Pit Bulls: What's the appeal?

my next door neighbors have an increasingly well-trained pit and he is such a good guy

saw a bunch of pits on the border of the seedy part of SF this weekend including the cuetest puppy

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/03/chihuahua-helps-thwart-pitbull-attack-on-bc-girl.html?cmp=rss

Chihuahuas - what's the appeal?!

I don't understand the appeal either.

people who dock/clip the ears on pit bulls are savages imo

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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/28/17504438-georgia-toddler-mauled-to-death-by-familys-pack-of-dogs?lite

:((

hooooly...

yikes.

but also: so there's FIVE people home and the 12 year old is assigned to watch the toddler?

...

and they have seven free-roaming dogs

my parents old neighbors raised these russell terriers and those little assholes would occasionally come over and terrorize my parents' rottweiler! if she was on a leash in the back yard they'd gang up and nip at her from multiple sides.

gangs of dogs are dicks, mostly regardless of breed

i think it's more that you you have to be SUPER on your training game to manage a group of dogs, whether it's several breeds or multiple of the same breed. they can be good, and manageable, but only with heavy owner-involvement.

my inlaws have always had multiple dogs -- from st bernards and a pitbull to german shepherd, mastiff and great pyrenees...never any problems but BiL and SiL were vigilant about making sure the dogs were social 'face dogs' (ie you could put your face right up in their face and they wouldn't blink an eye) and not aggressive from the time they were puppies.

yeah i dogsat for my sister last week and walking her dog w/ my two i was like 'three dogs is too many for me' and we're talking a corgi, skye-yorkie mix, and a maltese here. a pit in town here got put down yesterday, two little boys wrestling in the yard, pit attacks the boy he doesn't know (pretty likely 'defending' his little boy in confused dumb dog mind), adults not supervising, kids needs stitches dog gets euthanized very very sad. pits are super sweet unless they've been trained by some scumbag but pretty much any dog has the capacity to lose control some when riled up and pits have been bred to have super effective jaws for that kind of thing, if you're not crazy responsible or you haven't owned dogs before maybe not the best breed (albeit the most common in shelters sadly), if you're the above and you have children maybe get a basset hound. i can remember a piece on profiling in the nyer a few years (gladwell alas) but in it it mentioned that the 'dangerous breed' w/ the most attacks has changed many times following fashion - pits, rottweilers, dobermans, german shepherds - but what i also remember was that chows were constantly second or third throughout the years for attacks, god help us if that ever becomes the fashionable breed for would-be badass schmucks.

yeah my dogs are 'face dogs' apparently, i often wake up w/ one of their faces inches away staring at me creepy little weirdos.

adults need to be with kids around dogs, period. child-friendly dogs, or guard dogs, or whatever. kids grab and poke and pull and do all kinds of shit that dogs don't like, even placid dogs.

pitbulls having a 'locking jaw' is a myth. they have a strong jaw, but the whole locking jaw thing has been exaggerated over time and has become accepted 'fact'

^^^ when I was a kid, there was a party at a house up the road from us, and a guest had left their labrador in the car with the window down. A little kid playing hide and seek popped his head up in front of the window, startled the dog and the dog bit his face pretty badly. Xp

yeah i mean these things (ie dogs in general not just pits) have the cognition of a two year old and are carrying a pair of carpet scissors in their mouth which also happens to be their primary method of grasping things. potential for shit happening is there.

chows are crazy skittish, really friendly, though

yeah there's one around the corner from us that will just pop up on you w/o you knowing (he's fenced in but seriously one second empty yard next second that chow is right beside you and you wouldn't have heard a thing), when i got my first dog he'd pop up on us and i could tell it intimidated her (or, very possibly, she could tell it intimidated me). now my dogs are total bros w/ him, they'll try to drag me to it when we're near and i can see him get excited and do a little dance when we round the corner, i call him boo radley.

Jesus wept people! don't start picking on labradors. I got a black labrador called Dogsby and he gets bullied by cats, is scared of pigeons and he doesn't even understand the concept of biting. I have had to rescue him from the kids at some of my son's birthday parties in the past. I have never seen a dangerous labrador in my life.
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no-one's picking on labs :) and that's a cute one!!

i think ppl are just trying to illustrate the point that there's no such thing as a 'safe' breed of dog.

lol actually from the data i've read there is one breed of dog there are apparently no records of having seriously mauled or maybe it was killed anyone.

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/346/cache/basset-hound-howard_34698_990x742.jpg

fucking hippies

lol!

Unless they're armed.

http://thesportshernia.typepad.com/blog/images/2007/06/01/droopydog2.jpg

Balls otm, chows will fuck you up

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/389025_593362934010111_1633195883_n.jpg

I see murder in its eyes.

j/k i wub pitties

Also, my parents have a bassett and she is adorbs.

what a cutie!

this thread title has been making me mad for like a decade now.

elderly pit bull content:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d49u7gwavrsvpqo/ellie1.JPG

ellie dont give a fuck

old pit bulls are the best

Good grief, kingfish! what an adorable dog.

stupid dropbox image. imagine an old pit bull draped over a chair just like what.

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The whole first round of this thread still makes me angry.

squee @ those two

And yes, me too. Every time this thread gets bumped I hope it's not b/c someone's posted something defamatory about them.

Pit Bulls.

They're not in a Pit, and they are not bulls.

From a craigslist "free" ad, picture may not last too long.

http://images.craigslist.org/00n0n_5hxcpIXXNTk_600x450.jpg

omg send them to me asap all of them

dying

http://www.pinterest.com/edgertor/pibbles/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPyXnSzhclQ

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=284115365093532

Puppy loves you for your songs

<3. omg the end was adoooooorable

the ears when he says "cookie"

Jesus. Just saw two pitbulls go for each other in the street - one had its jaws locked into the other's face for about two minutes while the owners were simultaneously trying to separate them and freaking the hell out. I assume the police have been called as the owner of the dog that came off worse is camped outside the house of the other. I'd estimate well over 50% of the dogs in my area are pitbulls and, while I appreciate they can be very sweet dogs with the right owners, there are a heck of a lot of wrong owners out there.

realness