Surrounded by 8 pit pulls today, I barely escaped with my life

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144. So what you're saying is

that flvegan is a lowlife just because they found a person's broad brush comments to be offensive and acted in kind? Sorry, I'm not playing that game. I like to get to know a person in RL before judging whether they are a lowlife. But I guess I should not be shocked, after all the bigger picture about this is how a person judges a whole group, people "hate pit bulls and their owners are generally trash" even though they have no clue what they're talking about. Judgement based on stereotyping and not by individual case is beyond ignorance, lazy in fact. Let's just believe what we're spoon fed like sheep. It's attitudes like these that left many families in Denver heartbroken because their dogs were taken from them and put down just because they were a pit bull or pit bull "type", not because their dogs ever caused a problem, just because Denver decided on a complete BAN. That makes me incredibly angry. I don't agree with exterminating a whole breed for the actions of a few, a tiny percentage in fact.

Maybe flvegan has dealt with a lot of comments like that in the past. That's the impression I got from the comments. Sounds to me like it's all been heard before by this poster, here and perhaps in RL too. I'm an animal lover, not just a dog person, not just a cat person, but all animals. I don't buy into dog and cat breeds being a carbon copy of one another. They all have their distinct personality and how you raise and train them make for what kind of dog you'll get. There are exceptions of course, but for the most part, you get what you give. Why do you think Cesar Milan says "I rehabilitate dogs, I train people"? Owning a dog is a huge responsibility that not everyone is cut out for, or some just need a little guidance to get it right. Sometimes incredibly small changes make a big difference in our pets.

I agree it would be better to have an adult discussion on any topic, but unfortunately some generalized comments cause emotions to run high, harsh use of language (which I'm occasionally guilty of too), provokes what seems like overreacting defensiveness. We don't always find the right ways to express those things sometimes. I don't even own a pit bull myself and find these comments offensive, but I do know many pit bull owners and they are not trash, nor lowlifes. Will you find scum bags owning a pit bull? Of course. While pit bulls are pretty smart and tend to do how they have been trained, you can train any medium to large sized dogs to do horrific damage to a person. To me, those who abuse dogs and use them for fighting or as a weapon, those people are lowlifes, not people like flvegan.