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Originally posted by galleryseek
so you're telling me under the same living conditions with that woman, ANY other breed of dog would have acted the same way?
if this is the case... then there still is a problem.
obviously dogs like pitt bulls have a bad reputation, and i think many people agree they're pretty ugly... so the people who usually purchase these dogs are low class individuals up to no good, who probably don't have the slightest idea on how to properly train it.
so what do you do (if this is such a big problem that something has to be done)?
do you make mandatory training classes?
or do you ban them?
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Good questions!
Let me quote a bit of the site I keep trying to get you to check out.
THE BREED FACTOR
Many communities and cities believe that the solution to prevent severe and fatal dog attacks is to label, restrict or ban certain breeds of dogs as potentially dangerous. If the breed of dog was the primary or sole determining factor in a fatal dog attack, it would necessarily stand to reason that since there are literally millions of Rottweilers, Pit Bulls and German Shepherd Dogs in the United States, there would have to be countless more than an approximate 20 human fatalities per year.
Since only an infinitesimal number of any breed is implicated in a human fatality, it is not only unreasonable to characterize this as a specific breed behavior by which judge an entire population of dogs, it also does little to prevent fatal or severe dog attacks as the real causes and events that contribute to a fatal attack are masked by the issue of breed and not seriously addressed.
The problem is, that if you ban pittbulls .. These sorts of people that are using these dogs to be thugs, will just select another breed.
The problem we have to deal with is the idiotic owners. Start holding some of these owners accountable for "murder" and maybe it will change their mind.