Positive stories about pits

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://people.com/pets/hero-pit-bull-protects-lost-child-until-he-is-found-by-police/?amp=true

Yay! That’s more like it. Here’s another one about a 3-year-old: https://www.newsweek.com/pit-bull-mauls-3-year-old-death-eyewitness-stabs-dog-save-child-south-africa-1661168" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://www.newsweek.com/pit-bull-mauls-3-year-old-death-eyewitness-stabs-dog-save-child-south-africa-1661168

Not the point. Go on the other thread hater.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was so grateful that DD's BF's pit pulled its teeth out of her face at BF's command (and physically pulling the pit away from DDs face). So only 24 stitches and barely a scar 5 years later. ER docs said she was very lucky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our neighbor has a pit or staffordshire terrier who sometimes escapes and comes to visit. She likes to come inside our house and tear around, literally do laps up and down the stairs and around the house. She’s so excited and happy you can’t even pet her because she’s so wiggly. I love her and have 0 fear when she’s around. She’d knock a small child over for sure but I have no fear about her being around my tweens, and they love her too.

There is nothing cuter than a wiggly escaped pit bull! Here’s another story about two escaped cuties who got a case of the wiggles:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news24.com/amp/news24/southafrica/news/66-year-old-dies-after-two-escaped-pit-bulls-maul-him-20211106" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news24.com/amp/news24/southafrica/news/66-year-old-dies-after-two-escaped-pit-bulls-maul-him-20211106

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This doesn’t change my mind. Sure they can be great dogs, but it’s not worth the risk.

( op here) I am not to change your mind because I know I can't. This is a discussion about positive pit stories. If you have nothing to add, than kindly leave.

Think of it like the Meghan Markle and Harry thread where they deleted you if you said one negative thing.

There are plenty of other threads you can comment on. Go there!

The difference is that to my knowledge Meghan Markle and Harry don’t pose an imminent threat to defenseless children and bystanders. Plugging your ears to the facts and any negative commentary doesn’t negate the highly elevated threat that pit bulls pose relative to other animals and the posters crowing about how well their pit bull gets along with their children should all be brought up on child endangerment charges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This doesn’t change my mind. Sure they can be great dogs, but it’s not worth the risk.

( op here) I am not to change your mind because I know I can't. This is a discussion about positive pit stories. If you have nothing to add, than kindly leave.

Think of it like the Meghan Markle and Harry thread where they deleted you if you said one negative thing.

There are plenty of other threads you can comment on. Go there!

The difference is that to my knowledge Meghan Markle and Harry don’t pose an imminent threat to defenseless children and bystanders. Plugging your ears to the facts and any negative commentary doesn’t negate the highly elevated threat that pit bulls pose relative to other animals and the posters crowing about how well their pit bull gets along with their children should all be brought up on child endangerment charges.

Don't you have anything better to do? Start you own thread. GO AWAY

[Anonymous]

I think people will look back on this era of pit bull dog love as crazy times. Kind of like the ocelot craze of the 1960s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This doesn’t change my mind. Sure they can be great dogs, but it’s not worth the risk.

( op here) I am not to change your mind because I know I can't. This is a discussion about positive pit stories. If you have nothing to add, than kindly leave.

Think of it like the Meghan Markle and Harry thread where they deleted you if you said one negative thing.

There are plenty of other threads you can comment on. Go there!

The difference is that to my knowledge Meghan Markle and Harry don’t pose an imminent threat to defenseless children and bystanders. Plugging your ears to the facts and any negative commentary doesn’t negate the highly elevated threat that pit bulls pose relative to other animals and the posters crowing about how well their pit bull gets along with their children should all be brought up on child endangerment charges.

Don't you have anything better to do? Start you own thread. GO AWAY

I know seriously. Go away!

Just to cheer things up here’s a tale of three little pups that just wouldn’t “go away!”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-fatal-dog-mauling-20220101-xfgpcawqcnh5lop6rzqfzq4vny-story.html%3foutputType=amp" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-fatal-dog-mauling-20220101-xfgpcawqcnh5lop6rzqfzq4vny-story.html%3foutputType=amp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://youtu.be/7kHNnxL7V8s

And what about this? Pit Bull part of the police K-9 unit. I supposed we’ll hear, “the dog isn’t dead yet, good luck.”

