Re: Officially hunting pit bulls...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: maggot</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: motodog</div><div class="ubbcode-body">good pit=dead pit!!!!!!!piss of if you dont agree. </div></div>
I almost agree with this. Any breed can be agressive, but some continually show up in the news. You dont hear of cocker spaniels or Labs mauling someone every week. Pitbulls all the time. Had the kid wandered into a labs yard he might have gotten bitten, but not mauled to death. Anyone with a grain of sense should be able to add 1+1 and get the same answer. Your not allowed to keep lions or tigers (without special licsense) for a reason that you can have a 50 caliber but not a nucluer weapon.
Doh.
Jeez I wish I hadnt read that this morning. Makes me just wanna cry. Get to work, Net, but remember what D Dawg said. </div></div>
Maggot,
The problem is that the media names every dog a pit bull before they even get the info. Why?? Because that SELLS the headline! Take look at the posted article, the only mention of PITBULL is in the title of the article, NO WHERE ELSE.
I own and work with Pitbulls, I've been bitten a time or two. But, I've been bitten WAY more from other breeds. The times I have been bitten it was mostly my fault and I was pushing the tolerance of a dog I was working with.
More then once, sometimes a week after the original story came out, the media has had to print retractions for calling a dog a Pitbull when it was a Retriever or something.
I'd like to see a picture of the dog in question in the article.
The problem with Pits is that gangster, thugs, and other penile challenged tough guys like them so they can boost their image. When the dog isn't aggressive enough they sometimes starve them, chain them in the back, beat them and other things to try to make them mean and aggressive. They are over bred and most end up in the shelter because even well meaning owners are too fucking lazy to give them the exercise they need and they start tearing the house up because they need to get out a run around.
Pits are the media bad dogs right now because thats what sells. Take a look at the history of the Pitbull sometime.
http://whatapittie.org/proud-history-pitbull.html
The dog from the Little Rascals was a pit, Pitbulls have gone to WAR with us. Take a look at the link above, Stubby, Jack Brutus, Old Harvey, Jack, Sallie, all mascots for Infantry units and some went to combat with them.
Please, before you jump to a conclusion fed to you by the media which is represented by a small amount of dogs who have been neglected by shitty owners or a reacting to the way their life has treated them, take some time and educate yourself.