• CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com
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    10 months ago

    You have to be positive while wading through shit if you don’t want to drown. I understand everything you said, but your first sentence is all I’m trying to get across. It’s shitty fucking people, not dogs.

    Edit: To your main point you were trying to get across to me; dogs can be trained to not act on their aggressive instincts like prey drive. So I still don’t see how an aggressive dog wouldn’t be it’s owners fault.

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      10 months ago

      Nice that we agree that it´s generally always the owners fault if something goes wrong but it´s also a fact that different dog breeds have different aggression potentials and thereby are more or less difficult to train and control. So choosing a dog breed that is not more aggressive than necessary is also part of the owners responsibility. I for myself would never choose a breed that has been bred to fight, bite and not let go, as a family dog. Instead I would choose a Bernese for example, because they have been bred into the opposite direction, to protect and not to fight, to bark and not to bite, which results in a very calm and gentle general behaviour.

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        10 months ago

        💯. If you’re a shitty trainer you should get a golden retriever instead of a Pit. But there are people who know what they’re doing and those people have the sweetest dogs you could ever meet and they happen to be pits. Therefore all the hate for one specific breed is idiotic, unfair and should be directed towards people not innocent creatures that we basically created. They are our responsibility.

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          10 months ago

          Therefore all the hate for one specific breed is idiotic, unfair and should be directed towards people not innocent creatures that we basically created.

          That is exactly what I wrote earlier, nice that we agree in this point.

          If you’re a shitty trainer you should get a golden retriever instead of a Pit.

          Hard disagree here, shitty trainers should not get any dog imo.

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            10 months ago

            In an ideal world yes, they shouldn’t get any dog. But they will, so getting a Pit is significantly more dangerous than a golden because they are much easier to train.

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              10 months ago

              True but I would still prefer to be attacked by a lapdog instead of a medium sized dog, just not while it´s sitting in my lap ;)

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            Alright, it felt like you were trying to disagree with me even though what I said in the first place was it depends on the dogs owner. But I might have just been defensive because I’m used to my takes being challenged on Lemmy. But I see now that you were just expanding on what I already said. Cheers

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                10 months ago

                It wasn’t different from what I said though, you just spelled out the reasons why what I said makes sense. We both came to the conclusion that it’s in the owner not the dog, you just showed your work