My daughter in Maine owns a couple of pit rescues. I’ve never met them. She’s had them for a few years. Obviously, I was not thrilled when I heard this news, but according to her they’re fantastic, gentle, sweet animals. They have a lot of animals including cats that the pits live harmoniously with.
I’ve said before that I’ve met and even lived with some of the sweetest pits that you could ever know. I hate to condemn a breed of dog and or the people who own them. My daughter is the treasure of my life, and I respect her adult decisions, even if I might disagree or have trouble with it. Thank God, she’s not a Democrat.
Also, I’m not a dog expert and supposedly there’s some confusion about what a Pitbull actually is, so I’ll leave that to people more knowledgeable than me.
Having said all that, I’ve seen bred-in behaviors in animals. I’ve seen herding dogs. I’ve seen bird dogs. I’ve seen rabbit dogs. There is no way that you can tell me that a dog that was initially bred for fighting, doesn’t still have some of that in them. Is this causation? Well, I think it’s pretty hard to discount. Can we breed it out? Maybe. Are people trying? I don’t think so.
So, you have the Pitbull-Satan people and the Pitbull-Jesus people. My daughter started off a little bit like a Pitbull-Jesus person. But I was able to educate her that that was actually not a good strategy. And that people had genuine concerns and that treating people like they’re just being hyperbolic and not empathizing with their concerns was not doing the cause of Pitbulls any favors
Occasionally, I send her a story like this one. I could send one every day, but I don’t.
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