Rant with pictures

[Labra]

I didn't say that they were "evil" or "killers". Find me where I said "all Pit Bulls are evil killers".

People make up way too many excuses for their dogs behaviour...he doesn't like black dogs, he doesn't like white dogs, he is only aggressive towards some dogs, it was prey drive, fight drive, it was because he was this breed or that breed...it is just rediculous. If everyone took some responsibility poor dogs wouldn't have die at the result of their owners negligence.

 

[Squishy22]

Um...I didn't. I'm not stupid enough (despite what some may think! hah) to think that all Pit Bulls are evil. But I don't think you can deny the POTENTIAL damage that they can cause is more than most other breeds. POTENTIAL. They are a strong, powerful breed, breed orginally for a very specific purpose...unlike most other breeds. That alone makes their power and strength quite considerable.

Anyway...I commented in this thread because people were feeling sorry for the Pit Bull. Yes, both owners may be idiots for letting their dogs run loose, but a dog lost its life over this.

So you are saying they can inflect more harm than a 70 pound lab, a standard poodle, or a giant schnauzer? I dont think so. Anybody that believes that link of yours is very wrong, and thats the very reason why you dislike the breed... because of whats said in that hateful link.

 

[Squishy22]

I didn't say that they were "evil" or "killers". Find me where I said "all Pit Bulls are evil killers".

People make up way too many excuses for their dogs behaviour...he doesn't like black dogs, he doesn't like white dogs, he is only aggressive towards some dogs, it was prey drive, fight drive, it was because he was this breed or that breed...it is just rediculous. If everyone took some responsibility poor dogs wouldn't have die at the result of their owners negligence.

Which brings me back to... its always the owners fault. Not the dogs fault and certainly not the breeds fault.

 

[Bahamutt99]

Which brings me back to... its always the owners fault. Not the dogs fault and certainly not the breeds fault.

We could totally close the thread with that one thought to cover everything.

 

[Labra]

The link wasn't hateful...it was a compliation of results from bite statistics studies.

And yes, I think that a Pit Bull can absolutely cause more harm than a Lab or Poodle. You want to compare those breeds? consider what they were originally bred for and do the math. Labs and Poodles were bred for waterfowl retrieving, Pit Bulls were bred for dog fighting. Can all three bite? sure. Is the bite from the dog bred to bite and potentially fight to the death more powerful than the dogs bred to be a soft-mouthed retrievers with no inbuilt aggressive traits? logic says yes.

 

[elegy]

Pit Bulls can't cause more damage than most breeds? hmm, statistics don't lie:

http://www.dogbitelaw.com/PAGES/statistics.html#Thedogsmostlikelytobite

what's your definition of "cause more damage"? there have been more deaths attributed to pit bulls and rottweilers than any other breed. ok. but there have also been deaths attributed to an extremely diverse array of breeds *other* than pit bulls. so if death by pit bull is the worst, what's the least bad dog to be killed by? this argument makes no sense.

personally i don't think deaths by dogs is a very good way to judge the danger of a breed. there are far too many factors beyond breed, for one. and the number of people killed by dogs even over a twenty year period is so small. death by dog is such an extreme rarity, despite what the media would have you believe. not to mention, for as long as there have been people keeping track of dog-related human fatalities, the number has not changed significantly, despite the huge upswing in number of pit bulls in the united states. if pit bulls were *really* that dangerous, wouldn't we have seen a trend in human deaths to match, instead of a fairly consistent number?

 

[Zoom]

Which brings me back to... its always the owners fault. Not the dogs fault and certainly not the breeds fault.

Agreed/