I didn't watch last night but I am pretty sure I have seen the episode. The one dog was acting aggressively when anyone came near the car, lungeing and growling and showing his teeth, atleast the episode I saw. I'm curious why the dog was there in the first place if pits are banned there? As for not watching animal planet because some of the people are mis-informed, well that is personal preference but I really think that channel does A LOT for animal rights awareness in general. On that show alone they show people fighting for animals, breaking up fighting rings, or atleast trying to, and fining people for animal abuse. Not everyone on that show is out to get pits. There was one episode where some idiot byb was trying to sell 1 week old pittie pups and they came and told him he would be arrested if he didn't have his dog fixed and wait until the pups were atleast 6 weeks old to sell them. They kept going back and checking on the puppies and everything. I dunno, I tend to think the good would outweigh the bad, if they are providing a good service. If they are mis-informed about a dog X here and there, well, I know I can't go onto petfinder, look at a dog and tell what breed it is by just looking. Their job is to rescue the animals or protect the public whichever the case may be. They aren't vets so I wouldn't expect them to know too much more then a layperson would. Those people, just like regular policemen deserve a lot of respect for what they do and what you DON'T see on TV, the getting shot at and bitten and attacked, the mindless hours while you wait for the next disaster to strike. Anyway, like I said, what you watch and don't watch on TV is personal preference, I would never watch NASCAR or Sex and the City so I guess it is okay to have an opinion about watching/not watching animal planet. I just get annoyed when it is made into this HUGE thing, like "animal planet is evil" and anyone who isn't "save every animal vicious and/or near death because it deserves its chance to live" while some other perfectly okay dog with a small issue that is completely adoptable gets sent to death row because everyone is busy with the near death/vicious dog, well it just makes me sick. I mean, I would adopt 50 dogs if I had room and it wouldn't matter if they were pits or chows or rotties or any other "bad rap" breed as long as there was not history of them eating a little kid or another dog, it has nothing to do with breed. It just seems like everyone is so taken with the save the pits movement they aren't willing to look at the fact that there are some dangerous dogs out there that need to be locked up where they can't hurt anyone, not given away to Jonny new dog owner who has no clue. That is happening because organizations are so bent on getting these dogs a home that they LIE about the dogs history. I'm not just talking about pitties either, if a golden retriever bites the heck out of a kids arm he should be put down or relocated to a safe haven too. I dunno, I am just frustrated in general at ignorance. Its like everyone has to be on one side or the other or the are wrong. Why can't it be that some dogs really ARE nasty and some pits really are nice family pets? But nooooo every pitbull, chow,akita,doberman.rottie,staffy, ect MUST be bad and if you are on the other side EVERY ONE OF THOSE DOGS is an AWESOME family pet and if it bit someone it was because it was abused. I'm sorry, not every biting dog is abused. Some bite because they are in pain, some out of fright, some out of anger. YES the media does portrays bad rap breeds as evil, but countering that with "this dog is right for everyone" isn't going to help equilize the situation. That would be like saying that every white person with blue eyes and brown hair is a terrorist, then activists saying no, every white person with blue eyes and brown hair couldn't possibly be a terrorist because that isn't what they were brought up to do. You can not rule out that a person will not kill based on their skin,hair and eye color. Yes there may be some people, even a majority of those people that would never think to harm anything but you cannot rule them out and make them non-suspect, just as you cannot take a more intelligent, prone to playing to rough dog and make it the perfect family pet for everyone. Anyway, now that I have managed to tick EVERYONE off I am done.
