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Originally Posted by Britster  I totally agree. A lot of Pit Bull owners on other boards can't stand a lot of these "Pit Bull activists" because it makes it worse for them. Like, responsible Pit owners DON'T take their dogs to the dog park. They have a very high tendancy to be dog aggressive. Then when a fight breaks out and the Pit kills a dog -- there's another Pit ruined in the media. It's the ones who are like "oh they are just like any other dog - it's the way you raise them!" who help ruin things for the breed. With owning such a powerful breed comes great responsibility. |
We have a large percentage of pit bulls/mixes in our neighborhood. Sadly, many of their owners are so desperate to prove they are just another breed that they put my doggies at risk. I don't like any off-leash dogs, even when they are in their own front yard (unfenced) and I don't think my dogs' safety should be risked for the sake of someone trying to prove that their dogs are well-trained or gentle or well-socialized. I know if something happens, like the dog charges into the street, my dogs will be blamed because my dogs barked first. Several people have already made it a point to tell me that the reason their large dogs jump around wildly and bark when we pass them is that my dogs barked at them first, long ago.
