I'm really not trying to blame the breed or upset anyone on here who's familiar with them but I'm entitled to my view. I may not be an expert but I've researched this issue enough and I've read alot about bull terriers (Pits, Staffs, English etc.) who have been perfectly happy and come from good homes that suddenly just turn. It's just their nature. My husband is a renowned statistician and has done an extrapolation on the current figures available for fatal dog attacks in America... do you know that you are 170 times more likely to be bitten by a Pit Bull than by any other dog? (since this issue has come up, he's found the figures fascinating and is doing a paper on it for a goverenment think tank he's a member of). Sure the smaller terriers are designed to rat and go after smaller mammals but scale that tendency and size up and you've got a bull terrier that goes after other terriers. It is their nature and there is enough evidence to prove that this trait can not just be 'loved or hugged' out of them |