Shelters are full of harmless dogs that need a home. It’s beyond me why don’t people feel the need to buy dogs that can potentially kill/seriously harm other dogs and even humans (including children)
Sadly, shelters are full of abandoned pitties and the like :/ People get dogs like they’re fashion accessories, and that becomes more apparent with breeds that are strong and determined enough to cause real damage. There’s a big overlap of wanting to own a dog to look badass, no actual interest in putting any effort into said dog, and a broader antisocial stance.
If I want to buy a weapon, even for target practice, I need a license that is pretty hard to obtain. Why don’t we do the same with dog breeds that are known to maim children disproportionately to other types of dogs?
If you really are a great dog owner and your dog is really as friendly as you say, you wouldn’t mind having both of you tested once a year in order to prevent bad owners from spoiling the image of that breed.
Four dog breeds are banned in the UK - the Pit bull terrier, the Japanese tosa, the Dogo Argentino and the Fila Brasileiro
Dogs that share physical characteristics to banned breeds, such as cross-breeds, are also banned
Owning a banned dog can result in an unlimited fine and a prison sentence of up to six months
Times sure have changed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_the_lion
Christian the lion (12 August 1969 – ?) was a lion born in captivity and purchased by Australian John Rendall and Anthony “Ace” Bourke from Harrods department store in London in 1969.
Christian was originally acquired by Harrods from the now-defunct zoo park in Ilfracombe. Rendall and Bourke purchased Christian for 250 guineas (£262.10s.[2] in pre-decimal currency).[citation needed]
Rendall and Bourke, [3] along with their friends Jennifer Mary Taylor and Unity Jones, cared for the lion where they lived in London until he was a year old. As he got larger, the men moved Christian to their furniture store—coincidentally named Sophistocat—where living quarters in the basement were set aside for him. Rendall and Bourke obtained permission from a local minister to exercise Christian at the Moravian church graveyard just off the King’s Road and Milman’s Street, SW10; and the men also took the lion on day trips to the seaside.
Treat dogs like guns. People need to get a license (unless it’s in a rural area I guess) to own one and demonstrate that they would be good dog owners, and provide evidence of training or dog gets confiscated.
Treat dogs like guns.
Heh.
Over here in the States, that’d entail a constitutional right to own as many dogs as you want and take them around with you – though some states would require a license if you wanted to conceal the dog on your person.
I just saw an article the other day on how some place in the UK was banning people from walking more than six dogs at once because they considered doing so dangerous for other people, that the dogs couldn’t be adequately controlled.
googles
North Somerset.
conceal the dog on your person
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I’m packing a chihuahua in my back pocket.
In the US that would also mean that someone would set a pack of dogs trained to kill on their school or work place or church or movie theatre every other day and pro-dog politicians would claim that now isn’t the time to talk about restricting killer training for dogs right afterwards.
We need c/banpitbulls.
Please no. Regardless of your stance, that sub was a cesspool.
Please maybe? It’s a difficult topic, because the data doesn’t lie: Pitbulls are responsible for the most dog on human attacks in America, followed by rotties.
There’s nothing inherent in those dogs that would make them more dangerous, but a mix of bad training, being attractive to bad owners who want them for protection or to “look cool” makes us careful around these physically powerful breeds. Don’t forget that dogs like the Saint Bernard is also considered to be a “powerful breed”, yet you rarely hear of a Saint Bernard attack. Go figure, they don’t look “cool” and you can’t crop their ears to make them look aggressive.
I know some cute and shy pitties myself, but I know there are a lot of them that are trained to rip your face off.
They were literally bred to fight other dogs in pits and never give up. It’s deep in their brain.
