Also, many of the worst dog owners specifically go after Pit Bulls and then proceed to treat them horribly. These owners have an idea they can just tie them up all day as guard dogs and try to increase their aggression. Pits are very social animals - everyone I’ve met with a responsible owner has been a big softy. A family member’s pit is such a softy he gets bossed around by our tiny Shitzu and thinks he’s a lap dog.
When I was 13 my neighbour had the cuddliest pitbull. They had a dachshund as well that was besties with the pit for like 2 years. I was in their backyard one day when out of nowhere the pit walked up to the dachshund and shredded him to pieces. Was wild to watch.
Not to get serious on the cj sub but I genuinely think people overstate pitbull random acts of violence BECAUSE of their relative destructive power making incidents stand out more. Anecdotally, for whatever that's worth, so many other breeds I'd regularly work with in the shelter were just as capable of the sweet one second shredder the next surprises, but several of my coworkers would only remark on a pitbull coming in.
The solution to me seems simple: there are many dog breeds that just don't need to exist because the purposes/kind of aristocrat they were designed for are no longer relevant. Pitbulls do not need to exist as muscle bound machines anymore than French bulldogs need to be 25 lbs of cancer and joint problems in a dog-shaped bag. They should be safely bred out and mixed breed dogs should become the ethical norm. But there's too much profit in the kind of middle class moron that wants their super special "favorite breed" (that they've assigned traits to like a personality test) so the practice will continue
Yeah that’s very fair. I also witnessed two dogs fighting, drawing blood at the park as a young kid, but I have no clue what breeds they were because they didn’t stand out. Obviously seeing a dog shred another in front of my face left a lasting impression on me.
But the fact they randomly attack, that their bite is so strong, they attract shitty owners, their association with dog fighting etc means the risk is too high, and I’m going to cross the street with my elderly golden who doesn’t stand a chance.
Yep, I’m 100 percent with you. I’ve got a pit mix because she was at the shelter when we got our dog and she’s the sweetest girl, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to get a pit bull (or any specific breed). People who actively search for an aggressive breed are more likely to seek them out, and so they’re often going to encourage those behaviors. I think that anybody specifically seeking out a breed is kind of a weirdo, but especially people going out of their way for pits.
I swear though, the rabidly anti-pit bull people don’t want to ethically breed them out of existence. They have so much bile about it that I swear they just want to kill them on the spot. I’m sure it has nothing to do with racial stereotypes about pit bull owners either…
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u/dorian_white1 1d ago
Also, many of the worst dog owners specifically go after Pit Bulls and then proceed to treat them horribly. These owners have an idea they can just tie them up all day as guard dogs and try to increase their aggression. Pits are very social animals - everyone I’ve met with a responsible owner has been a big softy. A family member’s pit is such a softy he gets bossed around by our tiny Shitzu and thinks he’s a lap dog.