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I am always curious and often surprised by owners of pit bulls.

I love dogs. I’ve seen many pit bulls at dog parks and they are mostly sweet and wonderful dogs, but not all of them.

I understand how dog owners love their dogs even their pit bulls.

But from my limited observations of pit bulls at dog parks, I’ve noticed they are different sizes. Some of them are quite large in the jaw form. I sense by looking those large jaw pit bulls can kill. These large jaw pits also seem to be more bullying and on edge.

Back to owners attitudes, pit bull owners love their dogs, A few of the owners will say the stories of pit bulls attacking and maiming people and other dogs are overblown, are a myth. I disagree.

I think some pit bulls are downright dangerous, it’s just not easy to always tell. But certainly the larger ones with the large jaws seem genetically programmed to clamp down on something and that something is going to be mighty hurt or dead when it happens.

[I think some pit bulls are downright dangerous, it’s just not easy to always tell. But certainly the larger ones with the large jaws seem genetically programmed to clamp down on something and that something is going to be mighty hurt or dead when it happens.]

If obedience school were made mandatory for both dogs and owners, I think we’d have far fewer fatalities. Having said that, you can’t completely train dog and/or human aggression out of a line that is bred for dog and/or human aggression. What some breeders have done is create lines incorporating the most vicious dogs with other vicious dogs to the point that you have wolves in dogs’ bodies. Since we have no way of reading their minds, any dog that engages in an unprovoked attack (i.e. non-self-defense-related) on a human must be euthanized, no matter how minor the bite.

My grandparents got a pit bull for my father when he was a young child. At the time they lived on our family farm, and he was about 7. The year was 1940 and the breed had not been destroyed by irresponsible breeders. Long story short, he told me about 3 teenage boys riding by his house, He was outside with his dog- the Pit. These boys had 3 German Sheppards with them and when they saw my dad playing in the yard by himself they commanded their dogs to attack my dad. They didn’t see his dog, who was sitting behind a tree. My dad said before those 3 dogs had a chance to get to him, his dog lunged from behind the tree and snapped the necks of the 3 dogs within seconds. The boys took off on their bikes, and his dog chased them down the street. He always loved the breed but my mother would never allow us to have one because even as early as the 70’s Pits were being bred for nefarious purposes.