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A friend who worked in ER told me this, a person walking a friend's pit bull while the friend was away, very familiar with the dog, and the dog lunged at a passing dog, they gripped the leash so it didn't get away, and it turned on them instead and ripped their arm right off. Someone called 911 and the cops had to shoot and kill the dog to stop the attack. The arm could not be saved at all. Imagine talking to your friend when they returned when you suddenly have no arm and the dog is gone? What's that conversation like?
No pit bull apologist will ever convince me they're safe dogs. I have a few other stories, including my own niece needing four facial plastic surgeries due to a family pet attacking her. Those dogs should be banned.
I would bet money that that guy's friend was a piece of shit that abused the dog. There is a strong correlation between race and attacks only when you don't normalize for living conditions. If you normalize by that there's no significant difference between dog races. The thing is that assholes, especially assholes who want to put their dogs in pits to kill other animals, seem to like pitbulls, and if you spend your life being tortured and forced to kill other beings you're likely to attack others as well. Repeat after me, correlation does not imply causation, Pitbulls being responsible for the majority of deaths while accounting for a small percentage of the dogs is a correlation, you can't conclude any cause, and saying pitbulls are aggressive would be a cause.
Terriers are very susceptible to Kushings disease, and they can behave very unpredictably when it happens.
So are Dachshunds, what's your point?
I can't say I agree. Asshole owners don't help, but I have a good friend who is a well educated health care professional who raised one devotedly from puppyhood, spent thousands of hours and dollars on special training to try and keep her well behaved, she was a beloved family pet and very well loved, and she was a pretty good dog, but someone came in the house one day and she attacked them without warning. Animal behaviourists say part of the problem is that a pit gets very still when it's feeling threatened or aggressive, so you can't really tell until it's attacking. But honestly you couldn't get me near one.
Lots of dogs become very still when feeling threatened, there's even a saying "barking dog seldom bites", and while that is just a saying and a bark can be a threat becoming very still is also a sign on dogs in general. I've never personally had pitbulls, but have seen dobermans and German shepherds do it, when that happens the owner or the person needs to reassure the dog that nothing is wrong, but most people just see the dog quiet as okay with the situation instead of the truth that it is frozen with fear much like a human would.
This girl lost her upper lip due to her pit. https://www.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/comments/15kqwmd/lip_removal/
The plural of anecdote is not data. Read my other reply which contains actual data and several scientific papers on the matter. Plus in the beginning of that video, even if for just a second, you can clearly see the dog is very uncomfortable and panicking.
But people who actually see people who have been bitten by pit bulls agree they should be banned: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/contributors/2014/06/29/doctor-says-ban-pit-bulls/11709481/
Yes, but people with trauma tend to look at things emotionally and not rationally. People who were attacked by dogs wanting to ban dogs is as valid as people who were mugged by a black person wanting to bring back race segregation. But the truth is that several studies have shown no correlation between breed and aggressiveness. Not to mention that people misidentify Pitbulls. Also breed specific legislation is not the answer.
Pit bulls, XL Bullys, Akitas... these dog breeds are not fully domesticated.
Always unnerving when you are out walking your dog and you pass the owner of some hellhound saying, "Don't worry, Toby is friendly!" While the dog is salivating and pulling at the leash to come and maim you lol.
Happened to me a few weeks ago actually. And the thing with pit bulls is that they don't really have body language that warns you they're about to attack or feel threatened, they stay very still and then fly at you, and that is a powerful bite. The nursing and emergency medicine subreddits have horror stories of children who died or lost their faces from pits.