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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][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]
Chihuahuas are definitely aggressive.  They suck.  Show me how many people have been maimed or killed by them pls.[/quote]

Pls research your own stats. I have a scar from a chihuahua, so that's at least one. that they're small doesn't mean they're harmless, and this argument that you think is so strong actually works against your point.

People don't train their chihuahuas because they're "just" a chihuahua. Whereas if someone with a "pit bull" behaved that way, you'd probably think them criminally negligent. At the root of this is the exact same problem: poor owner behavior, failure to train, lack of understanding of how to properly handle a dog. What you're trying to do is ban breeds, which will NOT solve the problem. What would is better owner training, including requiring a licensing exam before people could legal own a dog of any breed.

Every time you make it about "pit bulls" (which used to be rotties, which used to be dobies, which used to be GSDs; this is an old-ass argument) you knock us off track from any progress we might make toward an actual solution to dog bite incidents.[/quote]

You know why people don't care about Chihuahuas? Because they aren't killing people!!!!!!!

But to your credit I would never own a rottie, or dobie or GDS. But I especially wouldn't not own a pittie since they are responsible for the largest number of human deaths. [/quote]

Baby, i don't want to get bit by anyone's dog. I don't care that it's "not going to kill me". [/quote]

Baby, I don't want to get bit by anyone's dog either. But you keep ignoring the fact that one can kill me, and the other will require a stitch or two. [/quote]

It didn't even bark. You have a phobia. There's therapy for that. Seek the professional help you clearly need.[/quote]

Nope. Keep your beloved pittie at home where it belongs. You don't get to make decisions for me. [/quote]

Maybe you should stay home.  You can't control the world.  It isn't calmed ' making decisions for you' it is called living your life.  [/quote]

Typical delusional dog owner. "my dog deserves to travel more than people." Just so you know, you sound totally crazy to the sane people. [/quote]

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