“She told me, in no uncertain terms, that the dog was not a `pit bull`.”
Were you unaware that there is a subculture of veternarians, animal shelters, and yes, animal control officers, who believe the breed is falsely maligned and lie about these dogs as a matter of conscience - because they feel the public is not smart enough to arrive at the ‘right’ decision. For example, had you read the web page of the veterinarian who bragged about sneaking past the Breed Specific Laws going into effect in her community by falsely declaring her pit to be a service dog? Read the PowerPoint presentation by that animal shelter lying about the safety of pit bulls but if you read all the way to the end of the document, you find special instructions (two people needed at all times to handle) for pit bulls? Owners lie about their dogs all the time and they DO NOT feel bad about it - they brag about it. You walk up and see a pit bull dressed in a baby bonnet with a pacifier hanging off it’s collar and they tell you “THAT? Hah! That’s not a pit bull!’ And then they tell you it’s a Staffordshire terrier or some other name used to confuse people who are obviously looking at a pit bull. I guess if you read or operated a public service website like dogsbite.org you’d have encountered all the lying fans of this breed engage in to protect eh breed but since you don’t it came as a surprise to you. yeah, I remember back when I was surprised to see people in positions of trust lying to the public. On this thread, where we read that a 2 week old baby was killed and partially eaten by a pit, I find a post or two that say ‘dogs will be dogs’. Would you see that kind of denial if this article was about a golden retriever who, after being given dogfood, spontaneously killed and ate part of a baby? No.
You are full of it.
We owned a pit bull when I was a kid and they are no different from any other dog we ever owned.
My dad even bred beagles as hunting dogs so I think I know a little about dogs.