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How is a pit bull different than any other dog? If you really wanted to, you could train a toy poodle to bite everything that moves.
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The pit bulls would be less of a problem if, instead of the dog, they took a couple of shots at the OWNERS.
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The pit bulls aren't a real breed of dog, they were developed by people to be the ultimate dog for fights, in Europe and Asia people still make good money on dog fights.
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Well, most breeds of dogs were developed for specific reasons.
The dachshund "weiner dog," for instance, fits great in an oversized hot dog bun.
No, not really. Actually, they were bred specifically for badger-hunting, as their low, long shape and itty legs make it easier to crawl into the hole after the badger, and their strong tails make it easier to reach in and haul them out if they get in trouble.
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Thus, the name "Dachshund", which is literally German for "badger-dog". Seriously.
As for pit bulls, I can't see why you couldn't train one to be nice. As the dictionary definition of a pit bull is "a dog developed by crossbreeding the American Staffordshire terrier and another breed, as the bull terrier", I can't imagine they're "naturally" prone to attacking people at random...
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They're trained to do so, their owners only buy them so they can have them fight, there is no other reason. Pit bulls could be trained to be nice, but no one does it, they call it a waste of good pit bull
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Most pitbulls that have attacked people have been systematically beaten, abused, tortured and made to attack lesser mammals for years, to work up the bloodthirst. Rabbits, kittens, they just throw them into a room with the dog and let it figure it out. Good for junkyards, but kind of inhuman.
A friend of mine from california had one for ten years, it never attacked or even growled at someone, he had raised it with love and care.
I realise there's a thousand ways to get around it, but maybe a pitbull license could be good, with kind of the same criteria as for a gun license.
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But any dog could be trained like that. Any dog, especially large, strong ones, is potentially dangerous if the owner treats it that way. If you make a "pit bull license", people will just stop doing that stuff to pit bulls, and start doing to German shepherds, Doberman pinschers, Rottweilers, Dachshunds... Well, no, not Dachshunds... Just got on a bit of German dog roll there... But you get the idea...
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Actually, dachshunds CAN be pretty vicious, for itty-bitty critters.
But your right. Getting rid of the DOGS won't change much.
Get rid of the people who TREAT the dogs that way, though, and you'll be on to something.
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Well, I'm sure Dachshunds can be vicious, yes. It could latch its teeth into your arm, or something, and hang there. But punch it in the face and it falls off. If a Rottweiler jumps on top of you and starts eating your face, you're going to have a much tougher time getting rid of it...
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