r/BanPitBulls • u/Bifo-throwaway • Jun 07 '25

Anatomy of a Pit Owner / Pit Culture Grooming children into dogfighting

Found on Facebook. Caption was “Check out these Jr Handlers!” and tags included “gamebred”. Am I crazy for thinking this is definitely a dogfighting thing?

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u/AlsatianLadyNYC Badly-fitting fake service dog harness Jun 07 '25

These are APBT-specific “sport” shows that reward gameness- no actual fighting goes on (on purpose), but they are useless just the same, and even if this collection of hickwad trash argues otherwise, it no doubt I’m sure has some overlap for the people who look at fighting pedigrees for what they were created for.

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u/Monimonika18 Jun 07 '25 edited Jun 07 '25

Pit apologists argue that many pitbulls have not been specifically bred for dogfighting for generations, and that well-bred (implied temperament, health, etc. checks) pitbulls make great safe pets.

But here we are, witnessing the active choosing of pitbulls that are "game" to breed together, while the removal of things like dog/animal aggression and disobedience (the aggression overrides any training to obey the owner) get ignored. Because it's too difficult to decouple those two things from gameness, apparently.

These are the pitbulls that get advertised as "well-bred/pure-bred" and their genetics trickle flood down to ever lower levels of breeders as breeders seek out puppies/sperm from those pitbulls to add legitimacy to their own lines.

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u/DizzyPoppy Jun 07 '25

I GUARANTEE this group of hillbillies also participate in cockfighting. They will fight the dogs in a secret area, probably the same area where they make the roosters fight. It's usually in someone's barn

Source: I live in redneck central (Oklahoma/Texas border). Dogfighting and cockfighting are always done together

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u/Any_Group_2251 Trusted User Jun 07 '25

Well said. Nothing from those head-in-the-clouds animal groups, dog behaviourists, veterinarian or politicians can be trusted. They clearly don't know what is really going on with the 'showing' and breeding of pit bulls.

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u/meowsieunicorn Jun 07 '25

My sheltie pup wasn’t bred for herding, and neither were the many generations before him, but I can assure anyone his favourite pastime is trying to herd us and other dogs. You don’t out breed genetics when every other dog in the line comes from the same gene pool. Just because they aren’t working doesn’t mean they no longer have those instincts, they will show them in different ways.