Pitbuls
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Picture this for a second. You come home both mentally and physically exhausted after a strenuous day at school. All you want to do is watch TV and relax with your best friend. As you begin up the concrete cracked driveway, these thoughts linger in your mind. You push the key into the door handle but you notice something is wrong. There is no barking, no tail wagging, no sign of your best friend at the gate. All that is left is a notice on the front door explaining that your dog has been destroyed by the RSCPA.
This is the outcome that many Queenslanders are facing for owning an American Pitbull Terrier. But it is not only APBT owners that are suffering from this ordeal, but owners that have dogs that even slightly resemble the APBT will be destroyed. This will soon become the case in Victoria if no one tries to save the name and true reputation of the APBT. I would appreciate if you forgot all the hysterics the media has put forward over time on this breed and listen to how it is not his fault if he escapes, is tort to attack or is put into the ring to fight to the death. The APBT does not deserve this reputation, this reputation has evolved from mans misdemeanors.
Renewed calls for the eradication of the APBT were prompted by yet another seemingly endless dog attack. Yet when the public learn that these attacks are easily preventable and in almost every case, it is the owners irresponsible ownership which allows the gate open for these attacks to occur?
The vicious killing spree which left two beloved family pets dead has landed two APBT crosses on death row. It is said that the pitbull crosses which were kept with “heavy steel chains and padlocks around their neck in place of collars” had escaped by climbing their fence. Number one, these dogs which proceeded on their rampage were not true APBTs. The mongrels were a result of backyard breeding- a dangerous breeding style which can lead to a dog with an unpredictable personality, also known as unstable temperament. Did you know that the APBT, from a good breeder, is more mentally sound and stable than the Labrador at home or the Mini Fox Terrier down the road?
The second point that I would like to explain about in this attack, is that the two dogs were secured by heavy steel chains and padlocks in place of their collars around their neck. This tells us that the owner has no regard for the dogs mental and physical health.. The APBT is very much a people dog, and if you leave them in the yard alone all day everyday, something is going to give. Chaining up a dog like that is animal