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I don't write off a whole breed, but I will say that my niece got her face seriously ripped up by a pit bull, and I have a friend who raised a pit bull from a puppy, devoted thousands of dollars and professional hours into her training and socialization, and she still bit someone simply for entering her house. I am leery of the breed.
If you will not write off a whole breed of dogs, you have not spent enough time around dogs.
Shepherds do not need to be taught to herd. Retrievers do not need to be taught to retrieve. Pointers do not need to be taught to point. Fighters do not need to be taught to fight.
These are innate behaviors. You can't stop them.
There's a reason pit bulls account for such a large fraction a dog related injuries.
And don't let the pitbull defenders get to you with their "but it's a mutt" or "they're such sweet dogs" BS.
Of course they're going to be nice to their owner. People who train and breed dogs to kill each other for entertainment are going to have no problem immediately bringing the dog that pisses them off out back and shooting them.
Shepherds have some herding instinct, but they don't magically understand herding.
You do, in fact, need to train a herding dog to herd if you want it to be any good at it.
This is where I recognize that you are making stuff up. You lost me here..
Everyone I know who has been bit by a dog it was either a pitbull, pit mix, or chihuahua. And I'm not exactly worried about the severity of a chihuahua bite.
I was bitten by an English bull terrier puppy. So now you know someone else.
You mean the breed that pitbulls were made out of?
Also puppies are a lot less of a worry than grown dogs.
No English bull terriers are smaller, not the American kind.
Pitbulls were bred from bull terriers to be a bigger version. So it's not surprising a different breed of terrier is also prone to biting.
Lol sane. No warning. No reason. Actually bit me pretty badly too.
There's a reason to tolerate Chihuahua, cat, or other small animal bites. They cannot kill a child.
To be fair, cat bites can leave you with stitches.
Cat bites often become infected when not treated properly. But at least they are basically incapable of killing you immediately or causing lifelong disfigurement.
Same thing for paper cuts.
Life is dangerous. No one gets out of it alive.
I got bit by an English mastiff. That wasn't a fun experience at 6.
I was bitten by a golden retriever when I was 12. It looked friendly so I went to pet it, and it sunk a canine into my arm. I was just unlucky (and slightly stupid) though, and it didn't rip my face off, so I think I did ok overall.
A German shepherd also tried to bite me when passing it on a narrow path, but it just shredded my jacket pocket.
A Yorkshire terrier also had a go at me once, but didn't make it through denim jeans.
If I were to be attacked by a dog the last one I'd choose is a pitbull or any muscular mastiff. They're dangerous because they have the highest potential for damage.
What's there to be leery about? These dog breeds were bred for one thing and it sure wasn't to be the perfect family dog.
Well no, that's where you're wrong. Human aggression was a trait that was absolutely bred out of these dogs.
Please go read up on how the American fighting pitbull dog was created, managed, trained, etc. Before throwing out bs online.
Well I did and it literally states in the first paragraph of the history of Pit Bulls on Wikipedia:
So I feel, idk, that you got some reading to do...
Oh how cute, you read a paragraph on Wikipedia..
Well what fucking sources do you have lmao?
Well I'll just start with a top search result when looking for their history..
https://pitbulls.org/article/brief-history-american-pit-bull-terrier
I have owned and read about these dogs for decades, I don't have nor am I going to go find all of the sources I've read over that time. I can tell you that you are incorrect in your assumption about the breed, as are virtually every other person who hates these dogs.
People like you are historically not worth talking to, you will deny any sources or information that I provide because you have already made your mind up about the breed.
I'll leave you with this: this breed was created by humans, is in a constant state of misery because of humans, and is persecuted by humans because of human behavior.
These dogs are not at fault. But ignorance is rife with folks like yourself. I hope you actually put effort into learning their history but I know you won't.
I can. They are a non-natural breed created by people for cruel purposes and should be eradicated.
Yeah. They were literally bred to be as vicious as possible.
We can write them off. I don't blame the dogs, I blame the people who made them this way.
What's a natural breed of dogs? And how do you measure intention?
Ok fair enough. I just don't want to be mean to anyone.
And my wife's hairdresser has a vizla that bit her daughter's face and caused her to get 100+ stitches and she'll be scarred forever. Dogs can bite without warning regardless of the breed.
I've spent a decent amount of time around about a dozen pit bulls and never saw/heard of any issues with any of them. All but 1 were very sweet dogs and even he wasn't being aggressive beyond making it clear that I was not to enter the property (growling and barking same as many other dogs would do) when we first met. After his owner showed up and we got acquainted with each other he was fine too. On the other hand I've been bitten by half the dachshunds I've met.