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Originally Posted by Sliver
There are so few people that give a single fata about "rehabbing" a vicious dog, though. Like, your story isn't inspiring. I'm sitting here shocked you'd put yourself, your family, your property, your community and your reputation on the line for a 200 pound mastiff your enormous husband could "barely contain." That is not sensible and it is egregiously irresponsible.
Even you sit here saying bully breeds require exercise, socializing, and training in order to NOT be a vicious killer. Well hate to break it to you, but people just aren't going to put in all that effort, so the breeds need to go. Look back through this thread and read up on some of the insane attacks over the years. Bully breeds. And typically they're sweethearts until they're not.
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It doesn't matter what I say here, at the start he wasn't mean and vicious. My family wasn't in jeopardy, neither of my other two dogs were in any sort of risk, they all got along great, it was just leash reactivity, and I'm 100% sure there are others in this thread even who has a dog that is reactive on leash.
Anyway, my point is, there are so many breeds that have issues, so many breeds that are interbred with pitbulls. We have rescued/fostered labs, shepherds, huskies, chihuahuas, pitbull mixes with all those other friendly breeds, how do you deal with all those mixed breeds? You can't just go around and scoop up all the mixed breed dogs and euthanize them.
But you can start to educate people on breeds and what suits people best.
You're right, a lot of owners who own powerful breeds do no socialize them properly, nor do they know how to and they do not exercise them enough.
My husband works with dogs on a regular basis, the worse biters and least trained of them all are doodles. All the types of doodles. People expect their dog to get trained going to doggy daycare, that is irresponsible too.
I am not for breed bans, I am not for people breeding pitbulls at all, it needs to stop. There are enough troubled dogs out there of all large breeds, the only sensible way to stop backyard breeders and those who don't follow the rules or think they can handle it is to start training more people about dog behaviour and educating our kids, etc.
This latest story is very tragic, I just can't even imagine what that scene was like or how horrific it would be to end your life that way.
What can our society do today to help mitigate this? What is your solution? They won't stop breeding them (which I do not support at all), you will never stop people from being able to get pitbulls, so you do a country wide ban?
What do we do?