Official Meme Thread. [NO POLITICS]

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Leonardo

I'm a country boy. I was ignorant of the stigma that surrounded pitbulls when I got them. A breeder I knew had a litter of puppies and gave me two. (later he dropped all of them off because I made a GIANT fenced dog sanctuary complete with pool, trees, grass field, dog houses, large covered area, and a big hay bale pile to climb on... - but that's a story for a different time)

About a week after I got the puppies, I was at the local post office. My neighbor accused my "dogs" of eating their chickens. My pups were only 9 weeks old and couldn't even go down stairs by themselves.

I explained that they were puppies, that I have a giant fenced yard, and that it was physically impossible for them get out of their yard at this point.

My neighbor: "Are you sure your dogs didn't kill my chickens?"

me: Yes 100%. (they were not convinced at all)






I love ALL Dogs. Especially bully breeds.


(Get's off soap box)





Back to the memes.

Pitbulls can be quite territorial and aggressive when you aren't watching them. My neighbors pitbull used to get out of the house then charge at people nearby, including myself. When I told them their dog was out of control and doing things like that, they refused to believe that such a sweet dog would randomly charge at people. It must be my fault somehow or I'm biased against pitbulls, or "I promise he's not going to bite you", or "He's never hurt anyone before". Happened about 4 or 5 times while I was doing yard work. I think they finally caught him doing it to someone walking by on the street who yelled at them for it before they did anything about it.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Pitbulls can be quite territorial and aggressive when you aren't watching them.

So can poodles, chihuahuas, beagles, collies, retrievers (all the colours), shelties, well pretty much any breed.

[MuseChaser]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

So can poodles, chihuahuas, beagles, collies, retrievers (all the colours), shelties, well pretty much any breed.

That's all true, and I harbor no ill will towards any breed; I prefer dogs to people the vast majority of the time and have shared my home over the past almost forty years with three German Shepherds, a coydog, a flat-coated retriever-looking mix, and a chihuahua. Of the six, the chihuahua and one of the Shepherds were the only ones remotely territorial in terms of humans on our property, and we discouraged that. The chihuahua remains yappy for the first minute or so, then becomes everyone's best friend. The Shepherd in question would always be fine once he saw that WE were fine with whomever was visiting, but he always checked with us to make sure it was "OK" to relax.

The issue isn't really whether a breed is innately or genetically "aggressive;" all breeds can be wonderful, and all breeds can be awful, dependent upon the owner/trainer and on the individual dog. The issue, unfortunately, is more the capability of a given breed to inflict serious damage should it choose to do so. If we had a killer, trained attack chihuahua, it would be a drag but the worst it could to would be to ruin your pants cuff, your shoe, or maybe draw a little blood. If, heaven forbid, any of our Shepherds had decided that it was time to attack, they would have killed someone. We raised them to be sweet, accepting creatures and two of the three ALWAYS were, but we never put any of them in a position where we couldn't intervene immediately at the slightest hint of aggression from them.

What I'm getting at is that the danger of pitbulls isn't that they are innately nasty or mean; they are not. The danger is that, if one DOES decide to do damage, they are pretty much unstoppable. They are bred to have jaws like vices, and they do NOT let go until the job is done.

Dogs are just like humans, only usually way nicer, more predictable, and more loyal. However, again just like humans, sometimes there are isolated, thankfully extremely rare instances, where an individual specimen is truly evil and needs to be isolated or put down. A strong, large, athletic violent dog is eminently more dangerous than a small weak one... same thing with humans. It doesn't mean strong, large, and athletic is bad.. it can be VERY good. Just depends on the individual, be it human or canine.

I'd own a pitbull without giving it a second thought. I prefer Shepherds, and I miss my most recent one terribly. It's been almost two years since he died suddenly, and I'm still healing. All three of them were almost like brothers to me, and each occupied wonderful 10-year blocks of my life. Hopefully, the time will come soon when I'm ready to take on another one.

[new2subaru]

I'm fairly certain my neighbours are safe

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by new2subaru

I'm fairly certain my neighbours are safe

How does he stick to the walls?

[soundman98]

BUT NOT FROM KISSES!

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

How does he stick to the walls?

go go gadget wall grippers!

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by soundman98

go go gadget wall grippers!

I thought it was the new Octo-doodle.

[new2subaru]

Meh, it was late. Easier for you guys to turn your heads than me fix the picture...


(No idea how to do that anyway lol)

[Boomerang]

Originally Posted by new2subaru

Meh, it was late. Easier for you guys to turn your heads than me fix the picture...


(No idea how to do that anyway lol)

Fixed Tinx for ya..

[new2subaru]

Originally Posted by Boomerang

Fixed Tinx for ya..






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She kinda looks like her big brothers now. Those two you have to watch out for!

[Tcoat]

[Boomerang]

[Tcoat]