Has anyone ever seen some of those gang/"gansta" movies/ documentaries/videos, websites, games? Gangs and drugs and fighting pitbulls are more "street" than ever these days & seem to go together. Not only do they gamble money over dog fighting, they gamble way more than that on dog fights! The owners/handlers/trainers brag over their dog's bite radius, his tested PSI bite force, diameter of the of the head/shoulders, his scars or lack of scars and worse. The poor fighting dogs are treated like high-priced, high-performance sports cars or something and are worth tens of thousands of dollars! Often the fighting dog itself, if getting old, or a highly valued puppy, is used like currency for payment for certain things. They never know love.

The dogs aren't treated like any living thing or ever treated with any human caring by their handlers or owners. They are just used like one would a car & put away in their cage until "training time" or a fight or to breed. Everyone walks around armed to the teeth but they still cage the fighters out of a strong sense of self-preservation. And breeding - that is big, big, big business to them. A fighting pit stud with a long kill record has his sperm valued like gold or radium. A guy with a killer pit stud is a highly esteemed VIP in that world. All that being said, a dog that disappoints may be summarily tortured or killed to make a point.

Puppies that early on don't act like aggressive little shrews are killed, used as bait dogs or sold to anyone that will pay. So even a dog not qualified early on to go into the pit to fight still can carry the genes of a very vicious dog itself or in its progeny and often those dogs from that dangerous world will end up with a family who really has no clue what tendencies their dog could have when sufficiently aroused. You'd think people would have heard enough about pitbulls just in passing but there are people walking around today that aren't even sure who our Vice President is or who their U. S. Senator is - so lots of people just aren't very tuned in to news reports.

Jeanie, it's almost embarrassing to be a part of the human race on some days.

Isn't it, though? Right there along with all the noble, loving, amazing, selfless & heroic things humans do is this aspect of mankind.

Update on Pitbull mauling baby. Since I live in San Diego I just saw on TV that detectives know which pit killed the baby and it was put down today. The other two will be released back to the owners soon - if they want them back.

Such a sad story...

Thanks for the update. I wish people would learn proper training methods before they secure a dog (of any breed). Often times idiot humans "train" dogs to be aggressive and attack and we all know the result ...

A couple days ago, in Harlem NY, two pit bulls attacked a 7 year old girl. Thankfully she is alive but she did need stitches. The dogs were taken away by Animal Control Officers and I've not seen an update since.

Anyone interested in reading a story in today's paper about this sad event, you can Google - San Diego Union Tribune - and find the article on the front page. The mother is a single lady - no contact with the father - and lives with a girlfirend that had the three pits. She saw the one pit bite her baby on the head once but that was enough to kill the poor thing. She doesn't work and lives in a seedy area of town. Again, sad.

It's always (well usually) all the wrong people who own Pits. It's NOT the folks who are going to train them well; treat them well; keep them exercised - it's usually people who have no business owning a large, aggressive dog.

And what idiot leaves their 8 month old baby vulnerable to 3 large pitbulls?

The mother should be charged IMO for neglect or negligent supervision or something.

Totally agree, I think they need to start punishing these people, apparently losing your child isn't punishment enough.