I honestly can't say whether nature or nurture is the cause of the statistics, but even when you cheese is and break pit bulls up into multiple breeds and reclassify them as mixes, the Numbers are simply overwhelming. If that's nature, we need to strictly enforce spaying and neutering legally prior to any adoption. If that's nurture, then we need to restrict adoption to specifically certified individuals who can prove they can handle the needs of the breed. I'm in favor of both, as a start. I think the humane decision would be to phase them out as a breed through enforced spaying and neutering. And automatically put down any dog that threatens a human, immediately.

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That's certainly part of it - they tend to attract a certain class of people, which leads to an extreme lack of spaying and neutering that's the main problem with pit bulls. The secondary problem is that when they get violent, their genetic programming makes them do way more damage than other breeds of dogs, which is why they need to be strictly controlled at both an individual and societal level.

Everyone interested in a dog or cat, take a look! No pit bulls in sight. All the dogs look very sweet :)

Try to swim in the morning. Towards the afternoon the winds can get quite strong and sudden and whip the lake up.