As a volunteer for Antioch Animal services, I help admin a volunteer Facebook page that is run by shelter volunteers. The page was set up so people can take a look into the average day of a shelter volunteer.
The page consists of things such as available pets for adoption, dogs playing, and updated photographs of before and after photographs.
Unfortunately, one day last week our page was bombarded by a series of anti-pit bull posts. One after another, posts provided false statistics and propaganda. Posts went so far as to claim that the volunteers were trying to load our streets with vicious animals.
I was saddened to think there are really people out there that hate such a wonderful breed simply because they have read false statistics.
Today I want to talk about facts, myths and downright lies and give you a look at real statistics.
The truth is, one dog breed does not have the potential to bite more than another. Whether a dog is large, small, brindle, spotted, black, white, male or female, it really doesn’t matter. The statistics matter.
The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association released a study in December 2013 thought to date to be the most comprehensive and reliable study of dog bite-related fatalities since first study in the 1970’s. They studied 10 consecutive years of Dog related deaths in the United States.
These are some of the statistics that they felt where important factors to each death
- (85.2%) of the time the victim had no prior relationship with the animal
- (84.4%) of the dogs that had caused the fatality were unaltered / not spayed or neutered–note, I find this statistic a staggering out cry for just another reason to fix your pets
- (76.2%) the dog was kept as a resident vs part of the family or a family pet
- (87.1%) no able bodied person was present to intervene
- 1 % of the time the Death or even the bite may have been able to have been prevented
- In more than 80% of the cases the authorities report that the breed of the dog or dogs could not be reliably identified only 45 dogs 18% where able to be identified 20 different breeds and 2 known mixes where identified
The American temperament test society performed temperament test on thousands of dogs and on almost every breed .I have narrowed down the list to recognizable breeds that I find are popular in our area
American Pit-bull terrier Passed 86.8%
Welsh Corgi (corgi) Passed 80%
labrador retriever Passed 92%
Pomeranian Passed 76.5%
Shetland Sheepdog (Shelty) Passed 68.3%
Old english bull dog Passed 91.7%
yorkshire terrier (yorky) Passed 82.9%
German shepherd Passed 84.8%
Poodle Passed 77.5%
One of the biggest myths regarding pit bulls is locking jaws. What people need to realize is pit bulls have the same jaw and scull bones as any other dogs. They have no special enzyme that allow them to lock their jaws.
Unfortunately, this is just another way to induce fear into the public about such a beautiful breed.
Like anything in life, we must take precautions in what we do such as wearing seat belts. When dealing with animals, you must also take precautions and become educated on animals and work to set boundaries.
Information provided by Kristy Keusch
20 comments
Thank you so much for posting this, I had my pit for 12 yrs I just had to put her down 3 days ago she was wonderful my kids pulled, laid, and sat on her, my daughter even played dress up with her she NEVER once bit or even nipped at them.if you love and treat your animals good they will do the same
How do you characterize allowing children to “pull, lay and sit on” or otherwise mistreat the family dog as “treating them good”?
Fact, Dogs Bite.
Fact, Dogs were domesticated and breed to have physical and behavioral traits that enhance their ability do the jobs they were expected to do.
Fact, dogs were expected to work as hunters, protectors and herders primarily, with other type jobs in more recent times.
My fear is that modern day dog owners are more and more in denial that their well trained and loved family pet that has been breed for decades and even centuries, to enhance their physical and behavioral traits could possibly use them in some situation, ever, causing either great bodily harm and/or death.
Training and loving environments help immensely, but as they say “shit happens”. It will happen when it is least expected, it could be freak circumstances, it could be while the dog is even under someone’s control.
The problem is that it will happen, has happened even with the nice loving ones.
So what is my point? Dog ownership is about responsibility, to the dog, to your family, to your neighbors and to the community that you have it in. Love your dog as a family member. Train it as well as you can. Control it better than your children.
And “Never Assume” that your dog that’s breed has been breed to protect and serve, could or would not for any reason put those traits into sudden use and hurt or kill something or someone. Endeavor, with your eyes wide open. Understand the risks as well as the benefits, and be sure that you are prepared for the fall out emotionally and financially if it were to happen to you.
Btw. Working dogs are awesome! Just a very big responsibility.
Fact, Dogs Bite.
Fact, Dogs were domesticated and breed to have physical and behavioral traits that enhance their ability do the jobs they were expected to do.
