http://einhorninsurance.com/california-insurance/pit-bulls-pass-atts-temperament-test/ http://www.realpitbull.com/temperament.html
I mean I can literally Post 200 links but I won't . There are no bad breeds. Just bad breeders. The pit bull has been celebrated for years and years and years as great family dogs and they still are. This is akin to having an argument on whether or not Jews have horns people. And by the way, one of those tests show that pits did do better than the golden retriever.
Doth protest too much. So weird everyone suppressing all those articles about gang bangers turning Golden's. _
great temperament except when mauling children to death. got it. my friends daughter getting mauled - myth. I used to think the same thing as you guys too.
That's the crux of the matter. Intrinsically they may be bred to have great temperaments. But if a group of really shitty owners can transform those sweet gentle creatures into violent killing machines, there is a screw loose somewhere in that breeds DNA that ain't right. You're not taking a pack of basset hounds and turning them into killers. You're not talking Golden Retrievers into a fighting pen. I can't imagine Newfoundlands mauling a thousand people regardless of how poorly they are treated. And we had dachshunds growing up and they were nasty nasty dogs. They didn't have the physical stature to maul a person. _
Back before you were forced to put dogs down when they bit someone, one of my dogs bit a passel of people. Like 6 or 7 of them. Bit my shop teacher in the ass when he was dropping off a pedestal table I made. _
Dachshunds were bred to go down dark holes after weasels, skunks and badgers. That would make any breed vicious after awhile.
Sooo anyway.... what the fuck Brooklyn.... amateur hour... don't post on message boards when you get angry drunk.. throw things and beat your dog... wait a minute...
Smaller dogs tend to be more vicious than the bigger ones. Just can't do as much damage so of course you won't hear about the ankle biters killing anyone. Every pit I've met are such sweethearts. My sister's dog is just a giant lapdog. All he wants to do is play and cuddle. Not an ounce of viciousness in him. Scared easily and just runs away instead of fighting. I just adopted a dog a month ago. Struggling with separation anxiety. It's tough, I feel bad for my neighbors having to deal with that during the day and it's drastically increased stress in my life. But when I get home and she's calmed down, I can't help but love her.
A chick I dated had a teacup yorkie. Incredible temperament. Was trained to fly in drones to bomb terrorist compounds. True story. _
I've known 3 pit bulls, all mixed breeds owned by women and all basically attached to their owner at the hip. The only problem I've seen with them is that they tend to play without an invitation and that can lead to problems at times when they pick the wrong partner. I haven't seen any indication of vicious behavior out of any of them and one of them is a Pit Bull - Fox Terrier mix (no idea how that happened.)
No, I believe it is more due to the fact that instead of doing what they do with other breeds, that is give the statistics about attacks by that specific breed, with pit bulls they take numerous breeds that they consider pit pulls and group all those attacks together. If someone was to suddenly start grouping Great Danes, Chihuahuas, Dobermans, Chows, German Shepherds and Cane Corsos as one group and said based on statistics they are more likely to attack than any other breed people would see something was not right. With pit bulls they slowly kept adding one breed after another where they now have, depending on the report, up to 10 or 12 breeds included as pit bulls when there are just 3 true pit bull breeds, really only one recognized by UKC but not going to split hairs. When I start seeing statistics that list attacks broken down by American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier just as Shepherds, Chows, Presa Canarios each are listed separately, then I can start taking it more seriously, the reports that is. If you look at the report on which the article you link is based, they list approximately 150 breeds of dogs and their bite statistics, unfortunately even though they listed 150 other breeds they still listed pit bulls, which is not a breed, as one. They also don't say what breeds they are grouping together to come up with "pit bulls". All the work they did compiling those stats how hard would it have been to list American Staffordshire Terrier? or American Pit Bull Terrier? Lets see how much those breeds are attacking when not grouped with numerous other breeds.
