If I hear one more person say that it's unfair to judge an entire breed based on the behavior of a few bad seeds, I'll scream. They're just aggressive, mean, and unpredictable.
Case in point: we took Maggie to a big 5 acre dog park yesterday, where she ran and ran and ran and ran and was beautiful. Not long after we arrived, a couple and their pit bull showed up. For a while, everyone behaved very well -- it's easy to get along with so much space to move around in. Then, after Maggie got tired, the pit sauntered back up to her and began jumping on her neck, which quickly became jumping and trying to bite.
The pit's owner (a beer-gut Harley type, though I'll not judge on appearance) was trying moderately hard to separate them, as we were, though it was difficult because they were moving away from us. Also, do you know how scary it is to put your hands between an attacking pit bull and another dog?
After we separated them, the man's wife asked him to leash the dog. He didn't. Rather, after hanging on to the dog's collar for a minute, he let it go. Damn thing went right back to molesting my dog. At this point she's pleading with him to leash the dog, which he reluctantly did before they walked away. I bet he beats her.
Maggie's fine, she got more of a fatal slobbering from the pit. As for its owner, I was too mad to say anything. He was the one holding the deadly weapon, after all. I think we were more scared than Maggie, as greyhounds tend to play pretty rough. They usually stop short of ripping each other's throats out, though, so there's that.
Stupid pit bulls.
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