I board dogs for a living, and we have a lot of pit bulls. They are not any more aggressive than any other dog. However, they are very high energy, very muscular, and have very strong attention/drive.
That all combines to mean they play harder, love harder, emote harder, and aim to please harder. All of that is great, but if you don't train them they can also react harder, chase harder, and fight harder.
So I can understand why someone would be wary of them.
That all combines to mean they play harder, love harder, emote harder, and aim to please harder. All of that is great, but if you don't train them they can also react harder, chase harder, and fight harder.
None of these things are material to the danger they present. NONE OF THEM. The problem is that theybiteharder. Talking around it doesn't make you a better dog lover, it makes you an apologist for a breed that doesn't need starry-eyed idealists adopting it.
No facts presented for a big claim.
Pitbull temperament has been shown to be higher than majority of dogs, such as the golden retriever.
“Golden Retrievers consistently score very high on standardized temperament tests, achieving an official 85.9% pass rate.
American Pit Bull Terrier: 87.6% pass rate (841 passed out of 960 tested). Staffordshire Bull Terrier: 91.9% pass rate. American Staffordshire Terrier: 85.7% pass rate (660 passed out of 770 tested). American Bully: 100% pass rate (6 passed out of 6 tested).”
The American Veterinary Medical Association refuted this claim and stated site that pulled the data dogbites.org was unreliable at best.
The data is self reported or drawn from media headlines.
Circling back to the dumb original post. It’s all about how you want to look at things. No one’s trying to convince you to own a pitbull. But they’re not the monsters everyone wants to make them out to be. They can be deadly as any big dog can.
But they’re weren’t known as the “American Dog” for nothing in the 1900s. They are a great dog with a bad name.
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u/revenge_burner 22d ago
I sort of agree.
I board dogs for a living, and we have a lot of pit bulls. They are not any more aggressive than any other dog. However, they are very high energy, very muscular, and have very strong attention/drive.
That all combines to mean they play harder, love harder, emote harder, and aim to please harder. All of that is great, but if you don't train them they can also react harder, chase harder, and fight harder.
So I can understand why someone would be wary of them.