#but ya. euth or soft cull/fix pits w issues that make it very difficult to home. find and breed only the healthy stable ones | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

brimk-personal · 2 years

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I rlly liked pits when I was younger (I kinda fell for the “”nanny dog”” origin myth lol), and I still think they can make great dogs when their owners don’t babify/whitewash their prey drive and the instincts that were bred into the breed(s) and work with them

If I wasn’t always running on empty and had an active lifestyle, and pit adoption groups weren’t shady w their dog’s history, I would have them on my future dog list

#they are great when they are w humans that understand their needs #and when said owners are emotionally braced to deal with and possibly give them the mercy of putting them down if their behavior issues #are severe enough to impede their quality of life. bc some dogs will truly never be healed even with the best trainers #and tragically the aggressive/fearful behavior that was selected for is still in many modern pits #I just get sad thinking about dog breeds like them. humans and dogs have such a heartmoving partnership #we would not be the species we are without them. but we are responsible for negatively impacting so many breeds by selecting for traits #for our own amusement or aesthetic purposes. theres a difference btwn behavior selected for protection dogs vs sport fighting #and in physical health btwn dogs bred to be small to help w tasks/survival vs haphazardly breeding the smallest together for Cuteness #*I don’t think it’s inherently bad to bred for small cute companion dogs! that’s what mine is! but I recognize that she was not bred #responsibly and it breaks my heart to think of how much better her qol would be if more care had been put into it #and I guess my views on pit-like dogs being bred is similar. I don’t want them to die out. I want people to actively seek out and breed #pits with strong known health and behavior histories #in order to counter the irresponsibly or stray bred pits #it gets to that counter to ‘spay/neuter all dogs’ arguement were the emotionally and physically healthy dogs in stable homes are the ones #being fixed. and the dogs breeding are random/irresponsible ones. meaning the unstable wildcards are the ones flooding the pop #and because of the ‘kill shelter’ and euth stigma people are pressured into not ‘giving up’ on the ones w severe issues #ANYWAYS. I gotta wrap this up. I have MANY dog thoughts. I love dogs.#but ya. euth or soft cull/fix pits w issues that make it very difficult to home. find and breed only the healthy stable ones #bri rambles

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