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Wholesome community has heated argument over dog breed safety (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I see two cleaned out threads. Must have been nasty in there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

There's two types of people: those who hate pitbulls, and those who's pitbull hasn't mauled someone yet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Pets are family, so people have a knee-jerk reaction to anyone badmouthing their pets even if the other person has a point.

My sister has a rescue pit. He's the sweetest dog ever - he was afraid of men for a while due to his previous owner, but gradually warmed up and now runs up to everyone he sees for cuddles.

However, when they took him to visit someone in a nursing home he ran off and bit one of the staff unprovoked. It turns out how a dog behaves around family versus around strangers are two completely different things, and dog owners rarely see the latter so judge their pet's personality based on the former.

A dog can be an absolute angel around people introduced to them by someone they love and trust, but if their little doggy brain registers someone as a threat (or even just an intruder in their space) things can go very wrong, very quickly.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Says the guy who probably tortures animals.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (6 children)

That's the argument. On one side it's "Here's a heap of statistics, and testimonials from Vets about how this breed was bred for fighting and is extremely dangerous to humans" and on the other side:

"Says the guy who probably tortures animals".

So, of course it's nasty. People who have actually been attacked by pitbulls, mauled and disabled by them, are fighting fucking morons. Really, really stupid people that care more about dogs than humans.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

While I agree that pits have the capability to fuck your shit up 6 ways before you can blink, and along with breeds like the Pug should just be allowed to die off with the current generation, you are using a common tactic of "I'll use the best argument to represent my side, and the worst argument to represent their side so it's clear my side is superior" as a generalization for the entire opposing viewpoint.

Straw men blow away in strong winds. Build better arguments, you'll make better points.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Those posts, holy fuck Fediverse, be better...

Somehow you posting a picture of your dogs in a wholesome sub REQUIRES them to comment something shitty when they could, idk, mind their own fucking business?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

The person posting the picture explicitly said in their post they were doing so "in response to pit bull haters". They were already stirring up shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

OP was there to start shit. It wasn't "just posting" pics of dogs. It was literally "pitbulls are a great dog that is 100% safe fuck the haters".

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The statistics about 90% dog attacks being pitbulls is because cops can call any dog a pitbull.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Pit bull is a large category which many, completely unrelated breeds can be classified as too. Entirely different genetics, from entirely different regions, with entirely different temperaments.

Sure, if a person lumps together any dog that kinda looks like it belongs in the bully classification, you'll get pretty high statistics. Especially when you compare against singular breeds like a rottweiler.

If you look at the graphic (which states 67% not 90) "pitbull" makes up atleast 8 breeds, though like many others I've read my assumption is that they're still classifying many breeds as a singular breed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Also, there is no dotted line on the police report for "Dog Breed". It's just a dog bite/attack/fight etc. No police department is out here compiling and retaining data on what dogs are involved in what fights, let alone doing a fucking DNA test to make sure that was a pitbull or not involved