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In reply to the discussion: Woman dead after being attacked by her two pit bulls in animal hospital [View all]mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)I understand your logic, but at the same time, as someone who's been around plenty of 'pit bull types' and having seen all of them be wonderful dogs, and not, in fact violent, having owned one that's now 12, in his doting years, who's the sweetest damn dog you've ever met ... it just SUCKS to see them get bad-mouthed as killers, and euthanized just for being a pit-bull type. You're saying they do to dogs that've never bitten in the UK? Well, I'm not a fan of that.
YES some people have purposefully bred dangerous Pits, to either fight, or to be 'tough dogs for tough people' type of deal. These @ssholes have f***ed over the whole breed. If nobody had purposefully created a bunch of mean ones, by breeding their meanest female w/their meanest male, these dogs would be like any similar large breed dog.
And the ones that DON'T come from lines like that, somewhere in their recent heritage ... are mostly wonderful animals. I've met MANY of them, and I'm here to tell ya, they exist. LOTS of them.