Fact, dogs were expected to work as hunters, protectors and herders primarily, with other type jobs in more recent times.
My fear is that modern day dog owners are more and more in denial that their well trained and loved family pet that has been breed for decades and even centuries, to enhance their physical and behavioral traits could possibly use them in some situation, ever, causing either great bodily harm and/or death.
Training and loving environments help immensely, but as they say “stuff happens”. It will happen when it is least expected, it could be freak circumstances, it could be while the dog is even under someone’s control.
The problem is that it will happen, has happened even with the nice loving ones.
So what is my point? Dog ownership is about responsibility, to the dog, to your family, to your neighbors and to the community that you have it in. Love your dog as a family member. Train it as well as you can. Control it better than your children.
And “Never Assume” that your dog that’s breed has been breed to protect and serve, could or would not for any reason put those traits into sudden use and hurt or kill something or someone. Endeavor, with your eyes wide open. Understand the risks as well as the benefits, and be sure that you are prepared for the fall out emotionally and financially if it were to happen to you.
Btw. Working dogs are awesome! Just a very big responsibility.
As a victim of a neighbors pit bull I want the breed outlawed in Antioch as it is in other city’s and states. Home owners insurance will not even cover a pit bull in most instances When this happened believe me I researched breeds Instead of paying for their responsibilities they moved. Antioch better off by one. Watch your children folks, people are in jail because of what pits have done to children. Google it.
If you are a homeowner and can still get insurance with this and other breeds, great train,train,train any dog. The problem is when you have someone who is renting a property and the landlord does not know they have a dog that was no allowed on the rental agreement, they end up at the Shelter. We have a landlord in our neighbor hood that is now being sued by a neighbor that was walking their dog and the renters dog came out of the garage and attacked both of them. Thank God the dog lived and our neighbor was not harmed, but it could have been worse. The renter simple said they have no money for the Vet Bills that we’re over $500.00, and moved out the next month, and their dog was dump somewhere,according to our neighbor!
Everyone is entitled to there opinion I believe animals are like kids you raise them around violence they become violent
It is not a myth that a pit bull killed my friend’s son. It is not a myth that a pit bull killed my friend’s puppy. It is not a myth that there are literally thousands of books, magazines, websites, images clearly showing everyone what pit bulls look like, It is not a myth that pit bulls kill more than all other dog breeds in the entire world combined. It is not a myth that pit bulls were named for the fighting pits they were bred for. It is not a myth that pit bulls are the only dogs that require an army of people denying their danger, attacking pit bull victims, running to get laws so pit bulls cannot be regulated. It is not a myth that pit bulls are the only dogs whose attacks often require life flight helicopters to trauma center as the only hope for survival.
The only myth here is foolish people trying to sound knowledgeable while spewing refuted nonsense which sadly leads to more pit bull attacks. Shame on you, heartless hater.
The Myth:
Pit Bulls have high scores on the American Temperament Test (ATT). and are therefore good candidates to become family pets.
The Reality:
This test is not the typical temperament test used in animal shelters, animal control agencies, or private rescues. The most common temperament tests administered to shelter animals is the ‘Assess a Pet’ test designed by Sue Sternberg and the ‘Safer Test’ designed by Emily Weiss. The ATT is a private test that owners themselves register their pets to take. The dogs compete with scores against other dogs in their breed category. The owner is present for the test and the test evaluates the animal’s behavior when in “everyday” situations such as passing strangers. Dogs being comfortable or exhibiting bold behaviors receive positive scores. The dogs are not tested on how they relate to other dogs or animals. The ‘Asses a Pet’ and ‘Safer test’ are completely different and put value on other aspects of dog behavior. Temperament tests used in sheltering situations can be an excellent tool for predicting future behavior and aggression issues if administered correctly by unbiased handlers. There is not a temperament test that can be administered with 100% accurate results. Dogs that do pass temperament tests can go on to cause injury to humans or other animals.
The Myth:
No one can correctly identify a pit bull. Fighting breed advocates claim that most people shown a collage of dog photos online can’t tell which one is the pit bull.
