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  • #241
    Originally posted by Brave2Xrails View Post
    “Pete the Pup” appeared in the Our Gang comedies, and the breed personified the all-American pet. It is affectionate and loyal and is good with children, making it an outstanding family pet.
    I actually believe that Pete the Pup was implicated in the death of Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer.

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    • #242
      Oye.. sigh.. good God... Ambrey. You really have no idea, do you. You speak english and yet the point floats blissfully out of your grasp. The point is that the dogs you assume are being bred for malicious intent are residing in homes as kind and loving dogs.
      I challenge you to watch real footage of dog fights and tell me how many dogs want to fight for their lives. F*cking few if any. I watched it ad nauseum.
      If you don't believe that the violent tendencies and likes rubs off on dogs, you are right, but the need to survive is real for dogs, cats, horses, humans. They all do what they need to to live. You and I are no different. If pressed to fight or shoot someone to continue living would you not? I would, without question. Survival of the fittest, it is not just for one breed of dog.
      And the Vick dogs are case in point. Bred to survive dogs, saved and thankful and re homed successfully.
      Fighting dogs.. no winning fighting dogs re homed into society. Yep, they sure are killers.
      Have you ever met a Greyhound rescued off track? You will rarely meet a dog more grateful to be saved. The Vick Pitts are the same. Those too were fighting (running) for their lives and know it when they are in a place of love and their lives are not threatened.
      I would fight for my life too, as would you.

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      • #243
        Originally posted by Blinkers On View Post
        Oye.. sigh.. good God... Ambrey. You really have no idea, do you. You speak english and yet the point floats blissfully out of your grasp. The point is that the dogs you assume are being bred for malicious intent are residing in homes as kind and loving dogs.
        Just because I discard a point as invalid does not mean I didn't understand it.

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        • #244
          And yet oblivious to what is reality.

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          • #245
            Originally posted by Blinkers On View Post
            And yet oblivious to what is reality.
            You know, not to bring in the subject of another thread, but my son had an entire section in his 3rd grade curriculum on discriminating "fact" from "opinion." Seems like a lot of people should have studied harder on those days

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            • #246
              Yes, I struggle with English as a first language.. and confuse fact from fiction regularly ... what is your problem?
              Interestingly when people have no other recourse, they love to offhandedly insult other's intelligence or comprehension. Bless you Ambrey for following suit to the mindless and argumentless before you.
              You ARE valuing your tainted by media "opinion" over many very well spoken people who actually have first hand knowledge of the breed. Yay (doggie) racist
              Let me think, who IS more relevant... media hysteria vs real life.. hmmm that is a tough one! Britney Spears melt down vs Jessica Simpson's weight gain? Hmmm which way does the media go??? Which is relevant. Is Britney teatering on the brink of mental instability? OR Is Jessica a porker or just healthy and eating like a human not in the lime light?
              Media is so damaging and so bias. They do it in humans. What would hold them back from doing it to animals? It's only a small needle for animals.....

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              • #247
                Originally posted by innisfreed View Post
                I love the Dog Whisperer too, but the truth is that he has the red zonew dogs for a reason - they don't go back to the owners in most cases.

                I am not, but if I were neighbors of these dogs, they would be finding some delicious warfarin in their pens.
                So you're saying that you would take it upon yourself to poison another person's dogs? Not in self-defense or even defense of another person or animal, but sneakily, for retaliation? Nice to know someone can come up in my yard whenever they feel like it and slip my dog some poison because they felt she was dangerous.

                Who said anything about the Dog Whisperer?

                BTW, for everyone else, Warfarin is an anticoagulant drug also used as a rodentcide.
                Last edited by Walk_N_Gal88; Apr. 9, 2009, 07:26 AM. Reason: correction and addition
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                • #248
                  No longer horse-related.

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