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So because you had 1 (One) bad experience with a Pit, you condem them all? Plus you go on to call the dog a killer, well is your son alive? Get a fucking grip on yourself!

I have heard of and witnessed far more horror stories involving GSD, Mals and Dutchies than Pits and Bulldogs. The outright bullshit stories and fanatasism regarding Pits and their bloodthirsty ways, reeeally pisses me off. They are a hugely overbred/popular dog.  My dogs and I have countless times been approached by a loose one on our walks and not once, has the situation turned ugly, resulted in a fight or a bite.

For anyone, especially a dog person, to talk so about any one breed and with such limited experiance with that breed, is a shame. Any breed of dog can bite a childs face. Ask GARD what breed left scars on his face as a child. Does he blame the dog? Hell no, he was a kid in the space of a dog who he didn't know. Just in case you don't get it from him, it was a GSD.

I think sometimes we forget---Dogs are animals---all of them, not just Pitbulls. If it has teeth it has the means to inflict a bite. I personally fear the lap dogs myself.

I have grown up with pits. Many, many pits. At times, the place I grew up had 50-60 pits. I've never been bitten. This was from the time I was about...2-3 to when I was 15. I have only heard of two times ANY of the dogs that were ever there bit anyone. The first was my cousin and he CLEARLY provoked the dog. He always went around throwing and poking sticks at them. The second time, it wasn't even a pit bull. It was a Doberman and he got my step-brother twice. Once in the leg and once in the face. Just having a bad experience with one dog doesn’t mean that I’m going to completely denounce that breed. I wouldn’t mind having a Doberman if the opportunity came about. I would LOVE to own a pit again, but sadly I can't while I'm in my mom’s house. I have too many dogs as it is (2). xD


The pits that bite, are the ones that are abused and neglected by humans, the ones that are provoked, and the ones that are "not-all-there" in the head. Even fighting dogs will rarely, if ever, bite a human. They are SPECIFICALLY bred NOT to. They're bred to have a TON of dog aggression, but no human aggression because they are supposed to be handled by people and be family pets as well. This is kind of a Nature vs. Nurture thing. If a dog is abused, it will probably be people aggressive. If a dog is bred incorrectly, it will probably be people aggressive.

Originally, pit bulls were bred to protect. When they were first brought to the U.S., which was what they were used for. They were left at home with the wife and kids to protect them while the man of the house went out to work in the fields.

The only reason there are so many statistics over pit bulls and so much media over them, is because they are the ones people focus on! You never hear on the news about Chihuahuas or terriers or even the most popular lab attacking because it’s usually not considered as SERIOUS as a pit bull.

Haley

Sitasmom:  I am truly sorry that your son got bit.  It's a horrible thing to go through, but that really was just one dog.  Not ALL of them are like that.

I've been bit  more times by my parents flat-coated retriever with dog aggression than even scared by our neighbors pitbull, who is your typical healthy, kiss giving, wiggly butt pitbull who gets along just fine with my German Shepherd.

 

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So Sitasmom, if your son had been bitten by a GSD instead of a pit-bull, using your logic it would mean that you'd view all GSDs' as dangerous to humans and especially children?

Do you see the basic irrationality of your conclusion that because your son was bitten by a pit, it makes the entire breed dangerous "killers"?

Mystere- I think we all could use another one of your "Dear God, Alah, please make them stop" posts! LOL  It seemed to prove effective the last time.