I am honestly not saying this sarcastically nor (and I hate this word) judgmentally — but I don’t understand how these dogs kill children when adults are present. I can only think that they just inflict fatal injuries incredibly quickly.
Otherwise, the adult surely covers the child with his/her body, or kicks the dog across the county, or throws a table at it...?
Horrific. Just can’t imagine.
Have you ever watched a Jack Russel Terrier kill a rat? You could be standing right there and you could not save the rat. They grab and shake the victim and the neck is snapped instantly. In this case I think it said the dog grabbed the child by the face, one shake and the child’s neck is snapped.
If you've never been witness to a pit bull attack it's easy to understand your question. I've seen two attacks...one by a single dog, and the other by a pair working together. Each attack will live in my memory as among the most terrifying scenes of my life. About 25 years ago I came upon a scene where an adult was on the ground with pit on top of him...locked on his face...and two other adult men were trying to beat and pry the dog off. The were unable to get the dog to release the victim until one man literally pulled his belt off and strangled the dog to the point where it blacked out. The entire scene probably took three or four minutes. The other was a pair of pits that I watched attack a herd of cows just to the south of Folsom Blvd in Sacramento, also about 30 years ago. These two pits couldn't have been more than 20 lbs each. One by one they jumped up on these cows, locking onto the nose and ears. As the cow would shake to get the dogs off sections of the nose and ears of these cows would be ripped off. As soon as the dogs got to their feet they jumped right back up and locked onto the cow again. In the 20 minutes it took for the sheriff to come and shoot the dogs, they mauled 13 cows to the point where they had to be put down, and seriously injured another 5. If a single adult was sitting in that room when the dog locked onto the child I'd guess it would have been all but impossible to break the dog free in time to save the kid, unless the adult involved was a man, and was in fairly good shape. Or, they were armed or had a good level of knowledge about how to get a pit to release a victim.
You've got it. They're ferocious. And human beings, especially a small child, couldn't be more vulnerable.
You should google pictures of pit bull attacks...you will be shocked at the damage they inflict.