BF2S Forums Pit bulls

dude any breed of dog can be extremely dangerous. it's just how an owner treats and raise them.

It doesn't help that the breed is often the go-to bro image dog. I've met too many aggressive animals that are under these types of owners' "care." I even once had the opportunity to nearly get chased down as a kid by an unrestrained pit bull while its owners laughed and pointed from their porch. If I hadn't outrun it on my bicycle, I imagine it could have been a painful end to my day or life. It certainly left an impression on me, and led to a hardwired wariness around the animal that I've been scoffed at for by unsympathetic, starstruck owners of the breed.

When I owned dogs, there were no enclosed dog parks in the neighborhood, but I've talked with many dog owners who said they've had problems there with APBT's and their owners.

I enjoy my neighborhood a lot more now that I don't have neighbors with large dogs that charge at the fence frothing whenever I go to get my mail or open my back gate. It certainly saves me money on the Beggin' Strips I've used to tame them down towards me and reduces unwanted gaps in my heart rhythm.

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Personal experience notwithstanding in this case, my defense against the misinformation of mass media and "common knowledge" is to simply read. A lot.

ASPCA: On Breed-Specific Legislation
StopBSL: Scientific Studies
livescience: Are Pit Bulls Really Dangerous?
Petfinder: Facts/Myths
PlexiDor: Myths around dog bite force
lovetoknow: Which Dog Breed Has the Strongest Jaw
Dr. Ian Kupkee weighs in on pit bull ban

The barest effort on Google (^) can dig up an immediate pile of biased, unbiased, subjective and objective articles. Read enough and you can sort of determine their veracity by corroborating them with other articles and their sources, at least to the point where you aren't swept off your feet by every large font front page klaxon that goes off when shoddy journalism finds something negative it can pin onto the entire breed. If you want to make a solid argument for or against with any amount of authority, you should have a mountain of actual research under your belt.

The american staffy is a pit bull breed and not the same as a Staffordshire Bull Terrier.

The owners of certain breeds of dogs are very dangerous and should be held accountable for the danger they put people in.

I had a 30lb Papered BorderCollie from a champion line.  Super Smart dog, very protective of family, worked the dog on livestock and it was well trained.  Left the dog at my brother's place (2.5 acres out of town surrounded by sheep fence) and it bit the neighbor in the chest through the fence.  The neighbor said no problem, the dog warned him but he reached through the fence anyway.  I was pretty upset because the dog never showed aggression toward anyone but DEFINATELY didn't like that guy for what ever reason. 

I moved from the country to the burbs and the dog would be aggressive to the neighbors dogs through the 6ft wood fence (couldn't see each other but aggressive growling and such from all dogs involved).  One day my neighbors wife reached through the fence where there was a small gap and my dog bit her.  She was a bitch about it and wouldn't let me see the bite or talk to me, her husband told me don't worry she is fine.  I got rid of the dog after that and sent it out on a farm to work livestock and be happy.  It just wasn't compatible with being around people, fences triggered aggression BUT only with certain people.  I just know if a dog bit me or someone in my family I would have no problem putting a bullet in its head (if the dog was big enough to do damage).  I understand animals can be unpredictable, thus why there are jury trails of this stuff as it should be, but people that want to own a breed designed for killing must be held responsible.  Too often it is the dumbest among us that get these breeds and have no idea how dangerous they are to everyone outside of that dog's "pack".  A pitbull that mentally snaps and does what it was bred for is a hell of a force, it is not like being nipped by a toy poodle.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

some of those stats are skewed by the fact people breed pitbulls to be terrors.

A Tennessee man was killed by a Rottweiler, just hours after adopting it from the county pound, according to the Madison County Sheriff's Office. The dog also attacked the man's wife and one of her coworkers when they went to check on him: "He wasn't growling or showing teeth -- he just bit us, like he did it all the time or something."

My dogs are perfect

Pit Bull<------- that is the name of the breed.  Why are they called that?

Pit  Bull, hmmm, maybe because they are a fucking pit fighting breed.

So lets get one and keep it as a pet, maybe we won't be one of the unlucky people that gets one that goes bat shit crazy due to hundreds of years of aggressiveness being breed into them.


When I move to NYC I am going to get a 100lb wolf hybrid for my apartment.  It will be a good family dog.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

It doesn't help that the dogs are peppered with a bro army purposefully breeding more aggressiveness into them.

racist much?

jsnipy wrote:

You know its true, search your feelings.

I'm just randomly calling people racist to try to fit in around here.

It seems to be the thing to do ;-)

MajorSpittle wrote:

When I move to NYC I am going to get a 100lb wolf hybrid for my apartment.  It will be a good family dog.

Are you some kind of faggot or metrosexual?

Get a mountain lion, or better a Wolverine - they're great with kids.