Originally posted by Bitsy Boodle's Mom
I tend to agree with the "no bad dogs, just bad owners" idea, but my husband once saw a pit bull in his neighborhood attack a person and would NEVER consider owning one, or even wanting us near one for that matter.
If "gameness" is "unflagging courage" or persistance in learning an action....why aren't pits used more as police dogs or such????
Just a thought....
Mom of
Lovable Bitsy Boodle
Pits who fight with other dogs are not bad, they are just doing what a normal pit will do. Pits were created as a breed to fight other dogs. Pits are in the terrier class, police dogs generally come from dogs in the working class, german shepherd dogs, dobbies, rotties even boxers. I'm not sure how having a pit in police work would be helpful to the police at all considering all of the information on them and what the breed was created for in the historical context, gameness is unflagging courage in the face of a conflict, so they won't back down when challenged by an another dog. Gameness is not persistance in learning an action, it is persistance in the fight.
Why would police officers prefer to have dogs bred for the purpose of fighting other dogs rather than working dogs - "guard" dogs or "scent" dogs, - trained to sniff out drugs or chase down criminals? A criminal running away from a police officer probably wouldn't be seen as a threat to the pit and given that police dogs have to release on command and the fact that the best (sometimes the only) way to release a pit in a fight is with the breaking stick it seems clear why they are not suitable for police work.