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When I was small, we had some neighbors over and our dog (some sort of shepherd mutt) got riled up and bit one of our guests. Just enough to break skin. It was entirely unprovoked and we put the dog down the next day. What the fuck has happened to where useless cull dogs can straight up kill and start eating someone and the owners are even potentially able to keep them? How is any level of unprovoked human aggression deemed acceptable in what are supposed to be pets?

When I was small, we had some neighbors over and our dog (some sort of shepherd mutt) got riled up and bit one of our guests. Just enough to break skin. It was entirely unprovoked and we put the dog down the next day. What the fuck has happened to where useless cull dogs can straight up kill and start eating someone and the owners are even potentially able to keep them? How is any level of unprovoked human aggression deemed acceptable in what are supposed to be pets?

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One of the biggest problems with them is: in cases like this where they maul and kill people, they were also "sweet, affectionate dogs." The idea that they only turn out like that because of shitty owners is false, it's in their nature to be deceptive with their affection, and not give off any warning signals, to go from zero aggression into full on kill-mode. These are all traits that made them effective at bull baiting, alongside being more resistant to pain and having a lot of jaw strength.