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.
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.
The same fucking reason goddamn Pit Bulls are more likely to eat your child's face than a Golden Retriever.
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.
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.