ARE you right to trust your instincts if you cross the street when you encounter a snarling pit bull with an equally forbidding owner? A new study suggests that the owners of so-called “vicious” dogs commit more crimes than those who do not own such a dog.
Laurie Ragatz and her colleagues at the University of West Virginia in Morgantown examined whether owners of vicious dogs – those classed by the American Kennel Club as breeds with a high risk of causing injury to humans – were different in personality and behaviour to others. Their online questionnaire of 758…
