So sweet
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Lots of pit bulls here in rural AB. Perhaps a preferred breed. That said, and I’m sure I’ve talked of it here before, my kid and I were involved in an altercation with a mastiff when he was 3 yrs old. To this day, I remain scared and avoid most dogs. (To be brief, I avoided the all out mastiff attack by picking my son up with my one arm, holding up and using his tricycle as a shield between us and the dog with my other arm. We retreated me walking backwards a block and a half. I was shaking like a leaf after we got home safe. The dog wasn’t really at fault as he was scared being left alone in a house and broke through a screen window. His owner was charged a hefty fine by Animal Control officers.).
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No surprise, but the dogs were pitfall type dogs.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2kg110vxn3o
An autopsy has confirmed the dog which killed a teenage girl in a fatal attack was an XL Bully.
Morgan Dorsett, 19, from Shropshire, succumbed to her injuries inside a flat in Cobhorn Drive in the Hartcliffe area of Bristol at about 19:00 GMT on 26 February.
Avon and Somerset Police confirmed following the incident that the dog had been sedated at the scene and later put down.
A man and a woman, both in their 20s, have been released on conditional bail they were arrested on suspicion of possession of a prohibited breed of dog.
They were also arrested on suspicion of possession of being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control causing injury resulting in death.
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It's become a no win situation for the breed. There are an abundance of Pits in my area and personally, the ones I have encountered have been some of the sweetest dogs you could imagine. But then I also have direct accounts of unwarranted attacks on people for no overt reason whatsoever. From pits that do not have a history of bad owners training them to be mean. A girl I dated, a nurse practitioner, has a permanent scar on her lip as she was sitting at the kitchen table with friends who owned one and out of nowhere it jumped on her and bit a big chunk of her lip right off. 4 plastic surgeries later it is still painfully obvious to see she had some sort of trauma to her mouth and the owners , who were good friends of hers, are now persona non grata, as they promised to cover all her medical expenses and they didn't contribute a dime in the end.
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Just sterilize the breed already. Any dog can have a bad day, but when these dogs have a bad day, it can go very bad, very quickly.
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@jon-nyc
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Kind of surprised we don't do that to convicted rapists and pedofiles. Stop the possibilty of repeat offending.
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