The Reality:
Many pit bull advocate groups post a collage of dog pictures online and ask the public to “identify the pit bull”. What the public does not know is that the majority of dogs pictured are shot from camera angles deliberately designed to mislead. In addition, they show heads only, so size cannot be considered—this would not be the case when seeing the dog in real life. They also feature many rare breeds that are related to pit bulls, but which are extremely uncommon in the United States (e.g., the Dogue de Bordeaux, Alapaha Blue Blood Bulldog, and Ca de Bou). And one of the dog breeds that is included is an American Staffordshire Terrier which is the exact same breed as the American Pit Bull Terrier, but registered with another organization. It should also be noted that many humane societies offer discounts on spaying/neutering of pit bulls. If pit bulls are so difficult to identify, then how do shelter workers identify who qualifies for the discount? There are also many pit bull rescues with the term “pit bull” in the organization name. How do these groups know which dogs to rescue?
Many breeds of dogs suffer a lifetime of pain and mistreatment without behaving aggressively. Examples include laboratory Beagles, cart-pulling dogs (pre-20th century), and the millions of street dogs living today all over the third world.
About half of dogs that kill humans are indoor, middle-class family pets with no history of being abused or neglected. Most police investigations conclude that the owner did not contribute to the dog’s aggression through mistreatment of any sort.
As a rule, dogs involved in violent incidents act very differently from abused dogs. Abused animals have a tendency to avoid conflict. They usually only bite when they are cornered and perceive that they have to defend themselves. This is called “fear biting”. They rarely inflict damage worse than a puncture wound. They do not escape from leashes, scale fences, or jump off of second floor balconies to launch an attack. They do not chase people or animals down to bite or maul them. Current research shows that animal behavior is primarily guided by instincts predetermined by their genetic profile or inherited traits. Socialization and training account for only a fraction of how a dog will react to strangers or family members.
I’ve never heard anyone except pit bull advocates claim that pits in reality have “locking jaws”. That’s just as foolish as assuming that a couple who “locked eyes” across the room required a locksmith to free them.
It is true, however that pit bulls do not easily relinquish their grip. They have been kicked, shot, stabbed, hit with shovels and still hung on to the person or animal they were mauling. Pit bulls are the only breed with which it’s recommended to carry and use a “break stick” to make them turn loose. http://www.realpitbull.com/breakstick.html
Pit bulls don’t have locking jaws, but when they bite they won’t let go until they rip off the piece that they are holding on too. That’s why you should know the breed and have a break stick available at all times. THEY don’t might and retreat, they maul
This person is unfamiliar with the ATTS, never designed to test for suitability of a pet. The pit bull does score higher than many popular, safe, family friendly breeds of dogs. How could the dog responsible for roughly 50% of all fatal attacks, score better than Lassie?
The temperament test was developed by Alfons Ertelt in 1977. Mr Ertelt was not an animal behaviorist, he worked in the print industry but his passion was dogs and he was involved in schutzhund. (schutzhund is a dog sport that mirrors the training of police dog work and it is dominated by german shepherds) The ATTS test was initially intended to test working dogs for jobs such as police work. The test favors bold dogs, dogs that need to face danger head on without hesitation and fear. Courage was desired and rewarded, timidity was not. The ATTS favors dogs like pit bulls over dogs like collies. It is important to note, the test does not evaluate dogs for “pet” suitability. Breeds are tested against their own breed, not against other breeds.
As for your stats, simply put, pits averaged killing a person every 9 days last year. That’s the only stat one needs to know.
In fact, 96% of all pit bulls are dumped by a shelter at their owners before their 6th birthday due to aggression problems. Many of the few left go on to maul or kill in their old age. This whole business of ‘not all pit bulls are aggressive’ is just another pit bull type dog advocate delusion.
‘Most pit-bull type dogs have not hurt anyone` is a statistically unsupportable pernicious myth. A third of the pit bull population is being impounded or surrendered to shelters each year, primarily for dangerous behavior.
A third are under one year old. What that means is that among pit bulls who have reached sexual maturity, there is a 50% chance that the dog will get into some sort of trouble leading to the dog going to a shelter each and every year.
That’s a 50% chance at age 2, a 50% chance at age 3, a 50% chance at age 4, etc. If a pit bull lives to age 10, the odds are actually quite high that the pit bull will have hurt someone.
Ottumwa, Iowa
Population 24,998
In July 2010, Police Chief Jim Clark said there had been no recorded pit bull attacks since the city’s 2003 pit bull ban. Between 1989 and 2003, the city had a pit bull ordinance, but still allowed pit bulls as “guard” dogs.
