I have known quite a few lovely soft pitties. I'm fairly convinced that the breed is fine if the owners are good. With that said, a lot of owners aren't good or are unprepared for the care the difficult breeds need.
I'll admit I was afraid of them just based on their reputation, until I met one. My aunt got one and I was pretty nervous around her at first, but she is the absolute sweetest most affectionate dog I've ever met and I love her.
The breed attracts chuds, but because of the fact that like 90% of dogs in shelters around here are pits or pit mixes, it also attracts people who want a rescue dog and are willing to get a less 'desirable' breed.
At the end of the day, they're still terriers. Meaning, they're absolute cuddly wuddly widdle sweethearts who just want to be loved and play fetch but not drop the fucking ball, right up until they suddenly decide to try to rip your face off because of resource guarding behavior that was never trained out of them. Except a Pit or a Staffordshire can actually do it, unlike a Yorkie, Scottie, Westie, or Jack Russel, etc.
It's sad, because most of them are genuinely sweet dogs, but you can not fuck around with their training. (Edit: As in, not anymore than you could with a larger and still energetic breed like a Rottweiler or German Shepherd. Meanwhile, wolfhounds and mastiffs are basically couch potatoes. Go figure.)
And then there's my local shelter, which I am pretty sure is adopting out rescued feral American dingo (AKA Carolina dog) puppies and claiming they're lab mixes...
Late comment, but I have fostered a pit-bull and a lab/pitty mix and they were both regal animals and the sweetest nannies you could have asked for. Absolutely wonderful animals.
I owned a pitbull he was so sweet and cute raised from a pup...until he mauled my yorkie :( I had to clean his gore while my dad disposed of the body. We had to rush because if my stepmom saw she would be devastated. We didn’t euthanize him because we knew he was a good dog.
He then attacked my poodle cockerspaniel mix and broke his leg so much we had to put him down. we put him down after that Even the cute sweet ones raised in a good home can be violent
oh and then I got a second pit bull and he bit my nephew in the face making him have stitches, the child was very gently petting him and even seeing if he was ok while petting him.
I don't believe you comrade. Pits aren't more aggressive than other breeds, that is fiction, there is literal research on it. I've owned many dogs while growing up and, if socialized with other dogs, have never seen problems except from territory disputes with unknown dogs which can be resolved by being mindful and not having your dog around a strange dog unsupervised.
Think what you think about the truth of it, Ive given pits PLENTY of chances. He had been living with my yorkie and cocker spaniel his whole life. He was raised with tons of little dogs his whole life and we have all our dogs neutered. based in my life experience they can just snap somethimes. 3 different occasions and two different dogs is too much for me.
When you murican, you murican.
Fuck pitbulls tho
I have known quite a few lovely soft pitties. I'm fairly convinced that the breed is fine if the owners are good. With that said, a lot of owners aren't good or are unprepared for the care the difficult breeds need.
Noooo they're so nice and sweet and good :'(
Yeah, but it's always the chudest of chud who have them and mistreat them, making them killing machines, at least here
I'll admit I was afraid of them just based on their reputation, until I met one. My aunt got one and I was pretty nervous around her at first, but she is the absolute sweetest most affectionate dog I've ever met and I love her.
The breed attracts chuds, but because of the fact that like 90% of dogs in shelters around here are pits or pit mixes, it also attracts people who want a rescue dog and are willing to get a less 'desirable' breed.
At the end of the day, they're still terriers. Meaning, they're absolute cuddly wuddly widdle sweethearts who just want to be loved and play fetch but not drop the fucking ball, right up until they suddenly decide to try to rip your face off because of resource guarding behavior that was never trained out of them. Except a Pit or a Staffordshire can actually do it, unlike a Yorkie, Scottie, Westie, or Jack Russel, etc.
It's sad, because most of them are genuinely sweet dogs, but you can not fuck around with their training. (Edit: As in, not anymore than you could with a larger and still energetic breed like a Rottweiler or German Shepherd. Meanwhile, wolfhounds and mastiffs are basically couch potatoes. Go figure.)
And then there's my local shelter, which I am pretty sure is adopting out rescued feral American dingo (AKA Carolina dog) puppies and claiming they're lab mixes...
Late comment, but I have fostered a pit-bull and a lab/pitty mix and they were both regal animals and the sweetest nannies you could have asked for. Absolutely wonderful animals.
I see you, I hear youThe problem is mostly the owners, that at least where I live, are always the stupidest kind of human you can find.
I owned a pitbull he was so sweet and cute raised from a pup...until he mauled my yorkie :( I had to clean his gore while my dad disposed of the body. We had to rush because if my stepmom saw she would be devastated. We didn’t euthanize him because we knew he was a good dog.
He then attacked my poodle cockerspaniel mix and broke his leg so much we had to put him down. we put him down after that Even the cute sweet ones raised in a good home can be violent
oh and then I got a second pit bull and he bit my nephew in the face making him have stitches, the child was very gently petting him and even seeing if he was ok while petting him.
Jesus Christ
I don't believe you comrade. Pits aren't more aggressive than other breeds, that is fiction, there is literal research on it. I've owned many dogs while growing up and, if socialized with other dogs, have never seen problems except from territory disputes with unknown dogs which can be resolved by being mindful and not having your dog around a strange dog unsupervised.
Think what you think about the truth of it, Ive given pits PLENTY of chances. He had been living with my yorkie and cocker spaniel his whole life. He was raised with tons of little dogs his whole life and we have all our dogs neutered. based in my life experience they can just snap somethimes. 3 different occasions and two different dogs is too much for me.