What are your feelings about pitbulls?

Digital Joker

Digital Joker

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Personally I dont like the breed at all. We have a lab, shepard cross who we take to off leash parks frequently and I dread seeing pitbulls there.
Truth be told I wish the breed would fade away into extinction.
 
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Yeah I'm not a fan of them at all. They are bred for aggression and fighting.
 
I hear a lot about how they are unfairly maligned -- that it's not the breed, it's the owner and how the dog was raised. There is truth to that. I knew a very friendly pit bull, a real sweetheart. I also knew an aszhole of a pitbull, extremely aggressive and snarling. The first owner was a friendly person; the second owner was a violent, paranoid aszhole. So it depends on the dog's owner, and on the dog's history and training.

Still, when I'm out walking and see a pit bull, I will usually have an automatic negative emotional reaction that is some mix of anxiety and anger, and sometimes disdain for the owner. I have heard lots of stories about pit bulls attacking people, and I've seen it happen. It's hard to just put that out of my mind, when I see one.

But some are very sweet dogs. Just depends. But I still have the negative automatic reaction.
 
Sounds like some of you have no idea what you're talking about. I've been around pit bulls my whole life. A friend of mine raised them and would sell to what he hopes was a good owner. I've seen some be as friendly as could be. Some will be weird towards strangers but once they got to know you you were cool, and some would be aggressive because they are raised that way. To say the breed is bad and should go away is ignorant.
 
Not sure I've ever met a pitbull, but I'm along the lines of thinking that it is the owner that determines how the dog turns out. I wouldn't be against owning one myself.
 
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It isn't the breed, but the owner. The only difference is that their sheer power makes them a serious threat in the wrong hands.
 
lowdru2k said:
Sounds like some of you have no idea what you're talking about. I've been around pit bulls my whole life. A friend of mine raised them and would sell to what he hopes was a good owner. I've seen some be as friendly as could be. Some will be weird towards strangers but once they got to know you you were cool, and some would be aggressive because they are raised that way. To say the breed is bad and should go away is ignorant.
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Uh-huh.

Even PETA, the largest animal-rights organization in the world, supports breed-specific sterilization for pit bulls. "Pit bulls are a breed-specific problem, so it seems reasonable to target them,” said Daphna Nachminovitch, PETA's senior vice president of cruelty investigations. "The public is misled to believe that pit bulls are like any other dog. And they just aren’t." Even the ASPCA acknowledges on its website that pit bulls are genetically different than other dogs. "Pit bulls have been bred to behave differently during a fight," it says. "They may not give warning before becoming aggressive, and they’re less likely to back down when clashing with an opponent."

http://time.com/2891180/kfc-and-the-pit-bull-attack-of-a-little-girl/
 
Another report published in the April 2011 issue of Annals of Surgery found that one person is killed by a pit bull every 14 days, two people are injured by a pit bull every day, and young children are especially at risk. The report concludes that "these breeds should be regulated in the same way in which other dangerous species, such as leopards, are regulated." That report was shared with TIME by PETA, the world's largest animal-rights organization.
 
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lowdru2k said:
You two (Joker and Ant) are about as misinformed as Trump supporters. Pit bulls are a great dog breed.
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I was bitten one when I was a kid. Left a nice little scar on my leg. It was a well treated dog that my neighbour owned. I was playing with his son, my friend, in their front garden. The dog just roamed around from the back, started barking and went for me immediately. So go f*** yourself and you're "ignorant uninformed " comment. I'll very well informed.
 
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Just some more ignorant people. Of course you raise these dogs to be violent they will be that way. They are not born like that. Problem is you hear more about the bad because so many people get these dogs for that very reason.

Like I said, I've seen them first hand be loyal dogs and great with kids. Nice to see you stand with the rest of the idiots on this subject.
 
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I was bitten one when I was a kid. Left a nice little scar on my leg. It was a well treated dog that my neighbour owned. I was playing with his son, my friend, in their front garden. The dog just roamed around from the back, started barking and went for me immediately. So go f*** yourself and you're "ignorant uninformed " comment. I'll very well informed.
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Any breed of dog can bite. Sound very uniformed to me.
 
lowdru2k said:
Just some more ignorant people. Of course you raise these dogs to be violent they will be that way. They are not born like that. Problem is you hear more about the bad because so many people get these dogs for that very reason.

Like I said, I've seen them first hand be loyal dogs and great with kids. Nice to see you stand with the rest of the idiots on this subject.
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Court of law would seem to disagree with you. And Im fairly certain they've consulted with people who are far more knowledgeable on the subject than you.

Myth #1: It's the owner not the breed
The outdated debate, "It's the owner, not the breed," has caused the pit bull problem to grow into a 30-year old problem.1 Designed to protect pit bull breeders and owners, the slogan ignores the genetic history of the breed and blames these horrific maulings -- inflicted by the pit bull's genetic "hold and shake" bite style -- on environmental factors. While environment plays a role in a pit bull's behavior, it is genetics that leaves pit bull victims with permanent and disfiguring injuries.

The pit bull's genetic traits are not in dispute. Many appellate courts agree that pit bulls pose a significant danger to society and can be regulated accordingly. Some of the genetic traits courts have identified include: unpredictability of aggression, tenacity ("gameness" the refusal to give up a fight), high pain tolerance and the pit bull's "hold and shake" bite style.2 According to forensic medical studies, similar injuries have only been found elsewhere on victims of shark attacks.3

Purveyors of this myth also cannot account for the many instances in which pit bull owners and their family members are victimized by their pet dogs. From 2005 to 2016, pit bulls killed 254 Americans, about one citizen every 17 days. Of these deaths, 52% involved a family member and a household pit bull.4 Notably, in the first 8 months of 2011, nearly half of those killed by a pit bull was its owner. One victim was an "avid supporter" of Bad Rap, a recipient of Michael Vick's dogs

Www.dogsbite.org
 
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Digital Joker said:
Court of law would seem to disagree with you. And Im fairly certain they'veconsulted with people who are far more knowledgeable on the subject than you.

