re: The appeal of the Pitbull

I thought this thread was gonna be ab Mr. Worldwide

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Pit bull fear is unwarranted for the most part. Perhaps if you lived someplace that had an active dog fighting culture you may have something to be concerned abou

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It was big in Northeast LA until pretty recently. The big fed crackdown was mid to late '90s, I think? My opinion of pits is most definitely colored by the dozens and dozens of vicious monsters I've known. I'm aware that some are sweet natured but as others have said, breeding them should be illegal.

When the feds busted a big fight in West Carroll years ago, I remember the Monroe paper quoting one of the US Marshals about how insurance on a Corvette is higher than insurance on a Mercedes of similar value. Its not because the Corvette is more dangerous, its the guy who wants the Corvette that's more dangerous.


Loosely related story:

There's a bar outside Oak Grove called Sweet Pea's. They have a pretty nice area set up outside for horseshoe tournaments and people used to drive from all over for fairly high stakes on horseshoes. When the movie Gladiator came out they started chaining the most vicious pits they could find to either side of the throwing areas. The locals would know the dogs by name and have some familiarity with dog fighting culture so they took it in stride. The out of towners would get pretty disconcerted by snarling pits on either side throwing themselves against the chains in a murderous rage.

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lets see children survive a pit attack..

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pits/Amstaffs for over 30 years now and

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So a Pitt Bull and an American Staffordshire Terrier ARE the same breed???

Lots of kennels and rescues like to throw that name out there to sway people toward the dog? They look the same to me??

They are extremely good catch dogs for hog hunting. Other than that they're worthless IMO.

While I've known many German shepherds who are nice and well behaved 2 of the worst incidents involving other dogs were with German shepherds. So I'm always weary of them

1.walking my 6month yellow lab on a leash when a German Shepherd jumped a fence and proceeded to attack my dog and had it by the throat. I thought for sure I was going to have a dead dog on the end of my leash. Luckily the owner after repeatedly kicking his own dog got it to release its jaw.

2. I was around 10 when I entered the back yard and witnessed a massacre of a kitten, we had just gotten, from a Shephard from a few houses down.

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'm willing to bet majority of the American population doesn't hate pitbulls, not even close

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You'd lose that bet. And it's not even close.

For people living in urban areas, they make sense because:

--they have a working dog lineage, so they tend to be intelligent. But unlike herding or hunting dogs, they don't require a lot of space. They were originally bred to handle bulls in corrals.

--they have short hair = good for indoors

--the ones I have been around tend not to bark a lot, so they are less apt to piss off the neighbors.