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Originally Posted by Tobra
Best dog I ever had was a Wheaten/Pit bull mix. She was pretty messed up when I got her, first few years of her life were certainly horrible, booze jockey, abusive, neglectful POS owner. Mom picked her up on a nasty rainy day. Brother cleaned her up, took her and got chip scanned. Owner was drunk at 0900 on Saturday morning when he called, she said she did not want the dog. She sobered up a few days later and called, wanting the dog back. He said he gave her to someone who moved to Arkansas or something. Took a few years before she got over her fear aggression, but she turned out to be a great therapy dog.
Guess I should have shot her after she showed aggression to other dogs a few times, right?
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Naw, sounds like a great dog. She just didn't have her trigger pulled. You never know what it might be with fight genes buried so deep. Sometimes the trigger is pulled by obvious stuff, other times it takes different stressors at the same time. Those things might never happen. But they are there. My GWP is terrified of tape measures? But she almost knocks the door down to the sounds of gunfire, just thinking we are going hunting. Maybe it would have taken two kids, both playing and screaming and tickling on opposite legs to trigger it. Usually it's a good tight neck hug or pinch around the throat area to be honest. You just never know. Lot's of pit fights are done with multiple dogs at once.
Anything with Pit in it has had the fight or flight meddled with. No pit fighting dog is going to be kept or bred if it showed flight, or fear biting. You cull/kill the puppies of the litter that showed that tendency. You only kept fighters, you can't make any money with a dead dog. You not only make money on winning the fight, you make money selling the puppies out of a winner. You can make up to a grand breeding your best fighter to another dog or as many females as the owners can come up with the money. The money for fighters is in this breeding your male. This has been done, and continues to be done for hundreds of years now. Toughest of the toughest. It's only been the last few decades this trend in building the meanest fastest kill has drifted back to docility. Less sharp. But that's gonna take the same amount of time to get the sharp bred out and the softness put back.
Back in the day, my old man did fighting cocks as a kid. Way back. We've done pure bred angus cattle for over a hundred years now. Grandparents did race horses. I don't think I've ever had a actual mutt anything. All purebred stuff. I know breeding programs. It's easy to manipulate domestic animals.
Folks just have no idea of the seedy underbelly of stuff, at least not the details. For the record I have never been involved in the seedy underbelly of anything. Last ticket I got for anything was 30 years ago for forgetting my headlights were off as a teen. I just know stuff. Especially pure bred stuff. Fighting dogs is high on my list of things mankind should be ashamed of.-WW