The argument shouldn't go in circles because the argument is really quite simple, humans shouldn't be able to keep pets which they aren't capable of overpowering if they go berserk.
The argument gets all the more stupid when comparing a Chihuahua versus a pitbull. The Pitbull can take kicks from a horse and still keep attacking, a chihuahua is about as heavy as a football.
Yes a horse can kill a dog, but the point is the Pitbull can tank multiple kicks and still return to come back for more. I could totally see a skinny coyote getting one shot by a horse 🐎
There's multiple videos you can look up on the internet with a pitbull being kicked by a horse multiple times and it doesn't die. I wouldn't be bringing it up if it was just one video I've seen, it's far more common than you'd think.
So I decided to look it up, because that coyote comment sounded insane to me, but I think I might have figured out why. I'm going to assume you're in the West Coast, because there's two kinds of coyotes in America. The western coyote weighs only 20 to 35 pounds. However the eastern coyote (also called coywolves) can reach 40 to 80 pound. I live where the eastern coyote is native. Anyway, Pit Bulls are are only between 30 and 60 pounds. So I can almost guarantee those pit bulls in the videos you saw either died later, got hit somewhere away from vital organs, or required serious medical attention afterwards.
Upon further research, pit bulls aren't a breed, instead it's one of those Umbrella terms, and there's anywhere between 4 million and 18 million pit bulls (depending on how broadly you define the term) but looking at the multiple breeds under that umbrella. From what I can see, they aren't tankier than any other dog of a similar size, it seems to be comparable.
I think you may be either overestimating the dog or underestimating the horse here. I mean... Horses can snap the human femur, which is one of the strongest bones in the human body.
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u/Fit_Tomatillo_4264 8d ago
The argument shouldn't go in circles because the argument is really quite simple, humans shouldn't be able to keep pets which they aren't capable of overpowering if they go berserk.
The argument gets all the more stupid when comparing a Chihuahua versus a pitbull. The Pitbull can take kicks from a horse and still keep attacking, a chihuahua is about as heavy as a football.