>>2533530>This presents a safety issue to you, the hiker. It's mostly going to be a paperwork issue, because I can main or kill any single medium-sized dog with my bare hands (as can most men, even the dweebs; they just don't always know it). For anything more threatening than that, I have bullets.
I've been aware of the problem of Pibble Delusion Syndrome (PDS) for quite a while now. It uses to be that only illiterate hicks, druggies, welfare scroungers, biker LARPers, and darkies kept pibbles, which they absolutely never train unless it's to fight in a pit. Pibbles appeal to pathetic, powerless, illiterate losers who view themselves as action-film badasses. In their minds, a Pibble is just like them: tough, strong, and dangerous, but with a heart of gold.
They're half-right. Pibbles ARE just like them, because pibbles are pitiful, useless, genetically deficient parasites whose biggest claim to badassery will be doing a little damage to a few people or a bit of property as a way to vent their impotent rage before they're put down by their betters. Best-case scenario for a pitbull is to be raised well by an owner who understands they can never be trusted around children, the old, small pets, or ever be let free outside of a fence or cage.
They were deliberately bred to be aggressive without regard for self-preservation, unlike all natural creatures and most domesticated one. They're literal abominations.
As you say, zoomers are now getting dogs from shelters, which are filled with renamed pitbulls. Literally the ol' glasses and moustache gag.
I don't blame the dogs, even though they're the canine equivalent of psychopaths. We did this to them. They're just being what we molded them to be.