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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  I can't say I don't admire your passion for this special breed because I do. They are wonderful dogs most of the time and only a few of them present problems to others but the problems are ghastly when they do occur. But keeping on denying the harm some of this breed can do to people and their beloved pets moreso than other breed types is not helping improve the breed - it just turns people off. Acknowledging the real problems the breed has and working to somehow stop some of the fighting dog breeders by promoting long jail sentences plus working to encourage owners of the dogs to work hard on training and controlling the dogs and repeatedly contacting our legislators to make laws that require harsher sentences for bad owners who allow their dangerous dogs to hurt innocent people/pets are the only thing that might begin to turn the bad rap they have around.
People like me didn't create this problem and calling us bullies doesn't help the bully-breed's cause, the breeders of pitfighters and very bad owners do. Go spend your wrath on them.
The same thing happened with the Doberman. Years back they were known as dangerous attack dogs but those that loved the breed recognized it was in trouble, began to work to change the temperament of the breed and now they have lost their bad reputation because they don't attack anywhere near as much as they used to do and generally make lovely pets.
And if you ask any policeman, EMT or Animal Control officer and as a lover of the bully-type of dog, I have, they say the dogs who they and their brother officers have to respond to the most emergency calls for from attacks, bites, maimings and killings more than other breed types are the bully breeds, specifically the pitbull - as cops, EMT's and AC officers are not very PC - they just tell you like it is.
The three times I checked with our AC as to what type dogs are most often turned into them or abandoned on our streets, they responded that pitbulls are. Not Yorkies or other small dogs with small-dog syndrome.
Pitbulls are the most cruelly treated breed out there and who treats them this way? Their irresponsible breeders, disgraceful pit-fighters of the breed and far too many of their "loving" owners. I adore the pitbull but I recognize it has a big problem that needs people to work together to fix. |
Can you truthfully deny that this is because of sheer numbers?
I'm asking because, yes...you hear more pit reports...but there are also much, much larger numbers that own pits. Logically...more own = more abuse.
So why are we, as people, okay with this stereotype against the BREED? It's NOT the breed...it's the statistically lower number of s**theads that own them. Put THEM in jail, and stop using the breed as an "example". It hurts the breed, not the scumbags who mistreat the breed.