Do Aggressive Dogs Reflect Their Owners' Personalities?

Question

Do you think there’s a link between the owner personality, especially aggressiveness, as part of its correlation with dog aggressive tendencies?

Answer 1

The owners of more anthropomorphized aggressive dog breeds were reported to have more anger, aggression, and hostile personalities according to research. It could be that a person selects a dog who shares his/her traits or varieites of such aggression or the owner's social structure like number of visitors and use of the neighborhood also contribute to the aggressiveness of the owner leading to the type of dog selected being a muscular guard dog.

Comments

Pitbulls are not bad it's the owner that makes them behave the way they do.❤

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Always loved your content and never hear anything you said I know is not true! But as an owner of a red nose pit from 6 weeks old still smiling at the age of 14 years old! There is no such thing as an aggressive breed of dog and is out of order to label any breed as aggressive! Any dog of any breed can be aggressive if they are not socialised as pups, shown aggression by disgusting people, trained to be aggressive or are scared to the point aggression is the last option they have left to get out the situation they're in! My pit redz love all other dogs small to big! Lets pups jump all over her and play fights with my neighbours Doberman who towers over her every time they're together without ever either dog getting aggressive! Don't label a breed aggressive please! Renowned behaviour psychologists teach you need the capability to be aggressive it's a default mood to use when have to to stop you gets used bullied taken the piss out of.. so do think dogs are any different???

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Lol My neighbor lady rescues pit bulls. She is the sweetest person ever. This part of the content was ridiculous.... She rescues them to give them better lives. But yet they are considered some of the most dangerous breeds of dogs there are. So I guess that means she's a dangerous person too??

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" violent breeds " ...
*Judgemental people tend to assume persons who own what they perceive as "violent breeds" as violent persons ...
there; I fixed it for you.

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Dogs aren’t “violent”.