More agressive then what? The Caucasian Ovcharka is far more agressive and is many small dogs to just they can't do any serious damage to you, well the Caucasian Ovcharka can but not many people get those for family dogs.
You are 650 times more likely to die from walking over the street then to be attacked and killed by a dog, there is millions of pitbulls out there that never hurt anyone.
That's actually an English Mastiff, not a Bullmastiff. Also, fun fact, an English Mastiff has a bite force of around 550 psi. An Amstaff is around 230 psi. German Shepherds are around the same. Rottweilers are around 330 psi.
Edit: Fixed a typo. 230, not 320.
Quoting dogsbite.org in defense of anit-pit bull sentiment is like quoting Alex Jones in defense of conspiracy theorists. Dogsbite.org is run by an anti-pit bull activist. It's inherently biased.
Depends on what your measuring as aggressive. A pit is more aggressive in an attack and more likely will go for the kill due to their breeding. But they not more aggressive to reach an attack phase as other breeds.
So yes their attacks are well documented as very aggressive and determined.
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Just saying that in Canada, a law to ban pitbulls recently failed because it was hard to find a legal definition of ''pitbulls'' (it's a type of dog more than a specific breed). Therefore, determining their exact genetics is hard-after all, to take a French example, Milou/Snowy is genetically quite close (late 18th century ?) to a bulldog (most breeds being crosses between terriers and bull-baiting dogs)
Oh I actually didn't know that the Montreal ban got suspended, good for them.
This is mostly true but not entirely. Pit Bulls were originally bred for dog fighting but that has mostly been bred out of them. The problem exists in that there is no real way to know if any particular pit bull has a strong or weak lineage to these lines. This does not make them more aggressive to humans though. As dog fighting animals that became aggressive to their handlers would have been put down and not bred.
All dogs (not just pit bulls) should be treated as individuals not as groups - just the same as people. Behavior is not just genetics and not just environment/experience - it is a complex mix of both. I love dogs. I have played rough house with a 100 pound pit bull that was as playful as a puppy and would never hurt anything and I've seen pit bulls that were raised right but were still very aggressive and should have been put down in my opinion. Even so, I've seen the exact same things in other dog breeds as well. No breed should be banned/restricted based solely on the breed. A ban/restriction debate could be made based on the size of the animals as at some point they can be deadly if they attack regardless of the breed.
Actually, yes, a cub that have been raised amongst humans would be more likely to attack them than wild one, because of familiarity with humans . A black or grizzly bear (less for polar bears), like wolves, is in normal circumstances afraid of humans and will only attack in fairly specific circumstances (a sow with her cubs, being startled...) They get dangerous when they are too used to humans (for instance because of garbage bins)
Right but a fair number of pitbull related fatalities are by the family dog. So unless a lot of pits were abused and it never came out, there is more to it than just upbringing and training.
Then again like I said earlier in the thread, literally millions of people own pits in NA that don't get mauled.
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Atoms are liars, they make up everything!
There's cattle dogs that are aggressive by nature
If you get a call saying your Queensland Heeler just bit someone, you know it's true. I don't see why pitbulls can't be bred to be aggressive.
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
Its almost like pitbulls aren't know as nursery dogs...
When i was younger our newfie beat the shit out of our pit, or my friends pits that where both the sweetest dogs, or that sweet little puppy for sale at la pulga...its almost like people that fight dogs make them that way. Guess i have just been lucky.