Pit bulls and Chows perhaps? I know some think pit bulls are great, but I have seen too many instances where someone’s “baby” suddenly turned on them. The problem with pit bulls is they are completely unpredictable. Chows are just dumb and mean. If you don’t believe me about Chows being dumb, look where they fall on the doggie intelligence ratings.
Every time I look at the shelter dogs in our area, virtually every one of them is either a pit bull or part pit bull. Why are people so crazy about these dogs? Is that the only kind of dog that breeds these days? Or is it just those are the ones that nobody wants to adopt?
I would love to have another black Lab like the one we had for many years, but we can’t have a dog where we live. I still miss that dog so much. :-(
I don’t believe shelters should allow people to adopt or give out pit bulls. They know nothing of the previous owners and how it was raised.
If crazy people want to pay for crazy dogs, they need to accept the risk. The risk if pit bulls are unpredictable. If they’re confident their dogs are so good, they should have no problems with the new law.
Are Pit Bulls Really Dangerous?
By Marc Lallanilla, Life’s Little Mysteries Assistant Editor | February 14, 2013 02:12pm ET
ales of pit bulls mauling youngsters seem to abound, with one story hitting the news in 2013 detailing police in Nassau County, New York, who were searching door-to-door for two pit bulls that had attacked a teenage boy and three women during a 30-minute period on Feb. 13 of that year.
“One literally went for my leg and [the] other was trying to jump on top of me, but I was hitting them, and I was punching them,” Janelle Manning, 24, told CBS New York at the time. “They both weren’t letting go, once they got a hold of my leg.” Because of her leg injuries, Manning struggled to walk up and down stairs, CBS reported. “These dogs were, like, trained to kill; trained to hurt and viciously attack people,” she said.
But do pit bulls deserve their reputation as vicious “attack” dogs? An overwhelming amount of evidence suggests, in some instances, they do.
A five-year review of dog-bite injuries from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, published in 2009 in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, found that almost 51 percent of the attacks were from pit bulls, almost 9 percent were from Rottweilers and 6 percent were from mixes of those two breeds.
In other words, a whopping two-thirds of the hospital’s dog-attack injuries involved just two breeds, pit bulls and Rottweilers.
Other studies confirm these statistics: A 15-year study published in 2009 in the American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology revealed that pit bulls, Rottweilers and German shepherds were responsible for the majority of fatal dog attacks in the state of Kentucky. [See What Your Dog’s Breed Says About You]
And a 2011 study from the Annals of Surgery revealed that “attacks by pit bulls are associated with higher morbidity rates, higher hospital charges and a higher risk of death than are attacks by other breeds of dogs.”...
Fans of pit bulls are quick to assert that a dog’s propensity for attack depends in large part on its owner and how it is raised, and there’s considerable evidence that owners of pit bulls and other high-risk dogs are themselves high-risk people.
A 2006 study from the Journal of Interpersonal Violence revealed that owners of vicious dogs were significantly more likely to have criminal convictions for aggressive crimes, drugs, alcohol, domestic violence, crimes involving children and firearms. - https://www.livescience.com/27145-are-pit-bulls-dangerous.html