What is your experience with pit bulls?

Every pet pit bull I have encounter have been big babies. I guess it is probably due to the owner. I know around here a lot of people get them for protection & those are the ones you have to watch. Of course that goes for any dog really, that are trained that way.

My family has always owned pit bulls. I have one now and she is the biggest baby you could meet. She will bark if you come to the door, but she would never bite a soul. One of my friends asked me if I was going to get rid of her once my daughter was born. I was like WTF NO! They are the best of friends now, my daughter learned to walk by pulling on our dog's tail and being pulled around.

I have to say it is not the breed it is the owners. You can teach any dog to be aggressive. Some of the meanest dogs I have ever come in contact with are small dogs.

I believe there are bad owners AND bad breeders. If you take a powerful dog like a pit bull, breed the meanest one in the next litter, and keep on, you will breed a very mean dog who with the treatment of a mean human will become a killer. I know a couple of guys who breed them. If the dog shows too much friendliness, or loving, they won't breed them. As one post said, there are no bad dogs, just bad people who turn them into things they weren't meant to be.

The responsibility falls on the owners and breeders, many who are completely irresponsible. Here in the US we have no regulations on a person owning and / or breeding dogs. Therefore we have many dogs that are as dangerous as a loaded gun in the wrong hands.
I personally have dealt professionally with two young children, a boy age 5 and a girl age 7 that were mauled to death by this type of dog.
It is most unfortunate that there are individuals who derive a macho boost to their otherwise feeble ego by having a viscous dog.

My father had one when we were very little and it never bothered me or my sister. My next door neighbour has one where I now live, it killed a smaller dog that she used to have. She swears that "it's really a nice dog", but I don't think so. It has chewed at the wooden fence separating our properties to get at my dogs.
I have met some other pits that are nice, but I think there is an instinct with these dogs that can't be denied based on dog attack statistics.

i grew up with a pit bull and he was the sweetest most wonderful dog i have ever had! he was like a gentle man, i could see him in a tux with a top hat if he were human lol.
i would give ANYTHING to have another one, but where im living dosent allow me to have pets.

Pit Bulls have always been my favorite kind of dog, and i think there only bad if you raise them that way-like any animal

My parents had one.....Paton....and he was great.....My daughter had two of the.....But one had a skull deformity...and he had to be put down....The brain was being pushed into the skull....so twice he went after the other one...Hurt her real bad....But he never hurt a person...So he was put down for the protection of the other pitt...

He was much bigger than her....But both were fixed...so there was never any danger of breeding.....

Buggsy and Capone...We still laugh at Capone...and we love Buggsy....She smiles when ever she sees a camera...She is such a big ham...heheheheh

Our neighbor has one, and it tried to bite my knee caps off. Personally, that puts me off them somewhat...

Then again, I'm not really a dog person.

Painful

Recent research has found that telling a dog's personality from its breed is about as reliable as telling a human's personality from their ethnicity.

Someone on our street has a pit bull who is an absolute sweetheart, she wouldn't hurt a fly, and I visit her on a regular basis. Some of our neighbors take one look at her and complain to the neighborhood watch that she "looks scary", and so she has to be kept indoors most of the time.

I knew another pit bull years ago whose former owner tried to get her to fight, but she was so traumatized by this that she was frightened by her own shadow.

They are such a loving breed. So sweet and loyal...veryyyy smart. I love pitts!

There was a really nice dog that we found hanging around our place, which we suspected was a pit bull. He was really a sweet dog, but a bit of an oaf since he was still quite young (and was interested in our female dog). He could jump pretty much any fence he wanted. We called him Max, and he chose to stay with us over the weekend before we took him to the vet to find his owners.

the ones my family kept were the sweetest pets you could ever have. the only problem is their inherent aggression towards other dogs and the fact that they're often so happy to see you that they'll jump up on you =)

PitBulls/Staffordshire Bull Terriers are originially bred to be "Nanny Dogs" to watch and protect children.ALL dogs can be vicious,from the smallest to the largest. Rarely its not the dog, its the owners.

We have a pit....he is the biggest baby...and very affectionate and sweet....not all are that way...there are different "kinds" of pit bulls....I think it depends of that as well.

I was picked up, drug across the ground, and shook like a doll by my neighbor's pit. I was about five at the time. I am not scared of them, in fact, I love all dogs, but if one even so much as barks or growls, my hand is on that pocket knife!

this breed has restrictions placed on it in Australia..

I've know several people who owned pit bulls and they were the friendliest dogs. I'ts all in how you raise them! Good luck and have a blessed and beautiful week! Coydawg and Sam