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Pitbulls in the news
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EXCUSE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I own three American Pitbull Terriers all rescues all SWEETHEARTS!!!!!!!!! And YES I alow my neices and nephews to play and SLEEP with my pitbulls!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you kidding me??????!!!!!!!!!!!
Wanna hear some stories??????
Zeus my male neutered blue and white pitbull. Was born in a fighting facility broken up flea ridden he was raised in a shelter adopted out. He had two other homes before he was returned to the shelter 1 year old abused and battered. I adopted him and he is now my bestfriend and confident!!!!!! He sleeps with all children who come to my home he always plays and cuddles with them!!!!!!
Tundra was abandoned as a puppy and put in a shelter I adopted her!!!!!!!! She is now the mellowest dog on my ranch spends most of her day lounging in the sun. When not doing that she is snuggling up to me or anouther animal or person!!!!!!!
Babe my 10 month old female pitbull!!!!!!! She was running loose in a Suburb town my sister lives in my sister took her in and then brought her to me. She is the sweetest and most well behaved dog ever!
BITE ME!
I own three American Pitbull Terriers all rescues all SWEETHEARTS!!!!!!!!! And YES I alow my neices and nephews to play and SLEEP with my pitbulls!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you kidding me??????!!!!!!!!!!!
Wanna hear some stories??????
Zeus my male neutered blue and white pitbull. Was born in a fighting facility broken up flea ridden he was raised in a shelter adopted out. He had two other homes before he was returned to the shelter 1 year old abused and battered. I adopted him and he is now my bestfriend and confident!!!!!! He sleeps with all children who come to my home he always plays and cuddles with them!!!!!!
Tundra was abandoned as a puppy and put in a shelter I adopted her!!!!!!!! She is now the mellowest dog on my ranch spends most of her day lounging in the sun. When not doing that she is snuggling up to me or anouther animal or person!!!!!!!
Babe my 10 month old female pitbull!!!!!!! She was running loose in a Suburb town my sister lives in my sister took her in and then brought her to me. She is the sweetest and most well behaved dog ever!
BITE ME!
Babyblue5290 said:
But if they breed for temperment in humans I prob. would have never been born 
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But do realize that in Jefferson's time, part of the arrangements for marriage in the upper echelons of society did take into consideration if there were conditions like insanity, poor health, feeble mindedness, etc. in a family, so they actually were paying some attention - much more than we do, anyway.
I just wish there weren't so many mean spirited, petty and small minded people running around loose.
This is a great bunch of people gathered together here . . .
Ok FIRST OF ALL pitbulls were bred to be people friendly. Pitbulls were bred to NOT attack humans. They have an EXTREMELY high pain tolerance, and that is why they are used as fighting dogs. I have and pit mix and I have a 1 year old daughter and they are the BEST of friends. When I take him out for walks with her and the stroller he walks right next to the stroller and basically acts like a shield for her. I know he would protect her and risk his life if he had too. Pitbulls aren't born vicious, they are raised that way. You can make ANY dog mean. Hell you could even make a golden retriever mean, or a labrador mean, if you wanted! Most attacks that are pitbulls aren't even pits at all just a similar looking breed. Plus the media puts in the paper what they want you to think, they don't put the whole story in. Who knows what triggered the dog to bite! Pitbulls are dogs and just because there are a few bad ones doesn't mean you need to discriminate the whole breed! What if a golden attacked a child, would you expect us to discriminate a golden and talk about what horrible monsters they are? Plenty of other breeds have attacked and killed people and there breeds aren't discriminated agianst. Why are people attacking the pitbulls? The pitbulls do not deserve to be treated like this!
If it were a case of a Golden attacking, some fool would report that it was a "long haired Pit Bull" and it would go all over the news wire services and the internet that way and gullible, over zealous fools would rant and rave about Pits being equivalent to loaded guns and quote the article when whining about wanting breed bans.
Yeah, they probably would. Grr! I just get so mad at ignorant, close-minded, people like that! I look at Mack and I just know he doesn't have a mean bone in his entire body. He is the sweetest, most caring, dog I have ever met in my life and it angers me that someone would come on here and try telling us that no matter what ALL pitbulls are mean and need to be banned from the world. Well if pitbulls are banned from the world than the world would become a very sad place.
Its like the old saying goes "Blame the Deed not the Breed" I owned and loved many Pitbull before the Ban over here.
Tyson the Pitbull
BSL rears its ugly head once again in England.
Tyson, a registered dog is sentenced to death for not wearing a muzzle in a public place.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1674649,00.html
Makes me sick to my stomach once again and the Amendment giving the courts discretion when sentencing obviously wasn't enough to save him
Tyson the Pitbull
BSL rears its ugly head once again in England.
Tyson, a registered dog is sentenced to death for not wearing a muzzle in a public place.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1674649,00.html
Makes me sick to my stomach once again and the Amendment giving the courts discretion when sentencing obviously wasn't enough to save him
For myself I look at what the breed was designed for and then take into consideration the motor patterns and the enhanced drives of each breed. Were some of the motor patterns deleted, which ones were enhanced. To add to this some of the most dangerous dogs which have been involved in mauling deaths have been sweet dogs and kissy face when their predatory drive has not been tapped. When you have a breed like an APBT, Stafforshire Terrier (most terriers), Rottweilers etc which were breed to have the full series of motor patterns with enhanced drives then learn about the drives and make sure you are a responsible safe owner. To yell at some one and tell them that all these breeds are sweet kissy face dogs is covering up and just masking the problem...it is not solving anything.
When I rescued my Rottweiler I understood the breed, I took into consideration they were breed to chase cattle and grab at their hocks. Do I think my Rottweiler is safer than a Golden?? heck no, that is just plan silly. A Golden Retriever has been bred to grab bite but not to kill bite. A retriever, sheep herding dog and pointer, livestock guardian dogs, sight hounds are mucg safer than a cattle drover or a terrier bred to kill rodents.
It's quite logical when you sit down and think it though. Too many people are trying to put on that thier breed of choice would never hurt any one and it's only a bad evil owner who creates a bad dog...wrong. It takes a naive person, even a person who will spoil one of these dogs to create a dangerous dog. I have met some sweet APBT's that are loving and sweet that have gone into predatory drift just as quick as I could blink my eye. One moment playing with you, then a head hung low and attacking due to predatory drift...aggression? not exactly, its just a drive or motor pattern the breed was bred to have and it is enhanced.
Education is what we need.
When I rescued my Rottweiler I understood the breed, I took into consideration they were breed to chase cattle and grab at their hocks. Do I think my Rottweiler is safer than a Golden?? heck no, that is just plan silly. A Golden Retriever has been bred to grab bite but not to kill bite. A retriever, sheep herding dog and pointer, livestock guardian dogs, sight hounds are mucg safer than a cattle drover or a terrier bred to kill rodents.
It's quite logical when you sit down and think it though. Too many people are trying to put on that thier breed of choice would never hurt any one and it's only a bad evil owner who creates a bad dog...wrong. It takes a naive person, even a person who will spoil one of these dogs to create a dangerous dog. I have met some sweet APBT's that are loving and sweet that have gone into predatory drift just as quick as I could blink my eye. One moment playing with you, then a head hung low and attacking due to predatory drift...aggression? not exactly, its just a drive or motor pattern the breed was bred to have and it is enhanced.
Education is what we need.