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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had no particular feeling one way or another about pit bulls until I was at a Delaware beach last Thanksgiving and saw a pit bull on a leash approach a small dog (with permission from the owner) and in a flash, grab its neck in its jaws and shake it til it was mortally wounded, which took less than five seconds. The police were called while the small dog died, bleeding and peeing on its hysterical owner.

I talked to the owner of the pitbull, who was also traumatized, and said she had owned the dog for years and it had never done anything like that. She still didn't know why he would have done it. She was very upset over what had happened, but also by the knowledge that the police were surely going to now take the dog she loved and put it to sleep.

So I had no particular feeling about pit bulls before this incident, but after watching the little dog's owner cry hysterically as her bloody dog died in her arms for no good reason due to a dog that (so says the owner) had never acted violently before, I feel differently now. I would talk to the owner. [/quote]

That is horrifying.  I'm sorry that you had to witness that - how awful.  I can't imagine having one of my precious pups mauled by an out of control dog.

How on earth did both of those owners not see that the dog was approaching to attack?  That's the thing that I don't get.  Was the dog at all angry/aggressive approaching the little dog?  I'm assuming that the little dog's owner was also allowing her dog to approach the pit?[/quote]

Last month a pit (beloved pet) suddenly attacked and killed a newborn while the family (mom, dad and baby) were relaxing in bed. Thebpit was supposedly relaxing too.

Mom sneezed and the "gentle family pet" went from calm to killing the baby in seconds.[/quote]

That sounds like "cocker rage" which is a neurological problem that causes an animal to go berserk from a calm or sleepy state, often from some sudden stimulus.  It sometimes occurs in other breeds as well.  I don't know the incident you're referring to, but I wonder if the dog was a mix or purebred (Am Staffy, etc.).

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

It's not a defect in a pit-it's what it was bred to do.  [/quote]

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