Just Watched Judge Joe Brown - Pit Bull Chat

I was cruising through the channels and happened to stay on an installment of Judge Joe Brown. The record was almost a woman who let her 6-year-old pit bull off lead in a common and it ran up to a pomeranian and bit it. The pom survived, the pit bull was put down, and the two women were arguing over whether it was just that the pit bull was put down for biting another dog and how little remorse the pit bull owner allegedly showed about the incident.

The pit bull owner said her dog shouldn't have been killed; the former woman was angry that the dog had been let off leash and that the woman wasn't conciliatory enough around the situation. Neither represented all that well, though I'm always (*always*) disappointed when a pit bull owner lets his/her dog off-lead in public parks to cast at will, because in the mood we go in these days there is no way for error with our dogs. At all. Fair? Maybe not, to those who have dogs that have ever been dog social, but we possess no more leeway if we wish to prevent our dogs. So keep them on their leashes, always err on the position of caution, and let's not make any incidents at all-it's best for all of us that way.

Anyway, the matter about this point that really galled me was that Judge Joe Brown was demanding that the pit bull owner tell him why she got that dog in the foremost station and why she would even own "that sort" of dog. She was apparently not capable to serve the head to his satisfaction, so he gave a brief lesson on how pit bulls are bred to be vicious beats and that they are mingled with other aggressive dogs, like mastiffs and so on, to produce dogs that are as ominous as possible. The pit bull owner tried to clear the statement that it's not a pit bull thing, that all dogs can bite, but Borwn wasn't having it and insisted that other breeds of dog do not bite because they are domesticated-pit bulls do bite because they are not domesticated, they are bred to kill. He browbeat this woman, not complete her irresponsible action (letting her dog off lead in an unsecured public domain where other animals run off lead) but because of the form of dog she owned.

No matter how many times I see this sort of matter or hear about it from others, it never ceases to get me. People are not guilty of crime only because they prefer to own a cover of dog that people don't like. And dogs are not "born killers," based on their breed. Dogs are dogs, and though there are stupid people who make stupid mistakes with their dogs-because dogs, really, aren't treated like dogs these years in Americaanymore (they are, instead, treated like feeble-minded people in collars and coats)nearly every single problem with dogs that exists right now in this country is due to people, not so often the dogs. It's not a crime to own a pit bull. It's not a crime to care a cover of dog that much of people do not like. It is inappropriate, however, to have an off-leash dog in an expanse that isn't designated for dogs to run of leash. So that's all this woman should have been criticized for, as far as I can tell. But Joe Brown, and his audience, apparently celebrate the impression that pit bull owners should be criminalized, based exclusively on the form of dog they own. Nice.

Go, Judge Joe Brown: Use your fame (or bully pulpit, perhaps) to outlaw and demoralize pit bull owners, rather than use your view of vague influence to maybe encourage people to just be more responsible with their dogs in general. Because, really, any dog can bite. And scores of dogs do bite. It's not simply a pit bull thing.

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