http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/30/ankle.biters.ap/index.html

I have cery rarely found a chihuahua I felt I could trust.

Too small to be confident, too nervous to be cool.

I'm sorry, but I'd take a cat over a little yappy ass dog.

War

Yeah, people talk about pit bulls and such being biters, but chihuahuas and dacshunds and dogs like that probably do bite more often in fact. It's just rare that a chihuahua bite is bad enough to make the news or merit telling. A pit or a rotweiler biting is likely to count.

(Some of the sweetest dogs I've met have been pits and rotties. It's just sick and f***ed up people who train and condition them to be dangerous and sociopathic. That's more about the dangerous and sociopathic people. If you run across some @sshole who says "I want a dog that can fight," well, that waste of oxygen needs to be put down. And I'm not talking about the dog.)

Bear

The old nature versus nurture argument. Even when dogs have been bred for something else for maybe 100 years they still act on instinct to their original breeding. I use the illustration of when we took one of our Collie dogs to the farm. She started herding cattle. Collies have not been bred as herders for about 150 years. For this reason, pit bulls scare me a lot (along with a few other breeds). A seemingly sweet dog can turn ugly without warning. These dogs take special owners who can appreciate the great risk of harm to others as well as themselves that these dogs present. I think maybe I've met one responsible owner of one of these dogs ever.

Excellent point. Those dogs do take a special hand, but sometimes some "family breed" dogs do, to. There's a lot of responsibility in being a dog owner, whatever the breed.

Bear