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Originally Posted by Zulu29
I have to say this. Dogs like German Shepherds and Huskies serve a purpose. Shepherds are amazing police dogs, cadaver dogs, avalanche rescue dogs an therapy dogs. Husky's have been used for centuries by northern natives and explorers as a means of transportation. Pit Bulls serve no purpose other than the fact that people like them because they're "bad ass". There are far too much Pit Bull apologists out there. I hear from them nearly every time I take my dog to the dog park. "Oh I just really wanna make sure he's socialized", "well he just takes awhile to warm up to you", "he's never done that before", or my favourite "he's just playing rough" as he's grabbing another dog by the throat and stepping on it. I have had dogs my entire life, German Shepherds, Border Collies, a Husky Akita cross and now a Boston Terrier. Not one of them has bit me or snapped at me or anyone else. Now last week I go to a friends house who is hosting my wife's baby shower. They have a pit bull. This thing has seen me probably a dozen times, let me pet it, feed it, it knows who I am. I go to set a box of supplies down and it lunged at me trying to bite my leg but I got out of the way in time. Ive been attacked twice at work by pit bulls and ended up having to kill them. Sorry but if it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, it's a duck. There a reason they have their reputation.
They serve zero purpose.
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I never posted anything about defending depending American Pit bull Terriers in that post. What I actually said was all dogs can be unpredictable. American Stafford shire Terrier are different.They were the first dogs used within he k9 units .
http://www.cesarsway.com/dogbehavior...-Get-a-Bad-Rap
"However, as the breed spread to Americans and Americans spread across the continent, pit bulls began to be put to their original use, as general purpose herding and working dogs. Because of their fighting history, though, the American Kennel Club would not recognize the breed until 1936, although they defined it as a Staffordshire terrier, distinct from the American pit bull terrier."
https://www.akc.org/breeds/american_...rier/index.cfm
"Courageous and strong, the American Staffordshire Terrier (Am Staff)'s athletic build and intelligence make him ideally suited to many dog sports such as obedience, agility, tracking and conformation."
I've been attacked by by many German shepherds but not calling for a total ban on the breed. I have owned 2 myself. If you go into some ones house dogs get protective. German Shepherds with out the right training do have have a reputation as well of biting. My Mother at one time in the 80's had bred German Shepherds for The Medicine Hat RCMP. There is a reason Police and Military use them. MY Girlfriends Aunt 2 years ago had to put down a Retired police dog because it had grabbed a Standard Poodle by Its neck and killed it.
You have had some good luck with dogs. Yes both the breeds you listed have a purpose TO WORK!!!That was the pupose of even domesticating dogs.Even Pomeranians where breed to be watch dogs due to their acute hearing. does a family need a large breed of working dog? If A dog is not able to do what they were bred to do it may have behavior issues. You can see this in Border Collies. They will innately try to herd everything and have a tendencies to nip.
I was never debating the issues that Americian pit bull Terriers in modern society. During the 80's with the resurgence with dog fighting and being used as a favorite guard dog of drug dealers this is not a surprise . What I am trying to say is re-purpose them like in the early days. keep them out of the hands of unintelligent people . Put them into Military service like in WW2 and the early days of the K9 units. My whole point is why does any person within the city other than Police need a working class breed?
Banning any type of breed wouldn't stop from being around. Drugs,guns,prostitution,human trafficking etc are banned but still around. During the days of prohibition on alcohol spawned vast criminal organizations. Banning something never seems to work out but, makes a problem worse.