bully breeds were breed for aggression and to be game. saying otherwise is ignoring genetics & history and leads to situations where people have way more dog than they're capable of handling responsibly. sure a bad owner can make any dog aggressive, but its easier to do with game dogs which bully mixes are. saying shit "like blame the owner not the breed" is irresponsible.
get out of here with your anti science rhetoric and keep it to FB groups
It's rich being told you're anti-science from somebody who misconstrues the genetic history of molosser breeds so erroneously.
The term "bully" comes from particular molosser breeds well after they were first crossbred with terriers for the sport of bull-baiting. Those breeds were originally referred to as bull and terriers and later on "bully" was used to define any dog that shared traits of the Bulldog. Nobody argues the fact that Staffordshires, Bull Terriers and Bulldogs were bred with certain behavioral and physical traits in mind and this has never been in question.
At the same time, you should really study up on the history of certain breeds and you'd come to find out that after bullbaiting was outlawed, the vast majority of Staffordshire, Bull Terrier and Bulldog lines were selectively outcrossed and eventually linebred to develop these breeds into livestock guardians, estate guardians and game hunters. The fact that certain people continued to use them as fighting dogs or some dogs with-in the breed are poorly bred by backyard breeders and exhibit poor temperament doesn't change the fact that the aforementioned breeds today are not the same dogs they were bred to be almost 200 years ago.
Also "bully breeds"? Ovcharka's, Cane Corso's, Bull Mastiffs, Rottweilers, Great Danes, Boxers and Dogos, just to name a few. All are incredibly different temperamentally and their original purposes ranged from being big game hunters to livestock guardians to estate guardians to cattle drivers and beyond. Might as well give them (well Rotties already unfairly have it) the same reputation as the small handful of breeds people think encompass the entirety of the bully breeds.
People who fail to grasp what a "bully breed" actually is while stereotyping dogs as something that they're not don't help solve the issue of bad owners, bad breeding and people owning dogs that have no business being tasked with caring for particular breeds. Over the past few decades it's been Bull Terriers, GSD's, Rotties and Dobies that have taken turns in the conscience of those who are determined to paint certain breeds as problematic. I wonder what breed will be the next flavor of the decade.
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