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Originally Posted by ajbrown
Sorry, I thought I read you were a little apprehensive about pit bull breed. I certainly am when one is around my dog because they are so strong, I am not sure I could intervene.
Sorry #2, I meant unstable as a dog may interpret, not as humans would. I did not mean to imply you are unstable  |
Jade is a pit bull mix and she and her owner are quite nice. You might get licked by Jade. Jade's owner has faced some unfair prejudice based on how her dog looks.
If I see an unfamiliar pit bull mix though around the Villages my guard does go up. Our former neighbor in Palm Harbor bred pit bulls and treated them like crap so I would expect them to go off on people. He kept them in crates in his garage and even incurred the wrath of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals when he tried to exercise them by tying them to his car and driving around the neighborhood. A boy called 9/11 and got the cops to follow the blood trail to my neighbor's home. That, of course, made the Tampa Bay news stations. And we had to put up with some rather nasty drive-bys. Eggs and the like, not gunshots. I was glad to move out of Palm Harbor in 2005. I had got in a legal mess with the Palm Harbor Library Director Gene Coppola as well over a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory
Victim Services Directory and got hit with a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation threat from the Palm Harbor Library General Counsel. It would have cost too much financially and more importantly on stress to my family to fight this local bully. So, I got out of Dodge, so to speak. Since 2005, I have had a very nice life here in the Villages and for the most part I am a very happy camper. Broader life experiences though can influence how one interacts both with local people as well as their pets.
You are usually not only interacting with a dog but with its owner and how she/he feels about stuff right then as well. Google Taltarzac725 if you want to know more about my story and where I am at now in my life.