Aw, look how the hugged one looks like he's smiling...
:-)
Posted on 04/04/2009 10:19:16 AM PDT by Chet 99
Aw, look how the hugged one looks like he's smiling...
:-)
I wouldn't attempt to prove anything to you mom.
While that is very honorable and admirable to be sure, that is not relevant to the discussion about the characteristics and reputation of the breed.
It says LOTS about him but nothing about the breed.
Pictures of dogs licking people’s faces and kids hugging dogs, does nothing to redeem pit bull’s reputations. They’re cute pictures is all. It will go nowhere in convincing others that any random pit they see on the street is safe.
People have a responsibility to ensure that their right to enjoy their property (dogs)
does not infringe on other peoples’ right to enjoy their property.
Mature people with a moral upbringing understand this
and take all the appropriate safeguards,
folks that don’t ‘get it’ must be forced to comply.
To be honest with you my friend it is more about the owner than the breed.
Here’s more daily news of pit bull attacks and the impaired logic and perception of their worshipers.
Have you noticed that people who are habitually doing something wrong tend to lie and to argue beside the point?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2136957/posts
I haven't been able to determine if they caught the trash responsible
but I've just emailed the reporter that did the original story asking for an update.
Adorable!
Cute pic. Proves nothing. Many of the babies killed by pits are killed by their own family pet dog.
Awwwwwwwwwwww. :)
My heart.
Are you convinced that any random dog you see on the street is safe?
I'm not. Big or small, I mistrust them all. If it's a stranger there may be danger.
That is totally ridiculous.
I’VE TOLD TOU BEFORE, TAKE ME OFF OF TOUR SICK PING LIST. GET LOST—YOU’VE GOT REAL PROBLEMS. AND I’M TELLING YOU FOR THE LAST TIME: DO NOT POST TO ME AGAIN. BEAT IT.
But owners are not as easy to regulate, so there you go.
That picture makes me cry. What kind of a monster would do that to an animal, ANY animal.
Bad owners of all breeds abound, but few other breeds are as susceptible to the effects of bad ownership as pit bulls seem to be.
You can’t breed the herding instinct out of Border Collies, or the retrieving instinct out of Retrievers, or the instinct in any other animal out of them. The best that can be hoped for is some kind of limited control of those instincts.
So I don’t believe that the aggression that was bred into pits can be that easily controlled, good owner notwithstanding. With a bad owner, it’s a disaster waiting to happen.
It’s the combination of breeding and instinct and bad owners that make pits in general a bad risk. The good owner with the well trained and socialized pit is too few and far between to take the chance that any random pit one sees if one of those few. Seeing how most people are raising their kids, I certainly don’t think for a minute that they’re going to do any better with their dogs than they do with their kids.
Responsible pit owners are just going to have to live with the reputation that the overwhelming majority of bad pit owners give them. That’s life.
No. but I am less concerned when it's a Golden Retriever or an ankle biter I can dispatch with one kick than I am with a pit, or Chow, or part wolf...
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