And I don't think he will be sweet if he comes into my yard to kill my cats.
If your cats are in your yard he WILL KILL them. I repeat: the dog will kill your cats if you do not confine your cats to the house.
is your mailbox close to your neighbors? The dog may have thought you were taking his owners property
Well, I was assuming you had not met before and if so the conversation of the dogs behavior and being loose would have been quick and to the point. I know I would be shamed if I failed to secure my dogs for everyones safety including the dogs. Of course having animal control make a visit is always an option. I know you are trying to be nice about it, and all. But if you felt like the dog is a threat, treat it as one. I know that I would shake the hand of anyone who shot one of my dogs if they attacked and if I failed to do my duty as a pet owner.
Your cats will be killed by this dog within the next 30 days. I lost both my cats. Neighbor woman lost her small dog in this same situation.
The pitbull is extremely dangerous. Last week it appeared friendly to you but this week it bared it’s teeth and was ready to attack. This is the norm for the breed, being unpredictable is the predictable behavior. It will attack with intent to kill without warning.
The breed is usually owned by psychopathic inbred white trash although in some cases the owners are just dumb and without a shred of common sense. Blacks who own these dogs are as unpredictable and violent as the dogs themselves, being equally dangerous. Your best chance is to avoid the owners and the dog until you see the opportunity to neutralize the beast.
He was sweet then...
I wouldn’t trust him to remain that way, and NEVER turn your back on him!
Pitt Bulls are inherently dangerous, and here’s why.
The Russians did an experiment with wild, Arctic silver foxes. These are the kind used in high-end furs.
They wanted to domesticate them, the experiment started about 1940, IIRC.
Every time a new litter was born, they would pick only the top one percent, in terms of their adaptability to humans and their lack (or at least the most minimal) of aggression.
They started to see results after three generations, but the animals were still clearly wild. After eight generations, they were almost as domesticated as regular house dogs.
Now, after about 50 generations, the animals are for all intents and purposes the same as house pets BUT one of the most interesting things that happened is they started to see alot of variation in the dogs morphology, their tails changed, their colors changed, they started to show the distinct signs of the various breeds of house dog we have come to accept.
They have traced this biochemically to a number of genes, one of the most important findings was that wild animals have a MUCH higher level of normal, endogenous adrenaline. They are, all the time, much more “on edge”. Even if they appear to the casual observer to be calm at the moment.
The ONLY thing that changed the animals behavior towards a more tame life was the selection pressures humans put on the tame behavior.
So.
IF a dog still has the genetic basis of being more of a wild animal than a domestic pet, IT DOES NOT MATTER ONE BIT HOW IT IS TREATED! It will ALWAYS maintain the wild part inside.
I know... I know... we’ve all heard a million times about when an animal goes rogue that “He must have been abused... just be nice to him.... yada yada yada blah blah blah”.
It just ain’t so. The science shows otherwise.
The same exact conclusions have been reached by people and testing trying to raise wild wolf pups as domestic dogs.
They do act puppy-like, as long as they are puppies. But they soon grow, and when they do, in their own minds they are WOLVES, not dogs!!
They have no fence??
Dogs at large are illegal almost everywhere.