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I'm amazed at how many people have the wrong idea...
tommy:
As many of you know i work with glass and it sometimes takes me to many peoples houses with broken glass and as i fix the patio door glass or window glass or whatever it may be, many people ask me if i come across a lot of this sort of thing and when i tell them i do and most times the best way to keep people out of your yard or make them not want to try to break into your house is to have a big dog. I sometimes tell them you should look into getting a pit bull or other big dogs "normally known" (i guess this is where the stereo type works well) for deterring people from wanting to take a chance on breaking into their house and more times then not they have the wrong idea or impression about these dogs and i laugh.
I can't understand why so many people rely on horror stories and say "oh no, that dog is not safe to be around" when they can be as safe as being around any normal person.
People are so ignorant sometimes and it seems we are afraid of so many things or can't understand so many things in life, STILL, as if we were living in the 50's when so many things were not allowed or when we had so many bad ideas about so many things we all do just fine in todays world.
I almost got into an argument with a customer just like here when he ignorantly said all pit bulls are not safe to be around and are killer dogs. I almost had to walk out of the guys house and tell him to call another guy to fix his glass, but i didn't.
You can't put all things good or bad in the same category in life no matter how you like to spin things.
mccoy178:
Pitbulls are insanely dangerous dogs. They should be banned.
Singapura:
Sure, if you know how to handle them they can be very safe but so are tigers and lions. The problem is that a lot of people don't know how to handle a pitbull. Dogs are very sensitive to their place in the social order and will treat anyone that is afraid of them as inferior and anyone who is not as a threat, unless it's established that the dog is the inferior one.
When someone who is a stranger to the dog, is not afraid and tries for instance to pet it, it will be confused and try to ascertain it's superiority. This ususally results in biting. A pitbull that bites is more dangerous because it's jaws will lock. This virtual circle will establish the dogs bad name, causing fear etc. There is nothing worse or more dangerous then a confused dog.
billf:
--- Quote from: Singapura on October 23, 2007, 12:49:06 am ---Sure, if you know how to handle them they can be very safe but so are tigers and lions.
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Yeah, just ask Roy Horn of "Siegfried & Roy" fame.
shmokes:
Wow. Don't be that guy. You know beforehand, unless you're mentally retarded, how people feel about pit bulls. It doesn't matter how legitimate their beliefs are. Why would you bait a customer by suggesting they get a pit bull, when you know what the likely response is going to be? That's a customer, for christ's sake! I'm an atheist, Tommy. Not only that, but I enjoy blasphemy. I get a huge, completely unwarranted kick out of it. But in a business setting, I'm not just going to walk into some random person's house or office and start talking about how laughable the idea of Jesus is. Cos I know beforehand, that there's a REALLY REALLY REALLY good chance that this person takes Jesus seriously. It doesn't matter that I think he's a joke.
Be a professional Tommy. Real life is not the internet. I'm great in real life. Any one of you would thoroughly enjoy my company. But here, I'm often a bit of an arrogant, know-it-all ---uvula---. shmokes is an alterego, not just an avatar.
In other news, a few days ago I got the following message from a friend on MySpace:
--- Quote --- Oct 19 2007 3:22 AM
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You called it . . . my dog almost killed me when I walked into the living room at 3 am. That was after nearly shaking a cat to death earlier in the day. I can't wait until I'm found dead with my face chewed off . . .
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I'm always telling him that his dog is poorly behaved because she goes ---smurfing--- nuts when someone knocks on the door. He always says she's just excited and not really aggressive. FWIW, I don't think pit bulls are dangerous. I think they're more dangerous than almost any other type of dog, but less dangerous than other things that I engage in without thinking twice. The sweetest dog I've ever known was a rottweiler. But rottweilers are still dangerous compared to just about every other breed of dog. Still, though, the danger isn't high. I don't feel threatened every time I'm in the presence of a pit bull or a rottweiler. Chances of being attacked for no reason are barely above zero. It's more likely with a pit bull than a border collie, but the possibilities are still remote enough that you can breath easily. You're gonna be fine.
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