Another responsible dog owner: Boy dies after pit bull attack in Wisconsin

[hollysmom]

81. I have a dog that was listed as vicious and unadoptable now

she is the gentlest and most affectionate dog I have ever had, Her owners just never trained her to not bite. It took less than a day to train that out of her. But she also has a soft mouth and does not bite down on any thing, so her biting was ore like her taking your hand in her mouth to walk you somewhere. Yet she spent over 6 years in a no kill shelter listed as unadoptable due to her owner's complaint when they turned her in.

One of the first thing I teach dogs is that I can take it's food. With this dog it was harder to teach her that she can be touched anywhere, but after 3 months she accepted it. I take my dogs around small children, they have to be good with being abused and not act out. What I have not been able to train out of this dog is to stop chasing a squirrel on command, she was bred to hunt rodents, so she is never off the leash unless in a fenced in yard.
So bad owners not bad dogs.