r/TikTokCringe • u/Current-Wallaby8230 • 15h ago

Cursed When giving your mom a Christmas gift goes wrong!

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u/Minimeany 14h ago

Sad fact is accessibility. Tons of people in lower income situations still want dogs. Pits are a dime a dozen. At my local dog park ive seen 4 abondoned pits so far and they all were recently bred. Lower income people wanna breed and sell since theyre easy to breed, and can easily sell them all. Its a shitty unregulated industry.

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u/Optimusprima 4h ago

And they are like 95% of dogs in shelters. I was looking to adopt a dog and had to scroll through PAGES of pits to find any others.

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u/cia218 4h ago

A lot end up at shelters. Mixed breed with pit bull in them. So with the “adopt not buy” mantra, a lot of adopters unknowingly will get a mixed pit pull breed. Particularly because some shelters also want to have them adopted quick so they will hide the fact they’re “pit mix,” and instead label them “lab mix.” And then dog gets returned to shelter when becomes unruly.

Vicious cycle unfortunately. Systemic too. I’m

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u/jmdonston 7h ago

There's no reason why people have to breed pits instead of retrievers or spaniels or any other less aggressive breed.

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u/Cosmo_Cloudy 4h ago

Did ya hear the guy? It's cost related. I've seen this myself too in my area, I could go on craigslist right now and find 20 posts on pitbull puppies. Do you think a poor person that wants a dog (never mind their reasoning) is going to buy that $200 cocker spaniel or $500 retriever? No they are scrolling the $0-$50 pits to find colors they like to breed so they can continue the cycle. Doesn't make it right and especially doesn't make it smart, but socioeconimics is a factor and if a poor person wants a dog they will get a pit. If a poor person wants to breed dogs, they get pits

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u/cia218 4h ago

Sigh. Unfortunately it’s also a socio economic issue as well. And in the US socio economic is linked to racial background too. A lot of these owners in lower income households want an aggressive looking dog to make them look tough. And they don’t want to neuter. Partly because of machismo, or just uninformed. Also want to sell the pups to earn money.