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Originally Posted by BriPilot
how many mad-chihuahua attacks have you seen? Any schnauzer's teaming up to kill anyone recently???
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You will find that there are a lot of cases of other dogs attacking. There was a very high profile case recently of a Pomeranian who killed a baby. And in those murderous dog packs that are usually reported to be "pit bulls", there are usually mutliple breeds, including Border Collies.
Here's the thing: it is the deed, not the breed. But a lot of irresponsible owners don't know how to keep their dog from achieving the deed. We're talking a willful, independent breed (more so, IMO, than GSDs, Dobermans, Rottweilers) with terrier drive. In the right hands, these can be great dogs. In the wrong hands, they can obviously cause enormous amounts of trouble.
The problem is that they are in so many "wrong hands". In Los Angeles it is a real problem. Down at Venice Beach, dogs are banned from the boardwalk because gang members would train pit bulls to be mean, sic them on police officers, and not care if the dogs got shot and killed. In essence these dogs are weapons.
But then -- take away one kind of weapon and they'll rush out and find another one. So I don't know what to think. I do
wish there were less pit bulls around -- easily 50% of mutts in this city are part pit. But that doesn't mean I want all of those potentially great dogs destroyed.