“Police Chief Jim Clark says since the ban, there have been no recorded attacks by the animals.
“We haven’t had any attacks since then for one thing because it is illegal,” said Clark. “Most people are keeping their dogs inside their house or inside their basement and not letting them out loose so therefore they’re not around other people to attack them.”
“In the two-and-a-half years before the 2003 ban, Ottumwa police recorded 18 pit bull attacks, including the death of 21-month-old Charlee Shepherd in August 2002. There were at least three other attacks on children during this time.”
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Little Rock, Arkansas
Population 189,515
When the City of Indianapolis was discussing a pit bull sterilization law in April 2009, Little Rock Animal Services Director Tracy Roark spoke about Little Rock’s successful 2008 pit bull ordinance:
“There was a day when you could walk down any street in center city Little Rock, you could see several pit bulls chained up. You don’t see that anymore,” said Tracy Roark with Little Rock Animal Services.
Roark told Eyewitness News over the phone that pit bull attacks have been cut in half and credits their new law with getting them there.
“This is the most abused dog in the city,” said Roark.
The Little Rock law passed last year and requires pit bulls to be sterilized, registered and microchipped. Also dogs – regardless of the breed – are also not allowed to be chained up outside.”
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Fort Lupton, Colorado
Population 6,787
When the City of Fort Collins was mulling a pit bull law in March 2009, Fort Lupton’s Police Chief spoke about Fort Lupton’s successful 2003 pit bull ban, including zero pit bull biting incidents since the law’s adoption:
“Fort Lupton Police Chief Ron Grannis said the city hasn’t had a pit bull bite since the ban was enacted, but it still has the occasional pit bull that is picked up and taken away.
Although he said the ban has not been well-received by every resident, he thinks it was the right decision for the city.
“I believe it makes the community safer,” he said. “That’s my personal opinion. Pit bulls are not the kind of dogs most people should have. They are too unpredictable. … These dogs have been bred for thousands of years to be fighters.
You can’t take it out of them. A lion cub may be friendly for a while, but one day it can take your head off.”
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Reading, Pennsylvania
Population 80,560
After an 8-year legal battle, pit bull advocates dismantled a pit bull law adopted by Reading in 1998. It was reported in the same news article, in February 2008, that the law had significantly reduced biting incidents:
“Reading’s 1998 law required that aggressive or dangerous dogs, when outside the home, be muzzled and kept on a leash shorter than three feet long with a minimum tensile strength of 300 pounds.
The law also punished violators with fines of up to $1,000 or 30 days in jail.
The law is credited with helping to reduce dog bites from 130 in 1999 to 33 in 2006. As a result, the law – or at least elements of it – were not being actively enforced, the Reading Eagle reported last year.
ALEXANDRA SEMYONOVA, animal behaviorist
You will also not prevent the dog from being what he is genetically predisposed to be. Because the inbred postures and behaviors feel good, fitting the body and brain the dog has been bred with, they are internally motivated and internally rewarded.
This means that the behavior is practically impossible to extinguish by manipulating external environmental stimuli.
The reward is not in the environment, but in the dog itself! As Coppinger and Coppinger (2001, p. 202) put it, “The dog gets such pleasure out of performing its motor pattern that it keeps looking for places to display it.” Some dogs get stuck in their particular inbred motor pattern.
As pointed out above, this kind of aggression has appeared in some other breeds as an unexpected and undesired anomaly – the golden retriever, the Berner Senne hund, the cocker spaniel have all had this problem.
The lovers of aggressive breeds try to use these breeding accidents to prove that their aggressive breeds are just like any other dog, “see, they’re no different from the cuddly breeds.” But a cuddly breed sometimes ending up stuck with a genetic disaster does not prove that the behavior is normal canine behavior. All it proves is that the behavior is genetically determined.
“These dogs aren’t killers because they have the wrong owners, rather they attract the wrong owners because they are killers.” The 100 Silliest Things People say about dogs.
JOHN FAUL, animal behaviorist
Faul said they were dangerous and a threat to life. He said the pitbull was bred to be absolutely fearless and had a “hair-trigger” attack response.
“The cardinal rule is that these dogs are not pets,” he said.
“The only way to keep them is in a working environment.”
He said the only relationship one could have with the pitbull was one of “dominance, sub-dominance”, in which the dog was reminded daily of its position.
