Before you tell someone else to do their research, do your own. The ‘nanny dog’ is a myth. Even this very pro-pibble website calls it exactly that, and state that is started because they can be extremely affectionate with their families which includes the children of the household. But no dog, none, not a single one ever, should ever be left alone with a child ever because even a loving dog can be provoked into a bite on accident, such as a child tripping and falling onto them.
http://love-a-bull.org/resources/the-history-of-pit-bulls/
https://www.thecut.com/2017/03/how-both-sides-of-the-pit-bull-debate-get-it-wrong.html
https://badrap.org/breed-info/breed-history
Pitbulls are very well known for having a high prey drive, this was bred into them in the beginning of their history and is present *in their bloody name*. Pit. Bull. A dog that would be put in pits to fight bulls. They also have a long history of being used as fighting dogs. This was genetically selected for. They are terriers. Terriers hunt, instinctively.
But. Animal aggressive and human aggression are not the same. But *both* can be genetically selected for and if someone liked how ‘fiercely’ their dog protected their property and chose to bred it, well, that trait starts to become fixed in that particular lineage if that continues to happen.
https://badrap.org/breed-info/monster-myths
Important quotes from this:
Don’t Pit Bulls have to be TRAINED TO FIGHT?
Does any dog? Pit bulls are terriers, and terriers have a tendency to be scrappy with other animals if unsocialized, poorly managed or otherwise left to their own devices.
Should adopters look for puppies and avoid adults with UNKNOWN HISTORIES?
Not necessarily. Nature has much to say as Nurture with personality style, so we can never know what a pup will be like when he finally matures into an adult.
Now, I love pitbulls. The vast majority that I’ve met have been amazing. But they’re also high energy, high drive, and highly sensitive, and when I have met some scary ones they’ve been fucking terrifying because they are so strong and tenacious.
Trying to say that pibbles don’t have an increased propensity for aggression towards other animals is like trying to say that huskies have the same energy level as a chihuahua.
It’s *your* sort of claim that is the reason about a third of the dogs at my shelter are pitbulls. People don’t know what they’re getting into and then can’t handle the dog’s natural, normal behaviour.
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