A lot of dogs aren't well socialized, and some are intentionally made mean. At the age of 3, I was badly mauled by a medium-sized hound dog who "never hurt anybody". It tore up my face and I still have the scars. He was normally a friendly dog, but had not been socialized with kids.
I just don't accept that American Pit Bull Terriers are naturally some kind of "killing machines" likely to go off at any time. If properly socialized, they are great dogs.
I think that the whole underworld of fighting dogs is truly evil and it disgusts me what those jerks do to innocent dogs.
I’m sure you are a responsible owner but again look at the times these dogs have turned on their owners or owners family I hope you are right about your dog and don’t end up being attacked or explaining to a neighbor how sorry you are your dog attacked his child and he will be scared the rest of his life.
I’ve seen some sweet pits, but they still make me nervous. Any dog, even well-socialized ones, can “go off” momentarily ... it’s just that a pit can do so much damage before it pulls back and goes “oops”.
Had a funny encounter at the dog park this morning. A pit tried to hump my Pug — the Pug went seriously hostile on the pit, which turned tail and ran off.
Animals learn how to be ‘evil’ if you want to call it that, by being raised a certain way. They get beaten and mistreated to become killing machines, by people who raise them up to behave that way.
There is a whole drug culture and gang culture that has slimy men and women raising dogs to fight, and also to be early warning detectors and to ‘take the first bullet’ so they can get their guns for whoever’s coming for them.
Gangs are raising violent animals to fight them or protect them. They love pitbulls for the reasons stated in above posts.
I am not saying that certain breeds are not more people friendly than others, but I am saying that I don’t know of any dogs who are like this at birth. You spend 1-2 years of not getting fed enough, getting kicked, punched and rough handled and you’re not going to like people. You’re not going to give a stranger the benefit of the doubt, you will assume that person is going to harm you.
I say we go after the human scum who turns these animals into the killing machines they are. In all candor, these dogs are just like guns to these scummy people. It’s just another tool in their arsenal. Kill off the scummy drug dealers and gang members, much, much less scum left breeding killer dogs.
‘I just don’t accept that American Pit Bull Terriers are naturally some kind of “killing machines” likely to go off at any time. If properly socialized, they are great dogs.’
Good for you. This myth about pitbulls is pervasive.
There is no such thing as a vicious breed of dog.
There are vicious dogs, as you unfortunately learned. Glad you didn’t let that one ugly incident scar your brain.