Posted on 10/07/2022 6:13:54 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
I was helping at my friends boarding kennel last year when she needed some help after her husband died.
Several pits have come and gone there.
Two were together and quite friendly. I don’t like pits at all (and think they’re extremely ugly dogs), but these guys were impressively nice. There was another white bichon in another run that I later discovered was also owned by the same people as the pits. A few days after they all left my friend got word from the owners that both pit bulls tore the little bichon into pieces ....and the owners then put both pits to sleep. Can’t imagine what it was like to lose all three of your dogs in one afternoon.
I’ve seen pits so mean there that nobody could even get into their run to get their food bowl. I eventually did only if it went outside the door flap into the outside part of it’s run (it was mostly an extremely scared dog, but those can be the worst), but ALWAYS had my gun with me AND my stun gun was always in one hand.
One family had their two pits there to get them out from underfoot for a couple of weeks when they came home with their baby. One pit seemed friendly enough, but the other one was very dog aggressive and would try to get through the kennel fence at any dog that came past the run they were in. It eventually made every dog in that room way too wound up - and once it attacked the OTHER pit bull it was with my friend called up the owners and told them to come and get it. Really scary that they were bringing these two dogs into their home with a newborn. It’s just a matter of time before they go after the baby, in my opinion. I don’t GET why anyone would want one of these around their kids!
I moved more in the country although in a small rural town. While I now had a fenced in yard, I figured I’d still walk my dogs at least once a day for exercise. That idea ended when I realized I had neighbors on two sides with French and English Mastiffs, another neighbor whose dogs were mean and got out all of the time....and another neighbor that would let their 2-3 pit bulls out without a fence. Nope. Not even doing to chance this. My dogs (a Keeshond and a Shetland Sheepdog) love their back yard and we go plenty of places (agility class and agility trials) and they don’t even know what they’re missing by not going on walks.
Anther one that you hear is "We won't have any problems. You just have to know how to handle dogs." I hope their arrogance doesn't get someone else hurt (or I guess, themselves, although they have it coming).
Nor do guns run out the door when you're not looking or slip their leashes or dig under the fence or jump over the fence. If I put a gun in a gun safe, absent some human action, I know it will still be there and cannot threaten anyone. A gun cannot run off on its own and make its own conscious decisions.
Yep. They’ll insist the pit bulls who attack just weren’t raised well.
I suspect we’ll see you in the news...
My extreme dislike and fear of pit bulls is the result of 3 different dogs of mine being attacked by 4 different pits- 2 while minding their own business in OUR fenced in back yard (pits jumped fence). Then once while sitting in the park near my house with my dog on a leash. My dogs all required dozens of stiches- one needed surgery. I despise them.
One article I read quoted a family friend who said in 8 years the dogs had never been aggressive. This is a big problem with pits. They CAN be sweet and gentle and all that- yet one day, for NO APPARENT reason, they attack. No one should believe it “will never happen with MY pit”. These dogs were great, until they weren’t. Two little babies are dead because of it. Now these parents will live in torment their entire lives.
From an article on Fox:
At least 33 people in the U.S. were mauled to death in 2020 by pit bulls – more than any other dog breed, according to non-profit dogsbite.org.
Wishful thinking, perhaps? You haven’t to date. What would change that?
I talked to a guy a while back who told me about friends who had a pit bull. It was a great dog, he said. Friendly and playful, he enjoyed the dog when he visited. Then one day out of the blue it turned on one of the owners, the wife. The husband immediately took it out and destroyed it.
I know another elderly gentleman who walked out of his house one day just as a neighbor walked past with her pit bull. Without warning or provocation the dog grabbed the gentleman by his arm and had him on the ground. The owner couldn’t pull the dog off him. Providentially, the neighbor across the street arrived home and got the dog off. The gentleman was in the hospital several days and required a blood transfusion.
I don’t think they are to be trusted.
There was a TV program called pit bulls and parolees. This woman ran a pit bull rescue. That question came up one day and she said that is NOT true. A lot of people breed them for particular characteristics such as color with no consideration for other characteristics such as temperament. She believes some dogs are just born not quite right and that some are not adoptable. She had dogs she would not adopt out, period.
Personally I wouldn’t adopt any of them out.
I knew a couple who loved dogs and raised many of them. At one point, they had two dogs and adopted a third dog - a pit bull. They said it was very aggressive, and suddenly their other dogs started giving them worried looks. The couple ended up having the pit bull put down. These were people who really, really loved dogs, so they must’ve had a good reason to do that.
That is the problem; you can’t trust an animal with such potential for damage and death. Any dog can turn on owners; when they are as tough as pitbulls, it is much messier.
Totally agree.
Which is why I hate pit bulls. Wish I had a dollar for every story I've heard like this involving pit bulls, and owners who think they'll never turn on any human. I've heard stories like this for decades, and across all 50 states.
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