Thank you for this post! What I’m gonna say isn’t going to be popular on these boards but I’m gonna say it anyway! EVERYONE here knows that when on of these dogs attack and kill, you can bet that it’s owner is either : a) piece of sh#t ghetto garbage, b) gangbanger, c) meth/drug using white trash. I’ve had my purebreed pit for over 8 years (before I got Tiggy, I adopted one from the pound mixbreed) with no problems. But then again I don’t fight my dogs, use them to guard my drug lab, or train it to be vicious so I can walk around my ghetto like a badass.
Your welcome. Good point regarding the ganagbangers, ghettoism, adn drugs. It seems to be no coincident that the rise in pit violence coincides with the explosion of gangsta/thug lifestyle. Even if a-c isn’t the case, it’s virtually a guarantee that some idiot who had no business raising dogs, let alone children, would get a pit just to be “cool”.
Yet another toilet stain from the “culture” of Rap (silent c)
I really believe this is most of the problem.
We had a neighbor down the street that had a Pit. He used to fill a wagon with concrete blocks, put a pinch collar on the dog, then make it drag the wagon around. If it tried to stop, he would pull the leash on the pinch collar.
One day, I was outside with another neighbor at the park, with all our kids, talking. She has a Boxer, and my husband and I had our Boxers out as well. Our dogs were all on leashes. This pit got out of their yard and came tearing at our dogs. I am not normally afraid of dogs, as I grew up with three Dobies. This dog scared the crap out of me. My husband distracted it while my neighbor and I got all the kids and dogs in my house. We had to call PMO, and when they got there, even they were afraid to touch the dog. They had one hand on their guns the whole time they tried to round the dog up (the owner wasn’t home). This dog went right for my husband’s arm. Luckily, no one was seriously hurt.
This particular guy ended up getting kicked out of housing (and eventually the USMC) for beating his wife up about 2 months later. There does seem to be a certain “element” attracted to the breed. Bad breeding has a lot to do with all the problems they have also.
I don’t believe every Pit is bad. I foster dogs for rescues a lot, and we have come across some really great Pits (most have been AmStaff mixes, it appears). But sometimes I do think the breed as a whole has been destroyed by backyard breeding.