Oddly enough, pit bulls and other bullies are the only group of dogs that have
never snarked at Strider or bitten him. He's had bad experiences with labs, GSPs, GSDs, dachshunds, fox terriers, poodles, goldens, chihuahuas, ACDs...I could keep going and going listing all the dogs that have been reactive towards him on walks, but no, no bullies have ever done anything but play bow and wiggle.
The other odd thing about that is, he spends
a lot of time with bullies. When he was a pup his three running buddies were all pits. And there are several bullies at the training facility that he just LOVES. I think he's got a crush on one of the staffys.
These dogs have proven themselves in my eyes. If they were inherently unstable there's no way they could be used as police dogs, service dogs, or search and rescue dogs. But they do those jobs, and do them well. They make fantastic loving companions. Some day we will definitely have a bully of some type. In the meantime we will fight for all of our bully friends and their families.
Honestly, I'm convinced most of the "pit bulls" that roam and attack people are not pits at all. If more than one person can mistake a borzoi calmly standing an arms length away from them for a pit bull mix, what that same person going to say when a random short haired square headed dog runs up and confronts them. "It was one of them thar pit bulls! Those dogs that are always in the news!" Seriously, HOW can someone confuse this:
With this?
But it happens. And to me it casts serious doubt on the correct breed id of biting dogs. What if a lab mix was the attacker, and ran off after messing someone up? Or a shar pei mix? Or a boxer mix? Honestly, there are so many breeds of dogs that start blending together and take on physical characteristics the general public associates with pits, so no wonder they're id'd that way. This whole pit bull attack epidemic is totally fabricated by the media and mass hysteria.
Sorry for the rant. Most of you know all this already, just had to get it off my chest.