[Leica] Nathan's PAW 16: Cool guys with pooches

[rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

>-and I'm sorry I cannot translate this in English-'perdre les
>p?dales' from time to time?
>Philippe

Yes, as I said, Pitbulls have a bigger aggressivity potential than all 
other breeds. Originally, they have been breeded to control wild bulls in 
the corral, that's why they are so fearless. Since a few decades, they have 
been breeded for dogfights. Since ten or fifteen years, they got popular as 
guardian dogs amongst dealers, junkies, and other outlaws or 
wanna-be-outlaws, and the breeding has been pushed toward more anti-mankind 
aggressivity. The breeders and those who pay them are the problem, not the 
dogs.

A reverse example: I had a female Sarplaninac dog for 13 years. These dogs 
protect sheeps, goats and farms in southern Yugoslavia where I had her 
from. Big, strong and without fear. Everybody found her cute and cuddly. 
And she was cute and cuddly, except once when a Rottweiler (which, in my 
country, have a similar negative image like pitbulls) ran into my then two 
year old daughter. My dog killed the Rottweiler instantly with a bite in 
the neck. Everyone said: well done. But, what if my dog would have been the 
pitbull and the other the sheepdog? Imagine the headlines the next day...
Didier