Re: young babies
Please supervise at all times with dogs, and use gates to separate when you can’t. Many breeds have killed very young babies - including a pom and most recently a husky. An Airedale did it years ago. A local vet interviewed afterwards said it was likely prey drive.
Another pibble lover here. I just PTS my 14yo pibble. Best dog ever.
Gasp!
Me too. When we had three it was a pibble, a rottie and a greyhound.
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All three lived quite contentedly together. I must say I have always been far more worried about the greyhound eating a human than either of the other two.
We never had any pit bulls, but several members of our dog club did and do, over many years and they seemed just like any other well trained dog, no problems with them.
We used to have dobies and a rottie and had a neighbor that, during that time, would not come by and told us he would not, because of “those mean black dogs”, he was scared of them.
We told him that if a dog of ours was to bite someone, it would be the bossy toy poodle that ran the place and that was true, she had a bit of an attitude:
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While a big dog that means business can do so much more damage than a shrimpy one, it comes down to each dog, not the breed or size, if a dog will go there when provoked.
A few years ago, friend lost her old lab and her vet offered her this “hound dog” someone had dropped at their clinic.
She went to get her and it was a pit bull.
She and the vet are still today laughing about her “hound dog”.
She is 88 and loves that dog, that is a real sweetheart and loves any and all critters, of any species.
Folks, it is the individual dog, it’s temperament, training and management, not the breed that can be a problem.
Not any breed’s problem that bad owners or the press scary stories chose that breed.
Although, as in the case of that baby here, that the dog was at least part pit was one more nail in the pit as bad breed coffin.
