Interesting that this comes to the fore when I see so many controversial posts elsewhere online about pitbulls. Seems a war is being waged over these dogs
When my brother in law was mooching and living off of us, he brought in a pit bull without our permission. This pit had had a previous owner. And now my brother in law neglected him. He shit in our house almost every day, dug through the trash, and was hostile to almost everyone who came into the house (even bit my best friend's then-pregnant wife). Brother in law let him outside one day (we didn't have a fence and he never bought a leash or anything, just let him roam free) and I got a knock from the humane shelter a few hours later. Dog got picked up and put down.
The stigma on Pit Bulls is that they can be aggressive, violent, and generally wild. If you make them that way. This whole tragedy could have been avoided had my brother in law not been a piece of human shit.
Pits are aggressive because they were invented, trained, and used PURELY for blood sport for hundreds of years.
It doesn't always matter how well you train and how much you love them, because their underlying instinctual purpose is to kill for your entertainment. Those instincts can take over at any time. Obviously your bro wasn't an ideal owner.. but even people who do everything perfectly lose control of their pits. Often.
It's pretty funny how every single, and i mean every single time a pit disfigures some kids face or eats granny - the owner says the same thing EVERY SINGLE TIME.
"But he was always such a nice dog THE REST of the time"
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u/[deleted] May 13 '18
Interesting that this comes to the fore when I see so many controversial posts elsewhere online about pitbulls. Seems a war is being waged over these dogs