As I drove over to visit my folks the other day, I noticed a weird little trend. Much has been made about the number of attacks by Pit Bulls recently and I wonder if the trend might not tie into to this in some way. The scenario goes something like this.
If I want to appear like a real Gangster, a mean dog on a thick chain really speaks to the sheer toughness I posses. I then chain it up in my yard. I leave said dog alone and un socialized, other then when I walk it down the street to show folks how tough my dog and I really are. I teach my dog to be mean, because I am. I teach my dog to fight and be aggressive because it fills some whacked out need I have to be the Top Dog with my “homies”. Here is the difference though; your dog is not a coward on the inside.
Here in lies the rub. Your last name is Benson or Swenson. You have no more clue about being a gangster anymore then you have a clue that wearing your baggy pants down to your knees simply says you are available for sex in prison.
You can’t afford a big truck or “Bling Bling” to hang around your scrawny neck, so you have decided to let the world know how small your penis is by parading a poor dog around. You crop its ears, you find a nice looking spiked collar for it and then you screw up its life. How proud you must be. You are one tough dude from the “hood”.
I agree that Pit Bulls can be aggressive, as can Jack Russells. Dogs as a rule behave in a way we have taught them and it breaks my heart when I see what passes for Dog owners. Back a few years ago we lived in a town with a no kill shelter. It was not uncommon that folks would merely abandon their dogs there. To me there is no sadder sight then a dog running up and down a strange street trying to find it’s home and owner after being tossed from a car. Dogs don’t get that they are dispensable; they think they are part of the family. Dogs require time and patience and a ton of love, what they don’t need is a want to be Eminem.
Here is my deepest hope, if you raise a pit to be mean and aggressive, then it would only be right for it to kick your butt for screwing up it’s life.
Perhaps I should go into business making fake pit bull statues much like one can purchase a statue of a dwarf or tiny African-American jockey (whats that all about?). Then low-budget low-life gangstas could simply place a statue on their lawn and have more money for bling. Probably not as big a money maker as putting $.01 of wate rin a bottle and selling it for $1 but you never know. Ronnie.
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