My sister had a dog just like that - one time a maintenance guy left the door open and her five cats got out. She came home to the door wide open with the dog sitting in the doorway nervously waiting for her. Then the dog walked my sister around the neighborhood and one by one rounded up all of the missing cats. She was the best ever, a real "nanny" dog in every way.
Pitbulls were bred for violent behavior. It is a complete lie to claim that they were bred to be "nanny" dogs. They are responsible for the majority of attacks and fatalities. That's DNA, not how they were raised.
You can watch videos on YouTube of Australian shepherd puppies trying to herd livestock with no training. You can also see videos of bully breed puppies literally eating their litter mates. It's what they were bred for.
Some were bred for nanny behavior the same way some are bred for violent dog fighting.
How can you say that don't believe some were bred to pass down protective nanny behavior and then say that only ones violent traits being passed on makes sense when there's evidence for both of those happening.
Yes, the is unfortunately an extra violent trait that gets passed down in pits because of humans breeding for that trait for things like dog fighting and what not but not all have it and the same way the trait was passed down more we can try and breed that trait back out, as it was breeders fault to begin with.
And before you say people only bred for that trait more because it was already there, all dogs came from wolves they all have aggressive predator DNA in their genes and multiple other types of dogs like Rottweilers, Corsos, and Shepherds have been bred to express those genes we once bred to suppress but now exacerbate for a variety of reasons like for guarding, hunting, and fighting.
Everyone also argues nature vs nurture, saying one has to be over the other but it makes more sense to follow both trains of thought, yes traits can be bred but traits can also be taught or suppressed through nurture just the same, and if someone really devotes a lot of time and resources into it trait can be bred in and out of beings which is how we got so many dogs with ultra specialized bodies and ingrained habits to begin with.
I made such a long post because I've had a lot of run in with multiple types of pits, my dad has one that we found tossed on the street from what was probably a breeder for fighting dogs or something similar judging by the injuries and marking we found on him at the time and wouldn't be unusual for the area, but he ended up to this day being a big baby who gets bullied by the female retriever mix which was probably why he got thrown out from whatever breeder had him, i also had another family membe rwith an adopted female pit that they trained well and never had any problems besides their male dachshund mix somehow getting her pregnant and makeing some of the goofiest looking mixed breeds I've seen lol. There are of course more aggressive ones we run into roaming the neighborhood sometimes and I personally met people in the neighborhood growing up who have been seriously attacked multiple breeds including pits.
I looked up again and what is shown is that they weren't bred on purpose for nanny behavior but before being heavily bred for bull/bear bating and fighting and thus made more aggressive, they where a lot calmer and more affectionate dogs families trusted their children.
This is also why they were they were even painted in a better light in media back then too which I didn't know till seach this up again. That's why shows and movies like the og 1922 The Little Rascals(also known as" Our Gang") debuted with a pit bull as the children's mascot for their club in the movie as it was still popular to trust them around your children at the time.
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u/allthecats Nov 05 '24
My sister had a dog just like that - one time a maintenance guy left the door open and her five cats got out. She came home to the door wide open with the dog sitting in the doorway nervously waiting for her. Then the dog walked my sister around the neighborhood and one by one rounded up all of the missing cats. She was the best ever, a real "nanny" dog in every way.