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urg thats terrible just another reason for everyone to train and socilize their dogs, you dont need to train a rotti to be a gaurd dog, they were bred to do as such and don't need to be taught anymore instinct. They should be socilized well and they will always still protect their master as long as they were brought up well. It's horrible that it could of been so easily prevented on all sides if proper training and diligance had occured.
I have to disagree with you casablanca1 about only gaurddogs/fighting dogs only ending up in bad hands, personally I've been attacked and bitten by a variety of small dogs as well as medium breeds including a Boarder collie and golden retriever. Also fighting dogs were bred to be dog or animal aggressive not human agressive, theirs a huge difference. Any dog can attack and kill a person and statistically, pitties, dobs and rotties are only represent less than 3% of all dog bites and deaths in the united states. Statistically labs and goldens maul and kill more people every year then those groups combined. However its much easier to demonize "scary" dogs then it is to admit that human ignorance is always the cause of any attack not the breed. During the pitbull debate that went on over here in Ontario last year we had a few highly publised attacks on people from pitties (one occured when a newly highered lawn care person went into the backyard unannouced and the dog protected its territory) and at the same time a small boy was attacked and killed by two black labs yet it bearly made the newspaper and was never shown on the news.
Their have been countless cases of small dogs and dogs of all breeds killing people yet its so much more comforting for society to generalize and blame it on the ," stereotypical dangerous breeds" rather then realize our dogs will only turn out as well as we raise them and that's not breed specific.
All of my stats are availble here and a very well done vid by a highschool student last year during the debate to ban pitties
http://www.pitbullproblem.tk/
Cheers
Kayla
I have to disagree with you casablanca1 about only gaurddogs/fighting dogs only ending up in bad hands, personally I've been attacked and bitten by a variety of small dogs as well as medium breeds including a Boarder collie and golden retriever. Also fighting dogs were bred to be dog or animal aggressive not human agressive, theirs a huge difference. Any dog can attack and kill a person and statistically, pitties, dobs and rotties are only represent less than 3% of all dog bites and deaths in the united states. Statistically labs and goldens maul and kill more people every year then those groups combined. However its much easier to demonize "scary" dogs then it is to admit that human ignorance is always the cause of any attack not the breed. During the pitbull debate that went on over here in Ontario last year we had a few highly publised attacks on people from pitties (one occured when a newly highered lawn care person went into the backyard unannouced and the dog protected its territory) and at the same time a small boy was attacked and killed by two black labs yet it bearly made the newspaper and was never shown on the news.
Their have been countless cases of small dogs and dogs of all breeds killing people yet its so much more comforting for society to generalize and blame it on the ," stereotypical dangerous breeds" rather then realize our dogs will only turn out as well as we raise them and that's not breed specific.
All of my stats are availble here and a very well done vid by a highschool student last year during the debate to ban pitties
http://www.pitbullproblem.tk/
Cheers
Kayla