Let me preface this by saying that it's about time something besides a Chinese Crested won this contest. Has anybody seen the latest winner of the Sonoma-Marin Fair ugly dog contest? http://tinyurl.com/mhyy8 That's a face only a mother could love. It's curious that the dog known as Pabst (cool name!) is tagged as a "boxer mix". Looks like a red-nosed pit mix to me. I think they classify shelter dogs with anything but a pit or bulldog reference because of the misinformed public panic about these dogs. Our adopted shelter dog was labeled a "dalmatian-hound mix". When we went to meet him and adopt him, I noticed some bulldog features. After we adopted him and took him home, I looked through the paperwork we got from the animal hospital and noted that he was in fact a dalmatian-bulldog mix.
It's a shame that there is such negativity about bulldog breeds. They get so much bad press that it has stirred people into a frenzy that is resulting in the breed actually being banned in some communities. I've had 2 and neither one was more aggressive than any other breed. Most of the stories you read about these dogs killing or mauling someone are a result of poor training and/or environment. Dogs are like people in that how you are raised defines your eventual behavior. Most of these dogs were either abused or raised by gang bangers and meth cookers with the occasional white supremacist thrown in. Most were trained to be mean. The 2 meanest dog breeds I have seen are dachshunds and Jack Russell terriers. The crazy thing is that Jack Russells appear to have become the family dog of choice since thay are smaller than Labs and "fiercely loyal". The "fiercely" is what you have to look out for!
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Our neighbors down the street had to put their Great Dane down because she bit a neighborhood kid. If it had happened under different circumstances, maybe I would agree.
ReplyDeleteBut the kid, who was old enough to know better, walked into their house (not his house mind you, but the neighbors house) without waiting for them to open the door for him. The dog's owner was in her back yard getting something and the Great Dane was in the house. So the dog defended the house.
She didn't maul him, but she did bite him...once. As a result they had to put the dog down. And I think that's total bullshit. That kid's parents should have taught him better manners than to just walk into someone else's house. I don't care if the door was unlocked. It was rude and stupid given the fact that everyone knew they had a dog. And she was just doing her job.