I'm going to tell you my reasons, not speaking for the others on here, on why I hate the pit bull community. This is going to be kinda long.
I think every breed needs to have a good community behind it for the breed to be successful. They need people to breed these dogs correctly, make known of bad breeders within the breed, preserve to breed whether by standard and/or working, breed healthy dogs, help rescue their breed if these dogs in up in a shelter, maintain the lines, etc. Yes, many breeds are split between show and working communities, but even then both of them have the breed's best interest in heart even though they may have a different direction to go by it.
The APBT community I don't even... There is just so much confusion, so many lies, so many different opinions on what this breed really is. The breed is a complete mess. You have so many sides blaming the other side for why the breed is like this way and neither can agree on a solution to the problem because the divide is TOO wide to ever agree on anything.
I mean, you have one side who, bless their hearts, come into the breed because of the bad rap and they want to be advocates or the breed, but they are advocating that it is all on how you raise them. A lot of people are preaching this message, which goes against ALL dog breeds, but when you have a highly potential DA breed who already has a bad rap to began with, this can do some serious damage. How many horror stories that I have of unsuspecting owners who puppy pit bull went from dog loving to dog hating in one day time. And unfortunately, with these dogs tendency to sometimes attack completely unprovoked, you have a lot of hurt and confuse owners who are thinking maybe there is something to the myth after all.
Then you have the traditionals who feel these dogs should be breed the way they always been breed, even if it is now illegal. These people blame the pet pit bull owners and pet pit bulls for the attacks on people. They also give out a lot of crap that these dogs were better in the fighting days because fighting them supposedly guaranteed a people friendly dog. Some even advocate that these dogs aren't even meant to be just pets and do normal dog related activities like dogs sports or being taken out of the public because these are are so hot. This community also doesn't health test their dogs, despite the fact that these breeds are full of health problems.
I have a lot of problems with this viewpoint for many reasons.Of course, I believe dog fighting is deplorable and anyone who advocates it advocates animal abuse. And also because I don't think fighting dogs create a stable breed. This might be an unpopular view point, and it goes against a lot of what we advocate with the whole "human aggressive dogs were culled" argument, but the truth is, that is a huge bold face lie. I mean, think about it. Why in the world does a breed who was supposedly bred against human aggression, have
twice the fatal attacks of that of a the mismanaged guardian breed, the rottweiler. It doesn't make sense! You can blame backyard breeding but plenty of breeds, from the german shepherd to the labrador, have large amount of backyard breeding going and you don't see the large amount of fatal attacks from them. Hell, the last time I've heard of a fatal attack involving a lab was done by a lab puppy. And yes, I do keep in check of dog fatalities. A breed bred AGAINST human aggression should be a lot more rock solid in temperament with humans to the point where it should be hard to get a truly HA dog from the breed.
But the truth is, the man biters weren't culled, or at least, not all of them. It depended on the dog fighter, and more likely than not a pit bull who prove himself in the pit and is HA will get bred again. Some of the most celebrated fighting dogs in history were known to be human aggressive and bred
many times. And the attacks written in the past about these dogs from the champion fighters point to an extreme unstableness in the breed that went beyond just animal aggression.
The all famous Zebo
"Unfortunately one day Zebo attacked Adam’s son removing his ear and Adam’s wife made him get rid of Zebo so he sold him to Mr. Johnson. Johnson got Zebo to take part in another 2 fights and then retired him undefeated from fighting at the age of 7 and put him to stud. Zebo died at the age of 13"
July-August 1976
4th Match C. Beasley vs Starsky & Hutch M65 Ref. B. Clouse
Beasley's red and white handled by Joe Alvarado. Hutch handling a black. At the scales, while weighing the red and white, who is a bad man-eater, Alvarado lost control of the dog and headed right for Earl Maloney and bit him in the chest. Bill Carr kicked him loose and was bitten himself, very bad, just above the rib cage. That big crazy dog then headed for the crowd with his mouth wide open. Some one could have been seriously hurt if Bill Carr hadn't intercepted again, this time getting bit on the leg, through his boot. They finally got the dog under control and the match was on. Alvarado got fouled out for some bad handling in his corner and the Winner: Starsky & Hutch's black dog.
It would be a good idea to muzzle know man-eaters to prevent something like this from happening again.
Reported by Bobby D. Smith
"Back In The Ole Bulldog Days These Manbiters Were Eliminated Immediately."
I hear this over and over again, so let me just ask who, specifically, ever culled a game "man-biter" back in "The Ole Bulldog Days?"
Earl T never minded feeding man-biters, even though his wife's legs were covered with bite scars. Some of Tant's dogs would just as soon eat you as look at you. I understand Burns' dogs were even worse.
I'd like to see someone step foot on V Jackson's yard if he wasn't around.
Carver kept his share of "man-biters," as did many many other famed dogmen.
In most cases, if a dog was good enough to win, it was good enough to live, regardless of who it wanted to have for dinner.
ROCKY ALEXANDER, APBT historian and former APBT breeder
Virgil was a fairly easy going pup, but became almost uncontrollable when he got excited, and on one occasion, while the 10 month old pup was in a rage, tried to bite the Gambler, and actually torn the shirt off of Gambler's back as he tried to get away from the angry pup. Gambler thought very seriously about putting the dog down, but instead decided to roll him. Evidently he liked what he saw and by the tender age of just over 18 months, Virgil became a 1X winner.
The story of Bullyson, who was reportedly so HA that his handlers were terrified of him. Oh, but he still known far and wide as one of the greated pit dogs.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/93304764/The-Legend-of-Bullyson
I know every one of us have read the dog attacks where the dogs were reported to attack completely unprovoked. Yeah, most of us, including me, doubted and and thought that the owners just miss the signs or the victim actually did something to make it happen. Well, the APBT is one of the few breeds known to attack other dogs unprovoked. Is it really too hard to believe that an APBT with human aggression in his genes could possibly, completely unprovoked, attack a human being. And these dogs definitely were not seen in a good light back in the "good ol days." I found out there were places who wanted to ban these dogs back as far as 1918 due to attacks on people and their pets. Many of the stories I hear today were the exact same stories back then. A dog who played with the neighbors children before and was oh so friendly suddenly, out of the blue, attack a child. And the people were left utterly confused about why.
There is a problem with the breed when one of the founders of the breed, the oh so famous John Colby, had one of his fighting dogs attack and kill his visiting nephew. This guy made many books off the breed and was one of the first people who sold this breed to public hands. There is a problem within the breed when, in the fighting days, you have pictures likes this
being displayed in the newspaper. There is a very dangerous, unstable element in the breed that needs to be recognize.
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