While a chihuahua is unlikely to kill someone strictly due to size of bite, they actually one of the breeds most likely to bite you, and if they bite a kid, on the face especially, they can and do maim. A border collie can kill. A golden retriever can kill. Any breed of dog with a bite big enough could kill, especially when poor training and handling create a scenario that will stress. So "a pet that can kill of maim someone" is a really broad brush. Any dog big enough, relative to the size of its target, is "capable of causing serious or lethal injury". ALL dogs should be licensed and insured by appropriately-informed, responsible owners. And people who want to breed dogs should be required to meet even higher standards. That is how you reduce bite incidents, if that's what you're interested in doing. |
Classes. Walks. Honestly, most dogs who haven't been abused or mistreated in some way don't need to be socialized with other dogs. They're dogs. They dog just fine. "Socialization" is more the conditioning of dogs to interact with the world around them, and the people and other dogs they're going to encounter, in a way that conforms with human rules, needs and norms. For example: To a dog, it's perfectly acceptable to run up and start humping a new friend. Humans frown on this, as it's... let's go with "awkward", and so we leash our pets and introduce them to other dogs in a way we can control (to avoid our human embarrassment, but also for safety reasons). Dogs also bark, quite a lot, and so we recondition them to sit and allow other dogs (and cats, and squirrels, and cars, and...) to pass quietly. |
+1 The worst behaved dogs I know are often people's cute little whatevers, who are carried and given small-dog syndrome by their overbearing owners who treat them like children instead of the dogs they are. Most people who own "scary" dogs know exactly how they're viewed by the ignorant public, and go to some trouble to make sure their particular animals are decent representatives of their respective breeds. |
Wait? What did this devolve into? Wasn't the point of this post that the pit bull was a well behaved dog? |
As predicted, the usual anti-pit suspects jumped on with "well-wishes" and it all spiraled from there. Pit bulls aren't allowed to exist without this level of human stupidity. If some of the stupid humans on this thread had their way, pit bulls wouldn't be allowed to simply exist at all. And you're correct: the dog in question did absolutely nothing more than exist happily, without incident. That's all it takes for some of these haters. They will insert all kinds of crazy unrelated narrative, claim facts not in evidence, trot out random "news" clickbait to support their hysteria/paranoia... It's pretty pathetic, honestly. And predictable, sadly. We saw this coming on page one. |
Exactly this. There are no good mutts left. Only pitts and pit mixes |
We need non pitbull bred mutts |
Emergency doctors and nurses will universally disagree with your pro pitbull claims |
A werkly pitbull breed mauling or killing is not "rare" by any stretch of the imagination. |
Fatality should absolutely be the metric. Pitbulls disproportionately kill and maim compared to normal dog breeds. |
There were no dog villains until pitbulls came along and earned the title through killings, maimings, and dismemberments of innocent people, usually children and elderly but often even adult males. |
Sure they were |
They csn kill, but they don't. The only dog breeds that regularly kill and maim are pitbull breeds. This is indisputable. Heck, pitbulls even kill their owners, which is unheard of for every other breed, including strong breeds like dobermans or german shepherds. |
Rotties, GSDs and Dobies would like a word with your ignorant ass |
Citation needed. |