You do realize your latest is pointless sophistry, right?
This thread has focused on pitbull maimings and killings but you are trying to make the point that small dogs can spontaneously attack but it doesn’t make the news because no one was hurt and everyone lived etc. So unfair...tsk tsk tsk...why aren’t unimportant non injurious attacks reported as often as the pitbull attacks that strip limbs off of people and leave rescue personell in shock? Must be a “bad rap.” Go on...do what you can to redirect this thread to the poodle and chihuahua class of dogs. The rest of us will continue to read stories that indicate the pitbull was “fine” until one day he started killing and maiming. Often no barking or warning at all - just runs up to a person and starts the mauling. Watch the video - that was a pitbull spontanous attack unlike that of the poodle/chihuahua types. Then write me another tangential comment.
Unfair? I neither said or implied anything about unfairness.
What I wrote of was misdiagnosis, and further countered the ill-informed claim on this thread that pit bulls were highly likely - or even most likely amongst breeds - to spontaneously attack. If you can’t properly diagnose the problem, you can’t properly address it.
One person implied that lack of threads from poodle attacks meant something about relative frequency of poodle attacks - which is jibberish.
Frankly, the pit bull argument is a similar argument to the domestic violence one between men and women. Women are FAR more likely to initiate domestic violence, and yet men are far more effective (in a bad way) at carrying it out. A proper response to that situation is different than if men were instigating all of it., or alternately, if women were completely incapable of ever harming men.
Likewise, understanding what the issue is with pit bulls is both required in reaching a sane functional resolution, and a political one. When one wrongly implies or asserts that pit bulls are generally crazy monsters just waiting to maul people, that argument may work on the mentally unstable, but it rightly is rejected/dismissed by owners who have first-hand experience with their own dogs. On the other hand, when one points out the tools that the dogs have - without the obvious dumbassery as the argument - and how effective they are at what they were bred to be able to do, even those owners will often concede that point.