My brother has a chihuahua / rat terrier mix that my 17 yo son is terrified of. He won’t go into his home unless the dog is secured somewhere. This little beast has attacked/bitten children before. He will literally spring forth from the sofa and latch onto you. And people call my dog dangerous?
It’s easier for people to assign malicious intent to a particular breed, so they don’t have to deal with the fact that they’re never truly safe, they’ll never be safe...That life itself is not safe.
It’s the same thing with second hand smoke, trans fat, global warming, hand guns, SUVs...Pick something and focus your fear on that,so you don’t have to deal with anything else.
Children plural? Wow.
My aunt's Boston terrier bit me in the face when I was ten for no reason that anyone could see. He came pretty close to my right eye, but fortunately the injury was very minor. Still, by the time I came back from the doctor's office with my three stitches and my sore arm from the tetanus shot, the dog was GONE, permanently.
We own 2 chihuahua/rat terrier combos. They are very sweet to me and my wife, but don’t care at all for other people. And they are afraid of nothing at all.