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To: Boomer; Nifster
I assume you meant "euthanized" and not "thanostized".

I meant exactly what I wrote. To improve your education and your spelling, The Greek word for death, a state of complete lifelessness, is "thanatos." The particle "eu-" implies goodness. From these, we get the word "euthanize," which essentially means essentially to give a living being a "good death" prior to its termination due to natural causes. That is not the word I chose to use. I meant the word "thanatize"; i. e., put to death, with prejudice (as soon as feasible, shooting or otherwise), and that is what I wrote.

It really depends if the history of the dog and its previous owners are known.

You completely missed the point of fact, and take off down an illogical emotional rabbit trail away from my sense of how to deal with the pit bull genetic trait. Genes do not care who the owner was or how much the animal is "loved," or who the trainer or handler is.

The issue is that a full-breed pit bull having the dominant killer gene when bred with any other dog will transmit that dominant gene to the mixed-breed resultant offspring individual.

And when that mixed-breed canine is bred with another dog, that dominant gene stands at least 50% chance of being passed along to the second generation offspring, together with other components of the chromosomes that dictate the physical appearance.

To stamp out the unacceptable trait, any dog exhibiting the PB conformance should be thanatized immediately. Those retained should only be under license and to aome such agency as a zoo, which accepts and sequesters dangerous animals for research and exhibition purposes. No exceptions.

To just kill them all willy nilly like you stated just proves your ignorance on the subject.

This elimination of the breed as a public threat is not willy-nilly. It is determined, direct, forceful, exclusive, and unemotional. And whatever ignorance you think my claim demonstrates (and it is not much) is wholly eclipsed by the enormity of your misplaced compassion for killer dogs in comparison to the damages wrought on unsuspecting and unwarned humans.

From the theological standpoint, unlike humans, animals exist for use by mankind. They do not have eternal souls and spirits as humans do. How man deals with them depends on the purpose involved, and killing one, even when one becaomes inconvenient, is not a crime. Dogs are not some form of untermenschen.

Cutting to the chase, pit bull dogs were selectively bred for the purpose of killing, and were not meant to be hybridized with your living-room pooch, nor with other working-dog breeds.

This is the fact: Pit bull dogs or their degraded half- or quarter-breeds should not be in your living room or on the streets any more than a rattlesnake, cobra, or human predator. To think otherwise is just plainly foolish. And that includes your estimate of the situation, which also makes you just as dangerous as a full-bred pit bull.

Your mileage may vary.

I don't know exacty what you mean by this, but your lack of critical and survival thinking cuts no ice with me, regardless of your pejorative comments. You need to get a little more Darwinian in your approach to zoology, as well as in your credibility towards a FR discussion.

44 posted on 09/11/2018 8:25:24 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1
You need to get a little more Darwinian in your approach to zoology, as well as in your credibility towards a FR discussion.

Uh, thanks but no thanks, you're far too full of yourself for me to care one whit about what you think.

45 posted on 09/11/2018 10:19:37 PM PDT by Boomer
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To: imardmd1

Why did you include me on this comment. I hadn’t posted anything


46 posted on 09/11/2018 10:19:58 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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