Okay, there are too many pages since I was last here for me to read them all...
How many little old ladies are killed by dogs in Canada to say that it's always a pitbull? There are other breeds that could definitely kill a person, especially a vulnerable person, and if pitbulls didn't exist, those owners would have another "tough" breed instead, likely bred to look tough, without consideration for mental stability.
I agree that many people adopt dogs they can't handle and that shouldn't happen. I was involved in rescue for years and disagreed often with people who thought every dog needed to be saved and took on way more than they could handle. Sometimes humane euthanization is the right call.
And, hey, I'm all for special training or licenses, but how are you going to enforce that? Because the people who are the problem won't follow the rules unless someone makes them.
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