American Pit Bull Terriers Banned

Many American Pit Bull Terriers that have attacked have been poorly socialized, under trained, and neglected. They never learned appropriate behavioral skills to cope with the outside world. Owners most certainly need to understand the dog fighting history, and take necessary precautions by ensuring early socialization with other dogs, and monitoring of their interactions.

American Pit Bull Terriers have been used for sniffing out bombs and drugs, and have been used by the military as well as police forces. They also have been used as therapy and service dogs.

Temperament

The ban is stupid.

As others have said, it's not the dogs that are at fault, but shitty owners.

Sure, some Pits may be bad news, but it's unfair to penalize all Pit Bulls in existance.

Most Pit Bulls, like most dogs in general, are very sweet kind dogs. I've encountered a few and they all seem very playful and happy.

Originally posted by WickedTexasMomA
Last year my brother was traped in a house fire. His pitbull Dam dragged him out of the fire, Saddly both died later, But if goes to show you not all pits are evil animals. The dogs are very loyal when handled right.

Obviously not every pit is a ticking time-bomb just waiting to kill. But, they do have it in them more so than other dogs, because of their fighting (breeding) background. More importantly, they're built for power, so when one does attack, the damage is often more severe than say a Golden Retriever or Pomeranian.

I also think the ban is stupid, especially in states that have loose gun control laws. You can by an assult rifle, but you can't own a pit. Duh.

They were bred to hold on. Never for human aggression, but dog aggression. Certainly a bite from a Pit Bull is more devastating than, say a poodle, but no more devastating than a well placed bite from a Beagle that hits a key nerve in the face.

Originally posted by Storm
They were bred to hold on. Never for human aggression, but dog aggression. Certainly a bite from a Pit Bull is more devastating than, say a poodle, but no more devastating than a well placed bite from a Beagle that hits a key nerve in the face.

Yet aggression was honed in them... they also have one of the strongest bites (2000 psi). So wherever they bite, there's a high chance of serious damage; it doesn't have to be a "key nerve".

There's a reason why 40%+ of the dog caused deaths in America are pit related.

Originally posted by Robtard
Yet aggression was honed in them... they also have one of the strongest bites (2000 psi). So wherever they bite, there's a high chance of serious damage; it doesn't have to be a "key nerve".

There's a reason why 40%+ of the dog caused deaths in America are pit related.

Animal aggression and human aggression are two different things. 2000 is aimed too high. There is no accurate test to measure the PSI of any breed to begin with. The correct number is roughly one third.

Blame the deed and not the breed.

More stupid beuracrats pointing fingers in the wrong directions.

Originally posted by Storm
Animal aggression and human aggression are two different things. 2000 is aimed too high. There is no accurate test to measure the PSI of any breed to begin with. The correct number is roughly one third.

Actually, there is... you have a dog bite down on a measuring device, that will give you a fairly accurate measurement. Also, studying the muscular structure of an animals jaw, neck and head muscles will also paint a fairly accurate account of bite strength.

Is 2000 too high? Maybe it is, regardless, pits have a stronger bite than other breeds. You don't have to be a zoologist to know this either. Compare the musculature of a pits head and neck to another dog; you'll see a large difference in muscle mass and density.

Like I said, 40%+ of dog related deaths are pit caused. Why? One reason is, they have the tools to kill a human with greater ease than other dogs.

I support the bans. And if it was ONLY the dog owners fault then we would be seeing more cases of other dog attacks, however the LARGE majority is always and will most likely always be Pit Bulls.

So as far as I am concerned.. "Wipe them out.. all of them. "

I'm fine with my Beagle, who has never shown any aggression, thank you 😬

hun, Labs have the highest % of Attacks on humans followed by Rots then pitbulls.

According to Wikipedia and a few other sources I just looked at Pit Bulls and Rottweilers make up over 50% of the attacks in the United States, since 2000.

Originally posted by WickedTexasMomA
In my state they are now trying to pass the banning of ALL Pit bulls . Paul Wesselhoft publicly stated" Pitbulls are a dangerous breed. It isnt the owner its the animal them selfs that has brought this on. These dogs would rather eat you then anything else." He also goes on saying that these dogs should be euthanize if citizens do not remove the dogs from state. Theres a huge petition going on right now about it. As a Pit owner myself I find this laughable. ALL DOGS could be dangerousat one point and time. I wont deny that pitbulls where breed for hundreds of years for the purpose of dog fighting, But not all owners of this breed do fight them. A pit still has the urge at times to fight but only because of there breeding, not always because of there temperament. I wish these Big wigs would read and learn more about something before trying to destroy it.

Originally posted by Violent2Dope
F*CK THAT! THEY'LL NEVER TAKE TATER FROM ME!😠

As in tot?

Originally posted by Secretus
As in tot?

Originally posted by WickedTexasMomA
In my state they are now trying to pass the banning of ALL Pit bulls . Paul Wesselhoft publicly stated" Pitbulls are a dangerous breed. It isnt the owner its the animal them selfs that has brought this on. These dogs would rather eat you then anything else." He also goes on saying that these dogs should be euthanize if citizens do not remove the dogs from state. Theres a huge petition going on right now about it. As a Pit owner myself I find this laughable. ALL DOGS could be dangerousat one point and time. I wont deny that pitbulls where breed for hundreds of years for the purpose of dog fighting, But not all owners of this breed do fight them. A pit still has the urge at times to fight but only because of there breeding, not always because of there temperament. I wish these Big wigs would read and learn more about something before trying to destroy it.

They are not as dangerous as German Shepards.But I think all dogs deserve a chance.Not all are bad.It all depends on how they were raise and there ownders.jm 🙁

Originally posted by Blax_Hydralisk
I support the bans. And if it was ONLY the dog owners fault then we would be seeing more cases of other dog attacks, however the LARGE majority is always and will most likely always be Pit Bulls.

So as far as I am concerned.. "Wipe them out.. all of them. "

I'm fine with my Beagle, who has never shown any aggression, thank you 😬

Your reasoning is faulty.

Many owners who have intentions of creating aggressive dogs will make the point of buying a specific breed because they know that these dogs have the CAPACITY to do the most damage if trained to be aggressive.

If all these people bought poodles instead, and purposely trained them to be guard dogs/fighters/whatever, you'd see poodles leading the pack of dog attacks.

Again, it IS about how the dogs are trained. Sure there are exceptions, but again, the vast majority of pitbulls, that are shown love and affection are perfectly fine, kind dogs that won't harm a soul unless given good reason.

I think it's truly sad that the whole breed is getting such a bad rep, and that people may be forced to give up perfectly good, sweet loving pets out of lazy ignorance and unfounded hysteria.

some dogs are more easily trained than others.

So what?

No reason to ban every single pitbull.

Originally posted by BackFire
So what?

No reason to ban every single pitbull.