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    132 years ago

    Yeah that study probably relied on faulty data. Most dog bite data just the person what the breed was.

    Did tou know putbull is not 1 breed but 3 different ones.

    Most people cant reliably tell an american pitbul from other breeds in a line up.

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      2 years ago

      Actually, “pitbulls” are now well over a dozen different breeds people just randomly consider “pitbulls”

      If it’s a stocky mutt with short hair . It’s a pitbull!

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      Did you know that all of the breeds that are identified by the name “pit bull” rate high in aggression? And that the same studies that pitbull afficianados cite for “you can’t tell a breed by appearance” also support the idea that when people call a dog a “pit bull” based on morphology alone, that the dog stands a very high chance of having decended from one of the several breeds identified as a pit bull?

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        22 years ago

        Not in the study i reaf. They lined pure American pitbull and some pitbull mutts and dogs with no pitbull. They only to reliably guees who was the pitbull, even counting the mutt as pb, was if the dog was showing teeth.