• Alien Nathan Edward
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      102 years ago

      They’re just gonna keep playing whack a mole with whatever breed is popular among people who like to abuse dogs until they’re aggressive. You can breed for temperament but you can’t eliminate bad temperament by banning breeds. The bully xl is itself a hybrid of a breed that was already banned in the UK for aggression.

      • @joel_feila@lemmy.world
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        22 years ago

        They’re just gonna keep playing whack a mole with whatever breed is popular among people who like to abuse dogs until they’re aggressive. You can breed for temperament but you can’t eliminate bad temperament by banning breeds.

        True,

    • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      32 years ago

      It won’t be.

      People that want an aggressive dog, buy the dog with the reputation to be the most aggressive, then they raise them to be aggressive.

      Ban pitbulls, and they’ll go back to buying rottweilers, which are usually bigger and stronger too.

      • steebo_jack
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        22 years ago

        Just wait till they get to Malinois…five years ago you never saw them outside of law enforcement and military…now im starting to see them in shelters…

    • @turmacar@lemmy.world
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      -32 years ago

      Part of the problem is it isn’t a breed.

      Part of the order (request? whatever it is) is to define the breed first. Which makes the rest seem pretty reactionary. Not far off from saying “ban dogs I find scary”.