Pit Bulls: What's the appeal?

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I'm sorry. My parents lost theirs a few months ago, but just got a new one. Reminds me, a current Yahoo most e-mailed photo:

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20050914/capt.lahg10509141759.hurricane_katrina_animals_lahg105.jpg?x=261&y=345&sig=XI1RnjFtYCxVegH6G4k33A--

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link

The ancestors of modern pit bulls, English and French bulldogs, and other related breeds were powerful mastiffs bred for farm work. Specifically, these dogs accompanied farmers into the fields to assist with bringing dangerous bulls in for breeding, castration, or slaughter. The dogs, known generally as bulldogs, protected the farmer by subduing the bull if it attempted to gore him. Typically a dog would do this by biting the bull on the nose and holding on until the bull submitted. Because of the nature of their job, bulldogs were bred to have powerful jaws, muscular bodies, and the resolve to hold onto a violently-struggling bull, even when injured.

― Jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link

That doesn't even look real.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link

What about this?
ihttp://www.worth1000.com/entries/84500/84619XDFC_w.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link

It's too cute to be real!

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Ridiculous. Completely ridiculous. There is only one kind of dog for people who take dogs seriously.
http://www.houndsbaybassets.co.uk/pictures/gallery/038.jpg
http://www.southernbassets.com/11_15_harleyhanna.jpg
See.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 19 September 2005 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's the Shih-Tzu caption:

"Animal shelter volunteer Sharon Spann plays with a ShiTzu puppy, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2005, in the Hurricane Katrina Emergency Animal Shelter at Louisiana State University's John M. Parker Coliseum in Baton Rouge, La. As of Wednesday, the shelter was housing over 1,000 companion animals, including 641 dogs, 391 cats, and assorted pigs, rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets, hamsters, gerbils, mice, tortoises, and birds. Since the shelter opened during the days following the hurricane, almost 300 pets have already been reunited with their owners although the number of admissions is still surpassing the number of discharged animals. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)"

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

Hahahahhahahahhaha, NO SPENCER. What I meant was "I just lost my SHIT" because the idea of two little puff balls attacking a bull was hi-larious. I thought I was being clever with the word play. Heh heh... ehhh. Nevermind.

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link

OH!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I am far too lazy to have a dog and God knows my cats would enter into open rebellion if I brought one home, but if I could have any dog, as much as I love them all, I'd probably get a Springer. Also, I'd like to go on record here that despite being wheezy and more than occasionally flatulent, French bulldogs are invariably adorable.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost
Next time try: "I just lost my SHIT-tzu!"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link

OMG Spencer you forgot the *!!

― TOMBOT, Monday, 19 September 2005 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link

"We're gonna do what they say can't be done!"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.yourpurebredpuppy.com/dogbreeds/photos/pugs.jpg

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link

"KILLER"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link

i like cavalier king charles...

http://images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/Regular/10114000/10114485.jpg

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Dude, they're so gonna bone.

― i hate myself sometimes ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Which is unfortunate as they're clearly related.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is BADRAP run by Ma$e?

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

You're thinking of LAMERAP.

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

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

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

It was probably a good idea.

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

(using your logic)

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

TO THE DELOREAN

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

(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 (eighteen years ago) link

I hear that Afghans are bad drivers.

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

their short game is tremendous though

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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