Pit bull likely ate owner's hands

[IrishAyes]

55. No amount of verbiage will dilute the fact that big dogs bred to fight are more likely to succumb to

those instincts than dogs bred for better purposes. In addition to the greater damage when they do.

My Jack Russell chases balls like a maniac because she was bred to pursue small game. My chows never had the slightest interest in chasing a ball on the other hand; they'd look at me as if to say, why did you throw that away in the first place if you wanted it? Don't look at US to fetch it back for you; go get it yourself, dummy.

Not to say they couldn't hunt; they did in a very coordinated way, but only if it meant potential food. They weren't the least bit interested in rubber. The JR on the other hand gets excited when I so much as pick up anything. She dances around begging me to throw it for her to chase. She only retrieves the balls because she knows I won't throw another until she does. Chasing anything that moves is what thrills her.

You don't think thoroughbreds are bred to stroll, do you? Or other horses for other purposes? What happens to the ones that fail to meet breed standard - off to the glue factory, that's what. Dogs are no different. If a bloodline turned out 'faulty' it would quickly be dropped. Fighting dogs have survived so long because they can be counted on to run true to breed. We're not talking about human beings here, who have more brains and reasoning capacity and at least some degree of free will. Awareness of dog breed behavior is NOT the same as prejudice against other groups of people. Yet the defenders of keeping dangerous animals will go to their own graves trying to support that false equivalency.