So the bad press when they kill or mame a kid is due to the owners not training them nothing to do with the interbreeding, natural instinct as an animal then?
Or perhaps you were just lucky ...
Why then do people breed them as fighting dogs for illegal dog fighting - because it is part of their DNA! or to be pulling the heavily tattoed arms out of sockets of numpty white supremasists walking them to frighten everyone they come into contact with (or a penis replacement ha ha).
Why are they banned?
Despite any amount of training mate, a dog is still an animal and can turn despite normally being relatively placid ...perhaps through a brain disease or something of that ilk.
Respect your views based on your experiences as a responsible dog owner... ...next door have a cross breed and the idiotic dog head butts the fence whenever we are near it..good jiob it is strong and high I have told him if the dog ever leaps over it I will not hesitate to hack it with my axe or knife... dog must have an almighty headache most days! Owner is a big tattoed but quite intelligent man when we discuss politics or conspiracy theories. It has bitten his teenagers and drawn blood...dont know why it was not removed by police this time.
One dog he had before was taken away by the police after it attacked him....but it apparently was suffering from brain damage ((much like his owner for having these dogs) So overall you may be right about 'its the owners', but I beg to differ because they can turn.
(Do you like my colourful bigotry and stereotyping of ALL owners of these dogs ha ha!)
I cannot disagree with your 1st 3 para's up to the question, why are they banned, the answer is Crap/shit/brain dead owners, simple as that.
Do not forget I agree with you regards dogs off leads, should not be allowed in public places, dogs running to children, but its the same with children running up to a tethered dog, who then feels threatened, seen it so many times and me saying stop your kid, to only get a gob full reply from the responsible! parent.
Here's a little story, I said we have owned "Bull terrier" types all our lives, well we did or rather my missus did, own a West Highland terrier for 16 years, got on very well with any other dog we had, but Cats, hated em, she was the only dog we have owned that had damaged any cat that came in our garden.
Through out my 68 years on this planet, there has always been the "Bad, be afraid off, watch out for" dog, 60's Alsations, 70's Dobermanns, 80's Rockweilers, the list goes on, there is at the mo a media put down of Huskies, also the most likely dog to bite you is a "Chitsu" well nip you anyway.
One of the rules we have always had, never leave a baby, very small child alone in the room with ANY! breed of dog, so not lucky in our raising of our clan, but doing things properly/correctly.
Cheers mate
