Bull Terriers are pit-bull/bull types. However, unlike some breeds, they have had the aggression and untrustworthiness bred out. Regardless of their heads, they are better dogs than their cousins. Same applies to Bulldogs, and Boston (Bull/dog) Terriers. Proof that breeding with a purpose can remove that aggression.
I’m sorry...did it seem like I knew nothing of them?
Dobermans were also been fashionably altered to near-uselessness and for mysterious genetic reasons, their vitality suffered and we now have all these “common and expected health issues”.
Breeders are currently importing European bloodlines in an attempt to restore them to their former hardiness.
I have *long* said that ghetto trash ruined “pit bulls” by breeding indiscriminately.
*Not* breeding for correct type and temperament brings a host physical/mental detrimental side effects.
However, the overwhelming number of “hopeless dogs” successfully rehabilitated by rescue groups proves that nurture trumps nature.
The stars incline, they do not compel.
Today, millions of bully-type dogs will bite absolutely no one while numerous non-bully breeds ~will~ but go unreported.
Until and unless the owners of biting dogs are publicly pilloried for their irresponsibility, _nothing will change_.
Again, I hope they make a dire public example of this owner.