It has been found that youths are keeping dogs for companionship more than anything.
People often think that bull type dogs such as Staffs or Bull dogs are kept to protect certain items or personal protection, but the young people that are living in a more violet Britain are using them as a companion not as an object. The dogs are more than a weapon, they are a friend who will not judge them or use them for things that do not want to do. A dog does not blame them for things or expect them to do illegal things, they are happy when you are happy and worried when you are sad. I dog is always on your side.
Although these people love their dogs they still abuse them, but this through lack of knowledge and I should imagine frustration at other things in their life. Dogs will probably bare the brunt of some things but they are still loved by their owners.
Its another reason, not to judge a book by its cover.
I personally think that the dogs are a companion to the people who are lost, and its not to lonely being lost with a dog. They are joining gangs young and need something in their life that is truly theirs, and because they can be aggressive to others they know that the dog cannot be taken from them, it is loyal to them. Something which they may not encounter with people. They need these dogs as much as any other person needs their dogs as friends and confidants.
After attending “Dog Law Unleashed” and listening to the author of “Unleashed” talk about the violence and love of the owners of banned breeds, fighting dogs and money breeding, that sometimes the dogs are more than just weapons they are part of the gang. They are their own member having their own status within the gang.
But some are used as weapons as many assume, but not to the extent the media portrays. The dogs are doing what their nature tells them to do, protect their pack. Protect themselves. It is natural for them to attack others as they only know their owners, they do not know they are harming others for profit, scaremongering and to kill.
Article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110616092535.htm
Image: http://www.28mm.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Main.png
Book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unleashed-Phenomena-Status-Dogs-Weapon/dp/1447300270
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