That’s not true though. And while there are far too many pit bull attacks most are due to a lack of training, socialization, supervision on the part of the owner. A well socialized and trained pit bull is less dangerous than a chihuahua. There is also the prevalence of inbreeding by backyard “breeders” that will cause any breed to have problems. Pit bulls just get more attention by the media because they are the breed of the hour these days. It was Doberman, Rottweilers, GSDs, in the past even though the pit bull has been in America for much longer than the other breeds. And they were used to mind the children for a long time. Keep them safe while the parents worked the field.
Pit bull is a category of dogs descended from terriers and bulldogs. I can't comment of inbreeding or how nice or mean they are, but they are well justifiably known their attacks and as a breed made for dog fighting.
Their attacks generally do more damage, that is not something I will argue. The frequency of attacks and an accurate report of the “breed” are points that need to be looked at more closely. Shit owners that don’t keep a territorial dog contained, don’t train them properly (or worse, train them to be aggressive), don’t socialize them, etc...are more to blame than the breed. There are hundreds, if not thousands more peaceful pits than there are aggressive ones, but no one mentions those. Temperament tests have been done by neutral third parties for years, the pit bull types have always done well in those when they are raised right and not poorly bred by some moron in his backyard.
You keep saying things like "if they're trained/bred/raised properly."
That doesn't really help your case. If a breed needs more or better training to be safe, that's actually evidence that they are more dangerous.
Also, "There are more good ones than bad ones" is irrelevant. That's like talking about a serial rapist and saying "Don't worry, he doesn't rape most people."
Lmao fucking "nanny breed" propaganda? Are you kidding me? That's a complete lie and always has been, I can't believe anyone still falls for that nonsense.
Pit Bulls are an absolute degenerate breed and only trashy people own them, and they all own them specifically because they want a "tough" dog.
Your excuse making for a dumpster-grade breed of dog is literally no different from "AKSHUALLY black crime rates are driven by systemic racism, white supremacy, and guns!".
A pit bull group renamed the breed and specifically trained and screened them for temperament, hoping to remove the pit bull stigma, and even their trained, screened dogs ended up attacking people, killing family cats, and in one case attacked a police horse.
That is a decent article, but it does not address the actual problem. During the time the attacks increased dramatically, what drove that? The early nineties was mtv, gangster rap, drug dealers breeding them to fight or attack, thug culture started to become mainstream and people saw the dogs attacking tires online or in a music video and went out and got one. They didn’t bother to learn how to control dogs, how to train them properly, how to socialize them, how to spot a bad breeder. They wanted a status symbol, so the number of dogs being sought exploded along with an increase in attacks. Most people don’t train their dogs to do anything more than tricks. They are not serious owners. I am not saying that they are not potentially dangerous dogs, I am saying that a well bred dog, raised well is not more dangerous than most other breeds. Cane corso, dogo Argentino, Belgian malinois, GSD, etc...these are all potentially dangerous breeds but are less dangerous than an untrained mutt when they are trained properly. Breed has less to do with it than most people are willing to admit. Negligence on the owners part has lots to do with it.
Bro if I don't train a yellow lab it will jump on people when it's happy, and eat off the table. It probably won't eat my kids.
Pit bulls are one of the few breeds of dog that even by admission pit bull fans will say are extremely dangerous. If you're saying the dog is dangerous when untrained then that means it's also dangerous when trained. It's not a robot where I am deleting the "psycho murder" subroutine and it can never happen... it's a living being, meaning it can make its own decisions and one day it may just go fucking nuts for literally no reason.
There is no evidence that pit bull attacks are even remotely connected to a lack of training. It's a knee jerk assumption pitbull owners make as an excuse when in reality I'll bet you most of these dogs were trained as adequately as any other dog.
I agree pits are a dangerous breed....but definitly don't underestimate labs and retrievers. I've seen a mean ass retriever that looked cute and friendly.
Lots of bad bites happen because labs and retrievers look cute and people underestimate them....but they can be very mean.
