Pit Bulls: What's the appeal?

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Which is unfortunate as they're clearly related.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Not to get back on topic, but I live with a pit bull who is probably the most adorable dog who ever lived, doesn't bark, isn't aggressive, doesn't freak out when he sees another dog. But yeah, he's pretty smelly. Functionally, he's a hopelessly clumsy golden retriever.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

polyphonic otm. Just about every pitbull I've ever known was a big sweetie.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

xpost
He has been plotting your murder for over 8 dog years.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.badrap.org/rescue/

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 19 September 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Look at that pack of vicious humans attacking that poor beast.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 19 September 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

BADRAP's adoption page has the highest concentration of cute dogs on the internet.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 19 September 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Is BADRAP run by Ma$e?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 September 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

You're thinking of LAMERAP.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 19 September 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Fuck a Guardsman who shoots a pit bull. Pit bulls > National Guardsmen.

― adam (adam), Monday, 19 September 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

It was probably a good idea.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 19 September 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

I'm getting a pet bull. They're so adorable and sweet.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 19 September 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

BADRAP's adoption page has the highest concentration of cute dogs on the internet.

OTM. I just went through the adoption page and nearly died.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 19 September 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

So cute!!
http://img.slate.msn.com/media/38000/38634/hitlerBaby.jpg
(note, this image was employed as satiric hyperbole in order to make the point that cute things are not automatically good things)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 19 September 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

I always thought Hitler was a grown man when he gained power.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 19 September 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but it would have been easier to kill him as a baby.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 19 September 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

(using your logic)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 19 September 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

TO THE DELOREAN

― oops (Oops), Monday, 19 September 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Fine.

http://atts.org/

83.3% of pit bulls tested out as non-aggressive in this sampling. A large sampling, too - 469 American Pit Bull Terriers. That's a better rate than preferred 'family dogs' like Cocker Spaniels (81.5%), Collies (79.0%) or even the famous rescue breed of St. Bernards (82.9%).

So, we can conclude that when raised properly to be good dogs, they're very good dogs indeed. Maybe it's worth looking into facts rather than relying on stereotypes and rumors.

Of course, upthread someone said "I don't care about your stupid facts." Well, okay. Nice work, George W. Bush.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 19 September 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

I will say this for the anti-Pit argument... Pit Bulls are incredibly stocky and muscular, much more so than other mid-sized dogs, so when they're aggressive (even if it's less common than more "trustworthy" breeds), they are much more dangerous when they go off than a collie or a st. bernard. Someone please prove me wrong on this one.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

Because I do care about the stupid facts, I cannot deny that a strong, persistent animal like an APBT is potentially very dangerous if it turns vicious.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

This was on Chicago craigslist today:

Anyway, I told my thug-dog about your rapping pitty bull, and he laughed, dog.

He rhymed out this:

Yo, you northside pittys try to be all westside
when I put my jaw on your ass you will not abide
you will feel it slide all on your hide
and the blood will flow this is not a lie.

Southside rotty will rip you up,
make you scream like a bad dream like a dying pup,
rip your ass so bad youre gonna need a pre-nup.

Southside rotty gonna eat your eyes
gonna digest like the marrow all your lies
youre the kind of northside dog that I despise
now I must say to the pitty goodbye.

ihttp://chicago.craigslist.org/rnr/99058782.html

― kidnapping and blackmail (dymaxia), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Ridiculous. Completely ridiculous. There is only one kind of dog for people who take dogs seriously.

We have french bassets. Actually just one now, a bitch. The other died two yrs ago. :-((((

This is Lucy.

http://static.flickr.com/22/33193010_ea7ca5ac14.jpg

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

(Also, I recently heard a woman say on television that the breed has little to do with the personality. What matters most is training. This was said after a Golden Retriever had bitten off a boy's ear. People - including I - were surprised that breed could be aggressive.)

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

I hear that Afghans are bad drivers.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

their short game is tremendous though

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

I hate how people go against pitbulls...the where bread to be mean and fight but if you get a puppy and train it to be nice and not to bit you can have the best dog ever not every single pitbull is mean people just judge them cuz people bring them up like that same with other large dogs its like judging people we are told now a days to not judge people so it should be the same for dog they cant fight for them selves saying there not mean and people should be able to have them so someone has to i say the the dog is just as good as its owner wether its a pitbull or a lab.

― Shelllbs, Sunday, 2 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

why white trash shouldn't breed....or breed dogs

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 3 October 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

such utter, utter viciousness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2OC5Z1Fii8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7m4GVqwqOc&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl93Hc1uH2w

― kingfish, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking there are other kinds of pitbull videos on youtube...

