There is none so blind as he who won't see.
It is not that fact that we disagree, but the Breed Specific Legislation that comes from such ignorant blindness. Ignorance in itself is not a bad thing; I myself was ignorant of the wonderful side of pit bulls and bully breeds in general, till I owned an American Bulldog. Being deliberatly ignorant is a bad thing. Are all small dog owners deliberately ignorant? Nope, and I would not condemn all of you based on the words of the few.
For that one who said; when someone's dog is attacked....my dog was attacked, TWICE! The second time, I got him away alived despite one of my neighbors screaming he was being killed! I put my arm under the throat of the pit bull with my face very much in the danger zone. That pit could have ripped my throat out if he had a mind too, but he didn't; pits, like all bully breeds, love people and I knew I was safe. I should have as much a right to be blindly ignorant as anyone, but I am not.
Another point....American Bulldogs are not pit bulls. They are two very different breeds. Yes, both are of the bully breed type (and prone to dog aggression) but so is an Old English Bulldog, Boxer and Bullmastiff! I have met a mean Bullmastiff, that was a scary dog, but I would not condemn the whole breed because of him.
I have met a very, very, very nasty Golden that would make some of the meanest pit bulls look like pussy cats. (No he wasn't abused either. The woman who owned him had had him since he was 6-weeks-old and said he had always been mean.) It is repeated over and over that any dog can be dog aggressive and that not all pits are bad dogs, but some want to live in ignorance of what pit bulls can really be.
Was it a tragedy? You bet. She the owner be punished? You bet. Should the dog be taken away? Hmm, instead of that, maybe the owner should attend mandatory obedience class and if the owner doesn't show that she can handle a dog like that, then it should be taken away. They require a DUI driver to attend traffic school, why not owner be made to attend obedience school? |