Now just let me ask you an honest question: Would you like your child to be
attacked by a rescue yorkie or a pit bull. ??

No. But I don't really understand who would? How is this applicable? I would watch any strange dog around my child or dog.

I agree. :thumbup:

Pit Bulls were not originally bred to fight. Many dogs are classified as "Pit Bulls" even when they are in fact NOT. I believe Summer (PinkMartini) posted a website awhile back challenging the reader to pick out the dog who is the Pit Bull. Its nearly impossible.

Labs First??? Such a gentle giant (compared to a yorkie he he)

I have worked in shelters and done a ton of rescue and I support flakes on the comment about labs. There are far more lab bites and labs put to sleep because of biting.
I trust my neighbors Pit to play with my dogs. All of my dogs including Preslee. But that is my choice, just as it is Frans choice to let hers play with a pit and just as it is Kristys choice. Go with your gut and do what is right. Why debate the damn issue?? WHat is the point?? No matter what no one is going to have the same point of view.
I myself will not let my dogs play with strange dogs. My dogs dont go to the dog park to socialize with dogs that we dont know. This is my personal opinion.

And YES Kristy is right. A dog that isn't allowed to socialize with other dogs will turn into a grump and be territorial in its older years. I have seen and experienced this many times. I am not saying that it will happen to all older dogs but I have seen it happen to many.

There are no proven statistics claiming that the jaws on a pit bull lock. So unless you are an owner and have done thorough research please dont spread false info. I myself have researched many breeds including the pit and have found no information to prove this as true.

I find some of these posts that have hatred and false claims against pit bulls or any breed very disturbing and should not be posted on a site for animal lovers.

Some of our members here own pit bulls and I would be upset if I were them to see these kinds of things posted.

Thank you Breeze, I am glad that I am not the only one that feels this way. I dont own one myself but I live next door to one.

I couldn't have said it better!! This thread could go on forever and I think I have had
enough. My input has mainly been because I think it is very dangerous to make
people feel comfortable when they really should be concerned.Like Diva
Pup said we MUST be aware that dogs that were bred to fight can turn at any
given moment.

There is sooooo much false info about the pit breed on this thread. There is no debate. Why debate something if you do not have the proper info?? Why even continue to debate it? :confused:

There are 3 types of digs that people typically think of as pitbulls:
(1) The American Pitbull Terrier
(2) The Stafordshire Terrier
(3) The Staffordshire Bull Terrier
Really they all do look pretty similar and they share many of the same characteristics, are in the same family, etc. Pitbulls come from the other 2 originally.

I hate to say this but honestly yes the American Pitbull Terrier was bred initially to pit fight. Hence the name pitbull...They are originally a mix of a staffordshire terrier and bull terrier and became common aroung 1835 when the sport of "bull baiting"(having dogs attack livestock) was banned and dog fighting became all the rage. First, they bred bull dogs with terriers and got a fearless, agile, and hearty stock, then they began breeding the bull terriers with more and more terrier producing eventually the American Pitbull Terrier. This breed ended up being unmatched in strength, agility and tenacity in the fighting ring, this is how it was bred and this is why it was popular. Dog agression was actually bred into pitbulls with proper training and socilalization this is obviously taken care of and it is important to remember they are not generally human agrressive.

In fact the UKC was created in 1898 especially for pitbull registry. At that time in order to be registered as a pitbull terrier a dog had to have won 3 dog fights. Later the American Pitbull Breed Association was started and registered the dogs including still a performance requirement but eliminating fighting requiring dogs to be in weight pulling competitions and conformation shows.

I actually researched this after reading this thread because it seemed really odd to me that a dog with the name PITbull would have never been used for pit fighting!

I agree that it is the owners fault if a dog is agressive. I have many big dogs in my neighborhood that are left outside 24/7 and they are agressive and territorial. I have came across people out and about that have large dogs that are well groomed and you can tell taken care of and they are gentle giants. I don't think people should be allowed to have a dog unless they are going to take care of it.

Actually I am NOT debating. I thought and my intention was, to educate some of the posters that seemed to be under the impression that these dogs raised properly will not be dog aggressive. To say anything LESS is giving false information. What you decide is safe for your dog is fine but put out the correct information on the breed.
There seems to be some confusion between dog aggression and people aggression issues, I totally agree that pitbulls as a breed are NOT people aggressive but they ARE dog aggressive.That is a fact.They were bred to fight.That too is a fact.

And I feel it is very dangerous to make people fear certain breeds by false information. Many of us pit bull supporters feel that any dog can be dangerous regardless of breed and just labeling certain breeds does not make anyone safer. People MUST be aware that any breed of dog may attack.