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“Dog fighting has been around for centuries.”

Bull-baiting was a blood sport in England involving the baiting of bulls, and on special occasions, even bears. It was believed that `baiting’ livestock made the meat more tender, so a lot of butchers owned `bulldogs’.

They were bred to be `weight-forward’ with massive chests & lean rear legs so they could not easily be thrown once they bit down on the bull, muscular withers, large heads with no `stop’ (you can put a ruler on some bulldogs’ forehead and the other end on his lower jaw—IOW, no nose) for the underbite needed to clamp onto the bull’s nose and force him to his knees.
Bull baiting was not finally outlawed until parliament passed the Cruelty to Animals Act of 1835.

Bulldogs were then bred with pugs in order to make them more manageable and then bred with terriers for the `sports’ of ratting, fighting badgers and other bull terriers.

The `American Pit bull’ is a terrier and the most maligned breed in America now, taking the most hated and feared status of the German Shepherd at the turn of the century, then the Doberman and most recently the Rottweiler.

It was once considered an ideal family pet. It was the model for the RCA Victrola ad showing a dog cocking his ear to listen. Helen Keller owned one. The original `Petey’ on the black-and-white `Little Rascals’ was an American Pit Bull terrier. Today the breed has been perverted by monsters like Michael Vick.

http://www.animalplanet.com/pets/about-bully-breeds/

Pitting dogs against one another is illegal, as well as cruel and barbaric. Dallas and Atlantic City gave Vick the keys to their cities. His prison should have thrown away the key to his cell and kept him. In sum, Michael Vick and those like him who fight dogs are walking turds.

Those here who say, “Ban this breed!” are of the same mindset as the gun grabbers.