Pit Bull bans...WTF?

[flyfly]

This is the last post I will read on this thread.

Also I see so many street thugs walking around with pitbulls. Looks like the % of uneducated people that buy pitbulls and similar aggressive dogs are much MUCH higher than any other dog. Aggressive dog for aggressive people I guess. Makes sense.

wow. I should have stopped reading there.

Its not just pitbulls but rottweilers and the such that I see on the streets of down town toronto. Many what look like drug using tattoo'd skin heads and drug dealers often walking around with no shirt on hot days when the rest of civilized society walks around with more peacfull breeds, decide drugs are bad and walk around fully clothed and have steady jobs.

I have now heard it all. I said it was my last two cents before, but it truly is now. People will believe what they want to believe, its always been like that. But this is insane. It is comments like this that make people get smacked by their mothers.

And I was wondering when someone was going to talk about rottweillers. I havent heard much about them lately. (Unless Im at my nazi drug-dealers project)

All jokes aside, civilized or not, ignorant beliefs like this and the judgements that come with them are seriously dangerous to society. I mean think about it. Put a bunch of people like this together in a city and you may end up with...



Denver

 

[125gJoe]

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.. ... They just happen to be the fad dog for thugs and other irresponsible owners currently, and probably outnumber any other breed, so you can see why, once again, they are the "breed" most likely to bite... a...
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It's too bad that these owners have contributed to the negative outlook on the breed. These days it seems tough to even know your neighbors. With that, I'd hate to "trust" a neighbors pit bull - especially if there were young defenseless children around.

 

[PumaWard]

Joe, I understand what your saying, but I wouldn't trust any of my neighbors dogs if I didn't know the neighbor, no matter the breed. This goes especially with children.

 

[125gJoe]

Yes, that's true...even with the Rots and Chows, the larger dogs do the worst damage I'd have to say.

 

[Calico Goat]

My old neighbors had a big Staff/Pit Bull that was the sweetest, most well-behaved, friendly dog I have ever met. They had an electric fence and never let him inside the house, always left him outside, and he lived that way for a few years until he was exposed to an animal that carried some disease that made him sick in the head, and they put him down because he growled at them. I mourned that dog more than they ever did and I hated those neighbors forever after for what they did to their poor dog.
My boyfriend has a Boxer/Boston cross named Mixie that is also one of the most patient dogs, who allows Theo to pick her up, roll her over, rough-house, anything...and quite a few people that I know regard the boxer as a 'dangerous' dog. Not to mention my best friend's purebred boxer, also a giant baby of a dog.

My mother's purebred Sheltie is a vicious tyrant who often throws temper tantrums but adores little children, and then there is my own Doxie/Cocker cross, who I adopted from an abusive home, is distrustful and wary around younger boys and has bitten my mother twice on the face...and Raisin, the German Wirehair, also adopted, who growls at any unfamiliar male...

It just goes to show that breed doesn't prove anything. What is happening to these dogs is, as mentioned above, genocide. It's horrible, and it just shows the depravity and ignorance of some people who are afraid of what they don't understand. I say euthanize them and keep the dogs...

 

[Lila]

Dobermans...had one. Loved her to death. But when we moved into a park, we found out that breed was banned. We had to let her go.

She had belonged to my brother first. One of the best guard dogs I'd ever been around. She was sweet, but if didn't like you...don't hang around. Even the DNR guy was afraid to go near her. Simply, a dog feels the need to protect their own. The breeder had even told us that dobies could turn. Not saying they will, but they can. I think almost any dog can.

I own a purebred black lab now. We raised her with love and affection, but for some reason she's not very polite with adults she doesn't know. Even ones she does know. When she was a young dog, she was nasty with my neighbor. Always growled and barked at him. Her hair stood up.

We soon learned she was unfriendly with any adult (cept some family members). Kids...she's great with them. But not their parents. The vets have to muzzle her when she goes in for a visit, and even they don't know why she behaves like this. It has us baffled.

Does she have the potential to be dangerous? Hell yes.

Joe... you better keep that nasty dog away from me!

 

[Calico Goat]

Lots of breeds were bred as fighting dogs. That's not the real problem here.

What if they start banning all the big-game dogs, like Borzois, Scottish Deerhounds, Irish Wolfhounds, Boarhounds--dogs whose functions were to bring down large, powerful animals? It's not going to stop with Pit Bulls. Once they go through the guard dogs, they'll start taking on anything that used to be "dangerous". I'd never own a Pit Bull, but for no other reason than I prefer the sighthound breeds. If they have the power to kill Pit Bulls now, who knows what other dogs they'll declare the so-called BS "right" to steal and murder? I'd never give up my right to someday own a Deerhound, or a Pit Bull if I wanted one. It's not the animals that are responsible, it's the owners, and I for one fully support Labont's idea of licenses A N D classes to own a breed not recommended for an inexperienced or not-serious owner.

 

[125gJoe]

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Joe... you better keep that nasty dog away from me!

This little dog?

 

[Lila]

:sad:

*Sniffle* Just the picture of that viscious monster scares me!

 

[Holly9937]

I should post a pic of my JRT. She has never hurt another dog, and obviously, we won't let her, but she has tried to go after other dogs (some MUCH bigger than her) on several occasions. It seems like its more to assert that she is in charge than to hurt them, but still... And she does not like little kids. Its funny when we take her to the park she is the one who has to wear a harness and can't be pet by anyone, while my big boxer and border collie are angels