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BTW, i'm jaqdadi, not Mr. Bristol123. You are wrong Mr. Brightman. You obviously don't understand the animal world we live in. The APBT was bred specifically to be violent and tenacious.

By taking another breed or combination of breeds that were bred to be more aggressive and mating them. Breeds that were bred to be hunting dogs, security dogs, and other such purposes, like Doberman's and German Shepherds. Both those breeds make wonderful pets when raised properly, they can also be trained to kill on command as well. Then you weed out the more docile ones and repeat. Over time, you end up with traits that can be exploited for a certain purpose.

All dogs are unnatural. They all have been bred over thousands of years from other animals such as Wolves, Huskies, Coyotes and other small, predatory animals by humans.

Over time, the necessity of a purpose, such as a herding animal, were concentrated on and rebred and refined through specific breeding practices to obtain an animal with the desired traits.

The fact that this breed and others like them are high on the intelligence scale for dogs, makes them an easy target, for people using their specific traits for the wrong reasons and consistently breeding the meaner ones and killing the more docile ones has caused them to have a genetic trait for violence, that can only be removed over time.

The same traits that make them easy to train for violent purposes also makes them ideal candidates for other purposes as well, like working on front lines during war, without running away scared, because of the noise of bombs and gunfire all around them.

Of course some animals are born violent. Tigers for instance, even one's born and raised in captivity, can turn on their owners and resort to their primal instincts. Just one example proves this, Siegfried and Roy. Their careers were ended in 2003 when one of their own Tigers, well trained from birth by Roy, attacked him onstage and almost killed him. The Tiger went directly for his throat tearing his main artery.

The fact that the only level 1 trauma care center in Nevada was just down the street is the only reason he is still alive.

I suggest, you do some research before commenting on subjects you obviously don't understand. Like the comment about being used in both ww1 and ww2 before they were used for fighting.

That statement is just plain wrong. The APBT was bred specifically for violent purposes. To fight larger animals such as bulls, bears, and other large animals. They were especially good at it because of their bite strength, tenacity, and fearlessness.

When that practice was banned in the early 1800's in the U.S., they turned to watching them go after large rats and dog fighting was, long before even the Civil War.

Dog fighting itself is nothing new. It's been going on for thousands of years through different civilizations using different breeds. The APBT was bred by early American immigrants from other dogs such as the English Bulldog, because of their size and intelligence level, they were easy to train for it.

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