Reply #37: The problem with pibbies--which by the way can be the most

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sweet and wonderful pets, is that they are so darned powerful, and so much of that power is in their jaws. If you are bitten and chewed on by an anima with that kind of jaw power, you are going to be more severely injured. On top of that, pibbies are very persistent, so if one attacks, it wll be hard to get it to stop the attack.

But the real problem is bad owners who get these excellent animals and then deliberately raise them to be unsocialiized and dangerous. It is really the owner that is dangerous, because he has deliberately made his dog into a weapon, always ready to go off. Also, many pit bull owners are so irresponsible that you cannot assume they willl keep their dogs from running loose, creting a real threat to other people in the area.

Nevertheless, the many pit bulls and pit bull mixes I have interacted with in my 60 years are some of the nicest dogs I have ever known.