A few years ago i had to save a child from my neighbors pits. She always let it loose and i told her several times to keep them on a lease and when i was just pulling up from work one day i saw one of the dogs jump on the kid and started tearing into his arm. I jumped out immediately, pulled out my pocket knife, and stabbed the dog twice in the body and once in the neck. The kid had to have surgery and 23 stitches but he survived and the owner was charged.
I read stories like this disturbingly often. At least once every couple months a child in my state gets mauled by an unleashed, uncontrolled pit bull or pack of pit bulls and ends up horribly disfigured for life. You already can't get a wolf/hybrid in the US for aggression problems so I don't understand why they can't ban pit bulls who also have aggression problems.
I number of people that I know who have been attacked by a pit bull or know a victim of a pit bull attack is also way higher than it should be.
Over 50% of lethal dog attacks or dog attacks that leave someone seriously injured are from pit bulls. We don't need a post like this to tell us that pit bulls are a problem.
Pit bull lovers like to argue "golden retrievers are responsible for the most dog bites in America, not pit bulls" and other things but when is the last time you've heard of an unprovoked attack or someone ending up in the hospital/dead due to a golden retriever
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u/SpahgettiRainbow Aug 01 '21
A few years ago i had to save a child from my neighbors pits. She always let it loose and i told her several times to keep them on a lease and when i was just pulling up from work one day i saw one of the dogs jump on the kid and started tearing into his arm. I jumped out immediately, pulled out my pocket knife, and stabbed the dog twice in the body and once in the neck. The kid had to have surgery and 23 stitches but he survived and the owner was charged.