All I'm saying is that the movie Plague Dogs would have went completely differently if one of the dogs was a pitbull. All I'm sayin'. Also Dead Domain is a liberal zionist, as per BadEmpanada's critiques of her (maybe someone better critiqued her on this, but he's the first I know of).

Nah dog pitbulls need to go extinct. As do pugs, boxers, king charles spaniels, and every other dog bred to suffer. Pits suffer from being bred to be aggressive.

Some people are straight up fascists towards certain pets. Pitbulls? Poc ghetto child mauling dog that should be killed. Cats? Bird killing plague spreading vermin that should be killed. None of these genocidal malthusian nazis ever have any better ideas beside culling animals instead of making sure these animals dont do these things by neutering populations and rehoming them if possible. I genuinely was mortified on reddit back a while ago when I saw literal pitbull hating subreddits using literal fascist language towards pitbulls like they see them as literal pests that should be mass murdered to prevent child maulings or whatever dog whistle metric they wanna go by.

Keep your cats indoors. Your neighbors' yards aren't a free litter box and many people enjoy having birds and critters around.

They also live longer, happier lives. Outdoor cats have a lifespan of 2-5 years. Indoor cats have a lifespan of 15-20 years.

Feral cats are absolutely a pest

yes but there is absolutely a Certain Kind of Person who enjoys enthusing over how much they all deserve to die horrible deaths and those people are fucking freaks

Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.

I'm sorry, but my sweat little dog has been bit 4 times. Each time by a pitbull. No other breed has ever come close to biting her.

They can be sweet dogs. But they have very strong prey drives, and resource guarding. They will bite before they've even figured out what's going on. I believe it's been the resource guarding that caused each incident with my dog, but I saw one of the pitbulls that bit her kill a neighbors cat, and that was absolute prey drive. The cat was killed on its own property too, the dog was wondering by.

Not a single one of these pitbulls was a "problem animal", by and human standare. It's just how they react in certain situations and how powerful they are that make them incredibly dangerous.

I fucking hate these dogs. In my country they’re largely owned by annoying right-wingers who don’t make any effort to train them and will frequently encourage their aggressive behavior. There have been too many incidents with them attacking people in streets and even the indigenous (who are often the victim of these attacks) have resorted to hunting them down.

I wish we would ban them because people have shown for too long that they won’t be making any effort to properly train them.

Also I find it funny how dumb fucks like Matt Walsh still associate them with minorities. That’s a dated stereotype that isn’t even true anymore. My recent stays at the US have had me witness far more poc owning Chihuahuas and Yorkies nowadays. The people with pitbull are more often suburbanite white women who can never keep them under control on a leash.

I have heard the Reddit left leaning hive mind going crazy about pitbulls as well. It's not just the right.

Reddit is not left leaning.

Fair enough, but and https://aeon.co/essays/why-keeping-a-pet-is-fundamentally-unethical. Pitbulls are so domesticated that they cannot even breathe properly, so maybe no one should have them?

stop comparing animals to humans, and no I'm not gonna watch the 1 hr youtube video. Dogs have been selectively bred for thousands of years for specific traits to perform certain tasks (herding, hunting, companionship etc..). Unlike cats, dog breeds are real. Weather you want to believe or not, pitbulls are fighting dogs, why else would they be the dog of choice for dogmen (professional dog fighters) when it was a legal "sport" and still the dog of choice for illegal dog fighting rings now? Joseph L Colby, a pioneer of the pitbull breed, wrote a comprehensive book on American Pit bull Terriers, mostly about dog fighting (when it was legal) (CW: extreme animal cruelty):

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.%24b28129&seq=1

Pitbulls are strong powerful dogs, it's a zero mistake dog, because they will cause severe injury or death if they snap.

Sorry I don't think "I'm gonna not asses the argument and just dump a rant based on the headline I misinterpreted" is a valuable contribution to the discussion.

So you won't watch the video to understand the title, but still find it necessary to outright dismiss that racism has anything to do with it. 🤡

Always some bullshit surrounding dogs on this site. Very first comment just had to be this.

comparing animals to humans

This is a liberal rebrand. One has to ask how is it not racism to be comparing the treatment of a violent breed of a non sentient species to whatever subgroup of humanity is being racially targeted. As an example, we all know how the biggest asmongold aka roach man type losers love to bring up FBI crime stastics on how African American supposedly do the most crimes and ignore that a serial pedophileremoved white man can be president. We all know this statistics are bullshit. Meanwhile pitbulls along with other violent breeds are vastly more dangerous than others and comparing these cases is a massive disservice to Africa Americans and a cynical use of a real issue by western leftists.

I will watch the video but I am already so out off by this braindead title

No investigation, no right to speak. Nobody is saying discriminating against the breed is racist to the dogs - the vilifying of pit bulls specifically is part of a longstanding and pernicious campaign of racial stereotyping of the dogs in association with their owners. The image of these dogs is intrinsically linked in rotten American society and popular consciousness to black and latino people, and that is indeed part of a racist crusade.

edit: also, seriously? you're just going to come in to the thread, start out by saying "I'm not watching that" and then "whatever it's about, there's no racism get over it"? fuck off

Are you really doing the "if you change the word, the meaning of the sentence changes - feel owned yet?" shit? Goddamn you're dense

Are you really going the "it's not my job to educate you shit? Goddam you're dense

If you're too stupid to come to your own conclusions let me spell it out for you. Do not push for animal liberation (although the pitbull defense is not about animal liberation or pro environmental in any way, because pet ownership is intrinsically terrible for the environment) by relating it to relating it to racism please

Oh piss off already you fragile little fuckhead - like actually what is wrong with you? Are you seriously claiming there is no, not any, racial stereotyping and prejudice around the image of the pit bull terrier? Because you're on some "don't believe your lying eyes" shit.

And I don't know where you got the sense that I'm pushing for animal liberation by relating it to racism - well I do know, because you evidently can't read for meaning - but the racism around the breed (and others) is just a fact of American society. I advocate for animal liberation without the racial connotation, because it aligns with my principles broadly you fuck.

Absolutely staggered by the caucasity

Lmao. Keep insulting me. Youre argument is absolutely clownish in the extreme

I should expand. Since you did respond I guess. But the point is that defending pitbulls because pitbulls are used as a vector for racism is absolutely brandead because the data does show the dogs are violent af. I mean they were literally the types of dogs bread for the native genocide and chasing runaway slaves. Like what the fuck are we doing here lmao

You've done nothing but insult, and haven't acknowledged a single thing I said in good faith

No, I think you really might just be dense. Christ.

Westerners using racism to defend their unethical ownership of a violent animal is such a vibe. Absolutely peak

Westerners using racism to defend their unethical ownership of a violent animal is such a vibe. Absolutely peak

It's not defending the ownership goddamn! It would be best for everyone if the animals were treated humanely and, you know, not fucking bred for the purposes of fighting! Are you incapable of grasping the fact that this is also a highly racialized animal at the same time?

Exactly. German Shepherds are as dangerous as a shotgun on the coffee table but see how much traction you can get to ban them. It's never been about the dogs themselves.

Ooh, could we pretty please ban German Shepherds?

Nazis and Cops would be so mad, and they make up certainly at least the plurality of GSD "owners".

Inb4

Can we ban beagles but only the one old beagle that’s always passed out at the bar I go to and never available for petting? And by ban I mean can he live in my house

God, I fucking love him

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