01-28-2009, 04:51 AM
Disagree. Pitbulls have been scaring me for something like 40 years. They are a short fuse dog, and they have to be trained carefully to be safe. Well, in Hawai'i many people own dogs casually, for guard or for hunting or just because a boy needs a dog. They don't train them; they don't control them. If they do train them, it's to be aggressive or to fight. (This is a segment of the population.)
And the way dogs are raised and treated here is a deep part of the culture that can't be fixed at the drop of a hat, so people can talk all they want about personal responsibility and training and it's irrelevant and going to remain irrelevant to the reality here.
So given a society where people acquire dogs with no plans to be responsible dog owners, where dogs are tied up all day, not fed well, not exercised - what a surprise there would be issues deriving from pitbulls, a breed that so easily snaps and when it does attack there is often a dead or maimed child as a result.
And the way dogs are raised and treated here is a deep part of the culture that can't be fixed at the drop of a hat, so people can talk all they want about personal responsibility and training and it's irrelevant and going to remain irrelevant to the reality here.
So given a society where people acquire dogs with no plans to be responsible dog owners, where dogs are tied up all day, not fed well, not exercised - what a surprise there would be issues deriving from pitbulls, a breed that so easily snaps and when it does attack there is often a dead or maimed child as a result.