Note: if tl/dr please take a look at my question @ the end. Help is greatly appreciated.

100 ****ing percent yes. My family has had dogs all my life and I currently own a Pit Bull (First Pitt). She is the friendliest most loyal and loving dog I've ever seen in my life. Okay yes, she does look like a super intimidating, monster of a beast. That doesn't reflect her behavior/personality at all tho.

It's cliché as hell to say, but I am a firm believer that there are no bad dogs, just bad dog owners. IMO a dogs attitude and behavior are severely influenced by the way in-which they are raised and the enviorment that they are raised in. I don't care if it's a Pit, Rottweiler, Doberman or any other type of so called "vicious" breed; a dog raised with love and affection will give it right back (and not maul babies faces off for the lols). I've had my dog since she was a puppy and she has always been awesome. People who are in anyway involved in the world of dog fighting, which turns these amazing animals into killing machines, are the lowest of the low scumbags. Right down there with pedos, rapists and murderers.

Edit- thinking about it further, I don't think I'd be opposed to some sort of restrictions on who could own a Pitt, simply because in the wrong hands they CAN become extremely dangerous animals. The same could be said for any dog I guess, but more so with Pitts, given their insane physical attributes/abilities. Just my meaningless 2 cents.

Speaking of my pupp, she got sprayed by a skunk on our walk tonight, anyone got some good recommendations on reamadies for the odor? Preferably something that actually works? Thanks in advance.

Cliche as hell to say and demonstrably proven false itt. The pit's good qualities are dog qualities; the pit's bad qualities are pit qualities. They have negative Value Over Replacement Dog and the rest of us should not be subject to even the remote possibility of getting mauled on the sidewalk for violating some kind of hair trigger we did not know existed.

Don't you think nearly every owner says this? Is there any reason we should believe your dog possess these qualities any more than mine?

Do you think every person whose pit has mauled someone was a bad owner? Do you see how that might be circular logic?

Dr Kevorkian has some good remedies.

There are no bad dogs. I repeat: NO bad dogs.

A feral pit wouldn't harm a fly. Put it in the care of some dumbass human, though...look out.

Repeat 100 times, then it becomes true.

What every pit bull owner says the day before their dog kills a toddler.

posted something on facebook a few weeks ago, just to stir the pot about how awful pits are. Get the usual ******ed responses about how their dog is the best, photos of their dogs with their kids and stuffed animals, get ridiculed, 0% of the facts were absorbed.

we are definitely fighting a losing battle here, there's simply no way to win. people are simply to ****ing stupid.

worst part? one of the girls who I hook up with every now and then deleted me off social media, and when I hit her up to **** last week she said "i don't think we can do that anymore, my pitbull might attack you." hahahahaha

*too

Hahahaha at least she had a sense of humor.

I think even posting even a super mild question like "what do you get from your pit bull that you couldn't get from another breed?" would still provoke the same stupidity.

I've never met a single woman with a well trained dog. I'd be terrified of a pit bull in that situation.

That's a bit like saying there are no stupid people, just stupid parents. It's not really nature vs. nurture as much as it's nature and nurture for both humans and dogs.

So it's settled, the answer is no.

lotta TRUMP voters itt

That was sarcasm.

The crux of the debate is a simple cost/benefit analysis that doesn't seem refutable to me.

Stop breeding...

C: Price to neuter, missed revenue to breeders. There are ~350 breeds of dogs...no environmental cost to lose 1. Plus some irrational, emotional burden for people. Annoying facebook statuses.
B: Around 20 kids/year won't die

My family and I visited a friend last Friday. She has two rescues: a foster that just had pups, and "her" dog, which they've had for a while and is super friendly and awesome! Both are pit mixes of some sort, the "family dog" is really big - it looks like it has some Dogo Argentino in it. Anyway, we all went outside to see the big dog, and after climbing on me it went right for my son, who was a little scared and shying away, which I think drew its attention. It bit him on the face, not breaking skin, and then went for his leg. It seemed to me that everything was happening in slow motion, but my wife assures me it wasn't. I pried the thing's jaws open as it tried to lock onto my son's leg while my friend wrapped a rope around its neck and pulled as hard as she could. I was trying to remain calm so as to not rile the dog up any further, and calmly carried my son inside. It was ****ing nuts. My wife is still upset. I can only begin to imagine what would've happened if this didn't all occur basically within my arms reach.

I imagine that has very very little to do with this thread, which I haven't really read, or the thread title at least. But I am damn skippy not letting either of my children near these kinds of dogs unattended.

Holy ****. Very happy your son wasn't badly hurt.

LFS,

That has a lot to do with this thread, except the outcome isn't always as happy. Glad your son is ok.

hard to imagine not killing that dog on the spot with my bare hands if I were in LFS's shoes

glad things turned out ok lfs

It's hard to say, but I think I'm not favored in that matchup.

The whole thing was like an out of body experience. I hadn't seen this friend in like ten years, was visiting from out of town, and this happened within our first ten minutes at her house. As you can imagine, it put a bit of a damper on the visit. She was mortified, and we were obviously super shaken. I was trying to maintain an air of calm, both for my kids' and my wife's benefit. The last thing in the world that would've occurred to me would have been to try to harm the dog.

That said, it should never be around children. Obviously my friend says that nothing like that has happened before, but now she knows it can. And since you really can't guarantee it'll never get at a child again, my personal opinion is that you'd be doing the world a favor to put the thing down.

you'd be doing a favor reporting the attack and getting it put down

hell i'd probably do it myself if i could

I've been mulling that. As you can imagine, it's pretty sticky. If it was a stranger's dog I probably wouldn't hesitate. After having a few days to process I think I need to communicate with my friend about it.

Damn that's scary. Glad he's okay.

If you were able to pry it's jaws open I think you could have been in a position to just put it in a headlock and choke it out. Hard for a dog to escape that. Not that I'm criticising what you did, you had to react in a split second.