It won’t.
It doesn’t ~want~ to read reality.
Just the other day, I was in PetCo buying Comets and a fawn Pit came in with her owners.
A lovely, well behaved dog, was she.
No sooner had she walked in the door, happily greeting the employees who came to pet her, she was beset upon by a brace of yapping, snapping little frou-frou dogs who had just came out of the nearby doggy hair salon.
[the noise was a cacophony of hysterical mini-rage, echoing clear back to the fish section where I stood]
The Pit disregarded the little terrors with calm boredom and I watched their owner do _absolutely nothing_ to control or subdue her snarling darlings...not even after they began to snap at customers coming in, [some of them, children] being highly frustrated by the lack of response by the Pit.
I quietly watched all of this, just in case somebody got nailed because I wanted the Pit to have a witness to her innocence, knowing that no matter what -really- happened, she’d get get the blame for the other dogs’ hideous, horrendous, utterly out of control behavior.
[their owner never even offered an apology or acknowledgment that her dogs were menacing everything within reach of their rhinestone leases]
Now I ask you; in that scenario, who was the “dangerous dog”?
“Now I ask you; in that scenario, who was the “dangerous dog”?”
My Aunt had a yappy little poodle that would nip, and once bit me as a kid. Drew a bit of blood and I cried, but not “dangerous”.
Our neighbors had a pit bull, and when we would have it over when they were out of town it would lay in my daughter’s bed - under the covers, with it’s head on the pillow next to my daughters!
My daughter and wife thought it was cute, so did I. But I wouldn’t let them sleep that way. As the potential for a “dangerous” bite was there, just as it is from our black lab. Although I must admit I am more comfortable around our lab just by the sake of knowing him better. Plus, I don’t think the jaws and pressure of our lab would compare to that of a pit bull.
Really the question about your Petco story is “who are the dangerous owners”?