Should we assume that if there’s a hole in your fence, your dog will get try to kill someone walking on the street by ripping them apart? I keep reading these accounts about pit bulls. We lived on a farm and always had dogs over the years. I was never afraid one would get out and go on a killing rampage.
It’s like having a lion or cougar as a pet - better not let him out or some of the neighbors will go missing! Someone posting on another thread commented that pit bull killings in the US exceeded the number of lions killing people in Africa last year. I don’t know if it’s true, but it seems reasonable because people acknowledge those animals as hazardous and unsuitable for living among people.
How likely is it she would have survived if someone wasn’t home to pull the bigger dog off her?
I was surprised that even my "gentle" Lab took out a couple of yard Ground Hogs (Broken necks from shaking).
That the "replacement" (the Big Black Dog went to live with my son) half Lab, half Chesapeake, half something else did the same a year later was less of a surprise.
(My garden is happier though...)