I was down at the pound the other day looking for a dog to replace my old girl who passed on, and I watched and listened to the Veterinarian as he walked down the row of kennels shaking his head and muttering “Pit-bulls and Chiwawas... Pit-bulls and Chiwawas...”.
The damned things are a dime a dozen around here. At the pound and on Craigslist.
Last October we went looking to rescue a dog and looked at our neighboring county animal shelter and ours. About 805 of the dogs were pit bull or pit mix. We found a nice dog that was in the minority of residents at our shelter.
A good friend of mine is the senior Animal Control Officer for our county. He told me most of the dogs he has to take or capture are pits and that most of them are either used for direct fighting or are owned by thugs or thug wannabe types to boost their “cred.” A lot of the hillbilly types around here own them because they are mean.
I would never even think of owning a pit or pit mix for any reason. Fighting and killing are a part of their DNA and no amount of love and tenderness will take that out of them.