All hail Baby! Heroic pit bull saves family, 5 dogs from fire

[Honeycombe8]

39. That's not quite true. They have inherent traits, but "born to kill" isn't a trait.

That's a human feeling you're projecting onto an animal. All animals, humans included, are "born to kill" in the sense that we'll kill another creature to survive. Insects are born to kill, too. So are fish.

You are probably referring to an aggression tendency, which is a trait. Some breeds have more natural aggression than others. Some are more docile.

Pits aren't usu. trained to kill, either. They're trained to fight with other dogs, but not to the death. And sometimes they are trained to be the one that the meaner dogs fight with...the sissy, so to speak.

There are some dogs trained to kill. German shepherds, Dobermans, maybe some others. Used by law enforcement, usually.

But I'll grant you that there's something there that makes pits susceptible to people who bring out their natural aggression, which is dangerous because of their ability to do damage and kill.

It's mainly the people, I think. I remember not too many yrs ago it was Doberman's and Rotties who were the dogs being trained to be more aggressive than they were "born" to be. But now pits are in fashion. And there are fewer incidents with Doberman's & Rotties, and people have forgotten how feared those dogs were not long ago.

I'm scared of them, though, because I don't know the dog's background or how he's been raised, and he might have been raised by a nut who raised him to be aggressive.