Woman dead after being attacked by her two pit bulls in animal hospital

[mr_lebowski]

31. I believe you, too :)

My ... well, my ex-wife's ... Pittie ... when we took him out on walks, we'd encounter toddlers out for walks from time to time ... and I'm not kidding, when the Pit would see a small child, he'd just stop, and sit and watch. You could tell he wanted to 'meet' them, but he just knew to not approach them w/o permission.

On the occasions that the parents of the toddlers were amenable to a greeting, we could just say "It's okay boy!", and I swear to you, he would army-crawl on his belly over to the child, as if he knew that they might be afraid if he just charged at them ... and then just fall on his side when he reached them. Saw him do that like 4 times, w/random tiny kids ... w/o ever being trained to act that way.

Granted, he also grew up around our 6 nieces and nephews, seeing them regularly ... all of which are were within +/- 4 years of him, so maybe that was a factor in his deferential nature.

But you'll never convince me they are 'bad animals', esp. if they're not in a 'pack' with other pits. I've been around a lot them, practically everyone in my ex-wife's family had them. But granted, only 1 of them in each case. So I cant' swear from personal experience how they might be when there's multiple pits. It may be it's best to only ever have 1, for all I know, first hand.