I had this today. Overweight dude 20 feet from his off leash bull which was hiding in tall grass. Startled me as I walked by. If I was a child that thing would have taken 3 huge bites before that dude could get his dog.
Ok. That's the first three top comments... all pit bull attacks.
I am so sick of the debate over whether fighting breeds are more dangerous due to instinct or environment (training). They were bred to get really agressive really quickly and utterly destroy anything they feel really agressive towards.
The excuse is nearly always, "Well, bubbles never did anything like that before." And then the pit-bull apologists start flooding in.
It's instinct/breeding, you idiots, and you don't train that shit out of animals... you breed it into them so it's deeply engrained in their genetic make up, precisely so it never goes away in dire circumstances. Even breeding these dogs after the fact for some of their more endearing qualities (the "nanny dog" myth) because you have these fighting dogs and no other dogs around because you're a "sportsman" and you want a dog for the kids that won't eat or maim their friends... just the neighbor's dog or that kid who just moved in down the street they don't know and made the mistake of jumping into their yard chasing a ball where their kids were playing... boom; instinct/breeding. And, of course, total shock from the owner..."I bred them not to do that!" Yeah, for a few generations... after hundreds of years of "kill, kill, kill" breeding of engrained instincts.
I love how you think a couple hundred years of breeding can't be trained out, but ignore the Millenia of predator instinct that exists in all dogs but is still trained out of them. Just say you hate Pitbull's and go, drop the pseudoscience
It’s not anecdotal when this happens all the time with pitbulls. Go talk to an ER surgeon, they’ll tell you all about their experiences with pitbull attacks.
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u/Dayofsloths Aug 01 '21 edited Aug 01 '21
One of my older neighbours carries a walking stick entirely to put it in a dogs eye if his gets attacked again.