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I'm amazed at how many people have the wrong idea...
patrickl:
Those 3 breeds are held by only a few people. Yet they are still responsible for 80% of the attacks. is it really that hard to understand that those breeds are dangerous?
A house cat and a puma are both just as easily domesticated. Which would you hold in your house if both were allowed?
tommy:
--- Quote from: patrickl on November 08, 2007, 05:37:01 pm ---Those 3 breeds are held by only a few people. Yet they are still responsible for 80% of the attacks. is it really that hard to understand that those breeds are dangerous?
A house cat and a puma are both just as easily domesticated. Which would you hold in your house if both were allowed?
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I'd rather not answer that. I've ran into a few guys named patrick and I've come to the conclusion that anyone with that name is a complete idiot. :applaud:
No harm intended.
patrickl:
OK, so you are not very bright. That's ok. Maybe another example will help.
Suppose there is this new cool and shiny gun. It looks completely like crap, so no sane person wants it. On the other hand, it does have the loudest bang of them all and only the cool people with the nice trailers buy them. Now this type of gun has one tiny problem. On average once every 1000 rounds a gun of this type blows up and seriously injures (if not kills) the person holding the gun or an innocent bystander. If you clean the gun after every shot you might be able to lower the average risk, but oddly enough the guns that blow up are usually reported to be cleaned very thoroughly, so it doesn't really seem to matter that much.
I guess you would be first to get such a gun, but don't you think it's a bit asocial to shoot that gun on the shooting range next to someone who does not have your wish to get maimed?
shardian:
--- Quote from: tommy on November 08, 2007, 05:39:36 pm ---
I'd rather not answer that. I've ran into a few guys named patrick and I've come to the conclusion that anyone with that name is a complete idiot. :applaud:
No harm intended.
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Hey I thought you gave up on this thread. Talk about weak minded... ;D
Anyways, since you are here, I will kindly refer you to the history of the American bull terrier I posted on the previous page. Once upon a time, "pit bulls" were kind towards humans and were a highly sought after family pet. Their bloodlines have been contaminated in the last 30 years by bad overbreeding and bad socialization, which is transferred thru bad breeding. The "pit bulls" of today are not the same "pit bulls" of yesteryear. Sure, there are plenty who are still good and hold the traits of the older bloodlines. Unfortunately, since any tom dick or harry can sell "purebred" AKC pups, most of which have not been properly weaned, the dogs are "ruined". And then they pass on their bad traits to their litters.
tommy:
Think of it as a child. The kid will do and act from what it knows and will carry all the bad habits of it's owner or parent from what it was taught and how it was brought up, it's really as simple as that. When you take a puppy pitbull and mold that dog into a peacefull dog from birth it will know nothing more than what you taught it, it can't act crazy if it was not taught to act crazy, it's not possible. I know animals have instincts and will have a certain drive inside them to want to do things that they feel a need to do, but it's not anything that can't be trained out of the animal, in part.
With my dog and what i did in his training was not trying to get the animal out of the dog, we are animals too, but try to get the basic need to hurt others out of fear or nervousness or from being confused, that's when animals attack. When dogs or pretty much anything living feels safe and knows it's place in the world and knows that nothing is going to try to harm them then there is no need for this kind of behavior. I made my dog feel safe in his home and trust those who are around him.