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Originally Posted by jspchief
"Its the owner, not the breed" is such a disingenuous statement. As if there's some hugely disproportionate number of bad owners with pitbulls compared to bad owners with labradors.
The reality is that it is the breed. Perhaps good ownership can negate the issues, but the reason the type of owner is so important in the first place is the breed.
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There is a huge disproportionate number of bad pittbull owners.
I mean does it really seem that shocking that a dog that has been popularized as a fighting dog over the past 80 years is commonly bought by a worse class of citizen than a dog bred for retrieving fishing nets and utilized in duck hunting?
Look at the 'specialists' who buy dogs for specific reasons. Wanna-be dog fighters buy pits... duck hunters buy labs.
Families buy both, but one of the above probably encourages more aggressive behavior from the dog than the other. It's really just logic. if your dog is aggressive it was usually TRAINED that way, and people commonly train pits that way intentionally.