Pit Bull Opinions!

All breeds, all creatures are interesting in their own way. Pit bulls are no exception. They are bred through bad breeders, and forced to fight. Sometimes the owners will beat them because they won't be mean. It has nothing to do with their breed. Breeders choose this breed because they are strong. Not mean. They have to train them to be mean. It's a fact. I am sick of people stereotyping dogs. I want a rottweiler. I used to own a pit bull and he was the sweetest dog ever. Very playful and friendly to everyone.

Most dogs are gentle no matter the breed. They are PACK animals and behave a certain way when in a pack that they wouldn't behave at any other time. Someone coming in "their" yard is someone trespassing to them and to most owners also no matter what the breed is. Letting your animals off their leash in a public place is foolish to say the least. An individual animal will usually still obey but several together usually don't. That is an incident waiting to happen. Most news stories about dog attacks are blown out of porportion especially if it is certain dog breeds. You don't hear about the little dog that bit someone and the person required major surgery for their face and eye because it was a small dog. I know accidents happen but you can cut down on them by not letting your dog run off leash in public places and keep your fenced yard checked regularly to make sure it is intact and not a place for them to escape from. Sometimes it will still happen but if it isn't a habit most neighbors know it and understand unless something real bad takes place.

I agree that not all pit bulls are bad dogs; BUT, in the past 30 days; 2 separate dog bite incidents have taken place in our city. In both cases, pit bulls WERE the dogs involved. In the first case a man was checking the utility meter reading at a home. He did know about the pit bulls and had been told to knock at the door before entering the yard. He was told the dogs were NOT left in the back yard if no one was home. He did knock on the front door and ring the door bell; but, no one answered. Believing no one was home and the back yard would not be occupied by the dogs; he went in to read the meter. The dogs were there. He was seriously injured. The owner said she had been in the shower and had not heard him until he started screaming. The second incident occured at a local dog park. A couple was walking their dog along one of the paths when they and their dog were attacked by FIVE pit bulls. Their dog required extensive surgery and they required stitches. The owner of the pit bulls apologized and said he had just let them off their leashes to play and they had never done anything like this before. When incidents like this happen back to back after no dog bite incidents for almost a year; how do you think people are going to react? The last incident before this was a rottweiler attacking a neighbor's pet when it "got loose". I have lived here for 12 years now. During that time we have had a couple of attacks on pets by coyotes (which are wild and no one's pets). We have had 5 attacks by pit bulls (4 incidents had people injured and 3 involved pets), 1 by a rottweiler (attacking a pet), and 1 by a golden lab (bit someone who climbed over a wall and entered their back yard). With records like this, you cannot expect pit bulls to "come out smelling like roses". For every gentle pit bull; there is another one that is not gentle. I also agree that we should blame the people who own and raise them. Personally, I think the owners should have to have a license/permit to own one of these dogs. But, then I think the same thing about people having kids - we have a lot of really bad parents out there too.

I agree with you 100%...I don't believe any of this BS about any of the "bully breeds," pitbulls most of all. I work directly with ALL kinds of dogs. I once worked with this BIG pitbull mix...he was such a baby! lol. He was about 2, maybe 3 times bigger than a pure pit...and he liked to sit in my lap! lol. I sat on the floor with him (because I'm never afraid of any kind of dog-maybe I'm a little too trusting...lol). Anyways, he sat on my lap and gave me big kisses! lol. I've never owned a pitbull, yet. But when I move out of my parents house that's the breed I plan on getting. I really want to go to a shelter and adopt a dog, I just hope they have a pit somewhere. If not I plan on asking them for a list of dogs due to be euthanized, I figure they need saved first, right? That is so cute that your pit loves the baby like his/her own :)

hi there MakinMoney129 yes bit bulls i got bitten by one of them on my arm it really hurt i was on tablets because of that i never want to go througth that ever again thanks for this discussion and happy postings

I've never had any trouble with them either. The majority of pit bull attacks are due to human ingorance or stupidity. You can't train a dog to fight to kill and then expect it to be okay around a child or another human being. That dog, any breed from a poodle to a pit, sees that child, other human or anyone else as a threat and the training kicks in and the dog does what it's supposed to do: kills. Human ignorance is to blame. Not the breed. "Does that mean we should euthanise them, or not allow them to live in certain areas?" That made me laugh. It really did. + to you for your discussion.