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Okay...Got any statistics that were not made up by a crazy person?

I expected a reply just like the one you sent. When some people are confronted by data they don't like then they immediately disparage the data. Gee do we know anyone else like that? Are his initials BO by any chance?

My sister is an animal control officer. So she deals with the situation all the time. She has told me that they have special training to deal with Pits and Rotts. Pit Bulls are in fact the most dangerous of the popular dog breeds in the United States. There is simply no question about that. The data is unassailable. If you check the website, you will notice that the data is carefully footnoted. Much of the data comes from the CDC.

In the dog park that I frequent, a huge and disproportionate amount of the trouble is due to Pit Bulls. I've seen the unprovoked attacks on other dogs. We've had bad injuries. You simply are in denial. And that can be a very dangerous place to be.

Hey truthguy, I 100% agree with your asssesment!

I grew up with these dogs and saw them kill - yes kill many other dogs. Not proud of it, it was a “family thing”. If you’ve seen a dog that was bred to fight bears, boars, and other dogs kill another dog by grabbing its neck in its teeth and swinging it in the air, it doesn’t take much imagination to know what that looks like with a child or woman. The problem with pits is 1) they are powerful so an attack is more likely to be fatal, 2) they were bred to kill so relish it once they’ve been taught or tasted it.

Anyone who thinks animals can’t have behavior bred into them is in denial or totally misinformed. It’s not about “nurture”, it’s nature, i.e. genetic. Just witness the studies of wolves, which all dogs come from. A wolf can never be made to behave like a dog, even though it has 99.99% of a dogs genes. The dog genetically evolved over thousands of years to have a symbiotic relationship with man. Some fools made the mistake of creating a breed of dog specifically for the sport of killing. Now a bunch of idiots have anthropomorphic illusions that rightly identifying pit bulls as genetically dangerous is like human racism. The scientists can’t say these things around laymen without losing their jobs or credibility, but they certainly know the truth, if they aren’t also in denial.

Exactly so. They are a FIGHTING dog, and that comes out in their behaviour. Normally, they are calm, but, as one British journalist wrote: “Then one day the dog’s eyes turn glassy, and it springs its big surprise.” Once their blood is up, in the mood for fighting, they will tear anything to pieces.

If you have a Sheltie, it will keep trying to herd other animals, being a sheepdog. A poodle will do tricks and perform, even if not trained, because they descend from circus and actor’s dogs, and they love attention. A pitt bull will fight.