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Emalthya
Awww Latte what a cute name XD They are so loving, and they have so many different ways to show love. Morticia would just work herself up into a berserk frenzy of love and nearly trip you over (nearly, because she did trip mum over once and mum broke her arm). But her sister, Roxie, was the quietest dog, not shy, just quiet, she showed love like for quiet cuddles. Tisha would jump on you if you were lying in bed.
The hate is a class hate. The leader of PETA said only pimps and drug dealers have pitbulls.
10 year old me: Wha-?
Typical humans who want something to blame. Mean pitbulls come from bad owners. Plain and simple. Pitbulls are just animals dependant on humans to train them properly. Its not fair to blame the dog for human failure
You're completely right, of course. The fact is that many pitbulls are descended, not from, what we'll call, the unregistered lower class owned strain which may or may not participate in dog fighting, but from lines of champion dogs with pedigrees. Tisha, my pitbull, wasn't registered, cost too much and in my country they don't have studbooks for pitbulls because in most of the country they're illegal, just not where she was born, but her parents were registered, her father had to be shipped from the US, and her father's father was a grand champion. She is as different to a backyard bred, dogfighting-lineage pitbull as a blue heeler is, and just as unlikely to hurt anyone.
Inherent nature is a thing which exists, I have noticed it with smaller dogs who are not trained 'because what could he hurt?' (I hate that. Little dogs can attack and hurt you, and 'dog attack' on the tv makes you think of pit bulls and it makes it worse) because bigger dogs are always (in my experience) well socialised due to the bigger harm they pose, and a dog bred to fight, even when trained with love and socialised, is more likely to fight...
other dogs. Pit bulls sometimes don't like other dogs. That's fine. I'm a human who doesn't really like other humans. Tisha didn't like other dogs (except her sister, who she didn't see for 2 years and then was all OMG LUV LUV). But even dog fightings dogs are trained NEVER to touch people, if they do, they're put down immediately, because the owner has to be in the fight ring with them. There's no inherent danger to people from pit bulls (I can't say that about other dogs- look at cocker spaniels and their psychotic mind breaks which makes them have fits of rage and viciousness they snap out of- it's very interesting and horrible), and less danger to other dogs if a pit bulls' personality is paid attention to- if it likes dogs, get another. If it doesn't like dogs, get something else. Tisha got on quite well with my free roaming parrot. Who would chew the sleep out of Tisha's eyes. While the dog was like '>.<;; Mummy.. she peck me...'
To completely prove your point, the Michael Vick pitbulls who were rescued from his dog fighting ring were, all but two, able to be homed with people. Even his grand champion, who has been on Ellen, dogs that killed dogs. One was in so much emotional pain she had to be put down her her own safety and good, and one, sadly, who reminds me of my Tisha, Rose, had to be put down for medical reasons. Over 45 pit bulls either went to loving homes with children, went to dog sanctuaries, or went to homes (like the grand champion, Georgia) with trainers who could deal with a possibly dangerous dog.
That was a heavy conversation. Here's a picture of my Tisha smiling ^^
CHEEEESE
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