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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
You hear of attacks all the time because of media hype.
"My kids are around pit bulls every day. In the '70s they blamed Dobermans, in the '80s they blamed German Shepherds, in the '90s they blamed Rottweilers. Now they blame the Pit Bull." - Cesar Millan (The Dog Whisperer)
Dogs are animals. They are only as domesticated as their owners train them to be. If this guy was a scumbag criminal, he was most likely training his dog to be an attack dog. The dog attacked not because of it's breed, but because it was doing what it had been trained to do.
Dogs are like children - they're only going to be as good as the person raising them. To blame it on a breed is only propagating a harmful and ignorant myth.
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Example of a bad trainer: Woman owns two rotties they were her pets since cubs her neighbour said the dogs would now and then nip the owner on the hand or become slightly aggressive towards her and she would do nothing about it as she considered the dogs her children and they would never hurt her. Well they killed her one day in her home ripped her to shreds.
Another recently here a well trained pitbull who is good around kids attacked the neighbours 7 yr old son for no reason. Kid has always been around the dog, never teasing him or anything like that. But out of the blue this family pitbull tried to take the kids face off. Kid survived.