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1. ALL dogs can bite, maim or kill (small dogs have killed infants, for ex).

2. Focusing on the breed is a red herring, because there are lines in each breed that can have very different personalities.

3. Focus on the lineage of each individual dog. Some lines have been bred to fight, and those dogs are the most dangerous, because their escalation time from warning signs to killer lunge can be less than a second.

4. Focus on the environment of the puppy. Bite inhibition develops only when the dog is part of a litter that stays with its mother for at least 6 weeks, because that is when puppies learn that hard bites are socially unacceptable and will be met with pain and maternal correction.

5. Conclusion: adopt or rescue at your own risk and advocate for spaying and neutering. If you don't know the parents of the dog, and the puppy history, or worse, if you know that the dog was bred as a fighting dog or that the dog was born in a puppy mill and never socialized, you are putting people at risk. The risk is greater if you adopt a supposedly aggressive breed, but again, this is a red herring. [b]A Golden can kill as well.[/b]

6. In a perfect world, people would get their companions from reputable breeders who breed not only to the physical standard, but also for mellow personalities.

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Yet you would be hard-pressed to find an example of that, unlike the many horrifying examples with pits. Breed does matter, and anyone owning a pit is taking a risk.[/quote]
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I was just coming to say this. Pit bull defenders love to point out that there are other breeds with stronger jaws, etc... but I don't see any news stories about them killing their owners. Capability does not translate to reality.[/ l
Rottweilers, german shepherds and mastiffs also have been responsible for fatal attacks in recent year.  But fatal dog attacks are incredibly rare (generally less than 40 a year) spread among millions of dogs.[/quote]

But did you look at the numbers? Because the vast majority of those 40 are pit bulls. Consistently. Every year. [/quote]

Are you familiar with math?  Even if all 44 of the deaths were due to pitbulls (and they are not) 44 out of 3000000 means that .001 percent of pit bulls are involved in such attacks, or that 99.9 percent of pit bulls are not involved in fatal attacks.[/quote]

So you’re trying to say... it means nothing that of the 40 or so fatal dog attacks per year, 38 of them involve pit bulls? And that means nothing in regards to the traits of that breed? And you think this is insignificant because... there are a lot of pit bulls out there?[/quote]

Pitbulls are not responsible for 95 percent iof fatal dog attacks, but even if they were, the fact that 99.9 percent of the pitbull population is not involved in fatal attacks means that it is an extreme rarity even among pitbulls.  Your fears are disproportionate to the actual risk.  I don’t even like pit bulls, but I can see that your fears are not really rational.[/quote]

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