“Focus on the CAPABILITIES.”
You said it well. In my own way, I came to the same conclusion. One of the good things about domestic cats is that they are small. They are not always the nicest critters, but they are small and can only do so much damage.
I read an article about a guy who studied lions and joined a pride. Well, it’s kind of cool that he could play with lions and sleep alongside them. You have to wonder if anyone would sell him life insurance if they knew his hobby.
As for these pits, they are dangerous due to their size and massive jaws. From what I read on this thread they are even more dangerous because they have been bred to fight to the death.
I had a house cat who ate brown recluse spiders for breakfast. In fact, she would eat one any time of the day. She had a cat’s instinct for hunting and had a funny way of chomp, chomp, chomping them before swallowing.
By way of explanation, we rented a house for a year, only to discover after moving in that there was a major spider problem. It was a good sign when traps caught scorpions, Normally, it’s the spiders who kill scorpions. Only when the spiders are away, do the scorpions get to play.
“I read an article about a guy who studied lions and joined a pride. Well, it’s kind of cool that he could play with lions and sleep alongside them.”
Timothy Treadwell would tell you not to try it with grizzly bears, except that he can’t, because they ate him. On the other hand, Canadian field biologist Farley Mowat associated with a family of Arctic wolves and it worked out OK. (The book Never Cry Wolf was 1000x better than the piece-of-crap movie.)
Professional hunter Peter Capstick said, “The only reason there are not reports of more man-eating Siamese cats is that they are just not big enough.”