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Rottweilers were bred as herding and draft animals, not for aggression. If you want to take exceptions as the rule, that's your prerogative, but history and breeding speak against you. And if you take their police work as an indication of lethal aggression, you'll have to eliminate German Shepherds, Dutch Shepherds, Belgian Malinoises and a slew of other breeds from the general population as well.I had a friend some years ago with a Rottweiler named "Lucy". he was teasing her, you know the way people will playfully mess with a dog's muzzle and make funny noises teasingly ?
That dog tore his forehead open. I knew this dog and never would have imagined that from her because she seemed so friendly and timid.
Rottweilers were bred as herding and draft animals, not for aggression. If you want to take exceptions as the rule, that's your prerogative, but history and breeding speak against you. And if you take their police work as an indication of lethal aggression, you'll have to eliminate German Shepherds, Dutch Shepherds, Belgian Malinoises and a slew of other breeds from the general population as well.
That may be true, although I disagree with this CDC list of supposed "most dangerous breeds." There are lies, damned lies, and then there're statistics. But does that mean we should systematically eliminate them as a breed? How about German Shepherds, Huskies, Alaskan Malamutes, Doberman Pinschers, Chow Chows, Great Danes, St. Bernards, Akitas, Dalmatians, Boxers and Presa Canarios? Should we kill off all these breeds? How far are you willing to go?Rottweilers are #2 on the CDCs list of most dangerous breeds. How did I just offer up an exception to the rule ?
I really do not get it.
I feel that someone is presenting here that there is some kind of unfair conspiracy against dogs categorized as pit bulls.
The fact is that even if you are less likely to be attacked or just as likely to be attacked by a pit- which I don't believe is the case, you are far far more likely to be killed during the attack or injured and disfigured than by other breeds.
ironically, I am watching an episode of Judge Judy right now in which a pit bull attacked a little girl in her own back yard.
Any dog is not bred intentionally to take down livestock.
Not just Any dog has made the CDC's most dangerous breed list. And I have no reason to believe that CDC has any political motive to go after this breed. That govenment agency is not biased.
Pit Bulls are bred to be what they are. Humans are rational, dogs are instinctional.
Not to mention they make fantastic stories that make people want to watch their news shows and the commercials interspersed throughout.Conspiracy, not really. Just large numbers of ignorant people, like yourself, that buy into media hype because you don't bother thinking for yourself. Bully breeds are defamed for the same reasons Dobbies, German Shepards, Rottweilers, and the like are, they look scary. It's easy for the media to sell ignorant people the myth of a monster dog because they don't know enough and are too lazy to inform themselves.
Ok this sounds silly but with all this talk about dog attacks I'm kinda afraid to go outside to take a walk
hmmmYou'll be killed by a drunk driver long before you're ever attacked by a dog if that makes you feel any better.
The UK, Australia, and New Zealand along with at least another half dozen countrys like Italy have bans on these violent dangerous animals. Why does the US always have to be the last to do the right thing. I think this country is like only one of two in the world that is not on the metric system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Wn_Ha6mec
Update on video: the owners, a couple, have been arrested and are sittting in jail on 250k each.
The boy was on a public road 150 yards from his house, 50 yards from the pit bull owners' home. The drivers who saw the boy's body and came assist were chased back into their cars by the dogs and the police arriving shot the two pit bulls when the were charged by the dogs.
This represents the true ignorance of the American public. Pit Bulls are hardly dangerous animals, in fact your much more likely to be biten (or even killed) by a Lab or a Chow. Most breeds on "most likely to bite" lists are small toy breed dogs. A dog ignorant public simply has it out for "pit bulls" (actually it tends to be American Staffordshire Terriers that people are most afriad of but in their ignorance don't even know what an actual pit bull is) in the same way a dog ignorant public had it out for German Shepards and Dobbies in the 80's. Truth is there are no "aggressive breeds or bad dogs," just bad owners. Blaming a breed of dog for the behavior of a certain subculture in soceity is stupidity in its worst form.
Truth is pit bulls, and related breeds, have less aggression towards humans because of their breeding. Back when dog fighting was a legal sport (not ghetto street trash running absurd cruel shows) a fighting dog had to be able to be handled by its owner in the middle of a fight. A dog that would bite its handler was unacceptable. Media sensationalism aside, pit bulls, amstaffs, bull terriers, and the like are very good natured dogs who make excellent pets.
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