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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
yeah... i'm 37 years old. have never seen a dog in my life. have never known anyone that owns a dog and can't read a newspaper or watch the news or talk to people.
i clearly have no clue... you are lucky. most of us can only see dogs in pictures and sometimes at major zoos... but you actually own one. how unusual. thats so exotic and crazy to even imagine.
you already defeated your own arguments by clarifying upfront that they are dangerous animals by default. that was my only point. exceptions, dogs that don't attack, media hype etc has nothing do with that simple fact at all.
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with the way that you're talking I could seriously believe that you have never seen a dog, you don't seem to know very much about them, and your comprehension skills suck. It seems that you selectively hear what you want because what I have said is that all dogs not just one specific breed have the potential to be dangerous if mistreated, and somehow you managed to only get that I was talking about pit bulls. Pit bulls by nature are friendly animals and enjoy the company of people, and thus so do not make very good watch dogs even though they look very intimidating 95% of the time if a stranger enters a yard with a pit bull in it the dog will likely run up to the person and greet them with a friendly lick. people fear them because of stories that the media has fed them a lot of which is inaccurate, so you won't find many people attempting to enter a yard that has a pit bull in it which is fine by me, I don't need strangers coming into my yard. I wonder how you would act if you were chained up in the yard all day starved and beaten every once in a while? You probably wouldn't be very friendly.
Now I have had many dogs in my 37 years and speak out of personal experience. I will always be cautious of any dog that is not my own and that I am not familiar with, you just don't know what the dog has been taught by the owner. I had a black lab/rottie x it was all black and looked more like a stocky black lab weighing in at 130 to 140 pounds. He did not like other big dogs he was fine with the smaller ones but if given the opportunity he would attack any large breed of dog. Because of this I would not let him off leash in public. He lived to be 15 and was a great dog with a great temperment, loved people but he was not as social or affectionate as the pit bul I have now. He if left alone in the house would destroy whatever he could, something my pit bull will never do. I can leave my pit bull at home alone all day and leave a pile of dog biscuits on the table in his reach and they will still all be there when I come home. He was honestly the easiest dog that I have trained, and I have had labs, rotties, dobermans, shepherds and several other breeds of dog. I will say it again responsible ownership is the key to owning any dog.
So instead of going around making false accusations educate yourself, knowledge is a wonderful thing. Try and see through what the media reports in the effort to sell newspapers. There are a lot of dogs far more dangerous and able to inflict way more damage than a pit bull. What you fail to realize is that when pitties were bred for fighting it was detrimental to be aggressive towards people as the ref had to be able to be in the ring to separate the dogs, and if one of them bit the ref they would be put down. Also what you fail to realize is that they are eager to please their owners and will do what they are taught to do by their owners, just the same as any other dog. So if you have a dog owner that trains the dog to attack people it will. So is this the dogs fault or the owners? Responsible ownership is the key to a well behaved pet of any kind. Hell I had a cat that I would make sure that the kids would stay away from, this thing was mean, didn't like anyone weighed 25 pounds and would chase dogs. This thing would surely fuck up a small child.
I hope this clarifies some of the false information that you have been given on pit bulls and dogs in general