I love pits, but I think that as long as dogs are being euthanized by the thousands in shelters, all breeding of ANY dog should stop.
I would rather see a whole breed (even MANY breeds) fade away; I would rather see dogs be made such a rare treasure that only rich people with special permits or licenses be allowed to keep them, than see them slaughtered, fought, eaten, battered, raced and abandoned.
There is more at stake here than our "love" for a breed, or our "need' to have pets who love us and serve us unconditionally.
Yeah, pet ownership is GREAT for us, and therapeutic, and saves human lives yada yada....
But I am thinking that until dogs (and cats) are made expensive and rare, we fickle humans will keep breeding, and "letting" them breed for our ulterior motives (they're such perfect guard dogs, baby sitters, companions, herders, etc) and the animal shelters will have to keep slaughtering the expendable, careless, excess, of which there is a LOT.
I would hate to be without my pit (she's actually a foundling pit/akita cross) but I would gladly never have a dog again if I knew that dogs where so hard to acquire that they all were treated like family, as they deserve to be.
That being said, I know that humans are way too selfish to stop breeding animals. There's money to be made, after all, and besides, it's GOOD for the BREED (retch.....blech...fooey...)
I will keep picking up the slack, as many of us probably are doing, by adopting the abandoned dogs.
My abandoned dog of choice is the Pit Bull. But GOD... I wish that all dogs were as prized as Ferraris...I NEVER find a Ferrari wandering around loose on my street, and I know that most all the Ferraris I ever see are highly prized and well tended.
Dogs don't get that kind of respect and I think it's 'cause they're too easy to come by and even easier to let waste away.
It kills me.