I beg to differ, This is precisely the fact I discerned. People buy these dogs are not ready for the commitment and more important the realization that these animals do have aggressive tendencies. Please spare me the anecdotes. I wish I had a dollar for every Pit bull owner who bragged about how powerful the jaw muscles are in this breed. Owning a Pit Bull is a power trip. I for one have more respect for People who play Russian Roulette with a gun instead of Russian Roulette with a Pit bull. When A gun goes off it's only the person hold the gun who dies. When a Pit bull goes off it's usually some poor kid who gets mauled. I don't like or trust them and I certainly don't like it when I find one roaming my neighborhood.
Dead on.
< I>and more important the realization that these animals do have aggressive tendencies.
Ah, now you're off course. See the links in post 30. If we go by the Alar and MMR media and urban legend, these dogs are aggressive and on a hair trigger. If we go by verifiable facts, they're just like any other breed.
Please spare me the anecdotes.
What do you have, other than anecdotes, to show these dogs are more aggressive than other breeds or that there is any problem with them not traceable to poor owners?
I wish I had a dollar for every Pit bull owner who bragged about how powerful the jaw muscles are in this breed.
So what? If they told you that their dog pooped rolled joints, would that be data useful for policy judgments? Can you point to verifiable data that shows a pit's jaws are anatomically different from a Great Dane's jaws, or do you get all your science news from redneck posers walking their dogs?
Owning a Pit Bull is a power trip.
Helen Keller was on a power trip?
Also, referring back to the links in 30 (specifically the "Pit Bull Placebo" link) are German Shepherd, Bloodhound and Doberman owners on a power trip?
I for one have more respect for People who play Russian Roulette with a gun instead of Russian Roulette with a Pit bull. When A gun goes off it's only the person hold the gun who dies. When a Pit bull goes off it's usually some poor kid who gets mauled.
Seeing that every time a trigger is pulled in Russian Roulette there is a minimum 1 in 6 chance that the player will die, you must have some very good verifiable data to back up that comparison. Do you have that, or do you just have anecdotes?
And I know we have a ban on anecdotes in our little conversation, but can you explain to me why anecdotes about pit bulls that are properly trained and are loving family members someone would get in a knife fight with a bear over are inconsequential, but when a media anecdote about a mauling says that the dogs were used for fighting, or animal control had been called multiple times and done nothing or (I'm not making this up) the dog bit a family member after acting erractically for a week ("Gee, I meant to take him to the vet, but I have so much going on"), it is taken as proof there's something wrong with the breed, not the owner?
I don't like or trust them and I certainly don't like it when I find one roaming my neighborhood.
If you really mean all the stuff you've posted here you'll kill the next one you find roaming loose, without hesitation,and accept the consequences.
I’m not a pit bill owner, likely never be (as I said, I’m a retriever guy), and certainly not an apologist for pit bulls.
But I don’t really buy into the “bad breed” thing, as I’m old enough to remember the same things being said about rottweilers, german shepherds, and dobermans.