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A little background info before I start my question. It's a bit...."holey" as I'm getting the info from his Facebook status updates but he hasn't released all the info of what actually happened. A friend of mine who lives in PA, owns a super sweet sheltie. Took sheltie to the vet. Apparently, while at the vet, Sheltie gets attacked by a pit bull and a rottweiler. Friend of mine says "the dogs were unsupervised" but hasn't released any information of whether the attack happened in the waiting room, or in the back room of the vet's office. He posted some photos of Sheltie and they are pretty gruesome, but he's alive and being kept at the animal hospital for several days to be observed.

But, aside from that...awful story, everyone OF COURSE is jumping on the "pit bulls are evil" train (nevermind there was a rottweiler there as well, each and every person commenting on his statuses isnt acknowledging the rottie one bit). "WHY do people own these stupid dogs? It's only a matter of time before one of those dogs bites a person instead of an animal! I don't understand how someone could be okay with owning unpredictable, vicious dogs! They are aggressive to people and animals!" etc etc, you know the drill. I of course, post a comment and jump to the breed's defense, saying these dogs can be ANIMAL aggressive by nature, but are not people aggressive and it's quite unfair to lump both aggressions into the same category when they are completely different. What happened to the poor Sheltie is super unfortunate and I wouldn't wish it on anyone, but I blame the owners for being so ignorant and allowing dog-aggressive dogs to be around other dogs without any idea of what to do or how to control them. I also suggested these people posting about the "nasty pit bulls" to do their research before they start spewing all sorts of media-fed lies about the breed and get their facts straight (Mind you, most of these poeple posting on PA Friend's status are all in law school, so you'd feel like they were at least SOMEWHAT intelligent enough to do some research but I guess not).

Anyways, to get to the point of the post, someone comments and says "Well, if pit bulls are not human aggressive by nature, WHY do you see so many attacks in the newspaper or news?"

So my question is, how should I answer?
Why do some pit bulls attack people? Is it posted in the media so often because of....dog fighting?
I just want to be able to answer, sounding very... "right on" with my answer and intelligent.