Have you ever heard of a pit bull mauling or killing someone?

Question

Hearing it personally or from the news.

Answer 1

Often I have heard this. I usually don['t blame the animal, but the way the owners have trained it. Unfortunately, the pit bulls that do this are put down. Sorry.

Answer 2

Never in person, just the news. Alot of times if you take the time to investigate a little, you'll find out pit bulls are not always the correct dog. I have seen alot of reports that claim a pitbull mauled or attacked someone, when in reality, it was some mutt or another breed completely. Don't always believe what you hear.

For the instances where a bully breed was in fact the cause of trouble, there is usually an underlying cause, that the media never quite lets surface.

Just don't be too gullable, alot of what you hear isn't what is appears to be.

Answer 3

Ok I'm gonna try to keep this short if I can.
My parents have a Pitbull 1 1/2 year old male. He has been great with the grandkids until last summer. My neice was at grandma & pa's house when the pitbull got mad at her when she picked up her puzzle off of the floor.
For some reason he attacked her over it. My neice had to have plastic surgery around her eye and down her check. My mother seen the whole thing happen. Just out of the blue the dog attacked. The sad thing is my parents still have the dog. My sister and her kids stay far away from my parents home because the dog is still there. My mother is attached to the dog she does not want to get rid of him. What a mess it has been.

Answer 4

In the news.
30 stitches in the face of 6 year old in St. Louis.
Over 60 stitches to close the wound in the leg of a woman in Texas, and her small dog was mauled to death.
Two medium size dogs walking with their owner on leashes, one dead, the other near death, the owner bitten several times, in Illinois, by pit bulls that had gotten out of the house of their owner.
The list goes on and on.
They're a biting breed, no matter what you do or say, they can turn on you, just like a rott, or a dobby, though they'll probably do it faster.
My daughter had one. It didn't bite her, but the breed wasn't allowed in the town she moved to and she didn't know it until animal control came to take it away.
My home owners insurance promised to drop me like a hot potato if I got any kind of pit bull, mixed or not. They also said rotts and dobbys would cost me an arm and a leg to cover and they really didn't want to insure a house with the breeds in it.
They relaxed when I told them we had beagles.

Answer 5

I had a neighbor that was attacked by a pit bull that lived down the road. Let me tell you if you own one you need to be trained to be able to train a pit or a rot. It isn't easy. If the dog becomes so attached to you as a puppy that it will not let you even walk into another room without him/her being there, then this is a sign that when he/she gets older it will attack anyone who shows to much energy or attention towards you. Training a pit or rot is not the same as training a lab, sheperd, husky, or any other breed. Mixed breeds are hard to train, but they are not over protective.

Answer 6

Older woman, here in Kansas City, was mauled to death a month ago by a neighbor's pit bull who jumped the fence to attack her. They were supposedly outlawed in that area~ http://news.pajamasmedia.com/2006/07/28/9903530_Man_Arrested_for.shtml

Also, in Independence, 4 pit bulls went wandering through a neighborhood attacking people. One man who was a victim is still hospitalized after 4 months~http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/12/ap/national/mainD8JELEQO0.shtml

Answer 7

my brother had relatives over with there dog and the pit that was living across the stree was loose and it came over and mauled the other dog for no reason.I think it was the owners fault for not keeping there dog locked up but at the same time I can see how they got there reputation but also you have to look at some of the owners as being a problem

Answer 8

Yes , a couple of times here in Germany ...I am so sorry for the victims .
It was always the fault of the owners (pits and other bullterrierbreeds was often owned from pimps ,drugdealers and "wannabes" and they abused the dogs (maybe to make themself "bigger" ?)and I hate them for that .

Cause it put a wonderfull breed (s) into a place where it should not be .

Answer 9

Yes. U must know how to handle working dogs. Otherwise do not keep them. Dogs like Pit bull or Rotweiller are very unpredictable dogs. If u plan to get one, i suggest u get a Labrador. This are the best among the working dogs because they are very loyal to their master and they are not unpredictable.

Answer 10

My cousin had a pit bull that grabbed his hand and wouldn't let go. When he went to the doctor, he didn't take good care of it, Chris ended up getting gangrene, and lost a finger.