Ban PitBulls
Dog bite severity varies by the breed of dog, and studies have found that pit bull–type dogs have both a high rate of reported bites and a high rate of severe injuries, compared to other non–pit bull–type dogs.
Pit bull–type dogs are extensively used in the United States for dogfighting, a practice that has continued despite being outlawed. Several nations and jurisdictions restrict the ownership of pit bull–type dogs through breed-specific legislation.
The sole goal for this comm is to ban pit bulls from every jurisdiction and to treat the remaining ones with respect while every caretaker follows the required safety precautions to keep everyone safe. Dog breeds with documented health issues should also be prevented from being forcibly bred into this world.
Rules:
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Keep it civil.
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No advocating for violence.
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No pit bull advocate gaslighting. Though good faith debates are allowed.
Links:
Dogsbite.org is routinely slandered by the pro-pit lobby, but the site is informative and its data collection procedures are transparent and well-documented.
Pit Nutter Bingo Cliched excuses and problematic arguments pit nutters use.
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Would you rather that we do what we did with pigeons and spit-dogs? Namely abandon the species entirely. The spit-dogs didn't fare very well, you'll notice that breed doesn't exist anymore.
Edit: for clarification, I don't think we should put down the pit bulls that have never attacked someone. I think they should all be spayed and neutered. We don't need to be breeding any more of this breed.
I just saw your edit. I would agree that they shouldn't be bred. I think also a lot of breeding regulations should be strictly enforced because tons of cruelty comes out of breeding. Personally I would never ever give a penny to a dog breeder. I'm only interested in adopting dogs, specifically mixed breeds.
Your positions seem reasonable. I personally would also like to see pronged and shock collars outlawed. I made due with a Martingale collar and a muzzle for the first year. These days my girls are popular enough around the neighborhood that people have forgotten that I used to walk them with a hard plastic cage muzzle I could still give them ~~tears~~ treats through. The muzzle is still in my hand just in case they get too close to another dog.
I don't know that anyone who despises a breed of dog is going to have a productive conversation with me since the entire premise of the conversation is hatred vs opposition to hatred. Half of you people probably despise dogs in general.
You should read my clarification edit. I have two lovely dogs. A husky/ pit bull mix, spayed, and a malinois/ redbone coonhound, also spayed. These two foster failures came to me from Camp Pendleton, with major behavioral problems. After a year of fostering them, I got the behavioral problems in check, but they cannot be in anyone else's care, unless they know how to properly train a dog. My girls haven't, and won't ever have puppies, but they love living with me, as I gave them the jobs they desperately needed.
We don't need more pitbulls being bred.
Yeah I saw that. Sorry, it's hard to know who is a despiser in these communities. There are a lot of sociopaths out there who would feed millions of dogs into a wood chipper if they could. Whoever created this community is almost certainly one of them.
I think its more of an awareness thing. An ER doc said there are more dog bites they see from other larger breeds, but the PitBill bites they see are by far more extremely damaging or deadly.
My aunt had two pitbills when we were kids, they were extremely affectionate towards us and would knock us over to lick our faces, but at night they had to be caged separately or they'd try to tear each other apart out of perceived jealously.
My daughter rescues pitbills now, some have been sweet, some are just reactive and can't be trusted.
Its not the dogs fault, its breeders and losers who want a "tough" dog that perpetuate this viscious cycle of abuse
Fair enough, I didn't actually see the name of the community until after we started talking. It just showed up in my feed on /All.