I agree with you. I read a study that reported that pits had been selectively bred to increase the likelihood that they would have a specific type of brain lesion that is otherwise rare among the dog breeds. For example, collies, dalmations, daschunds may have this deformity but it would be rare. But years of intentionally selecting to breed for agression in pits has increased the prevalence of these brain lesions which are thought to be responsible for the remorseless attack machine behavior of pits - it is essentially a bypass to normal behavior. This brain lesion often doesn’t assert itself on pit behavior prior to 18months of age - which is when some people first note unanticipated aggression in their previously cuddly puppy. So buying a pit is a game of Russian roulette that pit owners are willing to play - with other peoples lives or pets. When a pit kills a family member - other pit owners toss that pit owner under the bus labeling him/her ‘inexperienced’ and ‘irresponsible’ even if the owner continues to explain that the dog just ‘went off’ one day. Because the owners are willing to lie and deny and mislead and their breed of choice is responsible for destroying the most lives (survivors face years of reconstructive surgery)- yeah, I think the breed should be banned.
BS.
You’re pimping a new twist on an old “myth” once applied to another “killer breed”.
“The brains of Pit Bulls swell and cause them to go crazy”.
Prior to the boom in Pit Bull popularity, the Doberman Pinscher was rumored to suffer from an affliction of the brain in which the skull became too small too accommodate a dog’s grey matter.
This would, according to the rumor, cause the Doberman to go crazy, or “just snap” out of no where and attack their owner.
This rumor could never be quantified, and indeed had
no merit whatsoever.
Now that the Doberman fad has run its course the Pit Bull has inherited the swelling brain myth.
It is no truer now than it was during the Doberman’s fad days.
“Pit bulls” have no more tendency to “brain lesions” than any other breed.
Post your “scientific study” that disproves me.
FWIW, education cures ignorance.
http://www.pitbulltalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=12922