Every time....EVERY time.....a piece like this shows up, I see/hear the same old, tired nonsense.
“Oh, but MY pit bull is SUCH a sweetie! He wouldn’t hurt a fly! See, it’s all in how you raise ‘em!”
Bull feces. They’re loaded guns with four paws.
Just like poor parenting had no basis on kids in youth detention and worse, prisons. I am not going to disagree that one species is more aggressive than another in their influential ease of aggressive training, but leaving a kid to be influenced by the street is no different than those who think it is cute to see a puppy being aggressive.
The saying that kids learn what they live is equally applicable in the case of "training" animals. But just as equally, common sense is far too many times neglected while they are smarter than that little voice inside ones self.
It is illegal to have one in my town. Here’s the deal. There are people that own pit bulls to fight to make them money because these people always have an angle and it is slavery to work an 8 to 5 minimum wage job according to them. These dogs are damaged. How they will respond in the future is problematic. They may be the nicest pups on the planet or they may be frightened and paranoid or somewhere in the middle.
There is another possibility. I had one problematic dog that I owned from the day she was born because her mother was also mine. The mother was sweet as pie. This little pup though, was always high strung nervous and tended to circle nonfamily members and nip without warning. Never again will I tolerate such a doggie. Although I kept that dog for 12 years until she was so old she had to be carried outside to do her thing, it was a long road with that dog, never easy. So some dogs just have a wired temperament NOT caused by human abuse. She had been to school and loved on and treated like a princess, but it didn’t make a difference. She was just nervous in the service.
Corgi puppy murdered near Coravllis within the last week. Corgi owner with 15 stitches trying to intervene. PB down, owner non apologetic and un moved by the loss of his PB.
I disagree with your analogy. Guns don't go off on their own. Pit bulls are more like sweaty dynamite with paws.
Presas were bred to hunt people.