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I know it's ridiculous, unfortunetly what can be done - people breed these dogs knowing that they will either be used for fighting or knowing that even if they are got as pets, if they ever find themselves in a pound they will likely be PTS due to rehoming issues (same with rotties, gsd's and others at the moment)one ironic thing about all those investigations is the "rescued" dogs mostly get destroyed
the dogs really are caught between a rock and a hard place.
Very true.If you outlaw them, they'll only be replaced by another breed..
As for the rehab thing, I'd like to think they could be but I'm not entirely sure if they ever could be 100%. Perhaps in a controlled environment, but I wouldn't trust them near other dogs. someone I know made that mistake when I was a kid. He took in a young dog, (this was not a pure bull breed btw but may have been a cross, I was very young so don't remember) who was not wanted by his "owner". This dog was fantastic around people, but not so good around other dogs. He worked hard with him, spent a lot of time trying to have him accept other dogs and it seemed to be working. He was there about 6 months in total when the new owner had them out (supervised) when this little black terror caught a hold of a JRT pup and shredded him. Poor baby
These people had dogs all their lives, a lot of them rescues, and had never seen an attack like this. He just wanted to kill him. Nothing they could do would make him let go of the pup. It was horrific.
Needless to say, I am a great believe in rehabilitation of these dogs but would always be very wary of them around others. Perhaps with professional help they might be ok but even with 30years experience that man had was not expecting what happened, or the sheer determination this dog had.
(the original owner of the dog was reported shortly after the second person acquired the dog which is why I'm so vague on who it happened to, you never know who might be reading, prob silly but to be on the safe side
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rehabilitation would suggest that the dogs could be introduced into any domestic environment and function as a normal domesticated pet. Not true. These dogs are trained from an early age to utilize their in built agressive tendencies. These instincts are inherent in every dog bred by man for a specific purpose. Most dogs such as pit bulls never are allowed to develop these natural characteristics. However once they are developed it is very difficult to get the dog to behave in a fashion completly alien to them. I have seen this with fox hounds even young hounds they find it very difficult to function as a pet in a household for the simple reason that they are bred to function within a group of hounds. Personally I would never be able to trust a figthing dog. So the notion of rehabilation is void
I am sorry but I strongly disagree because I have sucessfully integrated many APBT with fighting backround into normal domestic settings. The most recent one is Nipper, the BBC dog
. So your notion is void. 0 -
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