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Originally Posted by Oddsock

We had the same thing happen with one of our dogs, years ago. A 5 year old border collie (we'd had as a puppy), highly trained, still going to training classes weekly. Trained twice a day (he knew so many tricks and did wonders with obedience training) Walked and run twice a day. He did everything with me, and 'helped' with chores...ie opened/closed doors, switched lights on, picked up items.Loved our kids, the neighhood kids would knock on the door to play with him (supervised)
One day when out, heeling at my side on a leash a small kid came up behind him and stroked him. He jumped and bite the child, something changed.. and on the way home, he tried to attack every child/teen that came near him. Complete change of personality. We had him put to sleep that weekend.

I'm against pit bulls and not ashamed of it. They can be adorable dogs, but it's like having a lion on a leash, they are just so strong and powerful, that if anything goes wrong, they win. For me they are just too powerful for the general public.

As someone has said on here, they have an aggressive Yorkie. I assume it's not due to bad training but the dogs personality. The problem is when a pit bull or other powerful breed has a faulty personality or a bad owner or both, someone can be maimed or killed.

That poor Yorkie should not have died. A child shouldn't be in charge of a Yorkie either, small dogs, need to be protected from so many dangers, that a child can't foresee.

That is a very valid point...but shouldn't the blame be put on the person responsible for the dog and not the dog itself? Too many people blame the dog for something they can't control...breed tendencies (which, if people do their homework, pit bulls were never bred for human aggression. In the early days of the breed, a human aggressive dog would be immediately culled because they had to be able to be human led in the pit or for baiting. They were bred for animal aggression). Again, I must say...people need to know their own dogs.