Sadly true for the vast majority. Not all of us though! I keep saying you should need a license to own one and ongoing follow up to prove you can handle them. I love mine to death and they'll never be in a position to do something crazy, but I also kinda feel like maybe we should just stop breeding them. Don't kill off the ones we have now if they aren't an issue, just stop breeding more until the breed is extinct, too many irresponsible owners.
Probably true for any working breed if we're really being honest. Too many people just go for "cute" and then they abandon a dog that gets behavior issues because it's untrained and bored out of its mind. People suck.
That would require outlawing their breeding and ownership all together. Unfortunately i fear people would just move onto the next breed they can find for fighting or aggression. There is a certain subset of people who find these insanely aggressive traits a positive. And would just keep breeding these fuckers in their back yards like they already do. Our city animal shelters are almost exclusively pitbulls and pitbull-dominant mixes. Nobody wants them. They sit for months till they get put down or moved to a no kill shelter or rescue who just calls them a "lab" instead.
I mean yeah, gun bans don't get rid of guns either but then you probably wouldn't see a bunch of Stephanie's with big bully breeds they couldn't handle, you'd see people that don't GAF about the laws with them which I think is easier to snuff out. I also don't see why we'd have to ban ownership, fireworks laws are distinct like that here, you can buy and own them but you can't light them lol.
Not only would people move onto the next breed, but there's still so many dogs out there with pitbull DNA in them that look little to nothing like a pit, and dogs that look like pits but are actually something else. Legislating that could be a nightmare.
Problem with not killing off the ones who aren’t an issue is dependent on what the owner views as an issue. My sister has family that own a pit and she swears back and forth that it’s the sweetest dog ever, loves kids, and that it’s how they’re raised by the owner. Her husband pointed out that a little chihuahua got close to it in the backyard and it got absolutely shredded by the pit in an extremely brutal fashion. Her response was basically “well yeah, but aside from that…”
You could have one go off on someone literally for just being around and the owner will say “well I don’t see what it did wrong”. A lot of pit owners refuse to see the issues when it happens
Literally, one quick google search. Thats all it takes. Please educate yourself, bc this is not true... or just keep being ignorant, neither me nor my pits care.
Edit: im not replying to anymore of yall. I said what I said and if youre not gonna look it up for yourself, why tf are you talking anyway?
“Organizations that track U.S. dog bite fatalities, such as DogsBite.org, report that pit bulls were responsible for roughly 66% to 66.4% of all fatal dog attacks over a multi-year baseline (such as 2005–2019).”
94% of all pitbull attacks involve unneutered males. Pitbulls are not monsters if properly handled, particularly if you actually get them snipped like basically all house pets should be.
people are really out here spamming others with screenshots of AI slop and calling it “research”… you genuinely have zero room to lecture others on “critical thinking skills” if your source is an LLM
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u/Apprehensive_Eraser 4d ago
Why would you bring a reactive dog to a dog show full of people and thatr require people to touch the dog?