It doesn’t take much to trigger it for that type of dog. Maybe she tripped and fell down and the dog went for her.
An old black lady who lives next door to me has chicken-wire cages in her backyard where her grandson raises pit bulls, no doubt for dog fighting. He keeps some adult dogs chained there and takes the puppies away to sell once they are weaned. The dogs stink and make the next two backyards stink (including mine, which I can’t even use now). They also bark their heads off.
The little old lady - unsteady and half-blind - goes out there when they start barking (I believe she is also responsible for feeding them) and I know that if one of them were ever to slip its chain or get out, she’d be torn apart in seconds.
People have complained to animal control, but they don’t do anything because he keeps only the legal limit of dogs (4) on a permanent basis, and evidently running a breeding operation out of your backyard is not illegal. And of course, the neighbors are scared to keep complaining, because somehow their identity seems to get back to him when they make a complaint and they’re afraid of retribution if he is forced to get rid of the dogs.
I’m sure this goes on all over the country.
Oh I am sorry you have to live next door to something like this
and am sorry for the grandmother too
The only pit bulls I have known were raised from puppies in families who treated them like pets and not as fighters
I have a rescued german shepherd/ golden mix I got as a 9 mon old puppy.
She is so loyal and protective of me she will get in front of my and growl at anyone running toward me. I have her well leash trained and she is very obedient but I will not completely stifle her protective instincts
I can see those instincts really coming out in dogs trained to fight.
Those pitbulls next door to you are a disaster waiting to happen.
Please be careful and I know you are