Definitely true, wasn’t there a news story not that long ago about a very small typically thought of as harmless dog either killing a toddler or disfiguring the face?
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Fair enough, Contra, wasn’t arguing with you as much as pointing out the obvious for people that didn’t know. I think dog/owner matches are extremely important.
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I completely agree.
It just irks me when ignoramuses such as **Stinkpalm **spread lies about dog behavior, and then don’t even have the stones to attempt to back it up.
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You beat me to it, Sailboat. I was just about to post those same statistics.
The breed that bit me, an Airedale Terrier, scores 76.5%, which is well below average, especially for breeds where a decent sample size has been tested (for example, some breeds score 50% based on testing 2 dogs, which is way too small a sample size to give decent results).
Also, for those who think that “pit bulls” are easily identifiable, and that the news always reports breeds correctly, see how many tries it takes you to identify the pit bull in this test.
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I found the pitbull in one go. I used to live with people who had a pitbull/everything else mongrel. He was a sweetie -although their refusal to have either him or the german shepherd/dobie cross bitch they also owned trained in any way just lent credence to the ‘dogs with bad reputations attract bad owners’ theory. He would have been even more of a sweetie if he’d had a day of obedience training in his life. I used to have to walk the dogs because the owners were content to just let them run around the back yard, and boy, he was a hassle to control. I was young. Looking back I probably should have tipped off animal control.
Not a bad breed, but some of the owners are definitely a worry.
That’s a nasty looking bite. I’m glad that it’s healing well, and hope it continues to.