Posted on 12/14/2013 5:38:30 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
exactly. i and a few family members have pits. they are btwn 5 and 8 now. .any and all who visit us fall in love with them.
just dont have them around cats or small rodents.
No, they don’t all do that.
Occam’s razor.
Dogs aren’t any smarter than pigs.
Hopefully sarcasm - Pit Bulls need to be tightly controlled if not bred out of existence as they are. Nature vs. Nurture folks ignore the Nature which makes them the danger they are. They can seem perfectly tame and loving and then be feasting on your carotid artery spurts.
Well, you 'heard' wrong. Read up on the history of the breed some time. They were bred to be hunter killers from the very start. People who attempt to make pets out of them are putting theirs and others lives at risk.
If she was rescuing them, it’s very possible that they had previously been abused, and may have been raised to fight.
Every dog I have had has barked at both pets and sometimes people walking down the street, even non pit bulls (we also have a long haired retriever, and have had a beagle mix, as well as a cocker-lab mix) and the have all done this..
It would be a strange dog indeed that DOES NOT bark at pet and people walkers ;).
I’ve read too many accounts of pit bulls raised by normal people “snap” and kill their owners or someone else to place much hope that this dog’s behavior can be explained away by abuse. It isn’t known if she was rescuing them or not. Pit bulls are commonly given up (shelters or the street, where they become someone else’s problem) when their owners discover alarming levels of aggression in their adorable dog they raised from a puppy.
All dogs have the same instinct to attack the neck if they're in kill mode. Obviously, pit bulls are more dangerous due to their bite strength, lack of fear, and they're impervious to pain (I saw a pit bull attack a horse on Galveston beach, get kicked and thrown back about 15 - 20 feet, get back up and chase the horse down the beach). Plus, irresponsible a-holes tend to raise them to burnish their macho image. Mastiff's are giant Lion hunters (so the story goes), but they're some of the sweetest dogs I've ever encountered. But their size and strength make them a serious danger if they're unstable. Big dogs can, and do, big damage. Little dogs can be just as fearless and aggressive, but they're unlikely to kill an adult. Children - yes:
Since 1975, fatal attacks have been attributed to dogs from at least 30 breeds. The most horrifying example of the lack of breed predictability is the October 2000 death of a 6-week-old baby, which was killed by her family's Pomeranian dog. The average weight of a Pomeranian is about 4 pounds, and they are not thought of as a dangerous breed. Note, however, that they were bred to be watchdogs!
I "like" all dogs, but especially Dobermans, English Mastiffs (except they slobber and don't live long), most hunting dogs, and the Maltese.
I don’t keep pigs though I’ve read somewhere of their intelligence. Presumably smarter than some dogs. I do know the wild hog is tearing heck out of the local National Forest and Eglin Reservation. There are local hunts being conducted by the FWC to thin the population in the forest.
Raising a free range pork chop on my pastures has been a thought but memories of the last piny woods hog I dropped
causes me to pause. No bacon there, just lean stringy and gamy. I much prefer bambi.
The ferrel hogs are just target practice. Some choice cuts into the grinder with fatback makes an acceptable sausage.
I cohabitate with a rat terrior, a pit bitch, a chiwawa
(how do you spell that,) a half pit half shepheard, a tomcat, a queen cat, and an assortment of horses. Some of the horses are transients and some are keepers.
We all get along fine, my bride, son, and daughter can control the natural impulses of a critter as easily as
shopping at Walmart. You just have to read the headlines,their intentions and attitude are plainly displayed in the body language.
All critters telegraph their mood.
There are dangerous critters, there are irresposible, uninformed, owners. My kids are not children.
I’ve owned a dane and a siberian lab mix when the kids were
young. Great bodyguards for the kids. They guard themselves
quite well now but the critters fill a niche.
There is zero danger to permitted children or adults on our property. We all recognize the threat our critters pose to our guests.
We’ve got a gelding that will work for dog biscuits, sit, lay down, roll over, bow, play dead, and count in response to subtle hand signals. Dang near cut his own head off as a colt and has no $ value. But he does have smarts, and heart, and loves to perform.
I wish he wasn’t gelded before he ran through a fence he
would have been a great stud.
Some folk should not own pits, or (insert breed here,) whatever.
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