interesting bit of trivia:
bull terriers are lumped in with american pit bull terriers and staffordshire terriers
and its damn near impossible to get home-owners insurance when you have any of those dogs (and actually answer the ppls questions honestly lol)
when asked why they couldn't insure a home with any of those dogs, I KID YOU NOT- a representative from an insurance company- AND I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP- she actually said this- THESE WERE HER WORDS- im not even twisting them around to get her point across but THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT CAME OUT OF HER MOUTH when asked for an explanation:
because they eat children.
*flabbergasted*
*don't even know where to begin with how wrong that is*
*wanted to reach through the phone and strangle the stupidity*
well its a good thing I only have boxers emotion_awesome
as far as the mixed breading and aggression, the only thing I can relate to that is when I had rabbits:
I bred loads of them for meat, they were 'meat mutts,' mixing breeds is a good thing because of 'hybrid vigor,' they tend to grow fast and hearty
I also had some dutch rabbits given to me, which are a type of pet rabbit and bred for a friendly disposition rather than quality of their meat (and a very specific fur pattern but you didn't ask about that), and they're kinda small....
anyway, I had one big meat mutt mama rabbit (brunhilda, who was a b***h) and at one point the buck I was going to bred her with wasn't quite mature enough which left her dad (which probably would have been fine too) and a dutch
so little dutch/meat mutt bunnies were born (super cute, they had little white spots on their nose, one looked like it had a reverse-Hitler 'stache cuz it was white instead of black and I named it Adolf 4laugh )
ANYWAY there was only one or two in the bunch that were bitches like their mom, more of them were super-sweet like dad but the majority were a little bit wilder than him
when I bred dutch/dutch it was rare that I'd get one that acted like my meat mutts
when I bred my meat mutts w/ the hybrid vigor, who knows what to expect, except that usually a few are gonna find SOME WAY to get out of their cages...
so all I really learned from that is how coat pattern of the dutch comes through when breading with a solid-coat rabbit and that the temperament of the parents DOES affect the offspring in a rather noticeable way, more than I would have thought anyway (cuz like environment, but they all had the same environment)