The ignorance in this thread really amazes me. People really need to educate themselves before they start spreading more inaccurate information about things they know nothing about. I have grown up around dogs and my current dog is a 6 year old pit bull that I trained myself. He is the best dog I have ever had and is trained to respond to hand signals. Where ever I go I get compliments on his behaviour, other dog owners ask me how to get their misbehaving mutts to listen to them. Here's the thing, dogs are not fashion accessories and if you don't know anything about dogs and are asking me how to get your dog to behave then maybe you should have done some research before you got a dog or get a cat instead.
