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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I foster for one of the rescues mentioned here.

Recently I fostered a little of rat terrier/pittbull terrier mixes. They were docile and trainable, even as a group. Many dogs you get from rescues, despite not looking like pitts, could potentially have pittbull genes, so you'll have to determine whether you're comfortable with any admixture of pitt and if so, how much.

There's a whole other conversation about whether it's sufficient for the dog to not have the pitt jaws, which were bred to never let go, and exert 242 pounds of pressure per square inch, or whether pitts have innately aggressive personalities (which I don't believe, personally). And if the former is your concern, ***then you need to also avoid any dog that has a jaw structure with the strength similar to a pittbull's***: German Shepherds, Rottweilers, Bulldogs, and Mastiffs, Chow Chows, Belgian Malinois, Dobermans, and Boxers. Labrador Retrievers also have a strong bite, but they are the American family dog par excellence, so people don't want to believe it...

[/quote] for someone who works in rescue your ignorance is astounding. There is nothing about a pit bulls jaw that makes it not let go. Lock jaw is not a thing either… just hysteria brought on by the masses…. [/quote]

It's not a mechanically locking jaw. It's a ridiculously strong and tenacious dog bred to bite other dogs and not let go even when being attacked in turn. They're just so. freaking. strong. I agree that people shouldn't have GSDs, Rottweilers, Chow Chows, etc if they can't handle them either. If you can't pull your dog off another dog, you shouldn't have that dog. [/quote]

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