I love that we have an entire industry around pure breeding dogs and how much it effects their brain chemistry to a point of pure instinctual behaviors, and people recognize this fact to the tune of thousands of dollars for puppies.
Except pitbulls, they are just Tabula Rasa slates with nothing there.
There was no approval of it. Only acknowledgement that if I bought a Border Collie, it will try to herd things purely based on its genetic code with zero provocation and trying to prevent it from doing so will have negative consequences.
Something we acknowledge as fact in nearly all other dog breeds, baseline instincts from their specific breeding history, except pitties who just don't somehow.
You also understand that you can't just expect a border collie to just behave around people right? Some behavioral patterns are taught, or at least not properly trained out of a dog.
Yes, but I also know that the dog will have baseline instincts that cannot be fully controlled or removed, regardless of training or the owner. This is why we have such categorizations for dogs specifically, because of how impactful they are on them compared to most pets.
And anyone attempting to force a dog into denying their own natural urges is not only torturing them with stress and confusion, but likely creating a ticking time bomb of acting out in some form. This could simply be incontinence and other stress behaviors all the way up to violence.
You can healthily give a herding or hunting dog an outlet in a normal family with some consideration. A pitbull cannot be, it needs something most families cannot come close to providing and treating it as purely an owner issue keeps these people ignorantly assuming they can.
I love that we have an entire industry around pure breeding dogs and how much it effects their brain chemistry to a point of pure instinctual behaviors, and people recognize this fact to the tune of thousands of dollars for puppies.
Except pitbulls, they are just Tabula Rasa slates with nothing there.
I love that the purebred dog industry is based around incest and wildly unhealthy breeding practices and is...somehow the hero in your story?
There was no approval of it. Only acknowledgement that if I bought a Border Collie, it will try to herd things purely based on its genetic code with zero provocation and trying to prevent it from doing so will have negative consequences.
Something we acknowledge as fact in nearly all other dog breeds, baseline instincts from their specific breeding history, except pitties who just don't somehow.
You also understand that you can't just expect a border collie to just behave around people right? Some behavioral patterns are taught, or at least not properly trained out of a dog.
Yes, but I also know that the dog will have baseline instincts that cannot be fully controlled or removed, regardless of training or the owner. This is why we have such categorizations for dogs specifically, because of how impactful they are on them compared to most pets.
And anyone attempting to force a dog into denying their own natural urges is not only torturing them with stress and confusion, but likely creating a ticking time bomb of acting out in some form. This could simply be incontinence and other stress behaviors all the way up to violence.
You can healthily give a herding or hunting dog an outlet in a normal family with some consideration. A pitbull cannot be, it needs something most families cannot come close to providing and treating it as purely an owner issue keeps these people ignorantly assuming they can.