I love dogs, work with them and know a dogs behaviour like the back of my hand.

Pitbulls are bad but so are most of the bull breeds. The problem is all dog attacks come from working dogs and 95% of the time, people who have no fucking idea about dogs personify them and are completely naive about their capabilities are the problem.

But yeah, they probably need to be banned.

Or maybe it's just the type of people who are drawn to this violent record are being terrible dog owners.

Don't people say the same thing about guns?

See i don't know. There was a lady in the news a couple years ago walking her dog and then her dog attacked her. Was she a bad owner, was the dog not trained or did the dog just snap for 30 seconds and kill her.

Good suggestion

Indeed. Apparently lemmings have strong feelings on this topic. I myself do not feel informed enough to have a strong opinion.

Pit bull is a large category which many, completely unrelated breeds can be classified as too. Entirely different genetics, from entirely different regions, with entirely different temperaments.

Sure, if a person lumps together any dog that kinda looks like it belongs in the bully classification, you'll get pretty high statistics. Especially when you compare against singular breeds like a rottweiler.

If you look at the graphic (which states 67% not 90) "pitbull" makes up atleast 8 breeds, though like many others I've read my assumption is that they're still classifying many breeds as a singular breed.

You need to look at per-capita data by the way, even if you didn't need to separate the breeds. With simply this data, there could simply be more pitbulls in existance than other breeds.

The stats about cops being bastards is because Americans being arrested form the bulk of interaction stories.

The person posting the picture explicitly said in their post they were doing so "in response to pit bull haters". They were already stirring up shit.

OP was there to start shit. It wasn't "just posting" pics of dogs. It was literally "pitbulls are a great dog that is 100% safe fuck the haters".

When you post, you name a topic someone else's business. This site is for browsing content, and commenting on it

It wasn't a neutral post though was it? The title is "In retaliation to the Pit bull haters,". That's not a "wholesome" post to begin with, and if you call someone out, don't be surprised when they answer back

The federation has proven itself to be infinitely interesting and even more awful. It has so much potential but... yeah not mature enough yet.

Pets are family, so people have a knee-jerk reaction to anyone badmouthing their pets even if the other person has a point.

My sister has a rescue pit. He's the sweetest dog ever - he was afraid of men for a while due to his previous owner, but gradually warmed up and now runs up to everyone he sees for cuddles.

However, when they took him to visit someone in a nursing home he ran off and bit one of the staff unprovoked. It turns out how a dog behaves around family versus around strangers are two completely different things, and dog owners rarely see the latter so judge their pet's personality based on the former.

A dog can be an absolute angel around people introduced to them by someone they love and trust, but if their little doggy brain registers someone as a threat (or even just an intruder in their space) things can go very wrong, very quickly.

The third type is idiots like you.