I have a great dane that is a 1.5 years old that is 150lbs. He loves play fighting with pit bulls as despite being 1/3 of his size they can still hang with him. That certainly says something about the breed and their incredible strength and athleticism.
One yes, a pack of two or more, only if I had a litter and couldn't let go, but would convince myself to do so, more than one large dog is chaos unless you live in a far less than urban area... now I'm drifting too far into opinion.
Personally I don't want a quantity of (even one) pets that can take me out whether they're pigeons or wolves.
back in my times, the killer breed was Dobermann. They were well known for being savage dog and almost every death-by-dog was perpetrated by Dobermanns. And German Sheperds, obviously. Maybe a few other big dogs.
Maybe, the reason is that in my time, if you wanted to buy a dog specifically because you wanted a mean dog, a dog made on purpose to kill people, you would go with the breed known for killing people.
This already means you are a person who buys a dog for .. "guard", which also indicates how you will train your dog.
Now, funny thing, Dobermanns don't kill people anymore. They are now considered "fashion" dogs because of the black mantle and the sleek shape. Did their genetic makeup change, or are they being handled by different people?
If you haven't heard of the ones you listed killing people you simply didn't look...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_dog_attacks_in_the_United_States
Pit bulls are no more aggressive than any other breed unless they are raised to be that way.Reading through the stories that are detailed the vast majority of the dogs had previously bitten someone or shown serious aggression. If any dog I own shows aggression I'd get rid of it if I could with full disclosure, a single bite of a child or a bite to an adult that wasn't absurdly provoked and I'd put it down.
Over generalizations from someone who knows little about dog's (or knives). I did allow my kids to use sharp knives and they still have all their fingers. You know what's even more dangerous than a pit bull in so far as temperament? Pomeranians.
Every pit I've known has been a push over, sweet dogs generally speaking. I can't imagine a better family dog than my lab / pit mix. Sad these things happen, but over all dog fatalities are very, very small in number statistically.
Well you're lucky because if it was a pitbull youd likely have some life altering injuries to deal with. They are dangerous as fuck and the owners are usually irresponsible dipshits.Pit bulls are no more aggressive than any other breed unless they are raised to be that way.
One of the meanest dogs I know is a golden retriever. I have been bitten by it more than once. I have still never been bitten by a pitbull.
And yet nobody in the history of the world has ever used the phrase "mauled to death" when talking about a Pomeranian attack.
A 6-week-old girl died Saturday night after she was mauled by the family's dog, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
An uncle baby-sitting the newborn left the child on a bed unattended while he went to the kitchen to prepare a bottle for her, Solis said. When he returned, he found the family's Pomeranian dog on the bed attacking the baby, Solis said.
I also don't think that the OP read the article. It flat out says the dogs that attacked were bred for fighting.If the dog in the picture in the OP is the dog that killed her, it is NOT a pit bull. People never seem to actually know what a pit bull is or looks like.
the point here is that there is a false concept that dogs are "nice". Dogs are carnivorous, predatory animals. Their normal behaviour is to hunt and kill a live prey, and they readily do this when abandoned or when they go wild.
On the other hand, dogs which are properly reared, through affection, regular feeding, training, because of their genetic pack mentality, see the owner as their master and see themselves as part of their family. Dogs are nice ONLY when properly raised. Hell, all animals can be friendly, orcas, lion seals, polar bears, wolves. They will still kill you if their instinct tell them to.
Pitbulls may be medium sized, but they have a formidable muscular structure. They were bred for fighting, and will exhibit a minutely larger tendency to attack. The problem is that you give these dogs to people who A) do not know how to raise them, and B) actually try to make the dog more aggressive. Generally, they are aggressive and allround bad people themselves, and my source for that statement is: i lived in the London ghettos, where everyone has a pitbull for the specific reason to use them to attack people. And finally, BECAUSE of this, the last 20'years worth of statistics have been made completely useless, it's practically all outliers.
If you train equal numbers of different breeds, professionally, or even just in "a reasonable way", you will see that german sheperds are the ones who cause the most hospital visits; cockers are the most likely to turn on their owners. Small dogs do not even figure in the statistics, but even small dogs will bite, they just don't cause injuries.
My only experience with a pit bull was watching it attack my parents dog unprovoked.
I do get that any breed can be dangerous, but there is something about these dogs that draws a certain part of society that has issues raising anything correctly including their own kids.
