Comments on: Strange Human Pathologies of Those Defending Pit Bulls etc. – A Semyonova http://dogshouter.com/83/semyonova/ Can you hear me now? Tue, 11 May 2010 14:10:16 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: shelly http://dogshouter.com/83/semyonova/comment-page-1/#comment-145 shelly Tue, 11 May 2010 14:10:16 +0000 http://dogshouter.com/?p=83#comment-145 This article and input seems to be missing the whole point and forgets we don't want these dogs misguided and used for fighting. I'm curious to know what breed dog fighter or people wanting aggressive dogs, would turn to if pits were eradicated. What will we do then? Focus on another breed rather than the real issue at hand? Personally I'm all for Dangerous dog/ responsible owner laws, as long as they don't focus on a certain breed. I think most responsible pet people are. There's no denying some dogs have more muscle than others, as well as breed tendencies, and misguided, mistreated, neglected animals can have tragic consequences, no matter what the breed. Don't you agree that we are lacking much needed laws to focus on responsible pet ownership, and laws that would prosecute dog fighters/dog fighting breeding/cruelty? There are great myths, fear, that surrounds this breed. No they're not born aggressive. No,they don't have locking jaws. This article and input seems to be missing the whole point and forgets we don’t want these dogs misguided and used for fighting.
I’m curious to know what breed dog fighter or people wanting aggressive dogs, would turn to if pits were eradicated.
What will we do then? Focus on another breed rather than the real issue at hand?
Personally I’m all for Dangerous dog/ responsible owner laws, as long as they don’t focus on a certain breed. I think most responsible pet people are.
There’s no denying some dogs have more muscle than others, as well as breed tendencies, and misguided, mistreated, neglected animals can have tragic consequences, no matter what the breed.
Don’t you agree that we are lacking much needed laws to focus on responsible pet ownership, and laws that would prosecute dog fighters/dog fighting breeding/cruelty?
There are great myths, fear, that surrounds this breed. No they’re not born aggressive. No,they don’t have locking jaws.

]]> By: Carleen Dannecker http://dogshouter.com/83/semyonova/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Carleen Dannecker Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:20:03 +0000 http://dogshouter.com/?p=83#comment-17 Alexandra Semyonova is bang on! Why the denial of heritability? Pit Bulls were originally created for one purpose...animal aggression...specifically dog fighting. Dogs were selectivley bred not to respond to normal canine appeasement behaviours. They were expected to fight to the death. Purportedly, human aggression was not generally tolerated by the "dogmen". Over the last 20 years Pit Bulls became the "power breed" of choice. While other larger Mastiff breeds might have been more formidable, Pit Bulls had the dubious advantage of being more available. Very cheap and easy to obtain...and to maintain. indiscriminate and downright scary breeding practices often resulted in unstable animals with serious human aggression issues. The owners of these dogs were usually less than stellar members of society with aggression problems of their own. I have known well trained and thoughtfully managed Pit Bulls...truly nice dogs ...but they tend to be the the exceptions. I believe the breed requires an owner with considerably better than average dog skills and a high level of dilegence. Too bad that the skilled and the dilegent owners seem so outnumbered by the careless and the clueless! Alexandra Semyonova is bang on! Why the denial of heritability? Pit Bulls were originally created for one purpose…animal aggression…specifically dog fighting. Dogs were selectivley bred not to respond to normal canine appeasement behaviours. They were expected to fight to the death. Purportedly, human aggression was not generally tolerated by the “dogmen”.

Over the last 20 years Pit Bulls became the “power breed” of choice. While other larger Mastiff breeds might have been more formidable, Pit Bulls had the dubious advantage of being more available. Very cheap and easy to obtain…and to maintain. indiscriminate and downright scary breeding practices often resulted in unstable animals with serious human aggression issues. The owners of these dogs were usually less than stellar members of society with aggression problems of their own.

I have known well trained and thoughtfully managed Pit Bulls…truly nice dogs …but they tend to be the the exceptions. I believe the breed requires an owner with considerably better than average dog skills and a high level of dilegence. Too bad that the skilled and the dilegent owners seem so outnumbered by the careless and the clueless!

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