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Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
The problem is a person or dog will survive a Chihuahua bite with a few punctures wounds but, I defy anyone to refute the fact that with a pit bull, Rottweiler or any large breed of dog that trauma will be significantly greater and the costs to fix them much higher.
So, it's not so much the fact that dogs bite but the fact that there are different degrees of damage done if, they do bite. Breed banning likely won't work but, muzzling your dog in public isn't an outrageous request especially if it's aggressive, has a history or is a high risk breed. Call it insurance for the owner and a public safety measure.
Unfortunately most of the time it's the owners who are most to blame but, any small breed dog running free or large breed dog on a leash being held by a person who can't control it has the potential for disaster.
I personally find the worst behaved dog owners are the "pocket rat" owners. Had one at the dog park that kept jumping at me and asking the owner to get control of their dog earned me the reply, "He's just playing".
With that being said I then called Sasha over and told her to jump and give sweetheart a kiss on the cheek. I told her "She's just playing".
I don't agree with muzzling due to the fact that your dog is now defenseless.
That's the problem and given the plethora of dog owners who can't spell responsible let alone act that way you're right to worry about your dog being defenseless.
Everytime I walk my pocket rats at the park/playing fields where there are about a 100 signs that say "all dogs must be on a leash" and "dogs are not allowed on the playing fields" there are those asshole irresponsible owners who have their dogs running free and others that let them crap all over the ball fields.
My dogs have been attacked 3 times by dogs who were supposed to be on leash or secured but, because their owners are those special fucking elitists they weren't. Now the small one is so gunshy that she starts barking at every large dog she sees. So maybe it's time to take the owners out and shoot them so they can't fuck up any other responsible dog owners pets.