“With an 85lb Pit, you have a dead body. “
True. Even smaller pits can kill. I read through many attack accounts and the pits have such an effective attack strategy that their prey (people) are often too stunned to respond. A suprising (to me) number of accounts entail the dog jumping up and grabbing the lower jaw. With a grip on the jaw, the dog begins to thrash it’s body to rip the jaw free. In children this works horribly well but adults are hard pressed to respond to this too - you’re in pain and disbelief etc.
Reading through some of the attack accounts on dogsbite.org, the scene of a pit bull attack can resemble something much worse than what people expect of a dog bite. A witness described as more of a “war zone” look with multiple ambulances, pools of blood, detached flesh or limbs, police searching the neighborhood armed for the dog(s) etc.
With an attack on two children, the medical team treating the little boy prepped him for transport to a trauma hospital and when he was wheeled out, the medical team gathered in the treatment bay to cry. Unlike the more common bite and release behavior of a defending dog - the pits hunt for sport and hang around, wagging their tails while working to cause carnage- stripping chunks of flesh and limbs and people witnessing this are hard pressed to accept it because it exceeds “dog bite” and goes into “wild animal attack” territory. Recently there was an attack too horrible to imagine - the dog did remove the child’s face. I know the first responders were said to be traumatized but surely everyone else treating that child in the hospital etc. had to be traumatized too.
This kid was walking down the street with her mother, the pit runs diagonally through a 4 way intersection, wagging it’s tail as it heads for it’s prey, a child.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx5nMvuWCXc
WHile attacking it keeps wagging it’s tail - bystanders described its glee. This is common in the accounts I’ve read. Guy goes to take the trash out at night, two pits are out hunting and pull him down. That’s what gets me, well one of the things, the reason given for pit attacks is “he got out” or “they got out.” The dog got out, that’s why he went hunting people. I had dogs for decades and if they got out, the worst case scenario would be they’d return smelling like a skunk or they’d tip over the trash...not go hunting people.
A child’s face is a small price to pay for satisfying a Pit Bull owner’s need to feel like a bigger man.
/FR PB Clown
Turns out the pit had corned a lady in her garage. As my dog and I reached the block, the pit left the lady and rand straight for my dog. I have no doubt that the dog silently approached us to kill. And it was completely unprovoked.
It was not “glee”.
Stop anthropomorphizing/projecting.
Without the rest of the body language taken into account, a “wagging tail” means diddly squat.
Most ScH dogs wag their tails as they’re nailing their targets.
I hate old wives’ tales...especially stupid ones.