You have to love a city with its warts and all to like Hamilton. The rent is heinous. I love it here, it’s my adopted hometown, but there are difficult parts because of the unhoused people, the addiction, and just a lot of crumbling shitty buildings.

The surrounding suburbs (Ancaster, Dundas, Stoney Creek), the west end and the mountain are all very well appointed by and large with lovely homes and well off neighbours. But it’s also like living in the desert. I want to be in the thick of it all, good and bad, right downtown, even among all the problems the unhoused folks can cause. (Unfortunately it’s just a really difficult problem for individuals to solve, and the government here sure doesn’t care beyond giving them some shacks from Temu, and the rest is largely dependent on volunteers). You have to decide if you want to dive in with both feet or live on the edge. Nothing wrong with either, but I want to live in community with everyone, even when they are hard to love and help.

Not statistically by any means. Pits are responsible for over 66% of deaths by dog attacks, German Shepherds 4.2%.

My vet friend says an unsocialized GSD is very difficult to deal with, but by stats alone it’s pit bulls by a mile.

Pugs can be really funny and charming, my pug was hilarious and cuddly and quite active. It’s not ethical to buy pug puppies of course and I’m certainly not defending that, but he was a stray in need of a home, and thankfully more exercise tolerant than average. At least they are a peaceful breed and can’t decide on a whim to rip your face off. Pits can also break out of or climb fences really easily, so your liability is high.

It’s like having a mountain lion for a pet. Why would you? You can have a nice dog instead.

Then explain how so many of them snap and eat children.

Genetics are genetics. Pointers probably aren’t bred for anything but being pets either. But they still do point.

They’re organized to do this. They have a Discord server and everything.

Facebook is super useful to see how bad it is. Throw search terms in like “pit bull attack/bite/kill” and see what comes up. It’s all people who have been attacked or their pets or livestock, and in every post there’s people jabbering all the propaganda. Like they hear a whistle.

It doesn’t matter what effort you put into them. They still snap all the time.

There was a farm on Facebook whose owners went out one day recently and came back to find their entire livestock population slaughtered, all the goats, rabbits, chickens and sheep. They didn’t kill them to eat them, they killed them for fun.

Doesn’t matter if they record breed or not. If you work in an ER you know it’s always pits.

Well the pit lunatics sure are out in full force to down vote this opinion LOLOL.

False. The Bennard family did nothing but raise theirs lovingly and they still ate their kids. That’s all propaganda from The Dodo about how they’re nanny dogs and all that shit.

That’s fine. I don’t want to argue with someone who put an effort into their mixed breed but is mindful of their genetics as well.

But I also have to point out that I have a mixed pit in my building and it broke away from its owner (who clearly has never had a dog before and has gotten swept up into the propaganda) and attacked a dog who was merely urinating and ripped its leg open. The owner was then subsequently resistant to paying the vet bill and walking it on a muzzle as she was ordered to by animal control.

I will also say that my friend was an ER clerk and one night the paramedics patched in to tell them they were bringing in a person whose friend’s pit mix had ripped off their arm simply because they were walking it and tried to pull it back from running after another dog. It turned on them and mauled them, until their arm was ripped off, and the cops had to shoot it to get it to stop. Never made the news.

It is 100% necessary to be mindful of what their genetics is and how they can turn on you.

It’s amazing how the pitnutters are down voting me. I don’t care, but it’s like someone presses a button and they come out of the woodwork to start their gaslighting.

Apparently the pit bull subreddit has a Discord server to discuss the ban pit bulls subreddit and how they can fight them.

Pitter patter.

To be fair.

If there was one thing on Reddit that was educational, it was Foreign Body Friday on the radiology subreddit.

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My nurse friend had some dude in the ER a few months ago who stuck his wedding ring on his penis and couldn’t get it off for what are obvious reasons to anybody but this guy. When this kind of thing happens the fire department has to come cut it off, so not only do you get a firefighter touching your junk and seeing the dumb thing you did, but also now your dick is a useless noodle, and you may spend the rest of your life reflecting on how easy the Internet makes acquiring safe items for such activities, and yet you chose a tiny gold band.

Mulder!