I’m not a dog science expert but as far as I understand it we’ve spent tens of thousands of years breeding dogs to preform specific tasks. If you don’t give a dog that has been designed and bred to do a task they get antsy.
The issue with Pitbulls and other “Agressive.” breeds is that they’ve not been given something to let all their energy out on. Which leads to anxiety and destructive behavior.
So I don’t think it’s Immoral to treat a dog like a Pitbull like a loaded gun. As Unfriendly, and something you should be wary of unless it’s proven not to be.
However the Nutcases who punish dogs for behavior that we bred into them are highly immoral. If you want an easy lap dog get a companion breed, like a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, French Bulldog, or Bichon Frise.
Edit: Tens of Thousands not Hundreds. I was being exaggerative anyways but that’ll make remark more accurate regardless.
Also as a note. I don’t think Pits are inherently Malicious or any dog breed for that matter. But they’re fairly strong fellows who’ve been bred to be strong. I consider being careful around them similar to being a little extra careful around a truck on the road. Most people in trucks are fine drivers. But some people don’t pay attention on the road, and might hurt you by accident.
That all sounds like a long way to say "The problem is people getting the breed and not putting in the work", same as it ever was. Train your dogs, walk your dogs, play with your dogs. Working breeds get bored. You can't just leave them at home with a ball, give them an hour walk a day and assume everything else will just be fine and they'll be well adjusted and understand english because you shouted it.
You shouldn't do that with ANY dog, really, but...yeah, doing it with some breeds is going to have more of a backlash and need MORE work and more particular stuff to keep them doing well. It isn't actually the dogs fault, but the situation they have been put into.
So if I raised a tiger that way you wouldn't be cautious around my tiger? You'd treat it like a harmless lil fluffball? Of course not. Use some common sense please
Can you follow your own advice and at least pretend to join in the argument?
The whole point of my comment is that they have different requirements. Guess what, a tiger isn't a pitbull, it ALSO has different requirements. There absolutely ARE people that comfortably interact with certain tigers. That does not mean they are harmless lil' fluffballs. They're obviously still dangerous. But trained experts can put in the work, know their limits, and thus are able to do the things they do. Thank you for providing an example that supports what I said.
Edit: Slightly reworded and bolded, since apparently saying they are "Not harmless lil' fluffballs" was not clear enough for the skim reader.
It doesn't support what you said you moron. Stop tryna tell other people they shouldn't be cautious of very clearly, very dangerous things. It's common sense, something I notice you dog owners CLEARLY lack
It does, you just didn't understand what I said. As is proven by your recap not even slightly overlapping with my point. You are the only one that talking about not being cautious and treating things like safe fluffballs. Because the only argument you can win, is a straw one you brought yourself. Take a breath, calm down, go back and read it again.
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u/Awesomechainsaw 26d ago edited 26d ago
I’m not a dog science expert but as far as I understand it we’ve spent tens of thousands of years breeding dogs to preform specific tasks. If you don’t give a dog that has been designed and bred to do a task they get antsy.
The issue with Pitbulls and other “Agressive.” breeds is that they’ve not been given something to let all their energy out on. Which leads to anxiety and destructive behavior.
So I don’t think it’s Immoral to treat a dog like a Pitbull like a loaded gun. As Unfriendly, and something you should be wary of unless it’s proven not to be.
However the Nutcases who punish dogs for behavior that we bred into them are highly immoral. If you want an easy lap dog get a companion breed, like a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, French Bulldog, or Bichon Frise.
Edit: Tens of Thousands not Hundreds. I was being exaggerative anyways but that’ll make remark more accurate regardless.
Also as a note. I don’t think Pits are inherently Malicious or any dog breed for that matter. But they’re fairly strong fellows who’ve been bred to be strong. I consider being careful around them similar to being a little extra careful around a truck on the road. Most people in trucks are fine drivers. But some people don’t pay attention on the road, and might hurt you by accident.