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A big shout out to my Amish neighbors
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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1851663" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>My own kids have never understood why I don't see pit type dogs as a good idea. Dad says it... so it must be wrong syndrome. We've all gone through it so I really can't blame them.</p><p></p><p>But about five years ago my 10 year old grandson was playing with a friend in the friend's back yard, sitting on a bench that backed against the house. An adult inside the house let their pit out, a dog that my grandson had played with previously, and the dog attacked immediately. It took two of the men inside to pull the dog off my grandson. He was lucky. The dog ended up ripping a chunk out of his leg on the inside of his thigh. It missed the femoral artery by less than half an inch. </p><p></p><p>The people owning the dog defended it and it ended up attacking someone else before they took it to a county shelter.</p><p></p><p>Pit types have a specific attack pattern that is genetically programmed by selective breeding. Just like herding dogs control animals, bird dogs point, retrievers fetch, scent hounds track, and sight hounds course... pit types have been bred to do a job. No one can look at a dog bred for a purpose and see whether they are incapable or hyper capable and that means there are a lot of pit types in homes with the tenacity genes that makes them dangerous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1851663, member: 42463"] My own kids have never understood why I don't see pit type dogs as a good idea. Dad says it... so it must be wrong syndrome. We've all gone through it so I really can't blame them. But about five years ago my 10 year old grandson was playing with a friend in the friend's back yard, sitting on a bench that backed against the house. An adult inside the house let their pit out, a dog that my grandson had played with previously, and the dog attacked immediately. It took two of the men inside to pull the dog off my grandson. He was lucky. The dog ended up ripping a chunk out of his leg on the inside of his thigh. It missed the femoral artery by less than half an inch. The people owning the dog defended it and it ended up attacking someone else before they took it to a county shelter. Pit types have a specific attack pattern that is genetically programmed by selective breeding. Just like herding dogs control animals, bird dogs point, retrievers fetch, scent hounds track, and sight hounds course... pit types have been bred to do a job. No one can look at a dog bred for a purpose and see whether they are incapable or hyper capable and that means there are a lot of pit types in homes with the tenacity genes that makes them dangerous. [/QUOTE]
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