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Originally Posted by shighley3205
This is simply untrue.
Here's the quote. I found the article that I read.
"A mean pit bull is a dog that has been turned mean, by selective breeding, by being cross-bred with a bigger, human-aggressive breed like German shepherds or Rottweilers, or by being conditioned in such a way that it begins to express hostility to human beings. A pit bull is dangerous to people, then, not to the extent that it expresses its essential pit bullness but to the extent that it deviates from it."
Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker if anyone cares to read up on this.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/200...#ixzz0YmfVdVNO
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Originally Posted by shighley3205
When two dogs that are different breeds are bred you don't get a 50/50 mix of the qualities.
Obviously you don't get to pick and choose with genetics, but you can chase after tendencies and over breeding cycles get what you want. This is where dog breeds come from.