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I would ban certain dog breeds that make reproduce, train and sell dogs belonging to pit-bull, dogo, fila, rottweiler breeds and others to make them more aggressive and territorial, given that is extremely difficult to control the activity of these private breeders.

Many serious and even deadly aggression have occurred since the fashion of these fight-dogs has exploded; either children and adults have been attacked and killed or nearly by sudden attacks of these dogs, let free without leash and muzzle by irresponsible owners who had underrated their aggressiveness not only against extraneous but also against members of the same owner's family.

Sincerely, I think we don't need these races of dogs that, also when quiet and pacific, are too physically strong and they can wound you unwillingly while they play with you.

Some criminals use them for self protection against police or rivals gangs, as made by certain mafia-boys here in Italy and in Latin America.
Other criminals instead, train them with very cruel systems for clandestine fights with other similar dogs to fight until death, with a great deal of money gained in bets by the public of these plays.

In Italy (my Country), these dog fights are a great problem and are most frequent in the southern regions with a stronger presence of organized crime. Surely, many of these poor dogs come from "legal" breeding centres that produce them also for the wide market of all the people who wants to follow the damned fashion of these last years, that to own a warrior dog to exhibit with their last tattoo and/or piercing.
Many people like this buy them, also paying a lot of money, to show they're strong men who, "noblesse oblige", can't surely walk along the street with a "miserable" Chihuahua or Pekingese dog.

All is OK until these tough guys hold them, at least, with leash, but too often, they let their war-dogs free in parks and just here most of the aggressions occurred against persons or other dogs.
So, I would ban these breeds, until a progressive extinction of these races, selected artificially by the humans to enhance the most violent features of dogs, despite the protests of many lovers of these dogs that tends to play down this problem.

We should consider that a dog like these in a garden is not the most effective protection against thieves intrusions because it can be easily poisoned or send to sleep; it's better to rely on a network of mini-cameras and sensors connected with a sensible alarm to protect your house.

Surely, many pit-bulls are pacific and safe as the other dogs, if they receive since their birth a "peaceful" and not-violent education by normal people, but this not always happens because many persons are simply not able to educate their dog to accept all the members of their human family as the dominant members of the group. So, we must remember that, when they bite, they have a great force in their jaws and they don't leave anymore their victim. There must be a reason if the chronicle of aggressions by dogs regards nearly always these particular breeds of dogs!

Probably, they have aggressive potentials in their character that are easier to unchain than in all other dogs and, what is the worst, we cannot control the wrong uses interests of too many human owners. All these factors sum up to create dangerous situations, given that we can't read all that passes in dogs' mind.

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