About Pitbulls...

[anissa7118]

These three links plus embedded video (yoinked from Smartdogs Weblog and posted here for its cuteness) pretty much sum up my thinking on breed-specific legislation and the vilification of pit bulls. Plus, if you like dogs, the three blogs are made of awesomeness. Not saying I agree 100% with any of the authors, just that they are all knowledge,

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[alamo_girl80]

Oh and on pit bulls, I have to admit that they are not my favorite breed, and that when I see one, they don't inspire warm fuzzies in me. But I have sat at the human society at face level with several dozen pits all around me, none of them trained to even walk on a leash worth shit, and they were nothing but friendly to me.

But my nxt door neighbor had a female pit who was never socialized, stayed in the house or yard ALL the time and was territorial aggressive as hell! She charged the fence ay time I or my hubby walking into OUR yard, no where near her. Her owners, nice people though they are, never did anything to train or socilaize her. Then the neighbor told me that his dogs (the pit and their husky) had killed a cat. That made me not trust them even more. And when the nxt door neighbor husband told me and my hubby that even he didn't trust the pit - well that set off alarms. You're going to LIVE with a dog you don't trust?! Oh yeah. Smart.

I did find out, after the pit was hit by a car recently and died, that the actual cat killer may have been the husky. But still, its an example of people owning a breed they have no business having. Most of the people walking in with pits to the humane society for the rabies clinic had no buisness having the breed. They couldn't control them. Some were even on toe-chains, a sure sighn that they were meant to be fight dogs. We called the police on those people, since we had thier addresses from the clinic! Hee!

Don't get me started on the tards who want to own wolf hybrids (or any exotics or exotic hybrids). And they wonder why the tiger in thier backyard killed thier toddler, or why the wolf hybrid they thought would be just like owing a dog attacked them. *pssht*

[anissa7118]

People are so damn dumb. They get big, high-energy dogs that they know jack about.

You know, one of the reason why pits are so friendly is their fighting history. Think about it. If you fight dogs, you're going to put a big, strong dog into a pen with another big, strong dog - or maybe a bull, a bear, or a badger. You're going to want your dog to WANT to fight, to be eager to attack. But when the fight's over, you have to get your dog off its opponent and take it home with you. So you want an animal that you can go catch with your bare hands when it's in the middle of a homicidal frenzy. Sure, you could have a fighting dog that would attack you, and you could handle it with heavy gloves and a long snare pole - but that puts you squarely in harm's way every time you're around it. So those dogs were originally bred to be completely UNaggressive to humans, and their immediate descendants were 'nanny dogs' trusted alone with kids.

I would never live with a dog I couldn't trust. My fear-aggressive shepherd (see the reply to Dawn, above) was never dangerous to me. I trusted him absolutely around myself and my family; it was only strangers who had to worry. I'd never keep a dog that I didn't feel safe with. Never.

I've sometimes thought of rescuing a wolf hybrid. I really, REALLY don't think those animals should be available as pets to people who don't have a permit to keep wild animals - because they are wild. They're not dogs. But they're not wolves, either. I have experience with aggressive dogs and with primitive breeds (my Carolina Dog is very much like a domesticated dingo), and even then I would never purchase a wolf hybrid and support the breeding of them for the pet trade.