This shows that you should never run from a pitbull. You may get mauled anyway, but if you run it only feeds their madness. I stood down a pitbull once and he did stop.
This is what my husband says. He encounters different breeds during his workday and says there was only one time that his taking a commanding stance did not work to calm or prevent aggression.
“I stood down a pitbull once and he did stop.”
One ran at me about 90 miles an hour as I was jogging one time. I pulled out my Ruger LCP and pointed at him. As God is my witness that dog stopped dead in his tracks. You would have thought he knew what it was. I did not shoot him. The black owner came out and pulled the dog back to the house by his collar and never said one word to me.
This shows that you should never run from a pitbull. You may get mauled anyway, but if you run it only feeds their madness. I stood down a pitbull once and he did stop.Excellent advice. My neighbor's Pit howls at everyone walking by but cowers at me, even with my lap dogs in tow. Reason: it got out once and charged us, but I held my own dogs back and faced it with exaggerated aggression, which scared it away. I learned this when I was a kid and a German Shepherd charged me -- I ran but quickly realized that it was far faster than me, so I turned and went Moses on it. It scampered away. Both our lessons were learned.
“I stood down a pitbull once and he did stop.”
We were out walking our dog one night several years ago when a pitbull came out and charged after our son. Our dog went full protect mode and put herself between the pit and our son and made the pit back down.
Ever since that happened, she’d put herself between us and that house and give a low growl when going by.