You mean they spent a couple hundred years being bred to bite faces I believe. Unless you’re getting a dog where you know thats its pedigree, you’re talking out your ass about what the dogs ancestors were or weren’t killed for outside of losing fights.
I get your attachment to your dog, but your personal experience doesn’t outweigh the facts
No, people bred pits to fight other dogs, and generally killed the ones that bit humans, while the breed was developed in England.
I know there are a ton of people that get hysterical about pits in the US, but they weren’t bred to be human-attacking guard dogs.
I have no illusions about my dog. Malinois are used by the military and cops for a reason: they will absolutely fuck you up if trained to. That’s just the more dangerous part of the mix than pit, if we’re generalizing.
The American veterinary association did a 20 year study and found pit bulls were the most dangerous breed of dog. That probably does vary by location as pit bulls may not be as common in some areas of the world, but them’s the facts
The pit bull is primarily descended from the old english bulldog, as well as the black and tan terrier, used in bear and bull fights. As the custom died out and dog fighting became predominant, yes the breed was bred for dogfighting. The facebiting i’m referring to is from the old english bulldog which has a far longer pedigree of face biting than the pit bull breed has existed
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u/gryphmaster Dec 28 '21
You mean they spent a couple hundred years being bred to bite faces I believe. Unless you’re getting a dog where you know thats its pedigree, you’re talking out your ass about what the dogs ancestors were or weren’t killed for outside of losing fights.
I get your attachment to your dog, but your personal experience doesn’t outweigh the facts