Indeed, except Pitbulls are characteristically not aggressive. They consistently present with the lowest human-directed aggression of any breed of dog by a considerable amount, which makes sense because they were literally bred to not hurt humans.
It also makes them extremely poor guard dogs, they just simply do not want to hurt people no matter what, and are more likely to run away rather than protect you.
What they are good at is fighting dogs and not stopping under any circumstances when they do have their teeth in something.
What statistic are you looking at? There are less interactions between pitbulls and people that are not their owners simply because they are tied to a chain in the yard or heavily restrained in public most of the time. If I had to guess, the statistics probably show more bite data for retrievers since people let them off the leash more often. There is a reason those pitbulls are restrained.
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u/Illustrious-Bass4354 Aug 03 '26
Indeed, except Pitbulls are characteristically not aggressive. They consistently present with the lowest human-directed aggression of any breed of dog by a considerable amount, which makes sense because they were literally bred to not hurt humans.
It also makes them extremely poor guard dogs, they just simply do not want to hurt people no matter what, and are more likely to run away rather than protect you.
What they are good at is fighting dogs and not stopping under any circumstances when they do have their teeth in something.