North Carolina ban to Kill Numerous Breeds

[ChickenWisperer]

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I'm not a pit owner, but I can tell you not all pits are bad. I'm much more afraid of the labs I come across than the pits given they're both accompanied by non gang-type people. You know the headlines you see? most of those animals are mutts. Not even joking. They are not staffs nor APBT's, they're mutts. I don't know how you raised you're dog and I'm not judging, but it could have been fault on your raising the dog. I know my dog has problems because of things I done and didn't do when she was young, and they are completely my fault. She's mildly dog aggressive because I didn't properly socialize her. And any dog poorly bred is dangerous.... including every one of the golden retrievers and labs you see everyday families walking around with.

In my years of being around dogs and working around the shelter, I've only ever met one aggressive pit in a BAD area of town - obviously a fighting dog bred for aggression, and was blue which just made it worse. The thing lunged at me repeatedly snapping. I'm not afraid of the dog breed. The friendliest dogs I ever met were pits. One ran up to me in my yard with Muffin out barking and acting aggressive, tail 90 mph trying to get me to love on him (we wouldn't have had a problem if he didn't go after my chickens), he completely ignored muffin till I chased him away from the chooks then he tried to play until she snapped at him and the stupid owners realized he was gone. The other was in a home where I got my first hedgehog - that sweet mixed PB actually tried to get in my lap and lick my face, even though I was a stranger in her home.

 

[ChickenfootDuckbutt]

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that is an unfair and biased post, to pit YOUR experiences against the entire breed, not right at all.



it's not the dog, it's the owner, pure and simple, punish the puppet master for the puppets actions, I have seen and been around pits and pit mixes my ENTIRE life, I never EVER have come across a MEAN pitbull. not ONE.

the meanest dog I've ever been in contact with, a chinese crest!, yeah, the very FIRST chinese crested I'd EVER seen, and this thing was satin re-incarnate!, yap yap yapping at everything!, lunging at kids, adults, and even grabbed ME by my pant leg ALL in a petstore!

that and mini poodles. chihauhau's mean little crappers.


back to pits, they need a LOT of guidance, and no, you CANNOT get a pit to listen by beating the dog, or any of the traditional "LETS PUT FEAR INTO IT" techniques.

Pits are strong, stubborn, willful and VERY smart dogs who need an equally passionate and dominant handler, otherwise YES you will have a very unruley,possibly agressive dog on your hands, pits need to be socialized young, trained young, and have their boundaries set YOUNG.

they are a TERRIER, think Jack russel x 234..but everyone forgets that me thinks.


for some reason the petition thing doesn't work for me,ofcourse

's internet

 

[Matthew3590]

Pit bulls are bred to not be aggressive towards humans. How else are you going to stop them when they are in a fight. Go to youtube and find the dog fights of pit bulls and their training. They get a lot of love from their owners and the pits love their owners.

 

[ChickenfootDuckbutt]

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wow...are you JUSTIFYING dog fights, or does it just SEEM that way?

dog fights are disgusting, cruel and the people who engage need to be dipped whilst still living in battery acid. dog fights are ALSO the REASON pits have such a bad rap.

 

[Matthew3590]

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wow...are you JUSTIFYING dog fights, or does it just SEEM that way?

dog fights are disgusting, cruel and the people who engage need to be dipped whilst still living in valcano lava. dog fights are ALSO the REASON pits have such a bad rap.

I said nothing about justifying dog fights. I was stating that pit bulls are not bred to be aggressive towards humans. That statement alone is not enough for someone to believe it so I am using an example.

 

[dainerra]

no, I think that he is just pointing out WHY the pitbull breeds have been bred to be extremely human friendly.

Now of course pits are dog aggressive, but so are a lot of breeds. Shepherds are well-known for being same sex aggressive, for instance.
But, that is neither here nor there. The problem is that the irresponsible idiots are taking dogs and leaving them to roam the streets.

Personally, I wouldn't mind a competency test to own any dog. Or to have kids for that matter, but we know that isn't going to happen and the dogs are the ones left to pay the price.

The problem with measures like this is that if pits are harder to buy, then the scumbags will just move on to another dog breed. At one point, it was the GSD. Then the rottie. The dobe. Now it is the pitbull. Already the movement is on to presario canos and mastiff breeds.

 

[ChickenfootDuckbutt]

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wow...are you JUSTIFYING dog fights, or does it just SEEM that way?

dog fights are disgusting, cruel and the people who engage need to be dipped whilst still living in valcano lava. dog fights are ALSO the REASON pits have such a bad rap.

I said nothing about justifying dog fights. I was stating that pit bulls are not bred to be aggressive towards humans. That statement alone is not enough for someone to believe it so I am using an example.

well, my apologies then, it sounded to ME like you were stating that "because people who fight dogs may love on them, and so they're not agressive it's ok to fight dogs

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ofcourse anyone with a heart would understand any anger felt towards dog fighting.

but that's the truth, dog fighting IS the main reason why pits have gotten so bad off, it's sad really.

yes, ofcourse pits can be dog agressive, I've not met one who didn't test itself with another dog, but they CAN get along with other dogs, and even cats, many of the ones I knew/know LOVED/love their cat companions.

 

[Jamie_Dog_Trainer]

Pitts were not bred purposely to have human aggression until recently. If you are in dogs long enough you are bound to see poor examples of most breeds. For me, this includes some very, very people aggressive Pit Bulls. Something that people forget about in these debates is genetic temperament issues, that means the dog was born with a predisposition to a certain unwanted behavior. Pit Bulls can have genetic temperament issues just like any breed. It's not always the owners fault.

The same can be said about every purebred dog out there. This issue is NOT just about Pit Bulls anyway, and if this thread keeps going the way it is it will soon be locked just like the numerous other threads similar to this one.

 

[kla37]

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Thank you for clarifying! I wouldn't go to Cumberland County for anything anyway. It's completely trashed.

 

[ChickenWisperer]

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Agree with you COMPLETELY there on both accounts!