When you think about it…looks can kill.

Public enemy or just a dog?

Some people believe the look of a dog is enough to justify killing the dog. However, visual identification of dog breeds is inaccurate most of the time. In a study done a couple years ago, many of the subjects failed to correctly identify the dominant breeds for most of the dogs used in the study. Yet, the study subjects were individuals who worked with dogs on a regular basis. Additionally, a recent article indicated that dog bites occur for several “preventable factors; breed was not one of these.”

So, if breeds don’t bite but dogs do, why malign one breed? Why are we enacting legislation to ban certain breeds from our communities when many people can’t tell one breed from another? Why are we condemning dogs to death based solely on their looks? When you think about it…looks can kill…but should they?