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Dogs bite 4 to 5 million Americans every year.
If a poodle bites you – you probably won’t go to the hospital and you won’t die.
If a pit bull bites you – you are going to the hospital and you might die.
As with many of the older working breeds the breed name is also a job description. Pointer, retriever, setter, hovawart and shepherd are examples. The Pit Bull Terrier or American (Pit) Bull Terrier was bred solely to do combat in a dogpit. They were never nurse’s aids, nanny dogs, soldiers’ rescue dogs, herding dogs, astronauts, physicists or anything other than combat dogs. I am always suspicious of those who claim to love this breed while simultaneously in such denial of what the breed is in reality. If you love something you love it for what it truly is and not for something it has never been and can never become.
Not all large dog breeds are equally as likely to kill, which is why Labradors, Standard Poodles and 50 plus others are not as dangerous as pit bull. Dog breeds that disproportionately kill people in the U.S. and across the world are medium to large-sized molosser dogs, the types that were used to create “baiting” bull breeds and fighting breeds. Form follows function, thus the group shares visual similarities in their weighty jaws and head shape.
Pit Bulls like many other working dogs were originally bred for a purpose, that purpose was to fight to the death without fear or pain. To take those animals into a home and as people tend to do with animals today, treat them like human family members is an open invitation to disaster.
Just as their canine-shark pets are a breed apart from normal dogs, pit bull owners are themselves a human breed apart from other dog owners.
Pit bull owners live in a dream palace, where all dogs are good, and when they are bad, it can be attributed only to bad ownership or the dogs being “provoked” by the animals or people they ravage. Never to genetics, never to the fact that pit bulls were bred for impulsive aggression of exactly this type.
At a certain level, pit bull owners understand very well that their dogs are programmed for joy in fighting. They understand very well that when pit bulls attack, it is almost always suddenly and randomly, almost never defensively.
But they can’t admit that. So when their pit bull lunges at a cat and bites its head off, they tell themselves this is the way it is with animals, even though it is rare for any other breed to kill any other animal for no reason. They tell themselves, for a real-life example, when their pit bull attacks and practically scalps a three-year old girl climbing out of a car, that the sudden opening of the car door was the trigger — in other words, the kid had it coming. It’s never the dog’s fault.
Of course real dog fighting men have no such illusions. Dog fighters want pit bulls precisely because they are “game,” because they know that this is the only naturally aggressive breed that can be counted on to fight to the death. They’re not pets, they’re weapons.
