Exactly right, ransomenote. She was the sweetest dog, and one day, for just a moment, she snapped, and her genes took over. And,,, it was excruciatingly sad for my friend! Ah,,, but it’s just an “anecdotal” story, right?
Reading through the accounts of good=family-attacked-by-pits, I read of a mother and pup (youn’un was about 14 months old) happily sleeping next to the couch where loving family watched TV. One family member stood up. They didn’t step on the dog. The Pup attacked and began maiming, the mother pit “corrected” her pit with big growls and bites. The mother pit understood something horrible had happened and she went and lay by the door, whimpering and frightened.
But what if a family member did step on the dog? I have a faint scar under my eye from a time when I was about 7 years old and I ran up to the steps where the big ranch dog was waiting to be let in. I stepped on her tail. She bit and released with a bark of pain. Both parties were unhappy but it was understood that all things considered, she did the minimum to stop the sudden pain she experienced and she’s a dog, she can’t help it. But c’mon, what happens if you accidentally hurt a pit like the ones we’re talking about? What if you stand up while watching TV and step on your pit? Should it kill you? In this case, it tried to do so for no reason, even mamma dog was shocked. But it’s the physical strenght/attributes and that darned “gameness” that means it’s not over until maximum damage is accomplished. This can’t be an acceptable companion dog and the apologists convince people to “give a dog a chance” and who doesn’t want that? We all want to protect animals and give them a chance, and still, pits end up ripping arms off without provocation. It’s a different class of behavior and it’s sad when pit apologists insist on throwing the owner under the bus: if you pit attacked you or anyone, you must be an abuser. It’s not true. Horrible story on dogsbite.org about a baby killed by a pit. Pit apologists refuse to admit the type of pit fighting animal is to blame so they focus blame on the owner. In this case, the owner of the dogs was almost killed herself (her beloved pets grabbed her by the thigh and pulled her to the ground JUST TO GET TO THE BABY) trying to protect the baby with her body, but the pits DUG UNDER HER BODY! It’s that gameness, the killer instinct that worked in pit fighting for monsterous people who like to see one dog kill another. But the breed remains unsuited for environments when death is not wanted. I watched videos on that website where people with heavily bandaged faces, lying in hospital beds, fret about how they are going to be able to afford years of reconstructive surgery - it just shouldn’t happen.