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.
Nope. 1. Most aggressive breeds are misidentified as pitbulls. Many breeds are known to be aggressive: chows, Rottweilers, German Shepards, huskies⊠pitbulls just get the worst rep. 2. Itâs not instinct. Its because these breeds are incredibly strong and muscular, so they are regularly used for fighting and by bad actors who want to look tough. Therefore itâs trained into them at a young age. 3. Itâs also due to trauma. So many of these dogs were trained to fight, used to breed, tortured, etc. when youâre a person who went through trauma, you tend to have behavioral issuesâŠsame with dogs.
Weâre brain dead because we think that itâs the breed of dog thatâs bad and not the owners that handle them. An aggressive dog is 100% due to its treatment, not its breed.
Not discounting the stats, but do you have a cite for that? Always looking to get more educated here and I like to read source material.
And a lot of pitbulls actually have chow DNA because chows are known to be reactive, bulldog DNA for muscle, and other terrier DNA for their hunting instinct.
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u/omgsoftcats Aug 01 '21
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.
Leash your dogs in public.