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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My aunt and uncle had an adorable tan and white pit with a pink nose. Raised from a puppy, snuggled with all of us on the couch, ran miles with my uncle every day. Never saw anything aggressive in her, rarely even heard her bark. I also wondered how people could malign the entire breed and assumed it was dogs who were abused or mishandled that attacked. My uncle was talking to a neighbor in his yard about sports or something where the neighbor was speaking animatedly and gesturing with his hands. Out of nowhere the dog jumped up and attacked him and clamped onto his arm. It took both my aunt and uncle hitting her with a chair to get her off of him and my uncle finally was able to confine her to the garage. The neighbor required hundreds of stitches and my aunt and uncle had the dog euthanized.

We were all truly shocked and saddened by it - it changed my opinion on dogs in general, to be honest, and I'm hesitant to have one as a pet (I know this is super paranoid). Meanwhile my aunt and uncle's daughters were really traumatized by the whole thing and went the other direction - they both rescue pits and post pictures of them with their kids, insist that they are still great family dogs. It's insane.[/quote]

I just posted about a similar attach (different breed, but also one that's much maligned) and neither me nor my husband have ever been the same around dogs after he was attacked.

My mom's Australian shepherd was attacked by a pit on a walk -- the pit came flying out of nowhere and bit off half her ear. Owner was close behind, very distressed.

I've never heard of a golden retriever or [b]cocker spaniel[/b] doing this. [/quote]

Some cocker spaniels, the red ones as well as the black ones, have a problem called "cocker rage" that seems to be something between a hair trigger and a seizure that will cause them to bite, out of the blue.  I had a friend who had to put their cocker down after it bit their niece.  Other dogs have had this "rage syndrome", it appears to be genetic and a major fault.  Pit bulls have never been reported to have rage syndrome, they seem to attack or kill as a breed, not a genetic fault.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_syndrome[/quote]

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