All hail Baby! Heroic pit bull saves family, 5 dogs from fire

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61. You do realize that pits were never bred to

be people killers? Some were bred for DOG fighting. I watched a doc on dog fighting rings and some of the trainers did interviews, with their faces covered of course, saying that they don't want their fighting dogs to be people aggressive, only dog aggressive and if one showed people aggression, they would kill it because they wouldn't want that dog to turn on them.

I used to work for a popular chain kennel that welcomed pit bulls, but we were not allowed to mix them with other dogs because they believed pit bulls were much more likely to be dog aggressive than people aggressive. I have to say while I do not know if these pit bulls that came in would be dog aggressive, they were never aggressive to me or any of my coworkers. Must be a correlation between responsible owners and some of the sweetest dogs you could ever come across.

That's not to say that some thugs don't train them to be aggressive towards people, but they were never bred to specifically target people in this way. Usually that takes other training, abuse and isolation.