Problem is "Pit Bull," is a blanket term. If a Lab x Pit bites someone it's a "Pit Bull," mix. Never a Lab mix, for example. The average person on the street calls any short haired muscular dog a fukkin' pit bull. The amount of times i walked my cousins Am Bulldog/Boxer mix and people have asked me "What kind of Pit Bull is it?." Im like it's not a Pit Bull Terrier. Believe if it ever bit someone the news would report it as one though. Not saying there isn't a problem with poorly bred "Pit Bulls," out there tho. They are definitely the most poorly treated and violently abused dog type in America.In the 3-year period of 2006 to 2008, 18% of all fatal dog attacks occurred off owner property. Pit bulls were responsible for 81% of these attacks.
Report: U.S. Dog Bite Fatalities January 2006 to December 2008 by DogsBite.org, 2010
American Pit Bull Terriers (notice, it's not "Pitbull.") were up until very recently bred for ANIMALS AGGRESSION. Manbiters were generally culled from a young age along with cur's. The reason? Before dog fighting became the sport for hoodlums with no rules on corners, it was actually an established sport with rules. One of the rules of dog fighting was during the fight (some which would last hours,) inside the box would be 2 handlers and a referee. This was universal. So imagine two severely injured and hyped up dogs having to be repeatedly broken up during the match, and to allow themselves to be handled without turning their aggression towards the humans inside the box with them. Then afterwards medical attention had to be provided too. Basically what i am saying is the APBT was specifically bred to NOT EVER be aggressive towards humans, just other animals. So no, i will never agree APBT's were bred for "aggression," unless we specifically limit it to animal aggression. APBT's have no history of being used as guard dogs, attack dogs, human aggressive. That is GSD's, Rottweilers etc. How many other breeds will not snap at humans who just fought them till their legs snapped? Almost none. That is why they are so game and don't run from pain like cur breeds.
You been talking out of your ass the whole thread.. Where are your facts? Numbers? Links? Your whole argument is based off of pure emotion.
The APBT has the same animal aggressive tendencies found in all Terrier breeds. Patterdales, Jack Russels etc. were all bred to kill game will do it without question. It's hard to argue with a random dude who think's "Pits have a human biting tick in the them." No offense. It's the height of ignorance of the breed.
other breeds attack nikkas
most smaller breeds bite people more than bigger breeds. you just dont hear about them because they do less damage.
ultimately, the main determining factor in a dogs behavior is the way it was raised. Period.
They get mad when we don't dump our dogs on the side of the road cause they convinced us to see things their way.
It's always telling that it's people who watch TV news and have such strong opinions on APBT's. Meanwhile people who own and live with APBT's and in the "APBT," community, shelter workers etc. pretty much always become dedicated to the breed. Good luck finding someone who owned APBT for 20 years and had to get out the breed cause they were bad in anyway. Like cats want it to be one way, but don't realize 99% of responsible APBT owners are going to have great lives with a great breed of dog.
No offense but people like you breeding then are part of the reason this TYPE of dog has issues. Your knowledge is unimpressive (still calling "pits," a breed.) and your dogs never did anything to be worthy of being bred. I already know it. No AADR/ADBA show wins, or even CGC/TT, right? All you did was breed your un-papered or poorly papered mutt and added to the overpopulation problem. Like we don't have enough BYB unproven or titled dogs runnin' around today.
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