Exactly...one could meet a hundred very, very nice people who own very, very, very nice pitties. BUT it is still my experience from volunteering at both the Vancouver pound and the Burnaby SPCA, that there were many, many, many rotties and pits suffering. The bigger the rottie, and if the dog was male...his chances of ending up with a 'macho' idiot, at the end of a chain somewhere, were huge.

It is not the fault of the dog...inside every dark coloured, male rottie is a small white dog who just wants to be loved and sit on someone's lap...well, if he could fit on a lap. But there are few good, dedicated dog owners for even the small, white fluffy dogs, let alone the big rotties.

I think anyone who had my experience...especially at the Vancouver pound where they deal with a LOT of dogs, and after seeing row upon row of mainly pits, rotties and their crosses, one would want to protect the dogs.

I don't know the answer, but what I do know is that dogs that the pits and rotties, desperately, desperately need protection from being born and given to the wrong people over and over again.
Lori