Reply To: Pitbulls…why?

Lars wrote:

No you are not just trying to save lives, you are trying to save human lives on the expense of another animal’s life. I do not see humans as a special species, in comparison to an animal. I see us humans as just another animal, nothing special. And no I do not think that elderly nor children should wear armour.

As I wrote, I suspect/theorise, that the problem with agression in most American pit bulls are due to inbreeding. As I have seen similiar problems in inbreed German Shepherds. I have seen a German Shepherds attack a child as well, I have seen it scar a man for life. But I have also seen them be some of the most loving dogs ever.

I’m not suggesting sending pitbulls to the slaughter. Rounding them up and running them through a gas chamber or wood chipper.

As I said, what a breed is, is a set of physical and behavioral characteristics. I’m suggesting breeding those physical and behavior characteristics out of the species canis familiaris.

We don’t need a dog that unpredictably decides to latch onto another being, be it another dog or a human, and refuse to let go until it has torn a part of that being off, and then will go back for more.

Like I said, a pitbull is a breed of dog not a species. We can get rid of a breed and leave the species intact.

Besides, and I haven’t mentioned this before, breeding to type has not been a good thing for canis familiaris. It has not improved the species as a species. It has simply pleased the whims of man. Canis familiaris as a species would be better off without humans wanting short snouts, short legs, a tendency to be scrappy, etc. None of that stuff was bred in to benefit the dog. And, BTW, breeding to type almost invariably breeds in defects as well. The purebred dogs have far more genetic diseases and defects than the everydog kind of dog of mixed heritage. Take a dog like the dingo. It is far more healthy than your average German shepherd, irish setter, boxer, pitbull, or sheepdog. So, yes, inbreeding is one part of the problem. Breeding to type is the other.