“Even this story was very dismissive of the lack of a strong Alpha in the pack.”
If this breed is prone to killing family members if there isn’t a sufficiently strong alpha in the pack, it should be kept in a zoo, not in residential areas. You are describing wolf pack behavior. Wolves and pits eventually challenge the alpha in the pack for leadership - this may strike you as strange but the family dog is not supposed to provide a ‘red of tooth and claw’ daily fight for dominance. ‘Domesticated’ animals should not have to be restrained from killing it’s owners with sufficient shows of dominance. Those who raise wolves as pets unfortunately encounter nature and lose. One family wrote movingly of their wolf and how he fit perfectly into the family until the day he tried to kill the father in order to take control of the pack. This blame the owner thing is so wrong on some many fronts - in this case you make an argument that supports those who say pits ownership should require an exotic animal license and enclosures that meet special code regulations used for exotics. I support this notion because the damage caused by one or more rampaging pits resembles wild animals more than it resembles domestic dog damage and also because owners throw up their hands and say “he got out of his cage” as if saying ‘hey it’s not my fault my dog killed someone’. When a beagle gets out of his cage, there’s far less likelihood that someone will be maimed or killed because beagles fall within the behavior we expect of domestic dogs - even problematic domestic dogs. Pits don’t.
Have you ever even HAD a dog? The ignorance of canine traits and behavior in some posts is breathtaking in its depth and immensity. ALL dogs are wolves, that’s where they came from, FRiend! Nearly every dog will challenge for dominance at some point, but a good owner/handler knows how to deal with that.
Anyone’s visceral hate for this particular breed bespeaks some other issues, but as I am not a therapist, I cannot help them overcome this irrational hatred.
After reading the article a third time, there are a couple of irregularities that keep catching my eye, the most glaring being that the dog’s stomach was full of FOOD, not baby parts. That and an absent but somehow also abusive husband.
Methinks there’s much more to this story than meets the eye, and mama’s not talking...