The Nanny Dog

If I'm remembering correctly, wasn't Petey, from Lil' Rascals fame, also a pit? And he was an awesome dog.

On another note, every pit I have known personally has been an oversized lap dog, pathetically eager to please.

Great post! Pitties are such a misunderstood breed, and it breaks my heart that people exploit them. They're naturally loving, loyal dogs and are just big goofballs who love to snuggle.

nevertheless, there are some horrible maimings done by pit bulls these days, I don't know if it has to do with how they are being bred for fighting.

I would rather have 100 pit bulls than those stupid tiny white puff balls people parade around and end up carrying cause they are too useless to even walk!

Pit bulls are some of the sweetest dogs you will ever meet. Sure, they can be trained to be aggressive; so can bassett hounds. People who fear them are almost always people who have never encountered one.

All the pitbulls I've ever come across have been the sweetest dogs. Hyper as hell, but really sweet.

My parents have a pitbull. They've raised it in a loving / nurturing environment like any of their other non-pitbulls and it's vicious as hell.

"Of the 88 fatal dog attacks recorded in the 3-year period, pit bull type dogs were
responsible for 59% (52). This is equivalent to a pit bull killing a U.S. citizen every 21 days.
Pit bulls make up approximately 2-9% of the U.S. dog population.
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http://www.dogsbite.org/reports/dogsbite-report-us-dog-bite-fatalities-2006-2008.pdf

Besides, back then it was acceptable that one or two of the kids in your brood would die from various causes.

@CassandraDD : you only have to read a few paragraphs into that "study" to show that it's unreliable and not based on science. and i quote (emphasis mine):

"Information for this report was gathered through MEDIA ACCOUNTS that were available at the time of the attack or found THROUGH INTERNET ARCHIVES...."

it's pretty easy to make up statistics when you're cherry-picking your information and throwing around irrelevant "facts" to make a point. not only that, but Dogsbite.org (as well as several other websites with suspiciously similar names) is an anti-pitbull group, plain and simple. they have a very direct agenda and disregard REAL, scientific data in favor of anecdotal reports and haphazardly gathered data. not only that, but tracking a species with such a widespread population (such as dogs) is problematic at best: which is why the CDC stopped tracking dog-bite data over TEN YEARS AGO.

i urge you to read reports and data by someone who has actually STUDIED the issue, instead of giving in to media fear-mongering.

http://nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com/ncrc-research/

and don't ever forget that the media is in it for the "juicy stories", because that's what sells!

Can't it be two sides of the same coin? Sweet and protective "nanny" to the ones in their "pack" in proportion to their potential of being vicious to those outside of it.

I have been raising an breeding only shaffordshire terriors which is the name of pitts people who use the term pitts can be assumed ignorent, an the people who sit here with their so called facts is laughable I have 8 kids an am pregnant I have 16 staffordshire bull terriors an each one is a fully registered service dog await to be donated actually the service dogs mascote is a pitt in crude lamith terms lol! An if you did ur reasreach

Nanny Dog seems furious to me