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That they don’t kill innocent people and pets on a daily basis?
That, but I meant specifically the retrieving part. Scent hounds are also docile but they don't like retrieving as much.
My dog is a mix of multiple sighthound breeds, she’s prey-driven, fast as fuck, has next to no stamina whatsoever, and sleeps approximately 26 hours of the day, 8 days of the week. That describes the fundamental traits of pretty much every breed of sighthound.
She’s the perfect foil for the pit/pit mix argument. She’s intensely prey-driven and yet has never killed anything because she’s docile and easily contained, she’s a dopey as hell typical sighthound who will lean on anyone at the earliest opportunity.
Pit bull types are prey-driven, and escape-artists, and utterly uninterested in pleasing their owner, so they’re not easy to contain and thus kill lots of other animals and people, and they’re not capable of calmly and nicely greeting people, even if they are “friendly,” they’re either hard-staring and stiff postured, on the offensive, or they’re throwing themselves at people, which isn’t appropriate in any dog (though forgivable in a puppy that is still learning) no matter how friendly.
Scent hounds sniff more and run less. Sight hounds run more and sniff less. Clearly every hound owner just TRAINED dogs like that. None of that is genetically ingrained behavior.