Humans and Pit Bulls

When trying to find a dog for the family to play with, the last breed that would come to any American’s mind would be a pit-bull. Pit-bulls are one of the largest misunderstood breed of dogs that there are. Most people have a stereo typical belief that this particular animal cannot be trained as a house dog, and is indivertibly viscous. But this belief is fully based upon stereo types, and not facts.

Fact: All animals have natural animal instincts, even humans.

When these natural instincts are interpreted in the wrong manner they leave a bad taste in people’s mouths. They associate all dogs of this breed with the actions of a few, without completely understanding the circumstances in which the actions took place.

If you are raised to believe that racism is not wrong, from the time you were born into adult hood, it becomes something natural. Human error raised people to believe that racism is ok and human error raised pit-bulls to fight. A natural animal instinct causes self defense, but not attacking without cause. People raise pit-bulls to fight without proper reasoning, and because of this it becomes something natural to a dog.

The key to training a dog, is to train them with the proper values. You want your dog to be able to protect you, but only when necessary. You want your dog to be able to be around children, and cope with the minor abuse they might encounter. Everyone who owns a dog, and exposes them to children knows that everything a child does to a dog is not appropriate. Whether it is; pulling the dog’s ears, pulling the dog’s tail, or trying to sit on the dog. These actions might not get a friendly response from the dog, but this is only because of animal instinct. The dog probably feared that it was being attacked, especially if these are actions that they are not familiar with. But if these negative responses to children are quickly dealt with, in the proper manner, the dog will realize that it is not being attacked, and that it is ok to relax.

When obtaining a dog, the dog owner must understand that he/she has to fully commit to the training of said dog. You cannot expect an animal to domesticate itself, and to know what to do, and not to do around humans. Pit-bull are a misunderstood breed because of human error, human error taught pit-bull to fight to the death, not natural instincts. Therefore people must learn to own up to the wrong things that they have done, and realize that it affects the name of the breed more than them themselves.