ANDREW ROWAN, PhD, Tufts Center for Animals
“A pit bull is trained to inflict the maximum amount of damage in the shortest amount of time. Other dogs bite and hold. A Doberman or a German shepherd won’t tear if you stand still.
A pit bull is more likely to remove a piece of tissue. Dogs fight as a last resort under most circumstances. But a pit bull will attack without warning. If a dog shows a submissive characteristic, such as rolling over most dogs wills top their attack. A pit bull will disembowel its victim.”
“A study by Dr Randall Lockwood of the US Humane Society found that pit bulls are more likely to break restraints to attack someone and that pit bulls are more likely to attack their owners, possibly as a result of owners trying to separate their dogs from victims.”
Jørn Våge, Tina B Bønsdorff, Ellen Arnet, Aage Tverdal and Frode Lingaas, Differential gene expression in brain tissues of aggressive and non-aggressive dogs
The domestic dog (Canis familiaris), with its more than 400 recognised breeds [1], displays great variation in behaviour phenotypes.
Favourable behaviour is important for well-being and negative traits such as aggression may ruin the owner-dog relationship and lead to relinquishment to shelters or even euthanasia of otherwise healthy dogs [2,3].
Behavioural traits result from an interaction of both genetic and environmental factors. Breed specific behavioural traits such as hunting, herding and calmness/aggression are, however, evidence of a large genetic component and specific behaviours show high heritabilities [4-8].
ALAN BECK, Sc.D
However, Alan Beck, director of the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine Center of the Human-Animal Bond, favors letting the breed go into extinction.
“This breed alone is a risk of serious public health factors,” Beck said. “We are keeping them alive against their own best interests.”
Beck said while he does not advocate taking dogs from current and caring owners, he does feel that it has become more of a social and political issue for people than a health one.
“If these dogs were carrying an actual disease, people would advocate euthanizing them,” Beck said. “This breed itself is not natural.”
“It has this sort of mystique that attracts a population of people. Of course, most of these dogs are never going to bite, as champions of the breed will tell you. But most people who smoke don’t get cancer, but we know regulations help reduce a significant risk.”
“I know you’re going to get beat up for this. But they just aren’t good dogs to own. That’s why so many of them are relinquished to shelters. There are too many other breeds out there to take a chance on these guys.”
MERRITT CLIFTON, journalist, Animal People editor
There are very few people, if any, who have written more on behalf of dogs over the past 40-odd years than I have, or spent more time down the back alleys of the developing world observing dogs in the habitats in which normal dogs came to co-evolve with humans.
But appreciation of the ecological roles of street dogs & coyotes, exposing dog-eating and puppy mills, opposition to indiscriminate lethal animal control, introduction of high-volume low-cost spay/neuter and anti-rabies vaccination, introduction of online adoption promotion, encouraging the formation of thousands of new humane societies worldwide, etc., are not to be confused with pit bull advocacy.
Pit bull advocacy is not defending dogs; it is defending the serial killers of the dog world, who kill, injure, and give bad reputations to all the rest. Indeed, pit bull advocacy, because it erodes public trust in dogs and people who care about dogs, stands a good chance of superseding rabies as the single greatest threat to the health, well-being, and human appreciation of all dogs worldwide.
STANLEY COREN, PhD
“A dog’s breed tells us a lot about that dog’s genetic heritage and makeup. Genetics is a strong determinant of personality. In the absence of any other information, we can make a reasonable prediction about how the dog will behave based upon its breed.” p 84
“When we crossbreed, we lose some of that predictability, since which genes will be passed on by each parent and how they will combine is a matter of chance. Fortunately, there is some data to suggest that we can still make predispositions without knowing much about its parentage.
John Paul Scott and John L Fuller carried out a series of selective breeding experiments at the Jackson Laboratories in Bar Harbor, Maine. By happy chance, their results revealed a simple rule that seems to work. Their general conclusion was that a mixed breed dog is most likely to act like the breed that it most looks like.”
