Properly socialized dogs protect their pack - not turn against it.
Some packs are not properly socialized. And I think the Staffies and Pits have been so interbed/inbred that they are just dangerously unpredictable like this.
Even the Chihuahua has to adjust and get over some jealousy when the grand baby first came around. But a PitBull is completely out of the question.
Repeat... for the stoopid people- If you have a pit bull and a baby you are a morally repugnant human being.
Absolutely correct! The dog should never have been allowed in the bed in the first place..with a new born. The bed should have been off limits. The owners failed to teach the dog its pack position. Consequently, dog saw the strange baby as a threat to the pack. This was human error. As a result, not only is the baby dead, but it will also cost the dog his life as well.
Secondly, what was the other portion of the mix, and how much? Chow maybe? Some other human aggressive breed?
I’ve never seen a good dog come out of an AmStaff mix. The introduction of another breed brings out the worst of the other breed and dulls the natural instincts of the AmStaff.
My son has a mix. She’s a nasty dog. She has a very nasty temperment. I have a full AmStaff with a very good temperment/disposition. I expect to breed her. I wouldnt give you a nickle for a mix, not for my son’s dog, nor for any of the others I’ve met along the way.
I see a lot of people who have no business owning dogs of any kind. Not because the aren’t good caring people, but because they don’t know and understand dogs or how to make them into good and trusting, safe, faithful companions. My best friend is one of those people. His little dog is vicious with him, and has no respect for him or his property. I will not allow that kind of behavior so when she is in my care, she becomes a well behaved angel. She will viciously bite him in the face if he has a plate of food, she wants it, and he won’t give it to her.
She know better than to even look in my direction when I eat. She distances herself and doesn’t stare. That’s respect. “I” I am leader of the pack, not the dog. Its not a natural GOd given role for a dog to rule over a human. It makes them hysterical nervous wrecks when its allowed, they are untrustworthy, and miserable to care for. That is why the dog bit the baby.
Pits aren’t vicious unless they have a nitwit for an owner, and 100% of the time, stupid owners have been at the heart of attacks. Failure to socialize is exactly right.
Exactly, but 3 days, it may not see the baby as part of the pack yet.
I believe you generalize too far here.