Seems to me the Pit Bull Maulings have picked up steam in the last year. Either that, or bad news travels faster much faster than good news. Could some of these dogs be of a similar strain of Pit Bull that is somewhat new to the united states? Not all the Pits are this way, but its unfortunately common for owners of this breed to be careless and negligent, allowing the dogs to wander then cluster into packs. Maybe this breed should mean the owner has to undergo training to make sure they know what kinds of fences work, what kinds of collars or leashes work, what kinds of discipline work or don’t work. This is like buying an unloaded gun that will eventually be fully automatic. Is the owner ready?
it’s nothing like buying a gun that might go fully auto. A gun won’t turn on you by itself. It needs mechanical energy to operate. A pit bull can turn just like that.
Friends of the family had one and it was a great dog til after a few years it decided to go after and kill the goat, then it decided to go after one of the daughters. She was able to run into the house unscathed, but the dog was put down.