Dogs

Please don't misunderstand, I don't have any hatred for this or any other animal.

It's just doing what it does, it has as much right to exist as we do, if anything - more, because we bred it to be this way.

But practically speaking we can't have a dangerous breed like this just be let loose like this, and I don't trust people enough to be safe with it, same way I wouldn't trust most people with a tiger etc.

We fucked up by breeding dogs in many ways, from breeds that can barely breathe and have all sorts of awful health complications to breeds that are too violent to be kept around humans safely. We have to undo our fuck ups, even when it means we have to ban the breed from common households and in some cases even put down dogs, even though it's messed up, it's not their fault, it's ours, and there's not much we can do but clean up this mess and try to learn and be better and more responsible about breeding animals.

I take no pleasure in saying this nevermind thinking about what has to be done, but I don't see any other way. I'm really quite sorry. Our entire species should be.

an animal, predisposed to loving people, that has to be abused into being violent.

(warning: graphic) Pitbull puppies have been known to eat littermates down to the head, even with plenty of food available. Good luck finding a story about a labrador retriever doing that.

You don't have to abuse border collies for them to try to herd things.
You don't have to abuse beagles for them to obsessively follow their nose.
You don't have to abuse terriers for them to dig.

The extremely dangerous combination of spontaneous aggression and lack of survival instinct (never seen any other breed headbutt a windshield repeatedly from the inside of a car to try and get at something outside, to and beyond the point of laceration/injury) pitbulls exhibit are, like those of the breed groups above, the result of a lot of selective breeding.

You unfortunately can't love the genetics out of a pitbull--if you could, there wouldn't be any shocked loving pitbull owners who were victimized.

And you for me, dawg. Also all your pitbulls and bully XLs are blocked in every civilized country BTW

Yeah, that's a block for me too. Anyone that susceptible to easily disproven propaganda has nothing meaningful to contribute.

Lemme guess, this was about pitbulls? Seems the new mod is a defender of murder"puppies" since they warned me about providing facts when talking about them.

https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-quick-statistics.php

"The probability of a bite resulting in a complex wound was 4.4 times higher for pit bulls compared with the other top-biting breeds ... and the odds of an off-property attack by a pit bull was 2.7 times greater."

"The most commonly identified breed was the pit bull ... Pit bulls were also the most commonly identified breed involved in major injuries."

"Unlike all other breeds, pit bull terriers were relatively more likely to attack an unknown individual (+31%), and without provocation (+48%)."