Congratulations. While most of them are fine enough dogs you’ve decided that it makes sense to buy something with the potential to do serious damage if it has a bad day when there are many other alternatives that do not have the ability to be so destructive. It makes absolutely no sense to introduce risk that you do not have to introduce given how many other breads there are out there that do not have the destructive potential that a pit has. What is the point? Unless you have to impress the local gangster population or have real serious security issues there is no point. You are just taking a needless risk just like all of the other fine people whose pits have “never hurt a fly” before they injure or kill someone. Again that is a small minority of dogs but if you choose to take the risk you shouldn’t be shocked by the outcome.
Gee, thanks!!!
I grew up on a farm and am well aware that ALL animals come with risk.
Before the “gangster” populace decided to make Pits their thug dog of choice, APBT’s were just ordinary dogs. Helen Keller had one. Fred Astaire had one, as did President Woodrow Wilson, Humphrey Bogart, and Steve Irwin. Ever heard of Cesar Millan?
In the state of Kentucky, Pits are trained to be Service Dogs. In California, as well as other states, the are Search and Rescue dogs...Pits aided in the search for Lacy Peterson and the Space Shuttle Columbia crash.
I used to be like you...afraid of what I thought I knew. Then I got to know some Pitties and found out I didn’t know at all what I thought I did.
This year the devil dog is Pit Bulls. Before that, it was Dobermans, Rotties, and German Shephards.
As for my own pooch, he is a 90 lb lap dog dominated by a 3 lb Chihuahua and a 4 lb cat. He’s just a dog. But he’s a good one.