i was mauled by a chow chow. they are awful.
i’ve had 5 pits and they have been and are, all fantastic dogs!
>I feel the same way about German Shepherds. I know they are great dogs, but I had one try and attack me in 2nd grade, and the only thing that saved me was climbing up a baseball backstop and waiting until an adult came and chased the dog off. It bit me and ripped my jeans trying to get after me. Ive never trusted the breed since.<
Actually, I’ve owned not only German Shepherds, but Belgian Malinois. Neither breed is for everyone, but I owned both breeds for a specific reason. I do sports with my dogs, they are not simply housepets. I researched the breeds and I contacted responsible, knowledgeable breeders. The dogs were trained and never, ever were they allowed off my property without me. I do not have the space to own another, so I will own smaller dogs from now on. I choose my dogs from responsible breeders because I do dog sports. I donate money to rescues and shelters but I will not be guilted into rescuing someone else’s behavior problems.
Rescuing dogs is a crap shoot. My daughter insisted on adoption, and ended up with a mixed breed that bit her boyfriend repeatedly and bit her father.
There is a report about every two months here in Vegas of a pitbull attack on kids/elderly/pets. The maulings are horrific.
“I am a Trump/Cruz leaning conservative, but don’t understand the hatred against this breed.”
Realizing they go crazy and attack people - kids, animals, even their owners - maiming or killing them, isn’t hate. It’s rational understanding.
No one should own a pit bull without special training.
Every owner whose dog attacks others should face harsh fines and jail time if found negligent.
These dogs were bred to fight. It is a bygone era.
Just growing tomatoes, minding my own business. I can’t run like I used to, it woulda et me.
“And it continued well into the second half of this one.”
Sure, but the nature of breeding is such that the earliest decisions have the greatest impact. The initial decision of which breeds to cross to create a new one, for example, has the biggest impact, because that determines the gene pool for every single descendant. Breeding choices made in the first few generations have a slightly lesser, but almost as universal impact.
When you talk about breeding done well over a century after those types of choices were made, the impact is going to be negligible, barring some extraordinary circumstances, like a narrow bottleneck, or some extremely popular subtype being backcrossed universally with all the other branches. Those things don’t happen often.
My neighbor-lady did, too, until it wasn't and attacked her and her other dogs.
Friends of ours have a JR/Chihuahua mix. It got the hyper-spaz of the JR, and all the afraid-of-the-doorbell-so-I-have-to-whiz-all-over from the Chihuahua. That's fun to clean up after.
Back late '50s the Rin-Tin-Tin series made everyone want a GSD. I've read that unscrupulous breeders met the demand by in-breeding their stock, and by the 60's there were a lot of them with temperament and hip problems.
What you need to keep in mind is that when you're talking about pit bulls you are lumping at least half a dozen different breeds into this group as opposed to one breed like a rottweiler. In addition, there are an estimated 3-5 million of these dogs in this country. So you're going to see a larger number of these incidents involving pit bulls simply because there are so many more of them out there. When adjustments are made for population size, chows, rottweilers and german shepherds all have a higher rate of these incidents.
Like the ubiquitous "assault rifle" in mass shootings, anytime a report comes in about a pit bull attack it usually gets a lot more coverage in the media than other breeds.
http://www.akc.org/dog-breeds/american-staffordshire-terrier/
I have no prejudice against your breed. Nothing I stated in my previous post is not factual.
All canine breeds recognized by AKC were bred for a purpose.
ALL Terriers were bred to kill vermin of some type. All Hounds were bred to chase game using scent or site. All Working breeds were bred to preform a function such as pulling a cart or standing guard. All Herding dogs were bred to guard the flock against predators. All Toys were bred to be companion animals and cuddle. All Sporting breeds were bred to hunt game. The remaining Non-Sporting breeds such as the Standard Poodle or Chow had their purposes too.
The purpose of your breed was to fight bulls and be a guard dog. An English BULL Dog was also bred to fight Bulls, hence the name. A Jack Russell Terrier was bred to go into a hole and kill vermin, primarily rats. They are smart and make great pets, but I would not trust one around your hamster, rabbit or gerbil. My point is that you can not change hundreds of years of breeding. Your Pit Bull may be a fine pet. However, there is a much higher percentage of that breed in comparison to others that have been bred with the explicit purpose to fight and be aggressive towards other animals.
Dachshunds have one of the highest percentage of biting. However, if one bites you on the ankle you are probably not going to end up in the emergency room.
An extremely misleading statement given that there are less than 50 people killed by dogs each year and the pitbull is America's most popular breed (6% of all dogs in the US).
You are three times more likely to die of a bee sting than from a dog attack. You are 1128 times more likely to commit suicide than to be killed by a dog. Your odds of being killed by a dog in any given year are worse than your odds of winning the lottery.
This is all much ado about nothing. Mind your own business and leave other people's dogs alone.
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He’s definitely evaporated.
My pit is the sweetest thing in the world, but I can;t take her out in public because a a cop will go “bang bang” when seeing her.
Actually, outside of pit bulls, there just aren’t that many fatal dog attacks.
http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-study-dog-attacks-and-maimings-merritt-clifton.php
Yes, they are misunderstood and that’s why not everybody should adopt one. I think they should only be owned by people who understand the breed and are very seasoned dog owners.
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