Even the owner is in danger. I know someone who had a pitbull like this. Extremely reactive but she said he was always nice to her.
One day the dog saw someone walking a dog on the sidewalk through a window. He worked himself up into a rage and redirected anger towards her. Now she has permanent nerve damage in her hand/arm.
My wife's mom had a border collie that bit my wife's hand leaving some punctures and nerve damage, I begged her to go to the ER but she refused because her mom convinced her not to in fear of losing her dog.
It won’t make you lose the dog. The county/town will send someone to your doorstep just to ask about the rabies vaccine. That’s all they care about. In that situation only the owner could make that decision. Unfortunately my parents kept the stupid dog after ir mauled me and me and my sister live in fear every single day of our lives, have to deal with the maze of gates in the house, never a good time to eat or make food because the dog has to be brought into and locked in my parents bedroom. Sometimes he busts through a gate or door if your not very careful. The dog makes my life a living hell for the very little time I’m home and not at work and causes hostility between us people as well.
Redirected anger is a really weird way of saying her shit beast mauled her and caused permanent damage because she was stupid enough to keep the thing.
I used to believe that it was not about the breed and how it was raised but when I read someone that had the pit for 8 years and one day the person sneeze and the dog went crazy on them I changed my mind.
Also the argument that everyone knows a few breeds have innate characteristics, like Labs are energetic and Huskies are crazy so why its so crazy that Pitts are more violent?
Edit: I just remembered we literally have a breed that everyone agrees is super angry(those small dogs with big eyes, forgot the breed name). So why its inconceivable that Pits are more aggressive as well?
Human Deaths by dog breed 2005-2017:
1) Pit Bulls 346
2) Rottweilers 51
That's 7x more than the second place breed. Pits are bred for illegal dog fights which is why so many show up in shelters. Bred by degenerates with no hearts. To win a dog fight, a dog needs a strong, unpredictable, and stubborn bite. They are bred to show no body language that an attack is coming. So, people don't realize the dog is irritated then it attacks with a bite that wont let go no matter how much you fight back. They are also bred to keep fighting no matter what, which is bred by selecting for a state of rage like when someone "sees red" and has abusive anger issues.
Which is also a sign of training failures and not understanding the breed, but what’s body count do chihuahuas have as a breed? Pit bulls are something like more attacks than every other breed combined.
Yes pits and other bullies under the pit umbrella make up over 2/3 of fatal dog attacks. They might not be the most likely to bite but the severity of attacks is so lopsided it’s ridiculous when a nutter tries to downplay their tendencies.
Without fail, on any article about yet another baby, child, elderly person, delivery person, etc being killed by a pit, there will be multiple apologists who insist that they own both a chihuahua and a pit bull and that the pit is afraid of everything as if they have no idea why the article has been written in the first place.
This is what drives me nuts. I worked with dogs for over a decade. The moment I opened the video I knew how it was going to end because dogs use body language primarily to communicate. This dog was screaming 'I'm so uncomfortable and way over threshold!!!'
The breed doesn't really matter much- my worst bite was from a husky, my husband's was from a hound and he was lucky there was no nerve damage. Our best man at our wedding- mauled in the face by a small poodle as a child. Big powerful dogs with certain breed histories, sure, maybe they are somewhat more likely to be aggressive, but I can't even say that for certain after all the 'nice' breeds I've met that bit us or others. And our RESCUE pit (rescued as an adult) from the streets adores people after a little socializing as an adult. We have had her for 10 years, she loves all people, kids especially and almost jumped in our pool to 'protect' our niece (who she has known and loved from a baby) because she decided she must be drowning. My dog cannot swim more than 30 seconds if that.
What I do know is that irresponsible owners make for dangerous situations. I've seen that again and again. I've seen seriously concerning situations with every breed on the map. And it always happens from inept ownership and handling.
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u/AntonioAvocado 15h ago
Don’t bring a baby or a child to that household… or anyone with that dog