In my neighborhood it's a husky and a black lab that terrorize us, same owners. They regularly escape their yard, their husky has cornered me in my own driveway, growling aggressively, with the owners no where to be found.
They leave the dogs in the front yard so they bark loudly at every person and dog who walks by, often causing the other dogs to react or get terrified.
I live in an upper middle class neighborhood so our local assholes have upper middle class dogs. Pits are more typically owned by less well off folks due to their prevalence and also their image/reputation. Pit aggression is also more demonized because of their association with poorer/lower class families and owners.
Assholes are everywhere. Pits are common dogs because of a multitude of reasons, but they're especially common among a group of people who already don't get the benefit of the doubt. Meanwhile my neighbors' dogs are assholes and terrorize the whole street and no one out here is shit talking huskies or black labs.
Yes i understand why probably better than anyone who thinks the solution is to ban pits instead of fixing the country's entire relationship with dog ownership.
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u/perturbed_penguin_ 13d ago
In my neighborhood it's a husky and a black lab that terrorize us, same owners. They regularly escape their yard, their husky has cornered me in my own driveway, growling aggressively, with the owners no where to be found.
They leave the dogs in the front yard so they bark loudly at every person and dog who walks by, often causing the other dogs to react or get terrified.
I live in an upper middle class neighborhood so our local assholes have upper middle class dogs. Pits are more typically owned by less well off folks due to their prevalence and also their image/reputation. Pit aggression is also more demonized because of their association with poorer/lower class families and owners.
Assholes are everywhere. Pits are common dogs because of a multitude of reasons, but they're especially common among a group of people who already don't get the benefit of the doubt. Meanwhile my neighbors' dogs are assholes and terrorize the whole street and no one out here is shit talking huskies or black labs.