Lately the number of accidents caused by dogs has increased. More and more dog-owner choose powerful dogs to keep. Unfortunately some of them has been trained for fights. As a reaction a new law has been brought in that forbids dog fights, keeping and breeding the "killer" dogs in Hungary.
When puppies are born they are staying with their mother for two months than an owner-to-be comes to choose one or two of them. The pup is taken home to the new master. Without its mother he excepts the owner as "the leader of the pack" and does everything he is told to do.
Most of the dog-owners are families or people who need company and their dogs are treated fairly well. Others need work-dogs for helping in farms, protecting the house or the master. The police, the army and rescuers need them for capturing criminals, detecting drug and bomb, saving human lifes in danger.
There is a small group of people who train dogs to fight. They usually select dogs which are middle size and weight, very tough but also agile. They bring them up by teaching them how to kill, fight and destroy other dogs. For this purpose these sick minded people often get dogs from dogcatchers or even steal beloved pets to be torn apart by their dogs. When they are satisfied with the result they take the dogs to competitions, where they bet and enjoy the match. The lucky ones usually win a large sum of money so they can buy even more dogs and earn more money. The winner dogs get their reward as well: they stay alive. The cute and cuddly pups are adult dogs now fighting for their lives.
Sometimes the police recovers the competitions and the participants of these forbidden events are fined for only a small amount of money compare to the profit they make. In certain cases the dogs are not only taken away but also put off because they are said to be dangerous to man. Unfortunately the dog pays the price of the human’s fault.
Why do people call only these dogs dangerous? They have been trained to kill dogs and not man. What is more, every dog has teeth to bite with so they all can be equally dangerous. Humans are distinguished from animals by thinking and living in civilization so humans have to find out what motivates a dog to attack in order to avoid an unwanted bite. Usually a dog bites when it is protecting its territory, food or master, uncertain what to do or just simply afraid. By staring straight into a dog’s eyes can mean domination and a call for fight, in which they will decide which one of them is the dominant, but at that moment when one is showing the pose of subordination they stop because there is no more reason for the fight. It is an unnatural situation when they are forced to compete and kill in the ring.
In spite of the fact that we see dogs dangerous in many situation (in dogfights, when one walks the dog without led and even when an old lady is gesticulating wildly with her shopping bag towards the dog, which has been calm and behaving properly till that moment) we should respect them because we need them. Thousands of years ago when humans met the dog it became not only a domestic animal but they are also our best and most faithful friends. Their whole life depends on us.
It is shameful that some have not learned yet what responsibility is.
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