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From: halle@hou2b.UUCP (J.HALLE)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: IS THIS TRUE??!!?
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Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 08:40:25 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 18 08:40:25 1985
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If you'd spell "Pitt (sic) Bull" right, you'd understand the cause
of the action.  The Pit Bull was bred for one and only one thing:
fighting.  Dog fighting in a pit is exactly the same as cock fighting:
outlawed everywhere, and rightly so.  The problem with pit bulls is that
this personality and temperment is inbred, and it takes a lot of careful
training to keep it under control.  And if it ever gets out of control
the dog is dangerous.  As far as Rotweillers and Dobermans are concerned,
they have an undeserved bad rep.  They are powerful dogs, which make them
good candidates for aggressive activities, but those "skills" must be
trained into them.  They are very easily socialized to be safe dogs.
In fact, most dobes I've met (several) have been real sweet, gentle dogs.
I cannot say the same about pit bulls.  I know of a trainer who specializes
in problem dogs who has one that has never given a hint of trouble, but
she never turns her back on it, so to speak, in potentially dangerous
situations.

Note: there are several dogs with similar names that are often confused
with the pit bull.  Most of them are not fighting dogs.  These are the
Staffordshire Terrier, the bull terrier, the staffordshire bull, and
other combinations of those words.  I'm not sure which one is the "pit bull."