Zoroaster (imported) wrote: Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:05 am People who put animals in harm's way for no better reason than sport, and in particularly torture them to the point where they'll fight each other to the death, should be wrapped up in liver than thrown to their own dogs.

Or, at the very least, get stuck to a glory hole with a stall full of hungry ones next door...were I more into revenge stories, I wouldn't be tough to write that one, heh. I watched that Animal Cops show a few times on Animal Planet but it always made me way too angry when I saw the suffering inflicted by ignorant, callous, and/or malicious asses.

As for pits: they are great dogs so long as they are trained properly from a young age. They have two things against them: their jaws lock, and they do have a genetic predisposition toward uncontrollable rages. The rage problem can be trained out of them but only as a puppy; otherwise the neural stuff all sets into place and can't change any further, but not all pits develop this problem.

If treated right and trained properly, like any other dog, they can be totally sweet and lovable dogs...like any other dog. Yet another reason those breed-specific laws are ignorant mumbo-jumbo.