The Academic Impostor Behind the Pit Bull Hysteria

[Jamastiene]

203. It is incredibly ignorant and shallow to hate certain breeds of dogs.

Dog owners, who have owned more than one breed of dog through the years know breed matters little. The individual dog, and more importantly, how that individual dog is trained and socialized (or not, as usually is the case in the violent cases) matters more than the breed.

If you raise a dog to be an antisocial jerk, that's what you'll get. If you raise a dog to be friendly and sociable, that is what you will get. It is all in the training and socialization. If you can't get the behavior you prefer out of a dog, you are in need of training by someone who knows how to work with dogs, because dogs are incredibly easy to train if you take the time to do it regularly until they learn.

Dogs WANT to please their owners. That makes training them very easy, if you know how to do it and bother to take the time up with them to do it. I think a lot of people do not know how to do it right or don't care. Or worse, they purposely train the dog to be super aggressive. That is not the dog's fault. It is still the owner's fault in both of those cases.

Anyone who lets their dogs just roam without being there to both protect them and control their behavior toward other living things probably didn't give a shit enough to train them to begin with. That is why they end up with their dogs being antisocial and harming others and their pets and ending up destroyed. Then every dog that is that same breed of dog gets unfairly tarnished because of shitty owners who either don't bother to take care of their dogs or purposely trains their dogs to be assholes, just like them.