That’s not true though. And while there are far too many pit bull attacks most are due to a lack of training, socialization, supervision on the part of the owner. A well socialized and trained pit bull is less dangerous than a chihuahua. There is also the prevalence of inbreeding by backyard “breeders” that will cause any breed to have problems. Pit bulls just get more attention by the media because they are the breed of the hour these days. It was Doberman, Rottweilers, GSDs, in the past even though the pit bull has been in America for much longer than the other breeds. And they were used to mind the children for a long time. Keep them safe while the parents worked the field.
Pit bull is a category of dogs descended from terriers and bulldogs. I can't comment of inbreeding or how nice or mean they are, but they are well justifiably known their attacks and as a breed made for dog fighting.
Their attacks generally do more damage, that is not something I will argue. The frequency of attacks and an accurate report of the “breed” are points that need to be looked at more closely. Shit owners that don’t keep a territorial dog contained, don’t train them properly (or worse, train them to be aggressive), don’t socialize them, etc...are more to blame than the breed. There are hundreds, if not thousands more peaceful pits than there are aggressive ones, but no one mentions those. Temperament tests have been done by neutral third parties for years, the pit bull types have always done well in those when they are raised right and not poorly bred by some moron in his backyard.
You keep saying things like "if they're trained/bred/raised properly."
That doesn't really help your case. If a breed needs more or better training to be safe, that's actually evidence that they are more dangerous.
Also, "There are more good ones than bad ones" is irrelevant. That's like talking about a serial rapist and saying "Don't worry, he doesn't rape most people."
Lmao fucking "nanny breed" propaganda? Are you kidding me? That's a complete lie and always has been, I can't believe anyone still falls for that nonsense.
Pit Bulls are an absolute degenerate breed and only trashy people own them, and they all own them specifically because they want a "tough" dog.
Your excuse making for a dumpster-grade breed of dog is literally no different from "AKSHUALLY black crime rates are driven by systemic racism, white supremacy, and guns!".
https://web.archive.org/web/20100415213358/http://animalpeoplenews.org/04/1/editorialHighRiskDogs1.04.html
Lmao at this article.
A pit bull group renamed the breed and specifically trained and screened them for temperament, hoping to remove the pit bull stigma, and even their trained, screened dogs ended up attacking people, killing family cats, and in one case attacked a police horse.
That is a decent article, but it does not address the actual problem. During the time the attacks increased dramatically, what drove that? The early nineties was mtv, gangster rap, drug dealers breeding them to fight or attack, thug culture started to become mainstream and people saw the dogs attacking tires online or in a music video and went out and got one. They didn’t bother to learn how to control dogs, how to train them properly, how to socialize them, how to spot a bad breeder. They wanted a status symbol, so the number of dogs being sought exploded along with an increase in attacks. Most people don’t train their dogs to do anything more than tricks. They are not serious owners. I am not saying that they are not potentially dangerous dogs, I am saying that a well bred dog, raised well is not more dangerous than most other breeds. Cane corso, dogo Argentino, Belgian malinois, GSD, etc...these are all potentially dangerous breeds but are less dangerous than an untrained mutt when they are trained properly. Breed has less to do with it than most people are willing to admit. Negligence on the owners part has lots to do with it.
Bro if I don't train a yellow lab it will jump on people when it's happy, and eat off the table. It probably won't eat my kids.
Pit bulls are one of the few breeds of dog that even by admission pit bull fans will say are extremely dangerous. If you're saying the dog is dangerous when untrained then that means it's also dangerous when trained. It's not a robot where I am deleting the "psycho murder" subroutine and it can never happen... it's a living being, meaning it can make its own decisions and one day it may just go fucking nuts for literally no reason.
There is no evidence that pit bull attacks are even remotely connected to a lack of training. It's a knee jerk assumption pitbull owners make as an excuse when in reality I'll bet you most of these dogs were trained as adequately as any other dog.
I agree pits are a dangerous breed....but definitly don't underestimate labs and retrievers. I've seen a mean ass retriever that looked cute and friendly.
Lots of bad bites happen because labs and retrievers look cute and people underestimate them....but they can be very mean.