Swingman wrote:

"Rick Cook" spewed in message


Swingman wrote:

"Peter De Smidt" wrote in message

That's quite scary, though, isn't it? Clearly most owners are not
knowledgeable or equipped to do such training, and it's a leap of
faith
that it's possible to overcome this inborn tendency. You might make it
less likely that your dog will attack others, but will you totally
remove that urge? I doubt it.

Precisely!

Precisely wrong!

Do you have ANY experience whatsoever with being around pit
bulls? Have you ever trained one or tried to train one?

Can you read? Do you? According to your own words in a previous message, you
havent had any of the above.

As far as I can see your experience with pit bulls consists of getting bitten by
one when you tried to break up a dog fight. This seems to have led you to a
phobic reaction against this particular breed of dog -- irregardless of the fact
that anyone attempting to break up a dog fight between _any_ breeds of dogs runs
a high risk of being bitten. (And if anything I'd argue the risk of being bitten
by a pit bull in that situation is less than with most other breeds because
aggression towards humans was stringently de-selected.)


It's pretty clear you're talking from a near-complete lack of knowledge.

Had you made the smallest effort to read this thread, you wouldn't have made
such a fool out of yourself by jumping to that erroneous conclusion. You
also made clear that your qualifications were limited to having "never owned
one" and only "having several friends who own them ..."

I have obviously spent far more time around pit bulls than you have. I have seen
them raised from puppyhood to old age. I have had the opportunity to observe a
number of specimens of the breed at very close range. And I have friends who
have spent literally years raising them. And of course, some of my best canine
friends are pit bulls.

So, yes. I have more than ample experience to comment when faced with the kind
of ignorance and phobias you've displayed in this thread.



Not exactly what I'd call expert opinion that justifies such, well ...
"arrogance" ... another one of your words in this thread.

Call it rather 'experience.' Far more than you have with pit bulls, apparently.

However beyond that, don't you see the arrogance implicit in labeling an entire
breed of dogs, or anything else, as 'dangerous'?

--RC




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