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viewmaster_pi posted...

it's not proof of anything except their community's sample they studied didn't display aggressive traits. what kind of pits were they? purebred from a clean pedigree? i have a feeling they aren't having the pitbulls you see on the news being volunteered for this study. get some of the backyard inbred ones, or the fighting stock, and see what their genetics have to say.

i've never said all pitbulls are bad, (apab, lol) but there's a very large chunk of the breed's living population that's treated like trash, bred in worse and worse conditions, end up fucked up and shoveled off into a dumpster, or used as fighting/bait dogs, or sold off in triplicate to trashy owners that leave them chained up all the time. those are the pits that are being bred the most, so let's get a study on the ones the worst affected instead of cherry picking "good" ones and saying "see, they aren't bad lalala i can't hear you"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8819838/

Dog owners residing anywhere in the US were recruited to participate through public announcements. One was targeted to behaviorally diagnosed dog patients at the Behavioral Clinic in the Veterinary Medical Center at The Ohio State University (OSU). Due to regulatory restrictions, their medical records were not used here. Internal announcements to general staff and students were made at Nationwide Childrens Hospital, the Animal Sciences Department at OSU and the Blue Buffalo Clinical Trial Office, Veterinary Medical Center at OSU. Participants were encouraged to invite other dog owners and to submit samples from multiple dogs in their household.