Sure it is, and it’s certainly pervasive nonsense. The problem is, many of the folks to whom this seems like “common sense” have little to no functional knowledge of the subject, and even less desire whatsoever to explore the topic in any depth. To them, aggression is aggression, and dog fighting as a, I don’t know, concept is so repellent that it’s easy to mentally conflate that with any range of horrifying, anti-social behaviors.
You mean, all dogs, regardless of breeding background? Because surely you’ve bothered to read the CDC and AVMA reports on the topic, right?
I don’t mean this to sound rude, but do you actually… know much about canine behavior, or working-dog history? I’m very interested to know what you imagine makes a dog “prone to attack”. I’m curious if you have any functional idea of what that means, or if you’re just going on gut instinct with the dogs you think you know are dangerous, because historically they’ve been hoisted on the same “dangerous dog” pike.
I’m also still waiting for any even… remotely plausible answers to any of the three questions I posed repeatedly. I suspect I’ll be waiting for a long while.
Most of the time, it doesn’t much matter what stupid urban legends people buy into, but this one… this one is particularly insidious. It might not seem so on the surface, but the end result of the vilification of a particular breed of dog is that people forget to be cautious about all others. Somehow, people like you imagine that a fluffy, blue-eyed, 50lb husky couldn’t possibly be dangerous. And their own family pet, a cocker spaniel? An adorable, squishy little thing that could never hurt anyone. Hundreds of thousands of kids are physically and emotionally scarred, and a handful die every year because parents think their kids are safe with any dog that’s not a demonic bull breed, that avoiding blocky-headed dogs is the ultimate dog-bite panacea.
With respect to the OP and the rest of the participants in the thread who have actually bothered to read, consider, and respond to the posts here, I’ll simply link to something I wrote in the last discussion, and leave it at that. Otherwise, I’ll happily invite you, whole bean, to continue the discussion in an appropriate debate thread… though your unwillingness to actually engage with any depth on the topic makes that eventuality appear highly unlikely.