The home secretary is seeking "urgent advice" about banning American XL Bully dogs as footage shows one of the animals attacking an 11-year-old girl and a man in Birmingham. Suella Braverman has said the animals are a "clear and lethal" danger after the video of the attack in Bordesley Green emerged on the social media platform TikTok. West Midlands Police are investigating after two men, who were bitten and left with injuries to their shoulders and arms, were taken to hospital to be treated for their injuries after the incident on Saturday.
Its not really about the size, though. These dogs have been bred to have a trait called “gameness”, which is prized in fighting dogs, because it means they will disregard exhaustion, injury and all other distractions when in aggressive mode. They don’t let go, ever. Where most dogs, even big ones like German shepherds or rottweilers, will bite and tear and then let go and usually retreat, bull terriers will not stop until they or the prey are dead or incapacitated. Sometimes they will continue to attack even when their prey has stopped moving. That’s why these dogs are dangerous. Any dog can snap and attack. Yes, even your auntie’s 17-year old Bassett hound. Any dog. But when a bull terrier snaps it’s potentially life threatening.
Well to start, your answer is in their name; terrier.
If a jack Russell was the size of a small pit, lol oh God that thing would be unstoppable.
I had a rescue pitbull he was a nice hog but when he switched into that game mindset he was dangerous to everyone including me.
That’s an untrained dog, sorry.
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I think this is what so many people miss from both sides of the argument. I don’t think pits are naturally violent or aggressive dogs, someone further down talks about how they were originally bred to be loyal family dogs and that makes a lot of sense to me with the pit bulls I’ve known in life. I’m sure for many others as well.
The problem is that when they do bite it has potential to be more dangerous and deadly than other common breeds. On top of that they are like alligators and lock their jaw, and some of the breeds are extremely muscular too. No dog owner should ever consider “bad” or dangerous behavior to be impossible for their pet. Respect you own a breed that has the potential to be deadly if anything goes wrong. That really actually should probably go for most larger dogs too.
But ffs can we stop acting like the 10s of pit bull dogs attacks a year in a country filled with hundreds of them mean the breed itself is bad and violent? Dogs snap. When this breed does it makes the news.
Hate to tell you this, but ‘locking jaw’ in any breed is a myth. There’s no such thing; ‘lockjaw’ is a bacterial infection, but has no relationship to breed (and in any case, won’t result in the jaw locking only after a bite).
Source: https://thesmartcanine.com/pitbull-lockjaw/
Oh! That’s fascinating thank you!! I’ll read the link when I have the time but I always appreciate learning something new, it is especially fun when it’s about common myths.
It’s a metaphorical lock jaw. For instance, most dogs will let go when being attacked in the face and eyes. Pits will not. This ability to continue a hold, even in the face of danger is what people mean by jaw locking. So yes, it absolutely exists.