[DCBryan1]

Unfortunately, we just got some new neighbors last year in our rural neighborhood just outside of town. They arrived with a male pit bull, then got a female pit bull, and now have added three pit puppies. The dogs run all over the place. It has completely changed the peace and safety of our area. People have built fences; they don’t go out for walks like they used to. The police have been called numerous times because the adult male frequently chases after walkers, runners and bikers on our road. The owners get a citation or small fine, pen up the dog for a while, and then he’s loose again. I carry a crowbar with me when I walk to the mailbox. Posting HTML This forum allows optional use of most HTML tags. If your post does not contain HTML, it will be converted to HTML when posted, retaining paragraphs as typed. This conversion is not performed if you have anything resembling an HTML tag in your text.

Sheesh...here in the South, as soon as those dogs were off the property and charged someone, you'd hear gunfire. Forget that, I'd be baiting them. Your neighborhood doesn't need that.

[dkGba]

More than one and it’s a pack mentality

[Malsua]

I'd be baiting them.

Many years ago, I had a friend who raised bull mastiffs.

his dogs were very protective, they never left the house or the grounds of the home.

They would protect the children to death.

Some neighbor got a "pittie". It would come over and try to attack his children, but the mastiff would run it off. At one point, his boy was out, the the bull mastiff(Billy) was in the house and the pit started mauling the boy who was about 10. He got away, got in the door and the dog, again was run off by the mastiff. quite a few stitches later, the boy was fine.

My friend mixed about 2lb of ground beef with plaster of Paris. The pit ate every bit of it and was never seen again.