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Originally Posted by wretched34
What I don't understand is this:
When a child is raised in a bad home, with abusive and inattentive caregivers, and becomes a bully at school, and picks on other kids, and is physically aggressive, often it's "Oh, well, little Johnny has it pretty tough at home, there's not much we can do".
Later in life, that poor upbringing is often used as a defense when it comes to criminal cases, when that young Bully turned to a life of crime.
Yet, when it's a dog raised by those same abusive, inattentive caregivers, the only logical narrative is the dog is bad and should be destroyed.
Now, I'm not trying to say a humans life is only as valuable as a dogs, or vice versa, my point is that like children, the environment a dog is raised in plays a large roll in the dogs behaviour. In fact, it effects dogs more, as unlike humans, they don't truly have a mind of their own, they are trained, and conditioned to do as they are told by what ever influencing force is around them.
It's pretty clear that the real issue is poor and inexperienced ownership.
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All children have similar biology and physical attributes though; at least a random variety within a range.
Dog breeds are completely different, so a bad owner with a pitbull vs a bad owner with a shih tzu have very different results.
If bad parents had a tendency to adopt extra strong, aggressive children with very devastating attacks, then the comparison would be more appropriate.