Another Dog fighting ring busted here.

my pugs like to play fight...but no1 ever gets hurt....

 

I wonder if this thread will inspire MSNBC to run show after show on dog fighting.

Nancy Grace should get on the dog fighting bandwagon.

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i never called you a moron,nor do i believe you truly are one.. i simply stated that your reply made you look like one .

you seem to not be able to look at things rationally when it goes against the grain of whats in your brain.i dont know if its just for show or if its truly the way you think,but i do know IMO that was a moronic reply to a factual statement on my part..

BTW,rottweillers were known as "the butchers dog" in mid evil times..
although unlike the pit who they continued to breed to kill,the rotweiller has since been bred with more of the characteristics of a companion and guard dog.
while they are known to be a aggressive breed they are less likely to instinctively kill than a pitbull.

also while i agree that the practice of putting a dog to death for losing a fight does take place,the breeders that i have came across sell there dogs for anywhere from 2500 to upwards of 10 thousand dollars as they are from proven winning bloodlines.. it seems to me that due to the cost of the animal alone that the putting to death of the dogs is not as wide spread as some would be led to believe..
but like i said i really dont know.. i do know my uncle never killed any of his dogs for losing.although he did run a feral livestock service on the side as well so even if the didnt win in the ring they still had a purpose..

oh and before anyone goes off on my uncle,or me for not turning him in,he died a slow painful death starting with skin cancer on the nose,they had to cut his nose off,then the cancer went into his cheek bones and spread from there..

he was a piece of shit, the fact he raised and fought dogs was only one small part of his evil nature.as i stated he was a deputy sheriff in rural georgia in the 60's and 70's..you can just imagine the things he did while he was alive..

 

It's heartbreaking what some people are capable of doing.

I have a staffie cross, she's a rescue dog and if she hadn't been rescued the chances are the scumbag who had her before would have trained her into a fighting dog. It's sick, Rosie doesn't have a bad bone in her body, she's the sweetest, most well-behaved dog you'll ever meet. And just because she may look a bit badass she could have ended up dead in a dog fight.

My fiance's co-worker has a pure staffie who he brings to work on most days and I usually take her and Rosie for walks together, and I get stopped too often by scummy looking people asking me where I got the dogs and if I would sell them. It's sickening, even if they didn't want these dogs for fighting purposes as such... there's still lots of people who get staffies and pitbulls, train them to be mean and aggressive and then just walk around the streets with these dogs scaring people. Breaks my heart... Staffies are the sweetest dogs, they just love affection and people's company..

 

you dont train them to be a fighter,its there instinct..
you train them not to be a fighter..there is a HUGE difference..
its no different than a retriever,its there instinct to retrieve,,you dont teach them they already know what there job is.i mean sure you could train a retriever NOT to fetch,but its instinct will always be there to want to do so.
same as a fiest's instinct is to tree squirrels,or our great Pyrenees instinct is to guard the herd..
you dont teach a dog to do what it was bred for,you merely put it in a environment where he can do his job,what he was bred for,then train him to obey your commands while he is instinctfully doing his job,,and hope that he learns to do so..

 

Kozmic, it's not the Staffordshire so much as the American Staffordshire. They've been cut with so many other breed that they're not pure anymore and are exactly as HHB describes.

 

Don't worry, the guys who got busted for this will get a taste of their own medicine: getting fucked like a bitch doggy style in prison. This shit seriously pissed me off though.

 

Over here, it is the Staffordshire bull terrier that has a bad reputation mainly due to people getting them for all the wrong reasons... to look cool and badass and whatever. And also over here it is the main breed that are used in dog fights. It's an English breed and so they are a lot more common around here than the American staffie..

I do disagree (to an extent) with HHB saying that you don't train a dog to be a fighter. Yeah fair enough, most dogs have that natural instinct however it's the people who increase it and encourage it by treating the dogs badly, encouraging aggressive and dominant behaviour. Most dogs have the potential of being good and bad, the way they end up depends on the way they are treated.

 

i saw a GLORIOUS anatolian yesterday. he's a working dog, named alpha. but they're left the mountain fields and flocks and the poor think has to now live in a freaking suburb. i don't think that's gonna work out so well. he's never been around children, frankly, i don't think he should be, either. not because they're not wonderful dogs, but because he's spent three years as a working dog on the side of a mountain. our old neighbors had one, he was a puppy and became kai's best pal.