Neighbors had a pit years ago. The wife started screaming one evening! The pit was trying to get at my youngest daughter, she was on top of the slide. I grabbed the old 22 marlin from behind the back door and stepped outside yelling. The pit took off toward home, I got one round off before he went under the fence! Hit him in the nut sack! The neighbor put him down, right there! Thats my only experience with pits, to this day I wont allow one on the property! That was thirty five years ago! It wouldn't have mattered what breed the dog was! But that made me hate pits, fugg pit bulls!