They go after the wrong dogs

The laws and policies go after the wrong dogs. I see on the news they mention pitbulls attacking people and look for ways to stop it.
The only pitbulls I see attacking people are the 80 or 90+ lb mass monsters. Many attacks are probably mixed with other breeds. Not saying it’s never happened but I don’t see game dogs attacking people like the bigger human aggression ones that run loose in my neighborhood and cause issues.

A neighbors game dog got loose and he passed 3 children playing on a playground, around 10 adults walking, and he didn’t bite anyone.
A week later a bully got loose and bit a woman walking down the street. It was an unprovoked attack.

Curious why gamedogs get the bad wrap when they cause the least amount of issues.

 

A well bred APBT will not attack people. They are usually dog aggressive, which is a normal genetic trait. Most people think that if it looks like a pitbull, it is a pitbull.

 

Most well bred apbt* there's been more than one that will light someone's ass up too....

 

I wouldn't say that they WILL not. I'd say, they are maybe less likely too...

You walk in my front door unexpected and Isreal/Charlie/Puro/Max or Jackie is loose in here, they'll mess you up. Lol. Outside in their kennels, they aren't all that friendly with strangers either. Like any dog, they can be just as protective of their environment as any other breed can. In my case, they only ever see me or my daughter so none of them, with the exception of Pumpkin, is really socialized to people at all. That tends to make them look at you like the stranger in the yard that dont belong there and a potential threat in their eyes. Even my one friend who's here periodically often gets reminded and checked by one of them occasionally. Like any other dog breed, if you don't socialize them with people they ain't going to be all that people friendly. I know a ton of these dogs that will fuck you up if you reach the wrong way towards their owner. I never trust a dog to not be a dog regardless of breed. They are Apex predators with 42 sharp teeth. They most certainly can, and do at times, bite people.

I do agree that the majority of the bites reported though are not acutally APBT. Most people that say they have a Pit Bull don't really have an APBT. They have some mixed concoction of it and to the general public, there isn't any difference.

 

Got teeth then it bites. Was at a rest area about 11pm pitch black and a guy I knew walked up on me from behind. This little bitch fired up and try to take his head off. Literally had to handle to save a lawsuit. This bitch went to screaming and punched 3 holes in my arm. Same bitch in the daytime pretty chill. Night time a damn vampire. Don't be trusting these dogs for shit. They are what they are.

 

IME, this is a myth. 2 of the 3 dogs I owned had zero tolerance for assholess and would tear your arm off if it needed to be done. One excelled at Schutzhund protection work. All were pretty great w/ kids and people I knew. One nearly took out the local crackhead.

My current dog is still a pup, about to hit 13 months. I was going to do some work with her but work got too busy with work. However the other day our yard guy....who she has never seen came into the back yard w/ the weed trimmer. She was on a tie out and fired up like crazy with bad intent.

I think people like to over estimate the "they are only dog aggressive" part but that has only been my limited experience.

 

People often confuse human aggression with the dog just being a dog. There's a huge difference between the 2.

 

They have to bite when necessary. The smarter ones know exactly that.

Could one beat his dogs, the news that one of those beasts stopped taking a beating and bit him in the hospital was pure justice.

Education, socialization, how bred, etc. all contribute to the final character of a dog.

 

Dogs of any breed have the potential to be human aggressive. Whether it be genetics, environment, or one-off mental issues (tumors, undetectable/detectable seizures, etc.).

You are right… The reality is the general public has likely never seen an American pitbull terrier in the flesh and never will.

 

Bit him in the hospital, great phrase, even it’s a miss-translation. I’m going to use it

 

http://www.apbt.online-pedigrees.com/modules.php?name=Public&file=printPedigree&dog_id=308023

This was my first APBT. He made it to 4 years old. He was game with no talent, no mouth, no real ability but he was scratching every time and like a bullet. However, if he was loose in the house or in public without a dog in front of him and you weren't myself, my son or my ex wife, you were in real danger around him. Went through 2 windows after my mailman. Also went after one of my friends who, when he got latched onto, was lucky he was wearing a triple fat goose coat at the time as Capone had him by his elbow shaking him. Went after anything that moved including children other than my son. He was a total nightmare looking back in hindsight.

One time after I split from my wife and was living in an upstairs apartment I came home to 2 fire trucks, 3 police cruisers and a gang of my neighbors outside of my house. This Dickhead was on my roof barking insanely at everyone looking up at him. My landlord said he went up to my apartment, opened the door with his key to try and get the dog back in the house. He said that dog came flying through my living room window (which was how he got on the porch roof to begin with) like superman after him. He quickly shut the door and called the police. This dog was what I would consider a real human aggressive dog. It didn't matter if you were 5 years old or 90, male or female, he let you know what time it was if he was able to make contact with you. Don't kid yourselves, they are out there Especially if they have been encouraged to do so. I did however sleep very good at night living in some pretty bad neighborhoods knowing that if you could get something out of my house with him in it, you were more than welcomed to take it. Lmao.

Once I bought my first house and had home owners insurance, he was too much of a liability so he had to get put down.

I remember one time, I was selling 2 pups to some guys from Wisconsin and I was in the back of the house showing them the litter. I heard my ex wife yelling so I went out to see what was going on. My neighbor decided to come over drunk and was going back and fourth with her about my car alarm going off the night before. By the time I got to the front of the house, Like 10 to 15 of my neighbors were all outside bickering about dumb shit to my ex ( none of them liked us for whatever reason ). This drunk fool tried to grab the door open out my ex wifes hand. That's when I got there and seen all the people around my house agitated. I told her go get Capone, like as in for show. This bitch leashed him and came right out the house with him all fired up and ready to hurt something. I never seen someone go down 8 steps so fast before. The entire group parted like the red sea and went home. My ex would have definitely let him bite someone.

On one hand they can be useful on the other they are a huge liability. I made a lot of mistakes with him that I never repeated. I got a ton of stories about that asshole.

 

Man thanks for sharing that story and experience AGK. Your first one gave you a game test so to speak… to stick it out with dogs after that, especially to the level you have achieved is incredible. Big Props to you as always.

Slim, always dig your insight, experience and knowledge as well. Thank you.

already shared my story about my first and only
one turned out to be HA in another thread. I had to put him down at the young age of 18 months. Dude was my pride and joy… he used to scream like a banshee for me when I came home from work early in the morning waking up the whole house and half the neighborhood. But he might fire up for gently petting him 4x instead of 3 or accidentally making split second eye contact. When he wasn’t losing his mind, I Had some of the best times with that dog.

 

The baddest dog we had would also sink his bite deep inside you if not careful. Have seen him do it, a few times.

 

Haha yes stupid slip of the tongue but funny. An HA dog is not very useful if you consider what they were bred for in the first instance. Dangerous and you get a lot of unwanted attention.

 

Very dangerous and cops will certainly end up showing up. I'd say even more so than a lot of other breeds simply because of their inherited tenacity. These days I have zero tolerance for it. My brothers dog, who was a nephew of the one I posted was even worse. In both cases it was our fault. Didn't know any better at the time and they were both encouraged from pups to be that way. I didn't meet wardog, which is a funny story in itself until I had dogs for about 3 years already. He helped showed me the correct way to bring them up correctly and work them properly. Some can just take it to a totally different level. Most will never be that way because most wouldn't encouraged the behavior.