[Feiny]

My female pit will lightly bite the food offerred with her front teeth. She will not take it until you let go.....I did not teach her this. She did it in front of about 6 mothers at a garage sale once. A 2 year old tried to feed her a potato chip, but then decided he wanted to eat it....he did not let go ...so she released her end & walked away. The moms were very impressed & then "shocked" to find out my dog was a "vicious" pitbull.

In England, they were known as the nursemaid dog.....

[GMMAC]

Much of this thread has been like something out of the Twilight Zone and/or off Democratic Underground.

Self-proclaimed conservatives ranting about wanting the state to run roughshod over the fundamental rights of hundreds of thousands (or more) of their law-abiding fellow citizens simply because they possess well-trained, well-cared-for pets which happen to physically resemble a relatively small number of dogs - out of a greater total number - who've attacked someone.

Plus, virtually every "argument" advanced as a rationale for doing so can be quite easily changed into one of the all-too-familiar ones for the wholesale banning of firearms merely by, in most cases, changing 2 or 3 words.

Where's the belief in property rights, individual liberties and personal accountability ???

Sheeesh !!!

[Fair Go]

The Staffordshire is the only dog that I have encountered that you can take a bone from and it will not so much as growl. The breed is big here and you can go to a dog show and know you can approach any dog and it will welcome your attention.