LOL. Trab, please quit making stupid blanket statements... Its statements like this that really perpetuate peoples and the media's idiocy.
I own a "game bred" pitt--she was a rescue I've had for the last 10 years. She's intense, but she's also perhaps the most loving family pet i've ever owned. Mila does everything at 120%. Thats what I love about her...the intensity. Thats what I see with most "game bred" dogs, they are not automatic killing machines. One of the most "game bred" dogs I've ever seen was owned by a woman with a small girl. Kane was somewhat of a legend in and around Columbia Missouri in the 1990's because of how gentle he was with his owners children and how protective he was of their yard. He was the only pitbull in that part of the city that the owners could let out unchained in their fenced back yard without fear of someone trying to steal him.... because he was Kane. and he never once did anything to their children other than share his bed, play with them, and give them all of the love that a "Game bred" pit is capable of giving. My cousin owned a very, very "game bred" dog--one that he used to hunt wild pigs with all over the Carolina's and Georgia. Taz killed more than one boar by himself as a hunting dog. Yet he never showed any "BONE CRUNCHING KILLING MACHINE AGGRESSION" towards humans.
Again, it boils down to the fact that they are a dog and a dogs behavior is directly related to the owners, the training of the dog, and the evironment the dog was raised in. "Game bred" dogs can make great pets, if the owners take into consideration and consider the breeding of the dog and train them as a dog should be trained.
Doc... Iaint saying they are the massive danger to ppl that the media like to show, it's quite the opposite w/ most Pitts.
BUT THEY ARE DAMN CAPPABLE. Denying that is BS.
Their chewing abilty is unbelievabe. They dont let go. Its deep in their nature. You know that.
My opinion is they belong..
1. Indoors
2. on a stout piece of chain, on your property where nobody that dont know that dog has legal right to be, (even that can go wrong w/ strange kids).
3. On a stout lead, w/ a pincer choke-collar and someone strong enough to control that animal.
All these ppl w/ cheap chain link or wood fence in the city with pitts sticking their heads over the top are at a extreme liabilty issue. Those that lett them run free are brain dead.
Pitts and Rotties both got to popular for their own good. Whats being bred is a joke.
Agressive animals aint funny, a lab or shepard bites; A pit grabs, and shakes till a piece comes off, then chokes up deeper! Dont deny what these animals can do. And even though domesticated, they are ANIMALS w/ instincts and automatic reactions at times.
I doubt you'd last long at work w/ out keeping that in mind.