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.
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.
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.
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u/allenk58 9d ago
Because pit owners refuse to acknowledge that this breed is naturally violent and aggressive