Comment by grayhatter
4 months ago
Lol, murder canine huh? ok, I'll take the bait. Because I'm pretty sure you don't mean a malinois.
Because it could be any breed. There are more significant differences between individual dogs within a breed than between different breeds. Cattle dogs have a reputation for being asocial and "bittey", especially towards ankles, mine would "never" because they have been taught and socialized correctly. Would it be easier to teach him to bite ankles then the average dog? Yes, because hearding breeds have stronger prey drives than companions breeds. But I could teach a retriever to herd too. People with animals to heard buy hearding breeds because they want to herd, will every individual dog from a hearding breed be a good herding dog? No same with service animals, many wash out. Now here's the rub, and why everyone paying attention says it's not about the breed... Antisocial people buy a breed because they want it's reported antisocial characteristics. These people don't train their dog, and.... it's a dog! It's natural instincts are more violent, and it's stronger and better at inflicting injury, dogs hunt.
I suspect you're applying reason incorrectly here because you have some preexisting bias against some dogs in a shape you have an aversion to. Small dogs are much more likely to bite and cause injuries, but you don't care about them as much do you?
Lets try vehicles instead. someone gets drunk, and run over a kid on a motorcycle, They probably don't die right? Someone else gets drunk and runs over a kid in a range rover. They probably do die right? Is it the vehicle? Or is the real problem the person operating the vehicle? Range rovers are the problem here right? No?
Are some breeds stronger and more able to cause harm? Yes, but you don't blame the wood chipper when someone loses their arm in it. You equally don't blame the law mower even though in only takes a finger instead of an arm.
All dogs are pack animals, (just like humans). If a golden retriever owned by a violent person is more dangerous than rottweiler owned by kind loving person, why are you still blaming the breed of the dog instead of the pack it was raised by?
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