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They're a great breed for dog fighting . Anybody enjoy a good dog fight ?

Pitbull bites do tend to be more severe than other breeds, but don't discount the damage that any large breed like rottweilers, german shepherds, labs, huskies, malamutes can do. Perhaps the worst mauling that occurred when I worked there, the young victim, a adolescent girl, looked like she had been mauled by a bear or a large cat. The photos showed chunks of flesh from her limbs were missing. Her mother claimed that it was huskies or malamutes that did it. It is very possible that their own dogs chained in the back yard did it. Mother denied it and we looked for the strays she claimed were responsible. Strangely, IIRC, their dogs resembled the "strays". No one twigged to that for a day or so, we were focused on locating the strays. We should have had their dogs stomachs pumped. Very sad.

About the first bite I investigated on my own after training, a rescue pitbull laid the adult males face open from the hairline near the top of his ear to the corner of his mouth. He told me the plastic surgeons used 212 stitches, both dissolving internal and external, to close his wound. I completed my investigation and even though the attack was unprovoked and the owner had his young children over on alternating weeks, I had to go to court to get an order to have the dog destroyed. Even though the owner had been guilted into adopting the abused pitbull from the SPCA by a SPCA employee/volunteer, (she said if the dog wasn't adopted, it would be killed the next day, it's time was up. Of course his kids convinced him to adopt it.), he felt he had to fight to save it. Dumbass, the dog had been tortured and burned by cigarettes by the previous owner. It was a landshark. He had to keep it on a logging chain. If you were close to it, it tried to grab you with evil intent. It always felt good holding those dogs while the vet injected the lethal dose of sedative.

Another time, a fellow officer asked for help investigating complaints of pitbulls chasing and biting people in an area near downtown. No one could/would identify the dogs or where they came from. There was a house where the owner had a revolving door of pitbulls coming and going. There had been prior aggressive incidents from pitbulls at that location. So many dogs coming and going, hard to tell which dogs had committed the priors and which were even licenced. Anyways, we're talking to the owner and a couple of the pitbulls were loose in the yard, showing no signs of aggression. I felt pressure on my calf and looked down to see one of the pitbulls had placed his mouth around my calf, just holding it. I asked the owner to remove his dog. I kid you not, the owner said, "Oh look, he's tasting you!" I told him I didn't care what he thought his dog was doing, he better remove it or I would and it wouldn't be so gentle.

That's the attitude of so many dog owners. Never their fault. Never their dog's fault. IMO experience, many, maybe the majority of dog owners were unqualified to own a dog. I would support that prospective dog owners had to take a course to prepare them. People are really stupid when it comes to pets. Pets are not people, no matter how much they mean to your life.

There were so many aspects of that job I loved. But after 10 years I had to get out and transfer to another department. I was so jaded, and sick and tired of dog owners. Two thirds of my life to that time, I had always had one or more dogs. Ten years of dog owners and bad dogs, I have never had another dog and no desire to. Perhaps I'm scarred from those experiences, yet other coworkers had all sorts of pets. I just can't handle it, much to the chagrin of my kids.

One final story. Someone was always on call, in case of an "emergency". One night at about 2AM I was called out to investigate allegations of two pitbulls chasing and biting people. I probably should have phoned the on-call supervisor to request back up. But by the time you get your truck and get to the scene, who knows if I find the pitbulls? I was hesitant to disturb another person's sleep on a maybe. I arrived there and started interviewing and getting statements from the victims. As it turned out the dogs soon turned up and were milling around the intersection in front of their house and the house I was interviewing victims at the time. I should have called for backup, even a cop car crew (in my experience, 80% of cops were useless handling dogs). Backup from my department was an hour away. I decided to try it myself. Sometimes things are much easier than first thought. I grabbed my pole and went to grab the pitbulls. They were experienced, while one pressed the attack, the other would circle and try to get me from behind. At one point, the male got quite close and the female was coming in from behind. I hit the male as hard as I could between the eyes. I expected to see some visible injury, but he didn't yelp nor was there a visible injury, he just backed off. I turned and drove the female back. About this time they ran around to the alley. I jumped into my truck and followed. I found a hole in the rear fence at the house they were from. I jumped out and they male stuck his head though the hole. I snared him and threw him into a cage in the truck. I returned to the hole and the female stuck her head out. I snared her and put her in a cage. Sweet. Now I noticed the rear door to the house was open. Strange. I had no jurisdiction to enter the house. I called the cops to conduct a welfare check of any occupants. A car crew soon arrived. I was asked to go in with them. We found no people, but there was a third pitbull in an upstairs bedroom. I impounded her for safe keeping. We found the remnants of a hydroponic marijuana grow op in the basement. There was hardly anything in the house. It was probably stupid to take on two pitbulls myself, but in this case, no harm, no fowl. Ten years, I was never bitten with any effect, although I did have tears in pants and punctures in the leather gloves I always wore, just no skin punctured. I always went a step more than I thought I needed to safely handle the dog and I always wrapped the dogs snout, just in case it panicked and changed its mind and decided to bite me. I had co-workers who were bitten multiple times and missed work due to the severity/infection. Always assume the dog will bite, they all can and will in the right circumstance.

The goats obviously provoked them. (sarcasm)

Another dog killed their chickens a while back and her husband shot it. Animal control said it was even since he shot the dog. Now the Animal Control is under the Sheriff’s Dept so hopefully they kill the damn dogs and let them recoup costs. They called in a vet to euthanize 3 of them (I guess she wouldn’t let her husband shoot, didn’t ask as she sounded upset). Schit like that would cause me to end up in prison because I’d have shot those dogs and if their owner wanted them he could pick them up in the nearest ditch. I think he didn’t kill them because he wanted to make sure the owner faces charges. Sucks for them as they’ve really gotten into hobby farming and love their animals.

Believe what you want hardhead profilers, the best two dogs we ever had in our family were a pit bull and a pit rottweiler cross. Here's Ruby a bad azz pit that I had to put down last year at 12+ years old who never did one thing wrong besides pee on the floor in the mud room her last few weeks.

Facts are for almost 2 decades of listening to dog attack stories 99% were pit bulls.

That's a fact!


Mike

Two dogs fighting because they think they need to? That's one thing. Two dogs fighting to put money in some slob's pocket and amuse rednecks and 'grrrs? No, and that's a dick sport. Period.