Originally Posted by Beth33
Next door neighbors brought home a pit bull puppy from the pound. Would you be freaked? Or do you think they get a bum wrap?
So here is what happened...
Pittbulls got to be popular and so people started breeding them just to make money, not caring what they were breeding. They bred any two no matter what their tempement was like which started the really mean ones. These were bred to meaner ones which were used for fighting because they were so mean.
When you bred you should be breeding to better the bred by weeding out bad traits by breeding two that have all the good things, i.e. temperment, health, etc.
I beleive a dog no matter what the bred is only as good or bad as the owner raises it. You get a dog and lock it up in the back yard and watch what happens.
I have been an ACO and I have seen what this can do to them. I have seen a dog who waited 1 1/2 years to go to court, mean while they are sitting in a dog run at the shelter. She was not fit for any one by the time it went to court on her bite case. I ahve seen dogs loose it just after being kenneled for just 3 months.
I have a friend who raised pitts for many years and she put down 2 of her puppies due to them showing agressiveness torward the other puppies during feeding. She did not want this dog to end up in the wrong hands nor end up killing someone or something since it was showing so much agression at a young age.