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Originally Posted by elegy
pretty much what gsd said. say i had a breed like a lab or a golden or even a standard poodle and it showed aggression toward me or somebody else. if my lab/golden/poodle bit somebody, i'd personally be facing a whole lot of trouble, but the chances of it affecting people in my whole city/state/country would be very low. not so with pit bulls. one pit bull bite can lead directly to a ban of the breed. there is no way i'd risk being responsible for that.
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I understand totally, as a rottweiler owner. But I guess I'm different in that I won't accept it from any breed.
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Originally Posted by elegy
it almost happened like that in california. a kid was killed because his idiotic parents left him home alone with two unstable bully-looking dogs, and SB861 was spawned. originally it was breed specific against pit bulls. now it's more of a stepping stone to breed specific laws that can be enacted locally. this in a state that, prior to that incident, had laws AGAINST breed specific legislation.
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Oh I remember that woman well. The hatred burns within, trust me.
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Originally Posted by elegy
so while i might be more willing to work through something that might be fixable with another breed, there's no way i'd consider it with a pit bull.
the other caveat is that some breeds were bred to be suspicious of strangers and protective of owners, so i'd accept more aggression toward strangers from one of those breeds than i would from a breed that was bred completely to be human friendly.
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*nod* I've issues with owning breeds like that without having them for a working purpose. Too many people will latch onto them as a fad dog, for a macho reason and those dogs are just not like others. They are working guardians, not pets.