Not true as some dogs were bred by "backyard" breeders who know nothing about breeding dogs too close or with bad temperments.
The results being a "bad" dog that has the vices of its breed with little or none of its virtues
Pit Bulls are a FIGHTING dog, that's what they were bred to do so I just can't understand someone with small children taking any kind of chance when there are numerous other breeds that are NOT bred to fight
I wonder if this incident will cause the dog fighting scum to use Corgi's instead of Pit Bulls?
Very naive. A platitude, and like most platitudes, it sounds nice, but is false.
Some dogs, like some people, are just bad in spite of their "upbringing," aka, owners. My dad had many working ranch dogs, usually Australian Sheperds, that he trained. They were wonderful dogs, extaordinarily smart. I know one who literally saved a child's life by leaping in front of a striking rattle snake and taking the bite itself instead of letting the child get it. That was a good dog. All cattle ranchers had working dogs (still do, no doubt). They were not pets, they were workmates. In my dad's case, when he was manager of a few cattle ranches, their job was to help him flush "wild" cows out of the brush -- cows that were too smart and wily to get caught in a round-up. Many a year, the dogs made the difference between profit and loss, because a dozen head of cattle is a lot of money. Without the dogs to help flush and herd the wild cows, the ranch would have lost money.
It goes against city people's ideas of "pets," but the truth is my dad, and every other rancher he knew, occasionally had a dog that was "bad." The dog would get the same training from puppyhood, the same care, the same everything as any other cow dog, but the "bad" dog was one that was sneaky, chased chickens or calves or lambs and killed them, or who simply didn't follow the commands of the cowboy who "operated" the dog. In those cases, my dad, and pretty much every other cowboy he knew, had the sad but neccessary chore of taking the dog out in the country somewhere, shooting him, and burying him. It was a real loss not only in the dog, but in the time the guy had put into training him. So the idea that "there are no bad dogs, just bad owners," is a sentiment for little girls.