People are malicious, dogs are incapable of being malicious.
Why are you posting this crap, Chet?
Malicious intent on your part, I'd say.
The article isn’t based on established facts, and relies heavily on what the mainstream media selectively decides is ‘news’.
There is no such thing as a vicious breed of dog, folks. Ask your vet.
And I have a personal experience to share related to this. A year ago this May, we had to put our black Lab ‘Lucy’ down because she had whats described among vets as ‘red rage’.
Sweet, loving, cuddly Lucy...all 80 pounds of her, would ‘go off’ like a rocket. We never knew when, or what, would set her off.
Three times she tried to kill our Rott/Shepard mix over the five years we had her from a pup. I’m 6’2” 195 and in pretty good shape, and I couldn’t stop her.
I’ve never owned a pit bull. I’ve known many who have however. And NOT ONE incident of a bite - let alone a ‘grab and hold and thrash’ type attack.
They are extremely loving animals. EXTREMELY LOVING.
But, while not classified as a ‘giant dog’ for AKC ratings, they do have genetically unusual jaws. And yep, 1600 pounds plus of pressure ‘can’ be applied by a pit bull.
That said, they are not among the top ten catagory of ‘most likely to bite’.
The problem is...when they do, it can be devastating.
Its up to the owner, folks. Always has been, always will be. Some were absolutely terrified of my Rott, Roxie, when she was in her ‘prime’, but thats hollywood generated nonsense. She never grabbed anyone, and was easily the most controllable dog I’ve ever had - I measure by the fact I can ‘call her off’ a cornered raccoon, or snake, or other dog (Lucy and her the first two times Lucy went at her).
The problem isn’t the breed, folks.
Its the stupid humans. JMHO.
New people behind me got a Pit Bull puppy a few months back. Pretty gray one.
So I’m repairing my side of the wood slat fence to a solid one. Trust everybody but cut the cards.
The Dogs like to huff at each other through the fence.
Had one for ten years, he was a great friend and companion. That being said he could not control himself when he saw another animal, if he couldn’t mate with it he tore it apart. Wouldn’t hurt a human though, my nephew once dropped a rather large rock on his head, boy was only three at the time, and the only reaction from Fishhead was to graon and push the kid over with his paw. When he was only six months old he tore a newfoundland a new one over a beaver pelt that the newfy wouldn’t share.
http://www.dogsbite.org/pdf/dog-attacks-merritt-clifton-2007.pdf
This is a statistical compilation of dog bite injuries and fatalities from 1982 to 2007. Pit bulls by far are the dogs involved in the most bodily injuries (1194 of 2363) and deaths (116/293).
Lots of breeds bite, but pit bulls are far more dangerous when they do. Rottweilers, wolf hybrids, chows, german shepherds and Akitas also make it up fairly high in the listings, but far below the pit bulls.