Maybe. Maybe not. Not sure about that. In any event a lot of them sure make the news. As you say the owners are often the blame. The combination of a careless owner and a Pit bull can result in a vicious animal
It’s not malicious, they’re descendents of war dogs. No matter what the temperament you think they have, when there’s more than one of them they become very unpredictable as they’ll revert to pack mentality.
There is no reason to own them. They don’t even make good guard dogs.
Hubby and I were walking our two leashed dogs last weekend when this friggin’ pitbull comes streaking across a yard, dragging her leash. She immediately goes for the smaller dog, my 42-pound setter-mix, not the 65-pound Australian shepherd-mix my husband was walking. I always carry a cane which works very well for keeping dogs at bay, if not, I can start smashing the errant dog over the head with it. Thank goodness, my dog is pretty submissive, and didn’t respond to the other dog’s aggression so I only had to worry about keeping my pup from getting bit, not keeping her from wanting to fight, too.
We’re screaming at the dog to go home, when the owner comes out and grabs the dog. Oops. Turns out the dog is a rescued “junkyard” dog she is trying to rehabilitate, she’s only had her a couple of months, blah, blah, blah.
Well, dang it, our dogs are rescues, too. One is an elderly gentleman that was “too old” to attract any interest, and the little setter-mix was just broke, too much trauma too early in her life (she’s fine now, thank you very much).
This constant push to adopt a pitbull just irks me because
as “sweet and adorable” as they may be, there are thousands of good dogs waiting to be adopted that would be ten times as sweet and adorable without wrecking havoc on the neighborhood.