New neighbor's pair of pit bulls attacked my JRT on my property 3 weeks ago. Owners said they were docile and had never done anything like that before. Had I not been present my Jack would have been scattered all over the place. He ended up with multiple puncture wounds and I with 5 sutures in a finger and deep abrasions on knees and ankles. If they venture on to my property again they will be shot on sight. Their owners have been warned by me and LEO.
You should have shot them the first time. If the owners were responsible they would shoot them now, Pits should not roam period.
In a subsequent conversation with the new neighbors they vehemently denied the dogs were pit bulls. They claim the dogs are Old English Bulldogs. Wikipedia says this about the breed:
The Olde English Bulldogge is a recently created American dog breed. In the 1970s David Leavitt created a true-breeding lineage as a re-creation of the healthier working bulldog from early nineteenth century England. Using a breeding scheme developed for cattle, Leavitt crossed English bulldogs with American Bulldogs,
American Pit Bull Terriers and Bull Mastiffs.
Close enough for me - the kill on sight warning is still in effect. I guess when it comes right down to it, I don't care about their lineage - just their behavior. If a couple of labradoodles had attacked my dog on my property without provocation I'd have the same concerns about the dogs.
