Pit bulls were initially bred for dog fighting, but I suspect that very few pit bull terriers are bred today for that purpose.

99.99% are now pets and have been for more then 100 years. Even fighting dogs can be rehabilitated. Michael Vick's dogs are a good example of this.

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Breeding is not the act of giving birth to a single dog. These dogs come from bloodlines that are over a century old or more at this time, it matters little what we are doing with them today. Like pointers point, and retrievers retrieve, Pit Bulls were originally bred to be thrown into a pit, and to kill or be killed. My pointer never heard a gun shot, but he'd point up a storm at anything sitting in a bush, even tho I never asked him too. I'm sure a pit bull is capable of the same behavior, except it will not entail pointing.

last group of pits I encountered were six of them being held on chains in the front yard of some guys who lived in the bad side of town. The pits didn't appear to be pets, but rather in training to be fighting dogs. There is big $$$$ gambled on pit bull fights. And, I've read that some of the guys bring their children to see the fight.......

I hope you called the SPCA.

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A sign of a potentially bad dog is one that doesn't avert a stare. I was at a neighbor's house recently when they got a 10 week old black lab. The thing stared me down in the creepiest way, and I think I should have told them that they may have a problem but I didn't. As it is, the dog is chewing up everything in sight, but they think they can get it under control.

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Yeah my male min pin does that too, the boy is fearless.

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one of my neighbors was attacked by another neighbor's pit. The pit bit onto his leg just below his groin, the dog could have easily killed him. I'm beginning to think that pits instinctively know the most vulnerable places to bite which will result in certain death, i.e. jugular, femoral artery area, etc.

Its not instinct..they have x-ray vision dont-ya-know.

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There's a nerve that runs there. My brothers boxer would bit there if you teased him enough.
Tom

Food! Food!, I want my Kibble n Bits. Now!

My middle boxer will stare you down without moving if you're eating something he wants, unless you tell him to go lay down someplace. We refer to it as the Jedi Mind Trick..."You really don't want that and feel that life would be better if you gave that bite to me instead..."

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My next door neighbor has three of them, all beautiful females. I was surprised to learn that despite their fearsome reputation, Dobermans do not even rank in the top ten for unprovoked dog bites, they generally only become aggressive if they are provoked in some way.

Yeah, the problem with him is that he has little man syndrome which makes him especially fearless. Here he is with Billy fighting over the big dog bed.

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My neighbor in UT bred mini pins. They had a wooden fence on their side that allowed the little dogs to pop their heads through to our side, which had a buried chain link fence. Their dogs would pop their little heads through, barking like mad at my boxers, and my boxers would go over and hike their legs, peeing all over the mini pin's heads.

It was David and Goliath, where Goliath had the final word. Funny as hell to watch. LOL

Here's pics of my boys...

Slider...


Slugger...


Shoeless Joe...




Three of the most spoiled dogs you'll ever see...

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I have a good friend in phoenix who divorced an abusive husband and adopted a rescued boxer named Shadow. They bonded immediately. It was like Shadow knew they were kindred spirits. When visitors came, the dog wasn't agressive, but wasn't friendly either. He'd put himself in some corner of the room and just sit at attention and watch everyone.
One day, the ex husband asked if he could come over to discuss some issue he needed to speak to my friend about. The discussion got heated and the husband stood up to my friend and raised a fist in a threatening manner. Without a bark, growl or any other warning Shadow attacked from behind and took out the entire upper portion of the meat in the back of the sumb!tch's leg. Ripped muscle from just below his butt nearly to his knee. My friend is a trauma nurse and that's the only reason he didn't bleed out completely before the ambulance came. He still gimps around with his leg in a brace 30 years later.

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