A pit bull killed a friends 6 month old German Shepard puppy at Black Diamond Mines regional park. The pits owner said the dog was normally friendly, wouldn’t hurt anything. She wasn’t strong enough to control the dog. My 60# female Lab has been attacked three times by pit bulls in the same park, in each of those cases the owner was strong enough to stop the attack. I now carry bear spray…
Pit-bull Rescue Central, the leading authority of pit bull types, admits MOST pit-bull types are not safe around other dogs because of their genetics. For that reason alone is why I do not consider them safe family pets for our neighborhoods. These are powerful animals that break away from their guardians all the time and maul & kill another beloved pet or person in front of a child or person. This is a typical pit attack on another beloved pet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZTiGWgQubA Too many children & adults have watched their beloved pets be mauled to death by pit bulls. Many develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after watching a horrific pit attack: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=684_1405912995
According to Pit Bull Rescue Central, “It is a FACT that our pit bulls, AmStaffs and pit mixes come with a built-in fighting heritage.It doesn’t matter where we get them from, whether it be the pound, a stray we pick up, or a puppy we buy from a breeder. The majority of pit bulls will, at some point in their lives, exhibit some degree of dog-on-dog aggression. Yet, chances are that a “normal” pit bull will not share his affection with other animals.We cannot predict when or where it will happen and we can’t love, train or socialize it out ofthe dog. Pit bulls may not start fights, but they will finish them.” http://www.pbrc.net/misc/PBRC_dogpark.pdf”
Pit Bull Rescue Central recommends ALL pit guardians to have a “break stick”, a wedge-shaped piece of wood used to pry open a pit bull’s jaw during an attack. A break-stick is to pry open a pit bull’s jaw during an attack FOR ME THIS IS ANOTHER RED FLAG! Does not sound like a safe family pet if you need a breakstick on hand. “Since pit bulls have a strong fighting background, we recommend that pet owners also have a breaking stick as a precaution, even if they don’t plan to use it in an illegal context. However, please be discreet. Breaking sticks are not something to brag about and the general public might have the wrong impression if you walk around with a stick in your hand. Breaking sticks are not illegal, but they are considered dog fighting paraphernalia in certain states and/or with certain law enforcement agents.” http://www.pbrc.net/breaksticks.html This person demonstrates how to use a break stick on a pit-bull: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfMVH4wY5Pg
There are over 200 dog breeds and pit bull breeders are the only ones who are breeding for aggression and power to create the ultimate canine gladiator. They are supplying to dog fighters, drug dealers, people who want a guard dog or a dog that looks like a protection dog. Pit-bull type dogs are the number one dog surrendered to shelters, a million every year, mostly because of aggression issues. Then many are rehomed by irresponsible pit bull advocates back into our communities. Watch this clip of unethical backyard breeders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiZOj9o6jpE So basically people who have pits are playing Russian Roulette against our communities.
More in depth look at pit bull breeders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA963En60fg
From the guru of pit bulls who has a national TV show called Pitbull & Parolees, Tia Torres /Villalobos Rescue Center and Rescue Train “It’s a mistake to think the fighting gene can be easily trained or loved out of a pit-bull.” http://www.therescuetrain.org/pit_bull_education.php
I appreciate that Pit bull Rescue Central is telling pit-bull guardians not to take their dog to off-leash parks but many pit guardians are still very ignorant to this recommendation. What is bewildering to me is that Pit Bull Rescue Central admits that other beloved dogs in the community are not safe around pit-bulls because of their genetic makeup but promotes them as a great family pet. For me this is a red flag that you are compromising public safety and the safety of our beloved pets in our communities. Of all the dog breeds, they are the all time number one killer of humans and other people’s beloved pets. If all these guardians would have picked a safer pet like a beagle instead of a pit, we would not even be having this conversation. What other type of dog has the ability to kill humans that would be mistaken for a pit bull type? These families know exactly what breed killed their loved one: http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2014.php Then these pit-bull advocates are oblivious and offended why people do not want these dogs in the neighborhood. REALLY? Are you really that blind? Do I really have to spell it out for you? Many people in the neighborhood have beloved pets that they consider family members. They are concerned for their pet’s safety and they do not want their dog to get mauled to death. Now people in the neighborhood who have pets have to live in fear if this powerful pit bull will get away from the guardian and hurt or kill their beloved pet. Almost all dog guardians have an accidental mishap where their dog gets away from them by mistake. Pit bull type dogs are 0 mistake dogs and people make too many mistakes.
Kristy Keusch. I realize you are passionate about your subject but it is obvious you have not researched enough and do not know enough to tell fact from fiction. You have taken a terrible beating here and I’m sorry for that but you need to do a better job of research before you attempt this again. I hope you do a better job of protecting others against pit bull type animals.
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