It’s because there have been multiple instances where undereducated owners with Pitbulls, leave them unsupervised with babies and young children… It does not end very well…
Huskies do too.
Actually pit bulls are banned in multiple places because a bunch of fear-mongering assholes who know nothing about dogs started preaching about how evil and vicious and blah blah blah they are like they were experts and idiots believed them. The same thing they say about pit bulls – vicious, locking jaws, driven mad by their brains being too large for their skulls – are just repeated myths that were said about Rottweilers, Dobermans, and GSDs in the past.
Idiots just move on to something new to hate every once in a while and unfortunately now-a-days we have a media that cares more about getting clicks and ratings and attention than they do about facts. Why do I mention the media? Well, that’s because they’ve been known to lie about the breed of a dog involved in an attack on humans. A golden retriever biting a twelve year old child just doesn’t have the same ring as “a vicious pit bull mauls a small child” after all.
On top of that, there’s all these “gangsta” dumbasses who fight pit bulls without any understanding of how dogs work. There’s different types of aggression in dogs – there’s human aggression, dog aggression, game aggression, et cetera. Game aggression is the aggression that hunting dogs have and why you can’t always trust hounds, retrievers, et cetera with cats, ducks, chickens, or other such animals. Human aggression is of course when dogs exhibit aggression towards humans and dog aggression is when they’re aggressive towards other dogs. For fighting dogs, you want them to have dog aggression and dog aggression only. These dumbasses don’t know the difference between the different types of aggression so they starve their poor dogs, beat them, mutilate them, feed them gunpowder, et cetera so a few of them end up fearful and hateful towards humans which can lead them to attacking humans.
(I say “a few” because pit bulls were a breed historically and rigorously bred to have no aggression towards humans whatsoever because of the way dog fighting used to work. It was easy to cheat so the owners of the dogs would take the opposing dog and bathe it before the match to ensure nothing was put on their coat to harm the other dog. Also, they used to separate pit bulls from each other by hand. As you can imagine, a pit bull that was aggressive towards humans couldn’t be tolerated. Any pit bull that so much as growled at a human was culled, so it’s incredibly difficult to make most pit bulls hate humans. This is why if you watch pit bulls being rescued from dog fighting operations, even ones with half their faces ripped off won’t try to fight back or harm their rescuers – and yes, I legitimately did see a dog like that in one of those videos.)
Pit bulls are within the top three of the Canine Good Citizen award while golden retrievers and spaniels statistically bite more than pit bulls, despite pit bulls being put through the abuse, torture, and absolutely horrid breeding they’re put through. Pit bulls are absolutely amazing, loving, loyal dogs. They can be stubborn and require an experienced and firm hand like most bully breeds do, but they’re excellent dogs who don’t deserve what we’re doing to them. They’re absolute sweethearts and to blame them for what we’ve done is disgusting.
Look at the owner not the breed.
I think people should need to register to own dogs
Like a car or a gun sure those are inanimate objects but all the more reason dogs and cats need to be protected from neglectful fucking cunts
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