PRAWNDOG said...
A prettry stereo typical thing to say about pitbulls and staffy's, you obviosly don't own one. Lets just say if you give an idiot a gun someone is going to get shot. same applies with these dog breeds. In the right hands and correct training they are beautiful animals. These breeds unfortunatly attract a certain type of owner (not always), but alot. Combined with the australian media hubbub everytime theres an attack "its a pitbull", then they publish the photo and its completely different breed. So annoying to the dog owners of these breeds that do the right thing. Any medium to large breed dog is capable of attacking a child or a small animal doesn't matter what the breed.
If you look at it purely from a breeding point of view, some dogs have been bred to do aggressive things and some dogs have not. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not saying that all saffies will bite or that labridors won't.
I guess it was a bit of a side point about how we SHOULDN'T blame the animals for their actions. It is not fair for us to superimpose human qualities to animal action.
We need to take responsibility for our lack of ability to correctly and safely train breeds of dogs that have been bred to be aggressive for thousands of years. Pit bulls were initially bred for bear bating, where people would pay money to watch pitbulls kill a grizzly bear, the same goes for staffies except they killed bulls. The breeds have such huge tempotomandibular muscles, the mothers struggle to fit the puppies large heads out when giving birth, and the animals have incredible bit-force and jaw-lock capabilities.
http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreationalSafety/images/dogbreeds-a.pdf But that doesn't mean that the animals will bite. Or will be aggressive. And should definitely not be labeled as being in the 'right' or 'wrong' if their actions to lead to the injury of a person or another animal.
Whoa, someone take the soap-box away from me.. Here's a nice picture of an orca to get us back on point..
Jess
