WOW!..My brother and I have a rental house in Stockton!!!! former professional Golden State Warrior basketball player latrell Sprewell's pitbull chewed up his young daughter several years ago!.......I'm against banning pit bulls....but we need extreme consequences ( punishment) for owners who let these dogs kill or cause great bodily harm!...if you believe this breed is NOT a problem we will have to agree to disagree...Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fran Henry" <fhenry1@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: tanksr@xxxxxxxxx Cc: "Showgsd" <Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 8:52:12 AM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Sterotyping PIT BULLS Ironically, this just appeared on my news site: http://www.9news.com/news/article/276860/188/Pit-bull-latches-onto-3-year-olds-face Fran On Jul 10, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Ken Tank wrote: > They have been bred to fight for over 600 years (maybe more, I don't know). > So, for hundreds of years many breeders bred for aggression and didn''t > discriminate who the aggression is aimed at. Many still do. You are not > going to undo hundreds and hundreds of years of breeding. > > Ken > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Jackie Short-Nguyen < > marcatoshepherds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> can fall victim to them >> Which instinct are we talking about?  Dog aggression?  Because dog >> aggression and human aggression are two different things.  Dog aggressive >> dogs don't turn to human aggression >> just because there are no dogs for them to fight with. >> >> >> -- >> Jackie & Jonathan Nguyen Marcato German >> Shepherds<http://www.marcatogermanshepherds.com> >> S Konzert vom Drachenberg, CD, RN, CGC, SD "Strauss" >> Devine's Gunpowder N Lead RN "Mirada" >> >> >> > > > ============================================================================ > POST is Copyrighted 2011.  All material remains the property of the original > author and of GSD Communication, Inc. 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