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      That’s true of any poorly socialized dog, even more so if it’s an intact male. If you’re against pitbull breeding you should be against every large breed with the capacity to maim and kill.

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          A whole bunch of ignorance in the comment. Rottweilers were bread as working dogs and are some of the smartest and best tempered dogs out there.

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          I think you ma be venting in the wrong sub. It’s all in how you raise the dog, show them love a d kindness and they’ll be youre best friend.

          Do you own a dog? Do you have much experience with these breeds cause I do, minus dobermans and they all just want love in the end

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      Jesus Christ, I swear some people just sit and wait for any cute picture of a pitbull so they can pounce and make “rip someone’s face off” comments.

      This is a community for cute pictures/stories. Please don’t push your dog breed alarmism here.

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              Weird guess tbh and probably just flat wrong. You think the professional dogwatcher who is probably watching multiple dogs a day has interacted with less than 100 pit bulls lifetime? Sounds like you need to reassess reality.

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              I’ve worked in animal rescues, shelters, and at a veterinary clinic. I’ve interacted with probably hundreds of pit bulls in my life over the years, and I’ve fostered more than ten of them. My fosters were all lovely with me, other people (especially children), my resident dogs, and all my cats. One went on to become a service dog for a little boy with autism, and my last foster is now a support dog for a young adult with severe autism.

              While I have met some pits with behavioral issues and different types of aggression, they are few and far between. There are many, many other breeds that have a higher percentage of individuals with dangerous behavioral issues than pit bulls.

              I would encourage anyone who has such patently false ideas about these dogs to volunteer at their local shelter and get some actual experience with bully breeds. If that’s too big an ask, have a conversation with the vet techs and doctor assistants at your veterinary clinic, and ask them which breeds they have the most difficulty with during appointments. It won’t be put bulls. There is a reason that very few people that work with dogs share your opinion.

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              Please listen to the people with experience working with or handling dogs. Pitbulls and other breeds aren’t the problem. Irresponsible pet owners are

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              I’ve interacted with less than 100 but the highly trained pit mix rescue across the street still broke her leash, ran down my corgi and picked her up and shook her. The owner tackled her and our corgi was mostly ok (needed stitches on her neck, but no life threatening injury) and the owner readily payed the bill directly, but t by that dog had had months of interventional training by no-expense-spared training and still went nuts on a dog on the street across from its house.

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          Pitties aren’t dangerous if you raise/treat them right.

          In that way, they’re a lot like people.

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            I agree with your sentiment, but even a well trained pitbull can be dangerous, just like any dog. Train and raise them right, and the dangers are mitigated, but not completely gone. Pedantic, I know, but you can’t say they aren’t dangerous at all.

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        The issue is people having bread them for fighting. What does conservatism have to do with cherished family pitbulls occasionaly killing babies?

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              Conservatives dont like cats because they’re misogynistic is one of the more wild takes I’ve seen lmao.

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                Wild take is one way to put it. I’ve known conservatives who do like cats. We should be careful here how we characterize, and not create some kind of false mythos. Like what’s next, conservatives don’t like cookies? They’ll run a bakery that won’t make a gay wedding cake, but yeah they probably still like fucking cookies.

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          The issue is people having bread them for fighting.

          That’s not how breeding works. Fighting dogs are trained to fight, they don’t just grow up with inbuilt knowledge.

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              Are you a breeder, dog trainer or dog handler?

              Because that’s not how it works. You can breed for particular traits, as you mentioned, but behavioural characteristics (such as aggression) are more complex than simple genetic traits. You could breed two highly aggressive dogs together and get a placid dog as a result.

              You’re talking about behavioural characteristics, not skills. Dogs don’t know how to fight without training any more than people know how to drive a car without lessons.

              And as far as aggressive behaviour goes, pitbulls aren’t necessarily any more or less aggressive than other breeds. There have been lots of studies on aggression in dogs that show that breed is not a good predictor of behavioural tendencies (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9679229/).

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        Conservatives? I live in a majority black city and I can tell you it’s definitely not conservatives that are owning shitty pit bulls. The breed is fucked for the most part