My uncle owns a rottweiler, I grew up owning a doberman and a german shepherd and a collie at different times. We now have a fox terrier. I’ve been around dogs all my life.
But not pit bulls. Never had the desire to own one and never really knew anybody that did, although I can understand how people get attached. I’m sure most aren’t a problem.
My problem is they account for so much mayhem, 100% human caused, but to the point this breed will wind up being banned totally as a reaction to this problem.
They’re already banned in many places, because OBVIOUSLY what we are doing simply isn’t working!
In Atlanta it seems we get a report in the paper about an incident regularly and 9 times out of 10 it’s about a pit bull attack.
But while pit bulls have gotten a bad rap, they’ve also been unfairly targeted for abuse, and to top it off they were originally bred to fight in Scotland, Ireland!
So yeah, people are ruining this breed. To assert there’s nothing wrong with them and to just calm down, is just sad.
People get puppies from a parent that may have been a fighting dog, take it home and think it’ll be fine isn’t exactly brilliant in any breed, but which breed is THE fighting dog?
What dogs were rescued from Michael Vick?
pit bulls.
I agree. There is no other workable solution for the problem, and you already know of the origin (original breeding of pit bulls and their attraction to many now). But they were bred for that evil purpose, and they haven’t always been around. As for other dangerous breeds, more owners are keeping them away from public paths unless leashed, and they aren’t as often unexpectedly aggressive. The only German shepherds that I’ve seen recently are too crippled to be harmful (also due to the breeding behind them). Any others must be out of sight of pedestrians.
Dogs weren’t meant to be weapons for killing people or other dogs. Dogs can work for us and even act as good alarms of trouble (barking). But they are not good for attacking other human beings with any great measure of strength. We should leave such immoral spectacles behind us with the ancient Romans and Nazis of the early part of the last Century.