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ABC News: American XL Bully dogs to be banned in the UK following string of attacks
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And assholes will find another breed to abuse and turn mean. I remember when German Sheppards were the dangerous breed you needed to be afraid of. Then it was Doberman Pincers. Then it was Rottweilers. Now it's pits.
Pits were literally bred to be aggressive and are innately so. No one questions the purpose of a Labrador retriever or a greyhound. People aren’t abusing pit bulls to turn them mean, not by a long shot. They’ll easily turn on loving owners for no reason at all.
Eugenics
That's racist
Police also told the outlet the family said the dog had never shown signs of aggression in the past and that it’s investigating whether someone will face charges in the boy’s death.
"We don’t know. He just attacked him, so. And the dog is very lovable too, so we just don’t know what happened," said Tammy Crawford, the victim’s aunt.
The Tennessee family's pitbulls were reportedly never aggressive before the attack."I can promise you those children were her world, and if there was any inkling of danger, she would have never had those dogs near her kids," the devastated mother's friend Kelsey Canfield told Fox News.
Pointers naturally point, retrievers naturally retrieve, heelers naturally try to corral things, bloodhounds will naturally track by scent, but oh, a fighting dog would never fight without being trained to do so.
I totally believe the family that owned a dog that killed someone to be honest about that dog's temperment.
"yeah we always thought this could happen," the family said in a statement. "We're very negligent, to the point of abuse."
Idk what people are expecting to see.
Pits have always been on the list. And for good reason.