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

But that is pretty cute. However, I am thinking the whole time that it will eat on of the birds. I probably wouldn't think that with a golden retriever though.

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I should note that my "Afghans" comment above is obviously about the dog breed.

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

It's not the dogs, it's the assholes who mistreat them.

That's a wrong assumption to make (at times). It is as if to say that the parents of Hitler (or any sociopath/killer/whatever) are to blame. That's a gross simplification, but it's just as wrong to say that it's the "assholes who mistreat them." Sometimes dogs just turn aggressive, have a dangerous attitude.

i like cavalier king charles...

Seconded. Those are the cutest dogs EVAH.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

On the wider question of bull terriers, I just love Staffies. I met the cutest one yesterday at Dunster Mill. He was called Gus and he was the waggiest dog and just wanted me to stand there and scratch him.

I love how they lean on you when they want you to pet them.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

Have other Londoners noticed how seemingly just in the past, like four months, there are a million young dudes wandering around now with a DOG on a CHAIN? I guess some of these are pit bulls. Most of them look muscular. It's crazy. I was in Brixton the other day and it's like a damn dog show. Every block has at least two guys being dragged purposefully along by a little short, squat, muscular dog. You hear em talkin to each other too (the guys, not the dogs) about breeds, etc. WTF!

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

someday, they will come for you and your potato chips

― kingfish, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

pit bulls have cute little faces.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed they do, plus they are the smilingest dogs EVER!

http://www.badrap.org/rescue/img2/jolee_nose.jpg

PINKNOSE!

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

This is my grand-dog:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/343575416_675cee4c85_o.jpg
She's one of the wussiest dogs I've ever met. She has absolutely the best smile though and is so well behaved.

― Jaq, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

I was walking my pit bull the other day and this giant red Escalade all rimmed out and tinted up comes screaming to a halt in the middle of very busy and narrow Magazine St right next to me. The window rolls down and the driver yells "CHECK THIS SHIT OUT!" I look inside and on the passenger seat is a cardboard box full of newborn pit puppies. Easily in the top five cutest fucking things I've ever seen. Then the dude just tears off down the street.

Moral: Pit bulls bring people closer together. Only connect, etc.

― adam, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

dammit, they've started blocking flickr at work.

― kingfish, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

quit!

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

can't. too much stuff to fix.

― kingfish, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

if anyone in chicago wants a pitbull i met someone selling puppies a few weeks back at a diner.

― deej, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

burn yr desk.

xpost

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Can't do that. It'd burn my new die-cast Mazinger Z, the one with rocket punch and detachable scrander!

― kingfish, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

"eat my assleavings"

!

― onimo, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

It's not the dogs, it's the assholes who mistreat them.

That's a wrong assumption to make (at times). It is as if to say that the parents of Hitler (or any sociopath/killer/whatever) are to blame. That's a gross simplification, but it's just as wrong to say that it's the "assholes who mistreat them." Sometimes dogs just turn aggressive, have a dangerous attitude.

unfortunately it's very true in the case of pit bulls. there's a whole subculture dedicated to turning them into attack dogs, which is difficult to do given their naturally gentle demeanor. it's sickening. they are a very strong + tenacious breed, which makes them attractive to assholes looking for a symbol of power.

my own personal anecdote: I'm not a dog person (you can read about my own childhood dog attack story on the scars thread if you dare), but my wife is. she convinced me to take in a pit bull saved from a fighting ring back when we lived in nashville.

in tennessee pit bulls are euthanised automatically when they end up in shelters. they can't find them homes because the dog-fighting rings will just scoop them back up again. but this dog was not one of the fighters, she was a "warmup" dog, the one the other dogs would attack to get ready for a fight. she was the sweetest dog ever, and one of the shelter workers couldn't stand to see her put down. so she was smuggled out on the doggie underground railroad.

we had her for years, and she was an angel. it always surprised people unfamiliar with the breed that she was a pit bull. but it was literally like living with a hunted animal - we constantly had to lie about her breed to acquaintances, neighbors, and landlords because YES THE MEDIA AND THE DOGFIGHT SUBCULTURE have turned the pit bull into a symbol of fear and violence. it's such a shame.

I'm not a dog breeder, but I believe part of the reason the american staffordshire terrier name came about was to avoid the "pit bull" term, but essentially they're the same breed.

― Edward III, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

needless to say I was OTMing kerry through this whole thread.

― Edward III, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

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