[RC one]

I know exactly what you mean. I mean, pitbulls are natural retrievers just like labs and golden retreivers. Nothing genetic about that. They'll point just like a german shorthair pointer too and they even have that natural born tendency inherent to all dogs to herd sheep and cattle.

[oldenuff2no]

RC, sorry but you are wrong.
I'm a retired military handler/trainer and I have been training stock dogs all my life.
A border collie is bred to work things that move. We put young pups on a “heard of ducks” when they are a couple months old to see how good they are. Most of them will try and work even at that early age. This has nothing to do with nurture and everything to do with nature. The pups have had very little human contact at that point in their lives. These dogs have been bred for the working instinct for several hundred years. It is in them from the day they are born.
Pits have been bred for several hundred years to bite and fight. It is a bred in instinct and is there from the day they are born. Many things may influence this instinct but it is a part of their genetics and that physiology can not be altered. For some others out there yes other dogs do cause harm to people sometimes. BUT/// Pits make up about nine percent of the pet dog population in this country but commit sixty percent of the K-9 homicides in out country each year. The numbers speak the truth. Pit bulls are not like other dogs. The attack and kill children at a much higher rate than any other dog breed in this country. In fact they attack and kill at a rate that is higher than all other dog breeds combined. I have one question for everyone. What does a pit bull do that another breed of dog can not do??? So, why do we still put up with them???