Pitbull attack

[SonnysMom]

I have a black lab that is the show lab lines so has the blocky head. I have had people ask me if he is a pit cross. Nope. His father won at Westminster as a lab, his mother is a champion. I actually had somebody ask if my previous yellow lab was a pit bull cross. He had papers too. People figure anything with a big blocky head must be a pit cross. I don’t always trust people’s assessment of dog breeds especially in the heat of a dog attack.

[JanM]

Where I live a local no kill rescue was calling anything with a blocky head a “Lab cross”. That didn’t work out well for many adopters, so now they say lab cross or pit cross if they know what the dog really is (many are owner surrendered apparently).

[CanadianTrotter]

@dog&horsemom

Its January 2020 and we already have two deaths by dogs - in this instance , both are pitbulls. A man in Kentucky - the woman who owns the dog may be charged with murder and a baby in Ohio, parents aren’t charged although they left the child alone with the dog. 2019 saw an all time high of human fatalities by dog maulings - 48 total. Last year was in the 30’s. This is in the U.S.

Add a 5 year old being mauled to death by another pit bull. Too horrible to even imagine what that poor little boy experienced.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6535711/pit-bull-kills-boy-california/

[Foxtrot_s]

I’ll admit to being prejudiced towards PitBulls. The dog has to prove itself to me first. We have a ‘rescue’ in our group - owner tries to be resonsible but it is an unpredictable dog - not for me at all - I steer clear of it.

In the for sale ads there are always more PB’s than any other breed. Large litters and ill bred by owners who just want to turn a buck. I’ also prejudiced by many of the owners - simply by their looks.

We had two English Bull teriers - wonderful dogs. One (female) was in tune with ten year old boys (fun), the elderly, and babies - gentle as can be. The male - big goofy and rather dumb - but he had affinity to the disabled. We had a nursery and an adult with balance and other disabilities came by - he stuck his nose to her heel and would not leave her side. He
knew - and when she left he put his slitty little eye up to a knot the the gate and watched them until they were out of sight.
Every time they came - same treatment of gluing himself to her.

Yet when we needed to board them so we could take a weekend away, the boarding place refused. I remember English Bull terriers back in UK where they wouuld go walks with their rather tweedy, country owners.

Ours were lovely.