Reply #7: Thing about Pit Bulls

[hollowdweller]

Is really that the perception is more like the story of the owner sicking him on somebody else. A guard dog or attack dog, which they can be.

HOWEVER the reality is that they are generally really friendly good natured dogs that are great around people until the switch is thrown and a lot of times it's impossible to tell what threw the switch.

Also just like guns in a way, the stats often show that they end up injuring others in the family, ore even their owners rather than people who threaten them.

I've never known any friend or aquaintance that had their pit bull attack a person at random. However I have known several whose pit bulls attacked them or their kids without warning. These same people also went on about how it's the owner and not the dog all the time up until it attacked them or their friends or family. Then they switched to something that happened to the dog before they adopted it.