At least partly because scumbags who want to abuse a dog until it’s violent and dangerous don’t buy shih tzus to start with. If you ban a breed because it’s “dangerous” you’ll see people defy it, evade it through hybridizing (which already happened, the bully xl is a hybrid of the already-banned bull terrier) or just start abusing and selectively breeding a different large breed until it’s as violent as this breed. I’m not even necessarily against sunsetting this breed, it feels like we’re in a situation where a lot of bad decisions we’ve made in the past have made this a good decision. But I think that there are a lot of core problems that won’t be solved just by playing whack a mole with the current breed making headlines
Because when they do attack they are capable of doing serious damage; enough to be reported. No one is gonna report a dachshund attack for example so statistically it looks like dachshunds never attack people.
Then why most of the attacks are by this breed?
At least partly because scumbags who want to abuse a dog until it’s violent and dangerous don’t buy shih tzus to start with. If you ban a breed because it’s “dangerous” you’ll see people defy it, evade it through hybridizing (which already happened, the bully xl is a hybrid of the already-banned bull terrier) or just start abusing and selectively breeding a different large breed until it’s as violent as this breed. I’m not even necessarily against sunsetting this breed, it feels like we’re in a situation where a lot of bad decisions we’ve made in the past have made this a good decision. But I think that there are a lot of core problems that won’t be solved just by playing whack a mole with the current breed making headlines
Same reason Dobermans and Pit Bulls are the most abused Dogs in the US.
Because when they do attack they are capable of doing serious damage; enough to be reported. No one is gonna report a dachshund attack for example so statistically it looks like dachshunds never attack people.
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Which means they are more dangerous.