Cheri said:
Well, Believe what you want Banjo, pictures don't lie, and injuries don't lie either. Those are real evidences. You really think the media would choose a dog that would be most frighten in people's eyes and pick on pitbulls/rottweilers/dobermans?? I think not. My son almost got attack by a pitbull for no reason and you telling me oh it's the owner's fault. He was a very good pet owner I know him personally. You know well enough that dogs like those snap for no reason at all. What about the time Annie's puppy got attack? on her own property? So, it's all the owner's fault huh? What a joke.
Believe?
These are the facts I stated in the previous posting. I never, never said that pit bulls weren't responsible for a lot of bites. I believe it is overhyped in the media to begin with. They haven't even bothered to point out why this is happening. They are just showing "scary" pictures of dogs and the attacks.
I do believe that one has to be pretty stupid to believe that a certain breed cannot attack.
Anyway, no dogs can just... snap. There are always signs of a dog being aggressive but they are often ignored. It's the same with people, some people think they just snap but they've been showing signs of having problems but nobody bothered to look for any of these signs.
It's likely that the pit bull you're speaking of came from a bad breeding ground. The owner may had done his best. The problem with a lot of pit bulls are that they are bred outside of the breed. What they do is kill the good ones and keep the violent ones, that's the problem.
They did this with dobermans and german shepherds but it seems to be less of a problem than it used to be because it's the pit bulls that they are after right now. They try to make a menace out of them.
It can be done with any type of dog breed if they wanted to. Once the pit bulls are wiped out, they'll just move on to a different breed. The problem won't go away.
Like it or not, labrador retrievers may as well be the next target by the bad breeders if they wanted to. I don't want this to ever happen because I happen to love that line of breed since I own two labs myself. I'm not worried about my dogs, it's the reputation of the breed that may get smeared like they did with the pit bulls.
Wiping out the pit bulls is not the answer. It's the breeders and irresponsible pet owners that are causing the problems.
By the way, I wouldn't be surprised if you wouldn't be able to identify a pit bull if it was standing in front of you. Most people can't.