PRO BSL CULTISTS: Rachel Simas Once they successfully have a pit bull gathering every year like the golden retriever gathering I will eat my words and admit they are like any other dog.

Lisa Mckenzie Burke

I love it when I see people who need a pit bull fostered or adopted but say it can be the only dog in the house. Why is that ? Because they will attack other dogs/ people??? Smh

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Helga Joubert And what's wrong with this is there may be no other dogs in the foster's home, but there ARE other dogs in the neighborhood, and pit bulls are notorious escape artists.

Yesterday at 2:27am · Like · 11
Cynthia Jean Staples-Miller Funny how your post is right below a pit mix in the same situation you speak of on my news feed.

Yesterday at 2:57am · Like · 1
Jeffrey Sloan The propensity these people have to sugar-coat all things pit bull related, while making shrill, strident and bizarre accusations against e.g. chihuahuas is particularly obnoxious.

Yesterday at 3:37am · Like · 9
Liz Marsden You should see how some of these people live -- their houses are a maze of crates and industrial-strength gates designed so that no dog ever has contact with another. Can you imagine??

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Laurel Davis Jeffrey Sloan, I have yet to meet anyone in real life who was seriously harmed by a Chihuahua--yet nearly all nutters have a horror story involving one. Defies logic and probability.

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Jeffrey Sloan That type of dangerous animal containment regime, while neccessary for pit bull owners, is far removed from the peaceful way that people and dogs have coexisted for millennia.

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Liz Marsden Everyone needs to remember that evolution created canines that AVOID serious aggression. Dogs have a complex repertoire of behaviors that work to prevent serious injuries to themselves and their fellow pack members. So, avoidance if possible, followed by the warning growl, snap, or last resort, single inhibited bite are all normal responses to conflict, whereas the game-bred dog's method is abnormal -- launch into a devastating attack and don't stop until your opponent is dead.

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Elizabeth Bennet Oh my God. How could anyone see that picture and think pit bulls are safe?

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Donna Partridge I know a pit that runs with a lab, a beagle, a mix of some kind, and a beautiful Alaskan shepherd. they do not fight. He loves on babies and all.

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Ted Chu For now....anyway. Some rattlesnakes won't bite either, until that special day.....

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Jeffrey Sloan Donna - that's the whole point, isn't it? Many in this group had or knew pit bulls that were loved, well raised, well treated and well behaved, until the day they suddenly, with zero warning, launched a brutal, sustained, relentless attack to the death. We all know that pit bull puppies often act just like other dogs. But unfortunately, pit bull puppies eventually mature and become pit bulls, and that deadly change is the reason animal shelters are stuffed with them.

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Joanna McGinn Donna: Pits can 'run' with other dogs until that unexplicable moment when the centuries and generation after generation after generation BREEDING kicks in and he will go after another pack dog, a dog on the outside of his territory or a member of his human pack. These are dogs that not only bite the hands that feed them but take off the arms, legs, feet, throats as well.

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Joanna McGinn I posted a short video about Cairn Terriers. You guys know that is my 'dog of choice'. BUT so far we almost never see a 'MUST be an only dog' in their descriptors. I've had as many as 7 at one time... and they ARE terriers, but they generally respect the alpha and I was blessed with a extremely excellent one... only one fight in 25 years of fostering... it was a DandiDinmont who turned out to have a brain tumor and we lovingly sent him to the Bridge. If a dog has to even be FOSTERED in a home where it's the only dog, the problems are too great for any rescue group to attempt (most foster homes of PBs haven't a clue even as to how NORMAL dogs 'work')... so you're dealing with basically amateurs with little guidance or training the group I work with has BINDERS of directions and sections on specific trianing but then they've been doing htis for 15 years with 5K placed... and yes some tragic errors have happened early on and the lessons were learned and included in the protocols....so it doesn't happen again. I have not seen that 'due dilligence' in any PB group (maybe Bad Rap might do something) but certainly not in these appeals to just anyone out there who thinks that love and care will cure the aggression. AGRHhhhhh

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Jeffrey Sloan 30 chihuahuas - no crates, no cages, community feeding, sleeping and playtime - try this with 30 mature pit bulls and you'll have a bloodbath - http://ranchodechihuahua.org/.../chihuahuamercialchitastic

Chihuahuamercial—Chitastic! — Rancho de Chihuahua Dog Rescue in Chimayo,...

RANCHODECHIHUAHUA.ORG

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Rachel Simas Once they successfully have a pit bull gathering every year like the golden retriever gathering I will eat my words and admit they are like any other dog.

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Rachel Simas Until then, put up or shut up pitters.

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Julie Edwards-Matanga That many Chihuahuas can possibly cause lasting damage to the ear drums.

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Julie Edwards-Matanga And the ankles.

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Julie Edwards-Matanga You may need to buy some more socks.

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Jeffrey Sloan Julie - you may be onto something there - you should hear the way my girls howl in the entryway when there is a knock at the door... or a truck across the street - or a noise down the block.

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Julie Edwards-Matanga Deafening! It's like two piccolos playing together!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGRstEtMxYg

Piccolo duet, by Giulio Briccialdi

Moderato (from "16 Duos Dialogues, Op. 132"), by Giulio Briccialdi. Performed on...

YOUTUBE.COM

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Penny Spears People get into rescue, fostering, transporting, volunteering, not just because they love animals, but because they want to do good. I transport dogs (not pit bulls), and have seen a LOT of women driving legs of the dogs' journey who are absolutely terrified of the dogs. I am sure some of these women transport pit bulls (which is ludicrous) and are afraid of them as well, putting themselves and others in harm's way. They mean well, and shelters and such prevail upon them to handle these dogs and take them in. How many of their lives are ruined by getting talked into "crate and rotate."? I shudder to think how many are out there.

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