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In reply to the discussion: Pitbulls Used to Be Considered the Perfect "Nanny Dogs" for Children -- [View all]glowing
(12,233 posts)taking the time to bust in. I suppose to other's he looks like a menace. But as a little girl in VT, we oned a Husky and a rottie mix, so I wasn't scared of big dogs, and in fact, if you were going to have a dog, the only one's worth having were big one's, if you wanted a small pet, you had a cat. So, I was never afraid of dogs. Cats scratch worse. I will say that our rottie was put down for "biting" a boy. She didn't harm anyone at all ever, this boy was mean as shit to my dog, threw rocks at her, and one day when we were out doing yard work, he rode by on his bike and she took off after him. I don't think to this day that she actually bit him, just scared him very good... He was bragging at school how he "killed my dog", sick bastard, and his morther was dating the Game Warden at the time, so he felt stuck in the middle. My parents relented and took her to be put down. She was the most loving, gentle thing, named Saber, of all things, but we inherited her from a friend who's wife was allergic to pet dander. That was a sad day. Our husky was stolen from us. She loved outside, we chained her up and she had her dog house behind the garage. We were gone for the day, and came back with a pooch gone. That sucked. She was our big snow dog... We kept begging our dad to hook our sled up to her and let her pull us around the yard, he wouldn't let her be used, she was for us to play with... and boy did she love the snow. One of the very reason that we let her stay outside, hooked up in the first place. The house was always way too hot for her.