I thought that, too.
Only the owner could be upset that a dog that tore someone to pieces like that would be *sad* that it was justifiably killed.
I knew that this was going to be a pit bull hate thread just by browsing the headline in the feed last night.
You are the only one I’d engage here on the topic. A lifetime of observations:
With one exception, every pit bull I’ve experienced - a total of around a dozen - have been the sweetest, smartest, most loyal and protective dogs I’ve ever met. Never a bite or attack against anything that wasn’t a threat. In contrast, in both work and otherwise I’ve personally been attacked by no less than a half dozen dogs, bitten by 2 that weren’t my own, one of which is a breed stated as beloved and safe here at FR. My own dogs over the years - almost exclusively Dobermans and German Shepherds (but no pits, so zero bias) - presented more problems than any pit I’ve encountered, but we worked through them with a couple of exceptions.
Additionally, absolutely everyone I’ve known has never had an experience which differs from my own and in most cases like the OP story of attack there are mitigating factors.
The one exception for the pit my experience was a case of abuse and neglect.
Yes, I read the OP article: It contains not a single detail of the conditions which led to the attack, a trend mirrored in all such media reports exhibiting bias on all topics, including the jabs.
Furthermore, my observations over the years - ironically - outline that in every one of threads such as these, the bias exhibited mirrors that of jab defenders/promoters.
I am not disputing how pits were originally bred, but I dispute the characterization of such attacks by pits as ‘instinctive’.
It’s simply not scientific, nor are calls to eliminate the breed.