Surrounded by 8 pit pulls today, I barely escaped with my life

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109. I love him and his dogs

Shorty has 7 pit bulls. He did have 8 but one of his older ones passed recently, Mussolini.

He has rescued over 400 pit bulls. He lives with 7 of his own. He said he has never been bit by one, even the scared/starving/abused ones that he rescued have never bitten him. He said in his book that he found his head inside the mouth of a mastiff one time, but never a pit bull.

Hercules, in the picture, is his service animal so he goes everywhere with him. How anyone can look at that dog and dislike him just because he's a pit bull is beyond me. I saw both of them at a pet expo in my area and Hercules was so well behaved and mild mannered. If you give him a ball he's quite energetic, but normally he's so incredibly docile and he seems to be handling all this attention he gets really well. He is a great ambassador for his breed, just like Cesar Milan's pit bulls, Junior and the late Daddy.

Say what you will about Shorty, I know he can be hot headed and brash at times, he may not always handle conflict in the most constructive way, but he's doing a good thing, IMO. Others I'm sure would disagree, but that's the way it goes.