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All I can do is wait until the inevitable. I cannot trust this friend anymore, because she now identifies with the pit bull, as do so many of their owners, and values it more than humans, and certainly more than her self-respect. She was hiding the dog from one landlord, and has lied to another to get the dog into an apartment.

This will not end well.

You’re right about this not ending well.

One of the results of our living in a modern civilization is that most of us don’t have experiences of being attacked by dangerous animals who want to kill us and so the potential for an animal to do great harm isn’t taken seriously by some people.

I am a petite woman. Last September I was violently attacked by a Portuguese Water Dog. The dog bit both of my arms multiple times and was on his way to my face - all within about three seconds. Fortunately a man who was only steps away was able to pin the animal with a chair just before the animal reached my face.

Being in the grip and complete control of a raging, violent beast which was coming for my face was a new experience for me and, since I lived, I had the opportunity to learn some new things because of that experience.

I experienced the fragility of life and the helplessness of being in the frenzied, deadly control of an irrational beast.

I experienced flashbacks. That was fun. /sarc

I learned that some people value their violent, dangerous animal more than they value the life of a person.

I have no respect for any person who knowingly brings a dangerous animal into human society.

My heart goes out in a very personal way to the parents and loved ones of this precious child who this morning should be sleeping peacefully in her bed but, instead, is only a cold, mauled, and lifeless corpse.

May God help this stricken family eventually to find some peace and reprieve from the effects of this horror.

You have my sympathies. I had to pick up my 12 year old brother at a neighbors house, his eyelid almost torn from his face by a pure bred German Shepard.

We have a 5 year old kid in our town who had his ear torn off by a dog.

What needs to happen is insurance companies will need to stop insuring the home owners with these dogs, and let the owner take out a policy that costs about a 1000 a month for a pitt bull type breed. Make them register, and charge them a 1000 to register, with a prison sentence if they fail to register. If they refuse to insure, they would then have to sign a state form that 90 percent of all they make and all they own will go to the victim for the remainder of their life. If an owner comes into town with one of them and fails to register the beast, put them in jail for six months.

The damages I have seen are numerous and horrendous. Half a million in damages is not unusual. Keeping these dogs in the house with a little kid is insane. Its worse than leaving a loaded gun on a coffee table with a five year old walking around the house. The parents who let this kid alone with this beast, they are also to blame. I will never ever leave my kid with one of these animals.