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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it is very important to make some distinctions about pit bull owners in this discussion. My knowledge comes from having prosecuted dangerous dog cases in the past and having educated myself extensively on the issue of dog attacks etc.

Yes, some of the people who own pit bull/bully breed dogs are nasty trashy violent people who specifically wanted a dog that would scare people and maybe even attack them and of course many want them to fight other dogs etc.

But I would venture a guess that the majority of pit bull/bully breed owners are folks who have rescued them after buying into the pro pit propaganda of the last decade or more which misinforms people about the trustworthiness of the breed so they are bringing them home to their kids and don’t grasp that they have opened the window to a potentially disfiguring or fatal dog attack becoming an experience their family endures.

I understand dog breeding far better than most people, so I know that the traits bred into these dogs don’t go away just because we have decided they should be couch potato snuggling pals instead of dogs that are so tenacious and impervious to pain they used to attack full grown bulls and hold on until death. Those instincts are still there. The ability to break into violent attack without warning, unique to a very small subset of dog breeds, does not go away. That is why if you bother to read the horrific actual accounts of attacks you will hear over and over how loving responsible dog owners were horribly shocked the day their sweet and loving bully breed family pet ‘went beserk’ and ate the kids faces off - or grandma’s. These people are really well meaning, I truly believe it.[/quote]
I’m sure some of them are well meaning, but that doesn’t change the outcome for the dead or mauled. And how many maulings have to happen before “well meaning” becomes “willfully blind”? [/quote]

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