I was surprised that even my "gentle" Lab took out a couple of yard Ground Hogs (Broken necks from shaking).
That the "replacement" (the Big Black Dog went to live with my son) half Lab, half Chesapeake, half something else did the same a year later was less of a surprise.
(My garden is happier though...)
Ok. But my comment was about killing people. I’ve never been afraid my dogs would get out and kill people. I keep reading reports of these dogs finding someone sitting, walking, gardening, napping etc. and killing them. The last was a video of a pit charging across a traffic intersection diagonally corner to corner and viciously attacking a small child walking with her mother. That dog’s attack started before he crossed the street. He took that small child down like prey. He didn’t attack the mother first, he went for the tender young. He wasn’t defending or threatened, he was hunting.
Dogs typically bite and release unless they think you are attacking the homestead. Pits are documented breaking out of houses, cars, fences, muzzles and leashes and then roaming until they find someone to maul/kill. This is not domesticated dog behavior. It’s lion or cougar behavior.