and what happens if that puppy raised with love is responsible for biting the face off a child? What does that prove?
Thanks for being a voice of reason regarding this issue.
Everytime I watch ‘The Dog Whisperer’ and see Ceasar’s guy Daddy I want him! lol If we were to ever get another large breed, we might go that way...but for now, I just enjoy watching Daddy, Junior and the rest of the guys.
These people demonizing pit bulls have no life.
Ya mean it isn't just Chet99?
It is self evident that dog breeding has resulted in a vast number of breeds with greatly different traits. Traits that make them innately more prone to retrieve, herd, lock up on game, track, etc.
So I wonder why it is, in your opinion, that dog breeders who have spent the same amount of effort to create breeds to be innately aggressive killers have failed.
There are many aggressive breeds, but only a few that have also been bread with the strength to kill other large dogs and people with ease. Interestingly, none of these were intended by the breeders to be family pets.
Perhaps its not wise to expect retrievers to stop retrieving and herding dogs to stop herding. I believe the term is tempting nature.
Finally!!!! some information about Pit Bulls here on FR.
It’s about time we talk about this issue. /sc
to save the breed, it needs to be eliminated from the general public, and become a licensed-for-pitbulls breeders-only dog for a few hundred years until the bad genes (and bad owners) can be bred out of them.
I’ve had a lifetime of experience with these dogs, not as an owner, but as an neighbor to renters who insist on having such dogs. For many renters, the pitbull is an extension of their penis more than any other dog. I’ve seen kids of renters walk their dogs up and down the street, trying to get neighbor dogs in ‘fence-fights’ (and then expect their dog to behave when placed in a backyard next to that same dog they tried to fence-fight in the front yard). I’ve heard teens bragging their dog is the toughest dog in town and if Joey thinks his dog is badder, then ‘bring it on’. I’ve seen adults letting their dogs fight without trying to separate them. Now you’re not going to get rid of these types of people, so the only solution is to limit their access to the pitbull by making ownership inaccessable.
As for the dogs themselves, I’ve seen more pitbulls running loose, with no tags or even collar, than all other breeds put together and feral pitpulls are particularly dangerous. No other animal is safe around them, even if that animal is in their own fenced yard. I’ve seen these dogs literally crash thru fences, run up the sides of 6ft redwood fences and flip over the top, and I’ve seen them climb trees to get over fences to attack another animal. Our local animal control officer said recently over 60% of their calls are for pitbulls and pitmixes running loose. Because of their agility, they are harder to capture than other dogs, and harder to house than other breeds. The solution, again, is to make ownership totally inaccessable to the general public. IMO JMO
That isn’t a very convincing article. These two points for instance are a little soft or vague.
Fear:
Family pet pit bulls turn on their owners.
Fact:
No single neutered household pet pit bull has ever killed anyone.
Fear:
Pit Bulls are more dangerous than other dogs.
Fact:
“A dog is only as dangerous as its owner allows it to be.”
Check out this story from our local news. The lady in the video being interviewed has a pitbull named Rogue who is being trained as a therapy dog. My dog Bailey is pictured next to the article — she’s the black and white mixed breed playing tug-of-war with a “dangerously aggressive” brown pit named Finley.
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S967346.shtml
First the minorities abused guns and now the “powers that be” want to take guns away. Then the minorities abused the poor pit bulls and now the powers want to take them away.
Did you mean: Amstaff
“The Truth about pit bulls ...”
A study examining a two-year period by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that, “during 1997 and 1998, at least 27 people died of dog bite attacks (18 in 1997 and 9 in 1998). At least 25 breeds of dogs have been involved in 238 human DBRF (dog bite related fatalities) during the past 20 years. Pit bull-type dogs and Rottweilers” [the study places both breeds into one category] “...were involved in more than half of these deaths.” Additionally, the article concluded: “Although fatal attacks on humans appear to be a breed-specific problem (pit bull-type dogs and Rottweilers), other breeds may bite and cause fatalities at higher rates.”