Children Need Pit Bulls: A Picture Book

[hollowdweller]

8. I don't agree it's entirely due to their upbringing.

I have a friend whose pitbull mauled her daughter. The lady loves animals especially Pit bulls and still has 2. She had raised the dog since it was a pup and did nothing but love on that dog.

My wife's nephew had one who he adopted it had actually been trained to fight but it was not aggressive to humans it was a great family dog but it would immediately try to kill any other dog it was exposed to.

I think that the propensity to suddenly go off and attack people is a genetic thing that has nothing to do with training. I always wondered if the one dog was so good with people because it had been trained to what was in it's DNA to do. Kill other dogs. Ever been around any gamecocks? They are the same way.

I think that as people breed pit bulls for pets, that they will eventually breed that hair trigger out. But I wouldn't trust them entirely at that point. My wife has been attacked 2x and she was lucky because the owners were there and could get the dog off her and it was winter so all she got was a huge bruise. But she says it's like somebody has your arm in a VISE and keeps tightening it.

The important thing with the pit bull to remember is the ones that are mean you can avoid usually. But the ones that are friendly you let your guard down when they attack totally unprovoked.

They are also incredibly fast. I was never attacked but our neighbors had one that would stalk me all the time. I would be working in the garden and it would be in the road watching me. I'd lean down to pull some weeds and take my eye off of it for like 5 seconds and it would have covered 30 yards and have it's head like 5" from my hand behind me. It was wild.