I really don't see an easy solution either way tracy. They've been a proven problem in cities. They've been proven to be owned by dogfighters, drug dealers, and the lowest common denominator. I've seen footage of whitetrash house wives siccing these dogs on animal control officers, dogfighting rings using these animals up and breeding them to be as nasty as possible, even to the point where they can barely handle their own dogs. While you and your family are smart and know people who breed to good standard, the lowest common denominator DOES drag that reputation down with it. It's just the way it works.
If we let the lowest common denominator decide what rights we all have, then things are going to be really bad.... Funny how the same mentality doesn't apply to guns, cars, painkillers, etc.
Oh, btw, we never bred dogs or got any from breeders though we know several. Ours were all rescues. Some had to be euthanized. Most were able to be rehabed and placed in homes.
OT, but this is actually a petpeeve of mine. Where I work, it seems like every policy we have is based on the lowest common denominator. It's gotten so bad that nurses now need a doctor's order to give a baby a tub bath. I'm sure there was some idiot nurse who gave a bath to a baby who couldn't tolerate it once, so now we are all assumed to be too stupid to make that decision. Even the docs find it silly. One of them looked at me like I was nuts when I asked for that order for one of my babies:lol:, but I follow the hospital's rules and made her put it in the computer orders for me anyways.