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Originally Posted by Major Happy
Aren't most dog attacks on humans done by Rottweiler's and Pit Bulls though?
It seems like at least 90% of the time I hear about a dog attacking a human its by one of these two breeds.
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It's certainly more common.
However, it's also more common that someone who wants a guard dog, or a dog that looks tough/ is "bad ass" will seek these types and train it (or not) as such.
A lot of dog owners seem to agree (from my experience anyways), that the frequency of attacks from these types of dogs has more to do with how they tend to be trained than any sort of innate aggression (which should be trainable even if it was the case). Almost any dog I come across of these breeds are just as friendly as any other breed. However, when there are aggressive dogs, yes it tends to be these types, but their owners look like the type of person who would sucker punch you too.
It's understandable that people get apprehensive about these types, because you don't know the owners and how theyre trained, but if you trust the person owning the dog, I think you can generally trust the dog.
The worst dogs for aggressiveness, by my anecdotal poll, are the tiny dogs, chihuahuas especially. By far. The issue is, when they are aggressive, it's a pretty meh event. That is until they annoy the big dogs a little too much and all of a sudden their getting mangled by something 20x their size.
Honestly, I think this is just due to their size, that owners are afriad to get physical with them when they are younger (I would be too). One of the reasons I wanted a big dog is so if I played with it, or had to discipline it, I never feared hurting it. When my dog was a puppy I seemed to be able to quell any barking or biting tendencies with a grab of it's snout, or a smack on the nose. I don't imagine someone with a small dog ever does either of those things. Thus, they are terrors. They've never been shown who's boss and so, in their minds, they are the boss.
Some people seem to forget that, even though your dog is a cuddly fuzz ball who's cute AF,is still an animal that needs to be trained and taught a lesson every once in a while.