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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] 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. [/quote] 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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