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It is sad that a breed is being punished mostly due to irresponsible owners. I see pits on a daily basis and trust them more on exam than I trust a corgie, chihuahua, damnation (ie dalmation), chow, shar pei, spitz, shibu inu (these are the breeds that we muzzle most often). However, these breeds (at least most) do not have the capabilities to kill me (unless I get rabies or a flesh eating bacteria). I do not trust most pits around other animals especially small dogs and cats unless they were raised with them. Most of the problems I see are due to bad owners that put them out in the yard on a chain, they give them no chance to properly socialize. and offer no training So, we are banning a breed in order to punish these irresponsible o's but unfortunately the good o's are the ones that suffer as the bad ones don't give a $hit. Many of the DRs I work with have pits and they are well behaved, get along with kids and other animals so they are not necessarily inherently bad.
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