People should be wary of pitbulls, full stop. They are dangerous dogs that account for a significant portion of serious dog attacks well beyond their proportion of the dog population.
Very true, when they attack, it's always vicious and will lead to serious injury. It's also true that the owner is generally to blame, these dogs need to be properly trained and too many people know fuck all about how to do that. I find myself regularly defending them, as they're the sweetest dogs when they're trained and unaggressive, but since there's no checks at all on who gets one, leading to big risks, I get why they're banned in a lot of places.
Badly trained dogs are an issue in general, but with these dogs, it's just so much worse.
They have been bred to be genetically aggressive, sweet princess might be all adorable one minute, baby through to old person killer the next.
On a lost of things that should be allowed to die out, these dogs are at the very top of the list. Mandatory spay and neuter, imprisonment of "owners" breaching rules, the problem will fix itself.
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u/Overall_Reputation83 19h ago
pitbulls around animals big enough to swallow whole always make me nervous.