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Hot take (I'll accept my downward facing arrows, thank you), but people regularly vastly overestimate the safety and docility of "regular" dogs too
You're absolutely correct. Any dog over about 10kg has the power to cause serious injury, especially to a child or other dog/pet. Greyhounds have a horrendous prey drive and will eat your cat in 2 seconds flat
I tried to rehabilitate a dangerous dog and failed and now find myself with another one (thankfully MUCH less prone to biting). "regular" dogs are one abusive/neglectful adolescence away from being unsafe
Huskies and Malamutes, also.
Humans too
That has more to do with owners than breeding.
Both, for sure.
You speak the true true
With the notable exception of pitbulls.
Pitbulls also have the issue of being abused at higher rates then other breeds. It's not all genetic
It's not all genetic, just largely so.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/dog-attack-statistics-breed/#sources
You're half correct.
Pitbulls, Staffordshire terriers, Bullies etc, are all variations of same or similar breeds. These breeds are viewed as 'tough' and are treated and trained as such by their owners. They also aren't treated like family dogs by these people who buy them for their tough image either.
You get a few generations like this, a couple idiots who don't desex or seperate their dogs on heat and you've got the beginning of a problem.
I'm Australian and in animal control, bull breeds are always number 1 for attacks every year but working breeds are VERY close behind, think Cattledog, Kelpie, German Shepherd etc.
If you look at the skewed breed ownership statistics, there Staffys and Bull breeds get a bad wrap from being incredibly popular and very poorly taken care of.
Gotta love when they don't bother to normalize their statistics so it's basically just a question of human population density.
Pitbulls, bull terriers, Staffordshire terriers etc are no worse than other dogs. I work in animal control, it's a big misconception.
No. They just often have shit owners who either want them to be aggressive or habe no ideas about dogs but think pitbulls are cool
If only regular people could id pitbulls. No really it hard for average people to do that. Really compromises all our data.