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Originally Posted by Jazuela
It's not a singular breed. And your opinion seems to be based on faulty information. Aggressive pit bulls are aggressive because they're either a) trained to be aggressive b) treated as aggressive animals or c) incorrectly trained/inadvertently or intentionally mistreated. Some of them become the result of however they're treated, even if they're not specifically trained that way. This is true for all dogs. Every single one of them. Pit bulls get the bad rap because they are the most prolific in "ermagerd dog bite story of the week" and the most commonly used in dog fighting. Of all the dogs I've ever been exposed to in my life, the only one I've actually been concerned about biting me was a really unfriendly, spoiled, poorly trained chihuahua.
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My big fear has been chihuahuas as one would run at me every time I walked by their enclosed yard like I was breakfast, lunch and dinner. I had to walk to high school as the bus route started about 1/8 of a mile from where we lived in Reno, Nevada.
Now we have had two wonderful chihuahua/terrier mixes even though when I heard that the Humane Society was bringing over a chihuahua for possible adoption I was dead set against it until I saw the dog. This was around 2007 and we have had chihuahua/terriers since.
We had a cocker spaniel before that named Amber which is a very sweet breed but has a lot of in-bred problems. She made the journey from Sonoma County, CA to Palm Harbor, FL in 1996.
The dog that got bit in this story is a cocker spaniel. My dog does not like it when he licks him in the face. So I keep them away from one another.
We had a Dalmation before the cocker spaniel who would get very protective of anyone it was sharing a bed with to the point of biting you. Kind of a very nutty dog. Hyperactive, neurotic and hard of hearing.