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Pet wolf hybrid attacks, kills 3-month old baby in Alabama (www.cbsnews.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I grew up around Staffordshire pitbulls who all pitbulls are decended from. To me for a long time they were what a dog was cos everyone had one. Loving, protective, social dogs that had bounds of energy. Even "owned" one for a short while and was comfortable enough to walk off lead with her. Her only problem was other dogs, couldn't be around them really and saw them as a challenge which was frustrating cos of how amenable she was the rest of the time.

As my previous comment goes, she would fall under beast and is better off as a working defence dog and not around people or other animals really. That's the issue, people keeping dogs that are trained for purpose and then keeping them as pets without purpose.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I largely agree with this. I simply think Pitbulls were bred with certain qualities that don't take kindly to average urban lifestyles. My neighbor 3 doors down had 3 Pitbulls maul their golden retriever to death. Perfect example of what you said. Meanwhile the hospital nearby took a 2-year-old mauled by her own family's Pitbulls a few years back. Anecdotes of course but that only corroborates the national statistics I already mentioned.

    The thing is, it's almost always Pitbulls. Retrievers retrieve. Pointers point. Shepherds herd. Pitbulls fight.

    I say that as someone who was hospitalized by a German Shepherd for 2 days when I was 12 lol. The only dog I am more cautious with than a Pitbull is a shar pei. Whew... Bred to be imperial guard dogs... I knew one for years and I had very close calls with it.

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