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A big reason that little dogs tends to be more violent is that they have to compensate their size by agression and appear larger than they are to fend off preda

• NoOneNew 6y ago
  My thing is, I've never been bit by a dog bigger than a border collie. I've been bit by chihuahuas, Scottish terriers and whatever those small scraggly white dogs are. I can never remember their names. And these were considered home ready dogs. I feel safer around an abused pitbull than by a "well behaved" chihuahua. I'm not being funny or macho about it. I'm dead serious. While an adult guy like me doesn't care about the little rat bite, that's going to traumatize a little kid away from liking dogs. Not to mention the breeding of extremely poor body traits that torture some of these dogs. They may look cute, but these poor things succumb to a wide range of abnormalities... I guess I'm just bias in general. That whole tea cup dog craze made me really polarized on the issue. I hate self interested, abusive breeders.
  • war1025 6y ago
    > While an adult guy like me doesn't care about the little rat bite, that's going to traumatize a little kid away from liking dogs. Our neighbor has a "scraggly little white dog" as you describe. It bit my (then three year old) daughter while she was riding her bike a year ago. It certainly didn't do any favors for her trust of dogs. Doesn't help that everyone and their mother seems to leave their dogs off leashes and then just say "oh don't worry, he's nice" as my kids are screaming their heads off while a creature roughly as big as they are sniffs and yips at them.