Reply #29: Problem's Not In The Jaw, But In The HEART... [View All]

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Fighting spirit, stubbornness, refusal to give up, it's called "heart" and a pitbull has it in SPADES! That's the trouble!

Say a cocker Spaniel hits you... In self defense, you kick it in the side of the head. Cocker lights out tail between legs. Ki-YI! Hurt almost *any* dog badly enough and the dog will give up.

Not so the Pit bull. Pits (and I have known many!) may not be trained to fight. They may never get INTO a fight... but once they start, it's DAMNED hard to stop them.

A friend of mine who is an officer in a major city police department told me about the dog he had to shoot. The animal came at him during a house search. In self defense, he fired at the dog and hit it in the face. The dog kept coming! He fired again. The dog yelped. And kept coming! His partner had the rifle out of the patrol car. He fired into the dog's mouth... at which the dog halted, half his face gone, turned around to look for my friend... took three steps toward him...and fell over dead. That's heart. And it's fucking DANGEROUS.

But that, you may say, was a drug house dog, trained and brutalized to fight. OK, that's true... but there is another side to Pits that goes unreported... dog aggression.

ANY pit bull, no matter how gently raised, can and is very LIKELY to, get into a fatal dogfight! Fatal for the other dog, that is. Pits are hereditarily conditioned to dislike other dogs. They are bred to fight dogs. The very NAME "pit" "bull" REFERS to fighting in dogpits.

Regardless of their ability to kill humans, their ability and downright WILLINGNESS to kill OTHER DOGS make them dangerous.

A child, walking a Golden Retriever may fall afoul of a Pit out for a walk in the park. I've seen Pits attack other dogs. I've seen the rage redirected at humans who try to intervene. In fact, many of the attacks and maulings have occurred NOT because some
Pitbull "detonated" on some innocent person, but because the dog attacked the dog the human was WITH at the time!

Pits also LOVE to kill cats. My own cat was killed by a Pit and a Shepherd in California. They got between the cat and the trees and slaughtered him. When I complained to the owner, he shrugged and said "Yeah, he loves to kill 'em. He's got six or eight so far."

Lovely.

Sorry, but Pitbulls are a potential four-legged assault weapon on cats, dogs and... people.

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