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I'm amazed at how many people have the wrong idea...
patrickl:
--- Quote from: tommy on October 26, 2007, 12:28:43 am ---after bringing up my pit bull as best i can and after 5 years have never, ever had to even think about this dog doing anything that would ever hurt me or anyone this dog comes in contact with
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you know what "our" problem is? That's almost the exact same thing all owners of pitbulls say when questioned by the police after their pitbull has just mauled someone.
Pitbulls are high risk dogs and an accident can never be prevented entirely. Maybe when you are around it will always behave, but when a kid startles it while the dog is in a bad mood, there is always a chance it will attack. This might go fine for years (maybe even it's entire life), but it still puts others at risk. Some kid in the future might be maimed for ever. Why? For what?
shardian:
--- Quote from: CCM on October 25, 2007, 03:48:05 pm ---hmmm, a family's 'friendly' pit bull bites baby...
article
Interesting quote from the above article:
"I was always one that said pits are fine and they're only mean if you train them to be that way," Garrison said. "This thing made a liar out of me."
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The scary thing about that story is the fact that the guy was an avid pit fan, having had 4 previous pits. Yet when the dog snapped he was powerless to control it, eventually having to sneak out the door after being mauled himself, and the cops come in later and taser the animal into submission. Any other dog breed would have whimpered and quit after a swift boot to the head. In that dog, once the switch was thrown, there was no going back. THAT is the scariest thing about pits.
Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: shardian on October 26, 2007, 06:29:47 am ---once the switch was thrown, there was no going back. THAT is the scariest thing about pits.
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The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload...
CCM:
This is an older article, but very relevant....
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/04/11/news/californian/23_29_184_10_04.txt
Excerpt from the above article:
An official with the Humane Society of the United States said Friday that breeds are selectively bred to accentuate specific characteristics. In the case of some retrievers, for example, the dogs were bred over the years to leap into the water at a moment's notice, retrieve downed birds and carry them softly in their mouths back to hunters.
Pit bulls, however, were bred to fight other dogs in closed environments such as pits or arenas, said Eric Sakach, director of the West Coast regional office of the Humane Society of the United States.
"They were selectively bred to cause maximum damage, which includes grabbing, holding and shaking, which causes tearing," Sakach said.
Breeders also gradually eliminated from the animals some of the typical signals of coming aggression, like barking, growling or raising the hair on the back of their necks, he added.
"These animals offer little or no indication that an attack is imminent," he said.
tommy:
--- Quote from: patrickl on October 26, 2007, 04:30:34 am ---you know what "our" problem is? That's almost the exact same thing all owners of pitbulls say when questioned by the police after their pitbull has just mauled someone.
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That's not evidence or even worth repeating. Who said that? How do you know all the circumstances are the same and how do you know the dog was trained? The dog could have been acting nice at one point and not have been trained, then was said to have thought to have been a "nice" dog that snapped. It's not credable. It's all worthless information not heard first hand and not from a person who knows anything about anything. No facts, no background, just what went on at that point in time and that's not enough to prove anything.
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