I don’t know the details, but I heard a blurb on the news this afternoon that she had taken a turn for the worse. I was out of the car before they came back with the actual story.
I have owned several pits and they are a great breed of dog.
parsy, who wonders what else was at play here
huh? I have never heard of a sweet dog trying to eat someone's arm off.
I’ve known a lot of pits and their owners, and I don’t care what anyone says, they are far too unpredictable. Some, usually the females, were sweet and gentle. Some were great dogs until something set them off one day. Others were nasty to begin with.
I have, over the last several years, adopted 2 dogs from shelters that were pit mixes.
Both were great dogs, lived in the house, slept with us at night, were around my young daughter, and they both turned. One, right after she had puppies, turned violent and attacked my other dog, a puppy, nearly killing it, and then coming after me. I had to lock her up for 2 weeks, until she returned to normal. I don’t know if it was hormones or what, but it could have easily been by daughter.
Another one, a lab/pit mix, was sweet, slept at the foot of our bed, rode in the car with us, even on cross country trips, and never gave me any problems. Until, one day, in our back yard, for no reason, she bared her teeth at my wife and daughter, and if she hadn’t been on a lead, would have attacked them. I took her to the humane shelter that day, because I couldn’t bring myself to shoot her.
I’ll never own, or trust, another one.
OMG, Chet99 posted another anti-pitbull story. Yawn.
It was the lab part of the dog that did that damage...pits don’t attack......
“He was a sweet dog. We don’t know what happened,”
Huh. Never heard that before.
I had a rescue dog I’m fostering bite me in the face this weekend while we were playing in the yard. Regardless of whether it was intentional or over stimulation, this 10 month old pup will be euthanize tomorrow (not my choice). There is no way a dog who has drawn blood should ever be adopted out. Its a very sad reality with rescued dogs, whether through an organization or rescued from the streets. There’s simply no way of knowing what the past history has been or what untapped triggers there may be.
Psycho dog. All pit bulls...even mixes...are sociopathic killers.
I hope they have good insurance...