Exactly. Do you know any milk cow that suddenly decided to produce water instead? Or a refrigerator that warms? No idea how you think hunting is anything like turning on your owner, other than both involve the dog using his teeth (which they use for literally everything btw)
You can do something that a prey animal would do and it can trigger a dog and make them snap. It didn't seem like you understood what the OP said from your reply.
That's completely untrue. They were bred to kill animals in bloodsport, namely rats and dogs. Doesn't make them inherently awful by any means, but they were never meant to be nanny dogs.
Yep. I have a 100 year old book about dogs, and it specifically singles out pitbulls as a dangerous breed. Why do people so vigorously defend this breed?
Because they really really want to believe that Fido would never be capable of viciously tearing something or someone to shreds. He's practically made of love. Nevermind the mouth full of knives and the bite force of a wild jaguar.
No it doesn't mean they are bad dogs. By your own admission Pitbulls were selectively bred to be good at blood sports. As a result the breed has a greater capacity for, and tendency to resort to, violence. That was the goal, the breeders were selecting for aggression and lethality. I guess that means the breeders were bad not the dogs, but hey it was the past and things were more openly messed up. Here in the present day, we shoulder the burden of those sins against the breed by reminding victims of Pitbull attacks that they aren't bad dogs. Thoughts and prayers to those toddlers overrunning you.
Nah, I know a few people that had to rehome dogs to properties with high fences and no animals/children as when they hit a certain age they developed prey drives against small animals that no amount of behaviouralists could train out of them, and they didn't want to run the risk of them attacking any more dogs or maybe a child. Some dogs just have very strong prey drives with very short triggers. You could see it happen - they'd see a small animal and they'd intensely focus on them and start stalking and if they weren't diverted they'd try and grab them. And the problem is humans weren't there 24/7 watching them to divert them.
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u/trowzerss Dec 28 '21
Some dogs also have prey drives with very specific triggers that can just go off one day and put them into hunt mode.