It is eaasier to stay ignorant than to educate yourself.
When I was younger, around 14 or so, pit bulls started to become common among the "thug" set in the city I lived in Illinois.
I heard the "1600ftlbs of bite pressure" and "lockign jaw" crap and had no education to teach me otherwise. My friends and I would walk past "that house", where the "drug dealer" lived and get barked at by his chained pit that had alledgedly bitten through a 1 inch chain.
I had no reason to believe at that time that pit bulls were not evil.
Then I got to know a few.
We had some "bad dogs" too. A Chow Chow that nipped my little sister. That dog was returned to the people we got it from. It died a while later due to someone feeding it meat filled with glass shards.
We had a cocker spaniel that bit a young boy becuase the little [censored] (the kid was a PITA, I was inclined to bite him on a few occassions as well) grabbed the dog by the ears and tried to "kiss" it. Shame on my mom and his mom for not watching him more closely.
These things and others have gotten me to educate myself about how dogs behave and how they react to things.
Most people are too lazy to do the same.
Poor them. It must suck to live in such ignorance of the world around them.
