“Funny that they weren’t Golden Retrievers.”
Golden Retrievers aren’t a lot of fun either. When we first ran livestock we ran cattle and lost more than a few to Golden Retrievers that idiots would lose or abandon “in the country”. The damned dogs would chase our cattle and cause injuries and a few deaths as the cattle tried to escape them.
I personally shot a few of them.
Then we started running bison and the idiot Goldens would mistake bison for cattle.
One of the scariest things I’ve ever seen was a 2,000 pound bison jumping up and down on a Golden and making a meat waffle out of it. It was pogo sticking on all four legs.
Oddly, I haven’t seen a stray pit bull up here in years.
Having spent a lot of time around Golden Retrievers, I understand they are foolhardy and silly, but apart from ONE in my life that was aggressive, left in a locked car balefully looking at passerby, I have never met one that was aggressive, never mind belonging to a breed that routinely appears in the news as having torn both people and animals to bits.
I fully accept that a pit bull, under disciplined training and constant and consistent oversight by a knowledgable and responsible owner, can be kept as a good and faithful pet. But that assumes the owner understands the breed and treats them accordingly.
Pit Bulls are NOT the same kind of animal breed as Golden Retrievers, and anyone who says that is either stupid, ignorant, or willfully malicious.
Not saying that about you, since I don’t know you. It is nothing personal. But anyone who maintains there is no difference between a Golden Retriever and a Pit Bull with respect to inherent behavior patterns is either compelled by a personal agenda, or in complete ignorance of dog breeds.
And since these two powerful, aggressive dogs were running free, the owner is irresponsible and ignorant, as well as stupid and should be criminally charged, hopefully before those playful dogs decide to play that game with a human that cannot retreat up into a car.
The difference between a golden retriever and a pit bull is that gold retrievers socialize easily while socializing pit bulls can be difficult. A person can be a horrible dog trainer and still have a good golden retriever. A person can be an excellent dog trainer and still have a bad pit bull. The margin of error for socializing pit bulls is narrow while the margin of error in socializing golden retrievers is large. There is a simple reason that the animal shelters are bursting at the seams with pit bulls and pit bull mixes.
I have to say this is truly funny to read.