| Getting back on the Bandog movement; it's not about dog fighting. Unfortunately, there's going to be a few nutcases out there. Whenever you have a dog capable of winning dogfights, that's always going to happen. I don't advocate dog fighting, but to me these dogs have something to offer that you won't find in traditional guard breeds. To put a breed down because of the involvement of dogfighters is like putting the rottweiler down because of irresponsible owners. Some people think that the solution is to ban certain breeds, but I think that if Bandogs and Bull Breeds became extinct then the same people would just direct their cruel practices on rotties, dobermans, and shepherds and you would eventually come up with game dogs of a different breed. It wouldn't reduce the violence, it would just redirect it.
If we don't need more breeds, then why even breed Rottweilers, Dobermans, and Malinois when GSD's can already do it all? Then we should all have GSD's because anything more than that is unnecessary, right? Rotties and Malinois were bred to be guard dogs, at least in part because they offered something beyond the GSD's (rotties offered size and strength, mals offered agility, speed, and attitude). In my opinion, Bandogs can take protection to the next level.  |