Myth #1: It's the owner not the breed
The outdated debate, "It's the owner, not the breed," has caused the pit bull problem to grow into a 30-year old problem.1 Designed to protect pit bull breeders and owners, the slogan ignores the genetic history of the breed and blames these horrific maulings -- inflicted by the pit bull's genetic "hold and shake" bite style -- on environmental factors. While environment plays a role in a pit bull's behavior, it is genetics that leaves pit bull victims with permanent and disfiguring injuries.

The pit bull's genetic traits are not in dispute. Many appellate courts agree that pit bulls pose a significant danger to society and can be regulated accordingly. Some of the genetic traits courts have identified include: unpredictability of aggression, tenacity ("gameness" the refusal to give up a fight), high pain tolerance and the pit bull's "hold and shake" bite style.2 According to forensic medical studies, similar injuries have only been found elsewhere on victims of shark attacks.3

Purveyors of this myth also cannot account for the many instances in which pit bull owners and their family members are victimized by their pet dogs. From 2005 to 2016, pit bulls killed 254 Americans, about one citizen every 17 days. Of these deaths, 52% involved a family member and a household pit bull.4 Notably, in the first 8 months of 2011, nearly half of those killed by a pit bull was its owner. One victim was an "avid supporter" of Bad Rap, a recipient of Michael Vick's dogs

Www.dogsbite.org
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It's the typical arguments you hear from aggressive breed dog lovers. When is the last time anyone ever heard of a Beagle savaging a child for no apparent reason? Yeah.
 
D-V-ANT said:
Yeah I'm not a fan of them at all. They are bred for aggression and fighting.
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You could do any with any breed. All depends on the owner.

Any dog bred for the right reasons will make a great addition to the family.
I was attacked by a retriever when I was a kid while playing. I simply assume it thought I was a threat to it's owners son.

Never had any other problems with it.
 
Digital Joker said:
Court of law would seem to disagree with you. And Im fairly certain they've consulted with people who are far more knowledgeable on the subject than you.

Myth #1: It's the owner not the breed
The outdated debate, "It's the owner, not the breed," has caused the pit bull problem to grow into a 30-year old problem.1 Designed to protect pit bull breeders and owners, the slogan ignores the genetic history of the breed and blames these horrific maulings -- inflicted by the pit bull's genetic "hold and shake" bite style -- on environmental factors. While environment plays a role in a pit bull's behavior, it is genetics that leaves pit bull victims with permanent and disfiguring injuries.

The pit bull's genetic traits are not in dispute. Many appellate courts agree that pit bulls pose a significant danger to society and can be regulated accordingly. Some of the genetic traits courts have identified include: unpredictability of aggression, tenacity ("gameness" the refusal to give up a fight), high pain tolerance and the pit bull's "hold and shake" bite style.2 According to forensic medical studies, similar injuries have only been found elsewhere on victims of shark attacks.3

Purveyors of this myth also cannot account for the many instances in which pit bull owners and their family members are victimized by their pet dogs. From 2005 to 2016, pit bulls killed 254 Americans, about one citizen every 17 days. Of these deaths, 52% involved a family member and a household pit bull.4 Notably, in the first 8 months of 2011, nearly half of those killed by a pit bull was its owner. One victim was an "avid supporter" of Bad Rap, a recipient of Michael Vick's dogs

Www.dogsbite.org
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Good for them. Like I said they are not all bad. You are for wiping out an entire dog breed though, your more cruel than those dogs.
 
lowdru2k said:
I'm tired of seeing pit bulls get a bad rap. You can not like the dog because you had a bad experience is one thing, but to act like they are all that way and should go away is stupid.
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In my country every dog attack on a child in the last however amount of years has been from a pit bull. And yes actually, I absolutely can not like a breed of dog because I got 15 stitches as a child. I was 8 years old. You have no idea how absolutely terrifying an attack like that is. So don't partronise me with this 'one bad experience' crap. They have a bad rep because they are aggressive dogs. Simple as that.
 
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The Wolf King said:
You could do any with any breed. All depends on the owner.

Any dog bred for the right reasons will make a great addition to the family.
I was attacked by a retriever when I was a kid while playing. I simply assume it thought I was a threat to it's owners son.

Never had any other problems with it.
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I don't like them. And I never will. I expect to see them muzzled when they are out in public, as is the law, and I would not left my family anywhere near one.
 
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In my country every dog attack on a child in the last however amount of years has been from a pit bull. And yes actually, I absolutely can not like a breed of dog because I got 15 stitches as a child. I was 8 years old. You have no idea how absolutely terrifying an attack like that is. So don't partronise me with this 'one bad experience' crap. They have a bad rep because they are aggressive dogs. Simple as that.
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So if you were attacked by another breed of dog would you feel the same way about that breed of dog?
 
lowdru2k said:
Good for them. Like I said they are not all bad. You are for wiping out an entire dog breed though, your more cruel than those dogs.
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Im not saying line them all up and shoot them. But they should all be sterilized.
And the breed was created by man through selective breeding and handling.
 
I've been attacked by a human before and I definitely don't like those.
 
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