I have pointed out before in Albuquerque shelters there is on average 140-150 pit bull and pit bull mixes up for adoption and given month that’s and average of 1600 to 1800 doges a year. Now (put aside the mental harm and damaged caused by the abandonment and abuse) many of FR’s resident pitbull expert tell us that these dogs are safe when handled by trained skilled people. There are that meny people with those skills and training in the whole city for one years worth of these dogs much less the numbers being turned our year after year.
Thank you. From the same article:
Wishful Thinking
If lack of training, inadequate or insufficient training has a lot to do with biting, especially if biting inhibition is left out of the training scheme, inadequate care or surveillance also has a significant impact on behaviour. Badly socialized and poorly fed animals, those that are left alone for much of the day, those that lack exercise, those suffering from boredom and various psychological and physiological pathologies caused by domestication, such as the diseases stemming from the emotional dependence (sepaaration anxiety) are real time bombs.
Quebec’s law B-3.1 (art.8) requires that owners of a dog provide the latter with “stimulation, socialization opportunities, or environmental enrichments that suit its biological needs,” but who is responsible for enforcing this law? Do we have the personnel and the technical means required to enforce it in every house, street and Park? Not likely. (42)
In the end, these recommendations full of good intentions amount to wishful thinking or as skeptics would say, “the price-vice-pays-to-virtue.” While we wait for the winds of change that will finally wipe out dog bites, sometime in the far future, at an unspecified date, its business as usual.
FNC shows a commercial fairly often in which the ASPCA asks for contributions to save neglected dogs. The photos of the dogs they show are mostly pit bulls. I would give nothing to keep a single pit bull alive but might be willing to contribute to an organization that euthanizes them.
The Pit Bull was once the preferred family dog, loyal, loving and protective. So what happened? The breed didn't just suddenly mutate on it's own. The one and only cause for the change in these animals has been man. No not man in general, just the sick SOB's that fight dogs or the drug dealing Rap Crapsters that think it makes them a man to have a damaged animal so vicious they are unsafe in any environment.
I'm not going to defend the damaged animals, just like Dobies, Rotties, German Shepherds and others before them the damaged lines need to be eliminated...........not the entire breed.
I myself would not take an animal any more if I didn't have knowledge of it's lines, and I have adopted/rescued all of my dogs for almost fifty years. My daughter has a Pit Bull and he is the most timid and loving dog. But we it's lines, it comes from Pits that have been in her In Laws families for decades. One thing though, it'll be flowers to the funeral of anyone that attacks my daughter or grandson, and not so oddly that brings a smile to my face.