[weezel]

It's a damn shame about these dogs. The breed has been ruined by people. Take a female coon dog, and breed her to a male coon dog, and you'll get puppies inclined to tree coons. Take two mean pits and breed them, and you are likely to get mean pits.

[monday]

"It's a damn shame about these dogs. The breed has been ruined by people."

Are you kidding? The dogs were bread to bite the noses of bulls and hold on until they brought the bull to his knees. As such they are brutally strong and stubborn as a mule. Their stubbornness makes them almost untrainable and their strength makes them deadly.

People didn't "ruin" the breed. Pit Bulls behave exactly as they were bread to behave. Aggressively and violently. They were never designed to be family pets. They were designed to fight Bulls in a, now outlawed, sport known as bull baiting. People who have Pit Bulls as family pets are risking the lives of their families and everyone else who comes into contact with their dogs.

People who want family dogs, should choose a breed that was bread to be affectionate, easily trainable, compliant, and with less formidable strength and less powerful jaws. Almost any other dog is a better choice than a Pit Bull.

Sure Pit Bulls can be affectionate, but they are primarily bread to be aggressive and stubborn, traits bread into them which were designed to make them deadly.