All the Mighty Dog Rambos here...
“pit bull type” dogs are not only strong, but ...have terrier instincts to keep going. They will easily exhaust a GSD or Malinois during play. And being strong it’s like a staple gun vs a 50cal when it comes to matching up with certain dogs or people. That’s why you see the number of deaths from “pit bull type” dogs.
You could easily find just as many people mauled and disfigured by retrievers. Deaths-no. Because they don’t have the terrier instinct, which is the deadly part IMO...
Again...plenty of examples on the web to be found, with pictures of kids and adults with ripped up faces from ALL dog breeds over 40 lbs or so... But since this is FR, no one will bother looking it up, they’ll just got bent out of shape and call anyone who disagrees with them a liar.
This is the problem. They will not “let go”, mentally, which leads to the physical.
Pit-bull-dog types are tenacious. They don’t want to give up the fight. They were bred for that (long before terrier was introduced - it was already in the bulldog type; the T just added more surefire tenacity). That’s what the name is for - fighting bulls (the nastiest heavy animals you could find). Mere dog-fighting came later. Normal dogs will let you have it and then let go, unless you step in again for a fight. The dog’s “warning” didn’t work in that case.
It CAN be bred out of the types, but it has to be a concerted effort over generations. Original Bulldogs today and Bull Terriers and Boston Terriers have had it basically bred out of them. But their relatives kept fighting.
For now, PBTs and the same types are genetically inclined for these problems, as surely as they are for the particular head shape.
I call BS read this