He was sweet then...
I wouldn’t trust him to remain that way, and NEVER turn your back on him!
Pitt Bulls are inherently dangerous, and here’s why.
The Russians did an experiment with wild, Arctic silver foxes. These are the kind used in high-end furs.
They wanted to domesticate them, the experiment started about 1940, IIRC.
Every time a new litter was born, they would pick only the top one percent, in terms of their adaptability to humans and their lack (or at least the most minimal) of aggression.
They started to see results after three generations, but the animals were still clearly wild. After eight generations, they were almost as domesticated as regular house dogs.
Now, after about 50 generations, the animals are for all intents and purposes the same as house pets BUT one of the most interesting things that happened is they started to see alot of variation in the dogs morphology, their tails changed, their colors changed, they started to show the distinct signs of the various breeds of house dog we have come to accept.
They have traced this biochemically to a number of genes, one of the most important findings was that wild animals have a MUCH higher level of normal, endogenous adrenaline. They are, all the time, much more “on edge”. Even if they appear to the casual observer to be calm at the moment.
The ONLY thing that changed the animals behavior towards a more tame life was the selection pressures humans put on the tame behavior.
So.
IF a dog still has the genetic basis of being more of a wild animal than a domestic pet, IT DOES NOT MATTER ONE BIT HOW IT IS TREATED! It will ALWAYS maintain the wild part inside.
I know... I know... we’ve all heard a million times about when an animal goes rogue that “He must have been abused... just be nice to him.... yada yada yada blah blah blah”.
It just ain’t so. The science shows otherwise.
The same exact conclusions have been reached by people and testing trying to raise wild wolf pups as domestic dogs.
They do act puppy-like, as long as they are puppies. But they soon grow, and when they do, in their own minds they are WOLVES, not dogs!!
If the owner asserts themselves as the alpha male, and suffers no challenges, they can keep things in line.
If not, that's bad news for the owner and the dog/wolf/wolf cross.
Not all owners are anywhere close enough to having the savvy to be the boss of their pack, and the critter has to realize it is a member of the pack, not the boss. That means the owner has to be the authority figure in the family, too. Most problems arise from dominance squabbles, but the Alpha Male and/or alpha female lays down the law.