They can be shot within seconds. Sounds good to me.

[Anonymous]

Ok, I’m the spirit of burying the hatchet and coming together on this OP, I think we’ve all said some things we’d like to take back. I think maybe a few questions would help us find common ground.

- Do you believe the statistic that 65% of dog bite fatalities are from pit bulls? If not why not; and if so what do you think the practical implications of that should be?

- Do you believe that you can tell whether a pit bull will become dangerously aggressive based on past behavior? What confidence would you give to this assessment?

- Do you believe that, given an equivalent prediction to aggression, a pit bull is more dangerous than an average dog?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, I’m the spirit of burying the hatchet and coming together on this OP, I think we’ve all said some things we’d like to take back. I think maybe a few questions would help us find common ground.

- Do you believe the statistic that 65% of dog bite fatalities are from pit bulls? If not why not; and if so what do you think the practical implications of that should be?

- Do you believe that you can tell whether a pit bull will become dangerously aggressive based on past behavior? What confidence would you give to this assessment?

- Do you believe that, given an equivalent prediction to aggression, a pit bull is more dangerous than an average dog?

Sorry, predilection. That’s what you get for using them fancy words.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, I’m the spirit of burying the hatchet and coming together on this OP, I think we’ve all said some things we’d like to take back. I think maybe a few questions would help us find common ground.

- Do you believe the statistic that 65% of dog bite fatalities are from pit bulls? If not why not; and if so what do you think the practical implications of that should be?

- Do you believe that you can tell whether a pit bull will become dangerously aggressive based on past behavior? What confidence would you give to this assessment?

- Do you believe that, given an equivalent prediction to aggression, a pit bull is more dangerous than an average dog?

And given the inevitable answers to 1-3, do you believe that misguided would be do gooders should be allowed to put the broader population at risk?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the point of this thread is that some people get really sentimental about a dangerous breed and make decisions that ultimately, on average, harm others.

+100 it’s like people waxing poetic about they days when you were allowed to freely smoke in offices/restaurants/ cars with the windows rolled up with your kids. Never mind the non smokers who died of lung cancer as a result, most people made it through those times just fine so what’s the problem?

[Anonymous]

I know someone who has a pit that hasn’t ripped a baby’s face off or killed anything (yet).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, I’m the spirit of burying the hatchet and coming together on this OP, I think we’ve all said some things we’d like to take back. I think maybe a few questions would help us find common ground.

- Do you believe the statistic that 65% of dog bite fatalities are from pit bulls? If not why not; and if so what do you think the practical implications of that should be?

- Do you believe that you can tell whether a pit bull will become dangerously aggressive based on past behavior? What confidence would you give to this assessment?

- Do you believe that, given an equivalent prediction to aggression, a pit bull is more dangerous than an average dog?

And given the inevitable answers to 1-3, do you believe that misguided would be do gooders should be allowed to put the broader population at risk?

Also in the spirit of genuine inquiry OP: do you believe that COVID is a Chinese hoax; is the UN a plot by the Jews to institute one world government; did we really land on the moon or is it fake; and was Jan 6 a right-wing insurrection or an elaborate false-flag operation by BLM in whiteface? Thank you.

[Anonymous]

This is sort of like a thread saying "Let's share all the positive stories about people who wouldn't get vaccinated and got COVID and were totally fine."
Yes, clearly there are people that are totally fine, just as there are pits that will never have a psychotic break and try to kill the neighbor kid. But do we want to share these positive anecdotes about something that statistics and common sense teaches us is not a great idea?

I'm a dog lover but what scares me about many of the pit stories is that they are both so unpredictable ("he was such a sweet dog!") and that the pit is so often the aggressor with no provocation (whereas most dogs will only bite to protect themselves, their owner or their property -- so therefore are generally predictable if you know dog psychology). It's just crazy to me that anyone encourages people to own these dogs -- we need to figure out a way to lead this breed towards extinction.