r/TikTokCringe • u/GhostofTinky • Aug 25 '26

Discussion This is a disaster waiting to happen.

The dog isn’t allowed to be around a toddler because he growls at her. I don’t get it. A family dog is supposed to get along with the whole family. Why are the parents concerned about why the dog “doesn’t like her”? What about the child’s safety?

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u/ealysillyforestthing Aug 25 '26

Has anybody mentioned 'nanny dog' or bad owners yet?

How many times had someone said oh my pit is an angel?

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u/xervidae Aug 25 '26

grab your bingo cards!

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u/wiretapfeast Aug 25 '26

🏅🏅🏅

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u/ealysillyforestthing Aug 25 '26

Awesome, saving this!

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u/Tricky-Gemstone Aug 25 '26

I will never forget when I babysat a distant relative's dog. They kept insisting that their pinball was a nany dog and so gentle with kids.

My niece was a baby, and we were under strict instruction to not let the dog out of the kennel- which had to be padlocked together to hold her. And kept a sheet over the kennel.

That dog smelled a cat from another room and lunged, trying to break the kennel. I had to hold the baby, while their kid explained that she's great with kids except when she makes you bleed.

Fucking morons.

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u/GhostofTinky Aug 25 '26

Makes you bleed? Something tells me CPS should have paid a visit to the house.

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u/BishonenPrincess Aug 25 '26

Yep, I got nanny dog. Well, they said pits "used to be considered good babysitters" but I'm counting it.

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u/Qahnaar1506 Aug 26 '26

The vast majority of all pit bull bites encounters are neither fatal nor severe. Studies note that pit bull attacks carry a higher median Injury Severity Scale score and higher morbidity rates. This is primarily attributed to their physical strength, jaw leverage, and a distinct "hold and shake" bite style than a higher baseline frequency of biting compared to other large dog.

Now regarding fatal attacks, pitbulls do make 60% of all reported fatal or severe attacks. However, only a vast minority of bites in general are fatal or severe. There are roughly 85 to 90 million dogs living in the United States. Out of an estimated 4.5 million dog bites that occur each year, only about 30 to 80 result in a fatality. This means less than 0.002% of annual dog bites are fatal. According to CDC Healthy Pets data only nearly 1 in 5 people bitten (roughly 20%) require any medical attention at all. Out of the 20% who do seek medical care the majority are treated for minor punctures or purely as a preventative measure to get antibiotics or tetanus shots as dog mouths carry bacteria prone to infection.

So if we are just tracking how many bites are fatal or severe (which 60% are done by pitbulls), only 1% to 2% of all documented bites meet the criteria for "severe" injury. The term “pit bull” is not even a single recognized breed. It frequently includes American Pit Bull Terriers, American Staffordshire Terriers, Staffordshire Bull Terriers, and any mixed-breed dog with a blocky head or muscular build. DNA studies have revealed that mixed-breed dogs with zero pit bull lineage are routinely misidentified as pit bulls by shelters, victims and law enforcement after an incident.

Tests that were done testing the “aggressiveness” of a breed resulted in pitbulls not even making it to the top charts. They do pick "fight" over "flight" more often and also have a high gameness trait. But these in itself don't mean they are more aggressive per-say because aggression is an emotion/emotional response.

Emotions-wise, pit bulls are actually pretty good at threat assessment, meaning they don't just emotionally lash out randomly but have a good understanding of what is a threat and what is not a threat. Pitbulls are bred and more learning for “fighting” but not for the reasons you think, since most of it comes from their terrier breed. The issue is that once they are in fight mode, they lack the off switch (gameness). But this is true for a dog attacking on command or just emotionally lashing out. They simply don't value their self perseverance which is why you see all those videos where even if they beat the dog, shake it, or if its being bitten by other dogs at same time it'll stay locked on target.

So it is just a combination of these two things that make them "handle with care" category. But if you do handle them with care, they are fine. When people use them like weapons, they become deadly.

If you are actually worried on which dog bites more, you should be more worried about labs, german shepherds, rotties and even Golden Retriever (in some places) as those bite more by population AND per capita. If you are just worried about the bad bites then sure the pitbulls will count, but i don’t see a point because the vast majority of pitbull attacks are not fatal or severe and generally speaking only 1% of dog attacks are fatal or severe. Any fear of the pitbull exclusively is just mindless irrationality and fear mongering. Problem often come from bad proper training and backyard breeding which pitbull breeds are disproportionately affected by. It is, unironically, bad owners.

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u/Hamsterman9k Aug 25 '26

No, most comments focus on how this is a behavioral and responsibility issue. There are a few less educated and less intelligent posts about it being a “breed issue” like yours, which is a refreshing change as it gets old hearing the same slop.