We have not had an official dog expert classify the breed at a pit bull.
It's the reporters, not the breed!!!!!1
I know this is a snide comment to those stupidly suggesting that these attacks aren't all technically from pit bulls as if it matters, but this was confirmed by the vet who put the dog down. The sad thing about this story is the dog owner and the victim were very good friends (the families that is). The owner's lucky the dog didn't get to his kids. They are much smaller (2-3 years old).
this is clearly the dog's fault, the dog that was raised and trained so well that it was on a cable in the yard. just go ahead and put down the owner too.
I'm not interested in the stupid little slap fights going on in here. Try and fish someone else. Not here to assign blame to anyone or anything, just pointing out the tragedy.
you're just pointing out the tragedy? by saying the vet confirmed the breed of the dog, you're just pointing out the tragedy? who is fishing whom here?
I'm just pointing out that this dog was on a chain in the backyard. JC, read these stories. an unnuetered 3-5 year old pitbull, dogs on chains, dogs left alone with kids. people clearly have no idea what it takes to raise a well-trained, socialized dog. yes, a pitbull will do more damage than most dogs, but there are common themes in these stories. go get a lab and chain it up in your backyard, don't neuter him, and let a neighborhood kid go in its space and see what happens. the ignorance in this thread is through the roof.
I got a lab, it couldnt do what these Pits do on his very best day.You could kick my wife (who has fed him every meal of his 10 years), take his
squeaky, eat his food out of his bowl, steal his bone,
slap him in his uneutered balls, burn his bed and rip the BegginStrips from his teeth and he couldn't inflict 1/10th of the damage of a Pit. Further more, he wouldnt try because its not bred into him to kill or be killed.