As I said above, I do get WAPs point. But this ^^^ is what I keep coming back to when thinking it through. We had a lab when I was a kid and although strong, by the time I was a teenager he wasn’t strong enough to kill me (although certainly he was when I was a toddler of course). That thing in the news the other day though. Fuck me. I’d want a gun to even up the odds.
Pit Bulls are, from tests, found to be in the top 23% of dogs with the best temperaments to own. The Bully was bred to be softer than the Pit Bull, they're supposed to be lovely dogs to own if brought up and trained properly, but even though I love that type of breed of dog, I do wonder about why you'd want a dog that powerful. I remember when the Pit Bull our kids bro in law owned was a puppy and it was solid muscle. I used to love playing with the dog, you could rough and tumble with it, he had a lovely temperament, but if he'd gone for me, I'd never have had a chance. But then you can say the same about a Rottweiler, German Shepherd, Malamut, Malinois and loads of other large dogs.
When you look at the figures for dog deaths, the biggest worry is its in the main children that get killed and usually by the family pet. Bullys are suddenly, like the Pit Bull in 1990/91, the stand out breed, but deaths have been anything from Staffs, to Alsatians, American Bulldogs, Pit Bulls, Dobermans, Huskies and a Yorkshire Terrier. A f couple of victims died from sespis and about 4 or 5 were killed by staffs either during a fit or while passed out. One dog had high levels of cocaine in its system. In the main, its been poor owners who are ultimately responsible.
Banning is the easy option, but it never fixes the root cause of the issue - Pit Bulls have still killed people over a decade since they were banned and in theory should be extinct in the UK.
