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Old 10-01-2005, 03:08 PM  
dig420
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Also Pits do not have locking jaws. That's a myth. They're simply more tenacious by breed than any other dog and they're very good fighters.

They weren't 'bred to fight' unless you count treeing bears and chasing boars out of their den actual fighting. They were bred to help hunters. Hounds chased the prey down, Pits were then let out to eiteer drive it out of it's hole by going down in there with it and chasing it out, or to jump on the hunted animal and slow it down and drain it's energy when it would then be killed by the hunter. The fighting for show came later, in the middle ages.

Pits have historically been one of the most popular dogs in the world, particularly around the WWII period. They didn't start getting this bad rap until it became fashionable for gangsters to own them, and ANY breed of dog owned by that kind of person is going to be dangerous and wildly unpredictable. It's what their owners want them to be.

Running your mouth without doing your research mean you = uninformed but very loud idiot.
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