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Originally Posted by Walrus
What makes you think Pit bulls are so dumb? They actually score quite high 83% - 85% on temperament tests http://www.atts.org. That's higher than average. Just out of curiosity, and not to single you out or anything, but how much time have you actually spent with Pit bulls? I suspect that 99.9% of the negative and false comments about Pits come from people who've never even spent time with them. It's easy to simply write off an entire breed like they are all the same. It's hard to actually make the effort and get yourself out there and actually get to know the breed. |
My father owned 5 total growing up as a kid & I was around them often with his friends dogs being pits mostly also. They were fairly well bred pits, but this was during the '90s. My brother breeds them now once in a while. I am probably around a decent pit for 2-3 hours once per week. I've met two out of the hundreds that I've been impressed with as far as intelligence goes(& that was in comparison to other pits). The ones I interact with often are loving & playful & all that, but I wouldn't say anything even remotely close to "intelligent". Your reaction was typical, though, of most amateur pit owners I've met. I have nothing against the breed at all - they're just dumb. So are many other breeds & I also wouldn't own them for that very reason. A well behaved pit is probably great for therapy & such, because they can be incredibly loving and playful.. but I don't want that & that also doesn't suggest anything about their intelligence.
When comparing them to the dogs I'm around very often that are being trained to be sent to the border patrol, royalty/rich for estate protection, etc., they're dumb. The two I own as well, but whatever. I had this "discussion" with a local who thought his pit was "oh so smart" and him and his dog got laughed away from our ScH club because the dog was very dumb & couldn't do ANYTHING as soon as any amount of stress was applied. He thought he was going to show me up, but now he admits that pits may be smart for the typical sit, roll over, play dead crap, but that's about it. If your dog can follow a scent of meth & find it buried 2 feet underground 3 miles away in the middle of the woods, I'll shut up. Temperament has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence, so I'm unsure why you brought that up at all.