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Originally Posted by unclebilly
You are more likely to get hurt badly in a car accident than be hurt by your pitbull dog. I cant understand your irrational fears but then again M21sniper was afraid of sharks...
To each their own - who am I to judge?  |
But what about the general society outside the immediate family the dog knows? There are two sides, the dog owner part of the pack and the neighbor who is not. I dismissed our GSD many years ago. Sucked but a decision I had to make. Got him as a puppy, home filled with love. He would have died to protect us. He also would have attacked anyone who walked on our property. We spent thousands in help but to no avail. I was wrong to choose the breed as a family pet. We shared a fence line with neighbors that had very young children. When left alone in the backyard our GSD was basically hunting those kids ready for a finger or hand to come through/under/over the fence. No thanks. I get the love, the commitment to family. But if you are in an urban setting the arguments in favor of breeds that have these behaviors fall flat.