Game Bred APBT As a Pet

This is true. But just airing it out before I make decision and I do appreciate the comments.
Thanks everyone

 

Hawks are champions and it's seems like refs are making it hard so there is parity in league

 

Ignore my last post. Watching hawks sngame and having a beer or two and made mistake. That was meant for my bro.

 

Thanks. I do think I will hold off on APBT until kids get a little older. I do appreciate all the thoughts and honesty without the BS fluff/political correctness.

That's what I wanted

 

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None of the responses provided in the thread included BS Fluff/Political correctness. I think every response in this thread was helpful to me. That is what I meant.

 

All about the indivisual dog evn some toy dogs shouldn't
be places in homes

 

Have you thought about a staffordshire bull terrier ? very similar and great with kids

 

In the right hands the APBT can make a fantastic pet. Key words here, "In the right hands".

I know many well respected dogman who keep one in the house. The problems come from people who shouldn't own hamsters let alone a game bred dog and yet they get one anyway. These people who feel they have what it takes to raise one indoors having never even been around one before or done any kind of homework on the breed and then they find out the hard way just how committed one has to be to raise one in the home properly. They eventually set the dog up for failure and sure as shit, the dog takes the fall for it. Plenty of people do it successfully without so much as a single issue. It's about being a responsible owner and keeping the dog from getting itself in trouble, as it is with ANY breed of dog.


31,521 = the number of members this site has, don't kid yourselves, the vast majority of them are pet owners.......

 

There would never be a 100% accurate poll able to be done since anyone with any sense would not willingly admit they have anything other than a pet.. I was being very generous with the 95%, It would probably be closer to 98 - 99% if we could actually do a blind poll and even then it would be hard to verify. Unfortunately we can't though. The number I posted was our total membership from the time I posted, out of those I'm sure many are either banned, spammers, duplicate accounts, no longer come here or are non active members. Out of 278 active members whom actually participate here, the % of active owners would drastically drop even lower. There is no way to really know for sure with any real accuracy since the sport end of these dogs are very taboo in todays society and no one with 1/2 a brain is going to openly admit to committing a felony.

No way will I do a poll on it lmao...

There, I went back and edited the 95% to the vast majority. lol No numbers needed. lol

 

My point was, the majority of the people who own these dogs own them simply as pets and to say they do not make good pets (in responsible hands) is ludicrous.

 

All mine get the "pet" treatment until there about 4-7 months old. After that ass is outside with the rest of the crew. Depending on how active and destructive maybe sooner lmao

Sincerely Yours, Cajun

 

I consider conformation dogs pets. Just because you exercise them for a show does not mean they are a working dog. Working dogs are match dogs, catch dogs for hunting wild hogs, coon hounds, beagles, terriers that go to ground, personal protection dogs whatever breed it may be, and even weight pull dogs etc etc.. Conformation dogs are exercised to look good prancing in a circle around a ring and in my opinion that's definately not a working dog but merely a pet