Dog fighting in Prospect Park,

here is the link to the story, please be on the look out.

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/05/26/after-report-of-dogfighting-propsect-park-owners-on-alert/?mod=rss_WSJBlog&mod=WSJ_NY_NY_Blog

yes yes, pit bulls tied to trees = dog fighting!

people know a lot!

So....

What does a chicken tied to fern tied to one legged Russian equal?

Because that's exactly what I saw over on Carroll Street the other day.

I used to watch a lot of the animal rescue shows, and this is one of the ways the disgusting owners use to train dogs for fighting

Dog fighting should be illegal... it's gross.

The info in the actual Fido mailing, from what I remember, made it sound like it could have been people training guard/attack dogs (for attacking people, not dogs). I am not a fan of this or the training technique but I have seen some groups of guys (with very well-cared for pits and other big breeds) using the German (?) training where they get the dogs all worked up. I can't remember the name of this style of training, but I can easily see someone mistaking these guys for a fighting group.

Either way, not cool. I frequent the remote areas with my dog so I'll be keeping an eye out for this, though.

it's called "scheutzland" or something like that. it's legitimate. and so is training your dog to be a guard dog or attack dog.

unfortunately, pit bulls are not guard dogs or attack dogs (attacking people), so if that's what these people are doing, they are idiots.

just a note: just because you see people doing things that are useful for training dogs to fight does NOT mean that these people are fighting their dogs. a ton of things useful for training fighting dogs are also useful for exercising normal dogs.

The article reads like a stretch, but anyone owning a dog physically capable of killing a grown person should be subject to a mental health test every six months.

Beagles all day.

PM wrote: Beagles all day.

This was a gem, thank you.

Drunken Revival wrote: So....

What does a chicken tied to fern tied to one legged Russian equal?

Because that's exactly what I saw over on Carroll Street the other day.

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a seeing eye chicken ?