[Shotimes] OT some SHO content and dead dog.Just freaking crazy

[Mike Wojton]

A good friend of mine here at work has several of them.  American
Staffordshire Terriers is the official AKC name, he tells me.  A
couple of them are champions, one of them a national champion even at
whatever the big dog show is at Madison Square Garden.  I've been to
his house several times.  They really are big babies.  Once you start
scratching them, you're their friend for the rest of the night.  They
are a pretty imposing sight though.  All neck and head.  Whatever they
were originally bred for (hunting some kind of vermin I would
suppose), I'm guessing they were very good at it.


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Mike Wojton
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On 5/6/05, George Fourchy <krazgeo@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 May 2005 10:02:39 -0500, Zach Leahy wrote:
> 
> >Personally I don't care at all for pit bulls, generally
> >because they are mean.  I know some are not.
> 
> Just like kids, dogs are what their owners (parents) let them grow up (or teach
> them) to be.  In "The Little Rascals", the dog was a pit bull.....back then they
> called them bull terriers.  There wasn't anything wrong with that dog.  I've seen
> lots of nice bull terriers, and plenty of bad ones too, usually on the news in a
> story like this one. The bad ones are raised that way.
> 
> From the website "dogbreedinfo.com" ....
> 
> "That sly smile, those determined eyes, that unwaning pleasure to please... the mere
> quality and characteristics of the APBT have evoked more human emotional, rational,
> and irrational response than any other breed that exists today.  By no means are
> these dogs people-haters or people-eaters. Their natural aggressive tendencies are
> toward other dogs and animals, not people. However if they are properly socialized
> they will not even be aggressive with them. These are truly quality companions for
> quality owners only! The American Pit Bull Terrier is a good-natured, amusing,
> extremely loyal and affectionate family pet, which is good with children and adults.
> Almost always obedient, it is always eager to please its master. It is an extremely
> courageous and intelligent guard dog that is very full of vitality. Highly
> protective of his owners and the owner's property, it will fight an enemy to the
> death."
> 
> Lots of bad people use these traits to their advantage, disregarding the dog
> altogether.
> 
> George