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Originally Posted by CamaroSkooter
My point has nothing to do with any specific breed being more prone to attacking people than others. My point is that any breed can be vicious if the owner is a dumba$$.
Sure, the smaller toy dogs have more lee-way because they don't have the bite strength to harm anything more than your furniture. But correlating a dogs bite strength to its viciousness is a fallacy.
A purely vicious dog, in the true definition of the term, is completely the product of piss-poor training and a dumbass owner, regardless of the breed.
EDIT: In the particular instance that the OP portrayed, however, the incident has more to do with the girlfriend making a mistake in handling.
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ok, i understand what you are getting at. But i think you kind of didn't get what the guy you quoted was trying to say. I think he chose a retreiver in his comment because they are bigger dogs, and can cause damage to a human if they really wanted to. Fact is, they don't. At least not as nearly as much as a pit bull, or any other aggressive dog.
I think it was just a missunderstanding between you and the guy you quoted. I'm sure there are plenty of dumbasses that own other larger breeds that don't get the bad wrap as pit bulls.