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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, we do remember the stories of people getting mauled by pit bulls and "lab mixes," right?

Being in a enclosed, noisy environment with lots of strangers is a difficult situation for not properly socialized dog (i.e., fake service dog). I love dogs and have owned many GSDs through the years, and I absolutely would not want to sit next to an agitated pit bull, GSD, etc. A little yappy/snarly chihuahua in a carrier? Annoying, but not worrisome.[/quote]

You may have a point if this dog did anything but it did not according to op.  The sad thing is one good pit bull does not change anyone's opinions but one dog who mauls someone certainly does[/quote]

And yet, when you point out the name for that, bias, people go completely unhinged, convinced their biased opinion is some sort of hard truth or fact.

People are stupidly easy to manipulate, and not very good at checking their own thinking.[/quote]

I think you're the one who is manipulated since our bias is based on statistics and not our blind, stupid love for pitties.

https://www.google.com/search?q=which+dogs+are+statistically+more+aggressive&rlz=1C1GCEX_enUS1048US1048&oq=which+dogs+are+statis&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCAgBEAAYFhgeMgYIABBFGDkyCAgBEAAYFhgeMg0IAhAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMg0IAxAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMg0IBBAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMgoIBRAAGIAEGKIEMgoIBhAAGIAEGKIEMgcIBxAAGO8F0gEINzM3MmowajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#cobssid=s[/quote]

Your link throws this as the first non-AI result: https://spotpet.com/blog/breed-tips/most-aggressive-dog-breeds

#1 on the list? Chihuahuas. And if you've ever owned or known one, you know that's hard facts.  :lol:

As for the "statistics" someone always trots out, the flaw in that logic has been pointed out repeatedly, by multiple credible sources: while you may be able to find high numbers of incidents involving "pit bulls", in order for them to be statistically significant, you'd need to know the total number of dogs being called "pit bulls" vs. the total number of each other breed represented. I have never been able to find this information.

The Centers for Disease Control study “Breeds of dogs involved in fatal human attacks in the United States
between 1979 and 1998” explains the inherent problems in attempting to calculate breed involvement in
fatal attacks. The CDC further explained that a major flaw in the study was the inability to factor in total
breed populations relative to breed-related fatalities. The CDC concluded that fatal attacks are so rare as to
be statistically insignificant in addressing canine aggression"

How rare? https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7236a6.htm

But by all means, continue to freak out about "pit bulls".  :roll: [/quote]

I knew you were going to bring up Chihuahuas which just shows further how dumb you are. While they might be more aggressive, they are most certainly not CAPABLE of inflicting the kind of damage that a pit bull. How many people died from a Chihuahua mauling vs. a pit bull mauling?

The insurance companies are definitely able to calculate the risk and will likely jack up your rates if you own a pit bull or any of the highly aggressive breeds. You might not even be able to get insurance if you own one of those dogs. [b]But by all means, keep living in la la land where pitties are just misunderstood[/b]. I don't even care if you have 10 of them in your own home and they eat you for breakfast next Thursday. I just don't want to be on a plane next to one and that is my right.

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Dp this is what this poster believes. Pits are just misunderstood and the reason is many of them are languishing in rescues eating up all the overhead fees earned by non pit adoptions is simply because people like you and me are dumb and biased. Nothing to do with their aggression, harm capabilities or the fact that pit owners are irresponsible and don’t fix their pets. Nope. It’s your fault. [/quote]

It's not a hard argument to make when you listen to what these anti-pit screeds reduce to: "I don't understand dogs, I don't like pit bulls, and I think the world should cater to me."

Pit bulls aren't particularly hard to understand. They're dogs. That's it. They're not some special kind of magical dog that only people who like pit bulls can understand. They operate by the exact same metrics as literally any other breed. If you can train a dog, you can train a pit bull, because a pit bull is a dog. Some of you don't understand that, because you're biased and, yes, at this point in these threads, willfully ignorant. It has nothing to do with the aggression or harm capabilities of a "pit bull" which are the same as any other breed of similar size and strength (and less than many of your favorite breeds, which you'd also understand if you knew what you were talking about).

Yes, some pit owners are irresponsible and don't fix their pets. There should be breeder licenses for dogs of all breeds which, when properly enforced, would solve that problem. But that's never what y'all suggest.

This isn't about the dogs. It's about you hating the dogs. That is the definition of a you problem: the problem is with you.[/quote]

LA LA LAND!!!![/quote]

Where you live, with your fingers in your ears and your enculado head, willfully ignoring any logic that challenges your biases.

Stay there, please. [/quote]

I would live it if you actually presented anything logical. [/quote]

Wipe your eyes off, scroll up and read. There are links right in this particular comment thread.

Lordy Jaysus... you won't be helped, but you won't be quiet either. It's obnoxious af.[/quote]

yeah pitties are just misunderstood, whaaa whaaaa....girl, bye. [/quote]

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