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Originally posted by CDSmith
The funny thing is, you're not wrong..... there are a veritable wealth of retards owning pitbulls out there, no question. But I somewhat disagree at the same time, because I can think of numerous articles in the local news over the last 20 years where a dog of a seemingly nice, otherwise normal family, tore up or killed some kid, and invariably it is ALWAYS the same breed coming up over and over again. As well, I know I have read comments from pitbull owners in past articles where they say they had trained the dog to the best of their ability and can't understand how it could have happened. "Always been a family dog" etc
There have been many articles, and the opinion that part of the problem is intrinsic to the breed is quite widespread. That said, I honestly don't know what the answer is. A community will let these attacks go on and on or else they put a complete ban on the breed and heavy fines on owners who violate the ban. I don't see a third choice.
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most of the time when you actually look at the details in these articles you find out that a kid got killed by the Pit next door, whose owner coincidentally has 8 other Pits, or a grandma got torn to ribbons in her kitchen by her grandson's Pit, with said grandson being a straight up thug. Rarely is the situation what they try to portray it as, a mad dog who never showed any aggression before. Somewhere down the line there's usually a breeder or a young criminal involved with the dog's ownership who wilfully endangered everyone around him by trying to train a Pit as an attack or guard dog, or who just wanted his dog to be aggressive and scary.