You know why.
There is perhaps no city in which white lefties have more unaddressed issues with race than Minneapolis. I would say that they live in an alternate reality, but mentioning "reality" in the same sentence with Minneapolis white lefties is a pox on the former.
Link: https://www.wjhg.com/2023/02/04/deputies-rescue-puppy-thrown-vehicle-during-wrong-way-chase/
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I have two pit bulls. They are big babies.
You can fuck right off.
Dog breeds have been developed for both physical and behavioral traits through selective and line breeding. You wouldn't bring a border collie on a bird hunt and expect it to point birds any more than you'd enter a golden retriever into a dog fight.
The responsible dog owner chooses a breed for the behavioral traits they desire even more than the physical traits. And they also choose a dog from a responsible breeder that breeds to maintain the breed standard while selecting for health and behavioral tendencies as much as physical conformity. The responsible dog owner then socializes and trains the dog to be a good citizen around other people and pets.
I don't have a problem with pit bulls, but there are a lot of irresponsible pit bull breeders and irresponsible pit bull owners. Being a pit bull owner requires a lot more responsibility than many other breeds, to deny this fact is not helpful to a more nuanced discussion of pits.
They need to select the right breed for themselves and take responsibility to raise a good dog.
I don't disagree with anything that you said.
My issue was with his statement that the only good pit is a dead pit.
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bad for the household.
Lazy people - most dog owners - should never have a dog no matter the breed.
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But yeah, it's the lazy dog owner buying that German shorthair pointer or blue tick hound at the big box pet store for their studio apartment in a concrete jungle, that sustains the puppy mills and the rescue orgs. It is disgusting.
The worst people ever. The American Kennel Club used to have a strong presence in stopping or monitoring puppy mills but I’m not so sure now. The ASPCA in nyc is often overwhelmed with discarded pets.
"Lazy people - most dog owners - should never have a dog no matter the bread."
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...the uneducated. Attacking humans IS NOT in their nature. Plenty of info at Kennel Org's websites.
uninsurable. The American Staffordshire is included in this group
The, "It's all about the owner" argument is really silly, for several reasons. First, if the breed attracts miscreants like moths to light, I couldn't care less if responsible, upstanding dog owners would make for peaceful pit bulls. And if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. Second, the physical/anatomical makeup of these animals makes them far more dangerous than all but a few dog breeds when they go haywire. Third, the disposition of the breeds at the top of the fatality list differ from other breeds, thus why they're overwhelmingly chosen for everything from guarding property, to chasing down criminals, to dogfighting. Golden retrievers are abused, too, but good luck getting one to rip off the face of a home invader, do anything but lick the face of a burglar, or fight in a pit.
St. Francis terrier a "Pit Bull" ?
Given that the typical pit bull owner can't tell his head from his posterior on any given day, we should just lump them all together.
This thing where someone has to have a "purebred" dog should also be retired. Mutts are generally better, anyways. Purebred shoppers are the ones subsidizing breeders, many/most of whom are unethical and sloppy.
Finally, I'm all on board with keeping pit bulls legal, provided we administer a very simple test for prospective owners. A two or three question survey:
1. Have you ever done time?
2. Have you used illegal drugs after you turned 25?
And since we probably won't get truthful, verifiable answers to #2, we would need to administer a drug test.
Those two questions alone would eliminate 100% of the miscreants. Not a one of them can pass that simple test. Those two things are true of basically every lowlife. They've done time and they'll do time again, and they've abused dope past that age where a normal person can no longer blame it on an undeveloped brain and have entered the pathetic, "I'm self-medicating because I can't deal with my issues and weaknesses" realm. Those folks should not own animals of any sort that can easily kill other people. We already know that their judgment is non-existent and they're bereft of morals.
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And they've given the breed(s) a bad reputation. Before pits it was rottweilers and dobermans. As an example, German shepherds could be just as vicious if bred for aggression, to be extremely territorial and trained to fight.
...my Financial competition against them. Series 6? Puhleese!
The AmStaff is an AKC recognized breed. Pit Bulls are a different breed.
History
Years ago in Great Britain, several dog breeds were created to excel in blood sports. They were expected to fight one another, or they were turned loose in packs against a staked bear or bull, with spectators betting on the grisly outcome. Such revolting pastimes have long since been outlawed. These sad spectacles did, however, leave us a happy legacy: Several of today’s most loved breeds—the Bulldog, the Bull Terrier, and the American Staffordshire Terrier among them—got their start as fighting and baiting dogs of the 18th and 19th centuries.
When it comes to the bull-type terrier breeds, all can agree that the common component in their makeup was the Bulldog. (Note that the Bulldog of 200 years ago was a vastly different, more ferocious creature than the lovable “sourmugs” of today.) Argument begins when breed experts try to nail down which preexisting terrier breeds reside in the AmStaff’s genetic background. Some suggest that such extinct breeds as the White English Terrier and Black-and-Tan Terrier were part of the genetic mix that led to the creation of the Staffordshire Terrier, forerunner of the AmStaff.
Whatever the AmStaff’s true genetic composition might be, we are certain that working-class Brits with an interest in blood sports combined the stocky build and punishing jaws of old-style Bulldogs with the innate courage and “gameness” of terriers to create bull-type terrier breeds.
By the mid-1800s, Staffordshire Terriers had arrived in America. U.S. breeders developed a Staffordshire Terrier that was larger than the English version. Eventually, the AKC recognized the two types as separate breeds: the Staffordshire Bull Terrier and the American Staffordshire Terrier.
The well-bred AmStaff of today is a more mellow fellow than his pit-fighting ancestors and has long been a great American favorite. This is suggested by the breed’s many sightings in our popular culture: In 1903, an AmStaff named Bud was along for the ride on America’s first cross-country auto trip (the subject of the Ken Burns documentary “Horatio’s Drive”); Petey, in the old “Our Gang” film comedies of the 1930s, was an AmStaff, as is Tige, the dog in the Buster Brown Shoes logo; and America’s most decorated American war dog was an AmStaff named Sgt. Stubby, a K-9 of World War I who counted three U.S. presidents among his admirers
Link: AKC American Staffordshire recognized breed
...one 10 years ago and he was the least aggressive dog I've ever owned. Ghetto punks breed/teach them to fight and attack.
That is not their nature. The filthy animals are the owners...it's not the dog's fault
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