I have seen at least 2 stories on dog attacks in Dallas which media said attacked by pit bulls did the attacking. Then they show a picture and 1 was a black lab and the other appeared to be a Colley mix with lots of hair. Sounds kinda like the scary black assault rifles and the bad rap they get to me.rotor wrote:I am a dog lover but don't think we should ban pit bulls. I don't trust them and don't want to be near them though. They are doing what they were bred to do. Gentle ones are defective dogs. Some people want to have tigers in their homes. I am sure there are some very gentle tigers as well. At least exotics are controlled.
I don't blame the dog for doing what it was bred to do. I blame the human that doesn't control his dog. The worst neighbor I ever had was a woman with a Shiatsu that would constantly attack me every time I put the garbage out. The neighbor would do nothing to stop her dog. I told her that if the dog came onto my property again trying to get me it would be a dead dog. Fortunately the husband was cheating on his wife, got caught and they moved out before I was forced to kill that dog. Such is life.
"Pit Bulls" are actually American Bulldogs and were originally bred as babysitters and protectors. They gained the name "Pit Bull" because some unscrupulous people decided to use them as fighting dogs. If you train them properly fro a puppy they are great dogs.
We have a 12 year old American Bulldog that we have had since he was 8 months. We have a little mixed breed that is 8years old we have had since she was 14 months old and we have a Golden Retriever that is 4-1/2 years old that we have had for a year and a half. The only issue we've ever had was between the little mixed breed and the Golden and that was over a toy but quickly ended with the little one getting the toy.
Our grandkids have been with our scary black dog since they were very young and when they are here, no one else exists to our dogs