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Dog bite severity varies by the breed of dog, and studies have found that pit bull–type dogs have both a high rate of reported bites and a high rate of severe injuries, compared to other non–pit bull–type dogs.
Pit bull–type dogs are extensively used in the United States for dogfighting, a practice that has continued despite being outlawed. Several nations and jurisdictions restrict the ownership of pit bull–type dogs through breed-specific legislation.
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The sole goal for this comm is to ban pit bulls from every jurisdiction and to treat the remaining ones with respect while every caretaker follows the required safety precautions to keep everyone safe. Dog breeds with documented health issues should also be stopped from being forcibly bred into this world.
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No pit bull advocate gaslighting. Though good faith debates are allowed.
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Dogsbite.org is routinely slandered by the pro-pit lobby, but the site is informative and its data collection procedures are transparent and well-documented.
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It's almost like people who love these dogs are anti-science and facts! I have a friend who loves these breeds. Guess what, he owns guns and is anti-vaxx. Surprise surprise.
Funny enough, many people who get these dogs do so because they can't legally own firearms.
Fck that, that's why I will always love cats more, cats would never do something like that!
The only thing that prevents cats from killing us is their size. They want to.
Source - cat owner my entire life
Those meows to be fed are actually death threats to be fed.
Yes, their size is the entire point though.
Not all cats, but a lot of cats. Also a lifelong cat owner. I have a cat who I would warn small children away from. His littermate is so friendly and cuddly, though. Of course, both want nothing to do with kids, so they disappear as soon as someone under 4' enters the house.
My friends family cat gave him 66 stitches, many on top of his head. Despite this they kept the cat which seems insane. That cat's name?
Lucky
Cats are literally natures killing machines in any niche they’re in. They’re natures perfected predator what do you mean?
Their niche doesn't include humans, even little ones. That makes them more suitable as a pet, even if they are better at killing their prey than dogs.
Most dogs wouldn't either, it's just that pitbulls were bred for aggression. A border collie without training is still occasionally going to try to herd stuff and a pitbull without training will still occasionally try to bite down on an exposed spot and start shaking. With a border collie you might get a funny story of that one time when your family dog escaped and brought 3 sheep home, but the pitbull story will be less funny.
As for cats and dogs: As a 2 year old, my brother bit our family dog (a malamute) on the nose. The dog didn't even try to retaliate. As a ~12 year old the same brother was pestering the family cat, in reaction the cat tried to claw an eye, but only got the eyelid. In my experience dogs tend to be much sweeter pets than cats, but that's also needed because of the size difference.
I don't know if you've ever seen cats fight each other, but i really doubt that cat was trying to take out an eye. When cats get aggressive/territorial with each other they give lots of little 'warning swipes' near sensitive areas, but just out of contact range. I suspect this is because they have these sensitive whiskers on their faces and near their eyes, so when a claw passes by those quickly its a real and sudden instinct to back the fuck away. I've also seen cats scratch at human faces quite often, and seen lots of minor injuries near the eyes/on the bridge of the nose, but never one that actually contacts the eye. This is all anecdotal and shouldn't be used as evidence for anything, but in my extensive experience with cats i strongly believe that they are both very capable of fucking someone up in extreme ways, but usually unwilling. They tend to have pretty good control over how far to take it. My cats fight each other all the time and it seems very savage, but they've never injured each other.
I have seen cats fight. I've seen cats pussy out. I have seen a male cat hump a neutered male cat. Just because you personally haven't seen something, doesn't mean it never happened.
So yes, it was 100% definitely an attack on the eye. This was the only time that he had ever been aggressive towards us and imo it was justified. My brother was pestering the cat. The cat had his head down and was glaring, but not moving. I told my brother to stop it, because the cat obviously didn't like it. My brother looked at me to answer, the cat used this moment of distraction to unwind like a spring and claw at my brother's eye. My brother reacted by pulling away and had pulled back just enough to save his eye when the claw reached him. Given that my brother's lower eyelid was bleeding, I'm certain that his eye would have been fucked up had he not pulled away. This was the only attack that this cat ever did towards us and it was enough, my brother never pestered him again. This cat also never play fought, he came to us when he was already nearly an adult.