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In reading this thread I just have to shake my head. I've been training dogs since the late 60's. I've trained every kind of dog that Uncle Sam or the local cop shops have in their inventory and a few stock dogs and hunting dogs along the way as well. I still have a kennel full of dogs and give dog training instruction weekly. I've been training attack dogs professionally for over 30 years. One of the comments is that pittbull's are not predictable. Yes they are. They have been bread to bite and fight and that is exactly what they will do. You may not know what the trigger is to that individual dog but the instinct to bite and fight is hard wired into every pitt bull alive today. If you deny this fact them you are putting yourself in the same position that the parents of this child were in before he was mauled and killed. I'm sure they denied it too. You can not take the bite and fight out of a pitt any more than you can take the herding instinct out of a stock dog, the bird out of a pointer, or the track and chase out of a hound. Just because some owners don't want to deal with it or even admit it doesn't make 500 years of selective breeding go away.
Another toddler is dead. This dog had a history of attacking and killing. Another comment was about the parents not being at fault. BULL!!! The parents set this all up and allowed it to happen.
If I leave a gun laying around and someone gets a hold of it and kills a kid I'm going to be held criminally responsible. This situation is even worse. They left a dog known to attack and kill in their home with small children. The least they should be charged with is negligent homicide. The dog had already proven himself to be a deadly weapon. I don't know how the parents could be surprised at this logical outcome. Who do you think they call as the expert witness when one of these dogs attack and kill? I'll give you a clue, it ain't the dog whisperer.