I don't have a pit bull or any dog at all but the dog in the OP picture is not a pit bull at all.Typical arguments of pit owners when they are confronted by the typical monthly death of an owner at the hands of their pit bull:
a) It's not a real Pit Bull, it just looks like one
b) The owners were terrible people. If you raise them right (like I do), they won't kill you.
c) Small dogs have worse tempers (followed by anecdote about how amazingly nice and good with children their own Pit Bull is)
These dogs have been bred to fight and kill for decades if not centuries and they are very good at it. Most of the time they are fine around full-sized people, but put them around another small dog or small person and their instinct kicks in and they kill.
Thankfully they are pretty much exclusively a pet owned by dregs of society and most nice areas have already banned them. My area does not allow them to be walked in public.
To the pit owners in this thread making excuses for these dogs, how would you feel if your pit bull killed you and your fellow pit defenders decided to call you a terrible owner who abused their dog and didn't properly raise it? That's exactly what will happen if your dog goes insane. This woman is already being called a monster by Pit defenders in this very thread merely because she was killed.
Every pit I've known has been a push over, sweet dogs generally speaking. I can't imagine a better family dog than my lab / pit mix. Sad these things happen, but over all dog fatalities are very, very small in number statistically.
My background: I've had dob/shep crosses, rottweilers, and trained protection dogs for a while in the 90's.How do you feel about shepherd dogs?
Sorry, anyone who partakes in or enjoys watching 2 dogs rip each other apart as "entertainment" is a sick bastard. I've had a Pitt for 13 years, we were not looking for one but our neighbors teen had one that needed a home. Since his dad was going to bring her to the Humane society that would have been a death-sentence, we took her in at that point and she has never shown any signs of attacking anyone. Now she will, (with smaller "yap" dogs) show aggression, but she's always been walked with a leash because I realize the breed's potential for hostility to another dog and I don't want to ever have to apologize for a possible attack on another dog. That being said, she has never shown any human aggression at all, you have to realize that because there are so many Pitt bulls around some are bound to be owned by idiots/asshole*. Yes, a Pitt has a better set of physical tool's to cause harm, but to claim they are more aggressive than a Shepard of Rot or any other breed is simply mistaken. The fact that they possess the tool's to do great harm makes them a huge magnet for the *uck-wad's of the world.Typical arguments of pit owners when they are confronted by the typical monthly death of an owner at the hands of their pit bull:
a) It's not a real Pit Bull, it just looks like one
b) The owners were terrible people. If you raise them right (like I do), they won't kill you.
c) Small dogs have worse tempers (followed by anecdote about how amazingly nice and good with children their own Pit Bull is)
These dogs have been bred to fight and kill for decades if not centuries and they are very good at it. Most of the time they are fine around full-sized people, but put them around another small dog or small person and their instinct kicks in and they kill.
Thankfully they are pretty much exclusively a pet owned by dregs of society and most nice areas have already banned them. My area does not allow them to be walked in public.
To the pit owners in this thread making excuses for these dogs, how would you feel if your pit bull killed you and your fellow pit defenders decided to call you a terrible owner who abused their dog and didn't properly raise it? That's exactly what will happen if your dog goes insane. This woman is already being called a monster by Pit defenders in this very thread merely because she was killed.
My background: I've had dob/shep crosses, rottweilers, and trained protection dogs for a while in the 90's.
I personally would not want a shepherd. They tend to be a bit too wound up for me. This is purely subjective, but of all those big breeds the rotties were the most laid back.
I have trained some awesome shepherds, but each one was a little too intense for my liking. The rest of the shepherds i have interacted with have not been the best, either. Maybe just my bad luck, but lazy owners let those behaviors go unchecked in the shepherds.
No. She's a "monster" because she raises them to be violent. To intentionally "fight them" with other dogs. Understand?This woman is already being called a monster by Pit defenders in this very thread merely because she was killed.
I also don't think that the OP read the article. It flat out says the dogs that attacked were bred for fighting.
No. She's a "monster" because she raises them to be violent. To intentionally "fight them" with other dogs. Understand?
Over generalizations from someone who knows little about dog's (or knives). I did allow my kids to use sharp knives and they still have all their fingers. You know what's even more dangerous than a pit bull in so far as temperament? Pomeranians.