I tire of telling this story. A friend of mine had an American Staffie. Daisey. What a sweetie! He’d tell her JB is coming, and she;d start to whine in happieness. As soon as I walked in the door, she’d flop on her back for a tummy rub. One day Doug came back from softball practice, and was on the phone with a friend. Daisy attacked him. and latched onto his thigh. He was able to kill her with his aluminum bat. Can you imagine having to do that? His friend on the phone heard him screaming and called 911. They got there just in time. They told Doug two more minutes and he would have bled out. 84 stitches. These dogs can go nutz at a moments notice!
Thank you for telling it, though. I get tired of reading the maiming injuries and killings. Recently, two pit bulls dragged a small child under their fence and the video was so brutal that court staff covered their mouths in shock - apparently there’s “evidence” the dogs were trying to disembowl and eat the child - they certainly killed him.
These things are not domesticated animals - they are predators and they act like predators. The door flops open for a moment and they’re out the door, hunting....people.
Lately I’ve seen apologists saying “well they have a big prey drive.” Like that’s a suitable, scientific explanation for the number of people killed or maimed by these things. Tired of the “irresponsible owner” meme. In the OP, it doesn’t even make sense - the apologist is saying it’s the owner because the dogs attacked immediately. WHAT? It’s the nature of the dog bred to attack without warning and leave devastating/lethal wounds.
Tired.
OMG. The owner had no choice, but to fight for his life.
He probably lives with the guilt to this day, but at least he lives.
I’ve told a similar story about a pit bull lovingly raised from a pup who suddenly turned on the wife - and the husband had to shoot it while the dog’s jaws were still clamped on his wife’s arm. These dogs are like unstable bombs that can go off at any time.