I have two female golden retrievers. Yes, yes...you can start going on and on and ON about how 'nice' goldens are. I hate those two more than I hate people. They ARE unpredictable and HAVE shown just how 'pit bull-like' they can be. Both dogs have sent me to the ER more than once because I got in the middle of their fighting and they turned on me. Another time, they both ganged up on our now deceased westie terrier and proceeded to shake her like a rag doll. I had to use a tree branch to keep my UBER FRIENDLY dogs from killing another.

That being said, I am always at my friends' houses and they own Dobermans, Pitts and Rotts. NEVER have those dogs shown ANY type of 'weird attack dog' behavior...unless you count the humping of the leg or peeing on the leg but hey, that just means they like you and they now own you, right?

What I'm trying to say is that it's nuture, not nature. My dogs were showered with affection and love and never shown any type of cruelty and yet, I wouldn't trust them around a toddler with food. The 'attack' breeds of dogs are CAPABLE of being vicious and certainly capable of killing pets and people unless preoperly raised, trained and care for. If you raise a Pitt with the sole purpose of having a big, mean dog...well, you have a big mean dog with no social skills and that dog is more likely to be the cause of some serious trauma to a child than a Pitt who was smothered with love and attention which might just scare the kid by jumping on him/her and proceeding to try and lick his/her face off.

And by the way...I KNOW my Tokay, Marble and Bibron geckos are SOOOOOO worse than any dog.

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