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In reply to the discussion: "I wish those vicious creatures could be banned." ***WARNING: GRAPHIC*** [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)That's the point of training. Not hard to understand, is it? It's your responsibility as an animal's owner to mitigate its bad behavior. 100% of the responsibility for this is on the human in the relationship.
And you ask, "why a dog with that in its breed history at all," well, you'll find that pretty much every type of dog has that in its history.
This guy:

Bred and developed to tear wolves, foxes, and other dogs into pieces. That was its "job," to protect herd animals from predators.
How about this fellow?

Bred and developed to chase this into its own burrow and kill it;

Okay, okay, dachhunds might not be the most intimidating of dogs (though the ones I've met have been little bastards)
How about this guy?

DAW wookit him, such a cute widdle smirk... Bred and developed to chase down, harry, chew up, and subdue lions.
How about Scruff McGruff here?

This buddy is a human-hunter, bred to trail, harrass, and pin down human quarry; forget old british detective dramas, thus guy's first job was chewing the feet off escaped slaves.
And this guy!

...Pit fighter with a breed history that makes pit bulls look like yorkies

Who were, by the way, also famed pit dogs, pitted against rats and other small dogs.
And of course we have this big huggable galoot;
...Who was a multi-purpose kill-shit-dead dog. It was a warhound, boar-hunter, a stag courser, and most famously, owes its name to basically chewing every wolf on Ireland to death.
yeah, who could ever love such savage monsters.