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  • I grew up around Staffordshire pitbulls who all pitbulls are decended from. To me for a long time they were what a dog was cos everyone had one. Loving, protective, social dogs that had bounds of energy. Even “owned” one for a short while and was comfortable enough to walk off lead with her. Her only problem was other dogs, couldn’t be around them really and saw them as a challenge which was frustrating cos of how amenable she was the rest of the time.

    As my previous comment goes, she would fall under beast and is better off as a working defence dog and not around people or other animals really. That’s the issue, people keeping dogs that are trained for purpose and then keeping them as pets without purpose.


  • I hear you and agree in a perfect world they shouldn’t exist, but…

    Firstly the key word here is remote. Noone has any reason to be going to these locations unless invited especially at night.

    Secondly they are up against pikeys and gangs who will kill them without a second thought so they need to be as hard as.

    Thirdly, and obv can’t prove this but yeah they are trained that way with violence from their owner who beats them back to their cages each day if they are still out. As for the trespassing laws etc, then the dog just gets put down and farmer absolved of guilt with the dog having done its job he trains another. Nasty business all round frankly.


  • I’ve been to some pretty remote farm locations and they always have three types of dogs.

    1. The pet - small jack Russell type that lives in the house.
    2. The worker - sheep dog type that accompanies the farmer in his day to day life. Often sleeps close to the house or inside when cold.
    3. The beast - doberman etc always caged in the day. No interaction from guests. Ferocious human haters. They will roam the yards at night and generally patrol.

    Each is part of the farm and has their place, to call them property is wrong because they are an essential part of the living.

    The problem to me is when one of the 3rd type lives in close proximity to strangers. That’s the last place they should be.