Well as long as there are people out there craving "designer dogs" and willing to pay top dollar for them, they are going to breed them unfortunately. Why can't you just love a breed for what it is? Some of those mixes turn out hideous and let's not even talk about temperament. Geez..
________________________________ From: courtney church <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] pit bulls i actually love pit bulls. but i love the ones that are SHOW bred. not the backyard breeding mills where people are slapping any two pitbulls together regardless of temperment or size. we get a lot of pitbulls in my grooming salon and they are all just the biggest love bugs that will crawl right into your lap and cover your face with kisses. yes there are some bad ones out there that are not necessarily from bad owners, just bad breeding. if you are breeding an agressive dog to another dog that agression is going to breed down into the pups. but i think the SHOW dogs are stunning and have wonderful personalities. but there are WAY too many pitbulls being back yard bred that it is actually sad. and now that they are trying to make a shorter BULLY style of them by mixing them with bulldogs is just so damn rediculous and not to mention they look awful! i dont understand that group of people that do that. From: Yorkiluvr <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 10:11 PM Subject: [Chihuahuas] pit bulls My brother had a pit that he raised from a puppy & Petey listened & was well mannered & so I let my guard down around them. I blame their bad behavior on the owner. A few years ago I was visiting a friend & she had a shar/pit mix & a pit in her home. She said she fed them table food so when I finished eating I divided my food in half & gave it to them. The pit was on the sofa beside me & she looked up at me & bit me in the nose & I drove myself to the ER & got stitches on both sides of my nose outside, inside & on the inner septum. The police came & took a report. After that I would tell my boys that no matter what pets we had that they should never put their face in harms way. Now my next door neighbors have a fenced yard that divides my property from them & their 2 pits & poodle & occasionally the pits escape under the fence. Yesterday I was gardening & one of them charged at me barking ferociously & was ready to attack me. The fence was the only thing keeping me safe & I was on my knees pulling weeds & it scared the crap out of me & made me mad as well!! I would never harm any animal but I'm so fearful of these 2 pits that I am ready to contact animal control to see if any action can be taken to protect me & my pets. A few years ago they lived in a different home & had one pit & he killed a rott & they bragged about how they could hear the bones crunching as their dog refused to release his grip on the other dog which had to be put down at the vets office due to the severity of his injuries. I am pretty passive & try to let things slide, but I'm at the point now that I'm really, really, scared & something has to be done to protect my neighborhood, my pets & my family. I'd probably do something awful if their pits ever got one of my babies!! Lisa To know me is to LOVE me...:-)
