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I got an idea to start this thread from Rockymtsweetie's story about the little pom mix that got attacked by a St. Bernard.
I was jogging with my lab/pit mix one day last year (so she was about 6 years old) and I saw a big, unneutered, blue pit bull and his chihuahua buddy wander across the street towards us. Most of the time when dogs approach me like this, I just firmly tell them to go home and they usually hesitate before wandering off in the other direction.
Not this guy, he came over and started circling my Pennywise and sniffing her, checking her out, he was a little less than twice her size. She had her hackles up but wasn't trying to be dominant at all, out of nowhere he just lunged at her, so I kicked him in the ribs, mid flight which slightly deterred his path, then he got his entire jaws around her stomach and back so I kicked him in the face (stupid to do with a pit, I know) but he let go and looked a little confused. I was standing in the middle of the street yelling that if someone owned a blue pit bull they should come out and get it, no one came.
Luckily the dog got distracted and started wandering down the street, so I walked up to the house that was in the same direction he had come from with a suspicious open gate, I knocked loudly and rudely on their door until the jerk who owned the dog opened up. I said, "Do you own a blue pit bull?" "Ummm, no?" "So that dog isn't yours?" "Oh hey, Smokey! Come home boy!" and the dog happily sauntered back home. Boy did he get an ear full from me after that.
I love pit bulls but people who do nothing but attempt to perpetuate their stereotypes really are a detriment to the breed and should be euthanized (the bad owners, not the dogs).
And luckily, Pennywise walked away unharmed, I guess Smokey didn't manage to really sink his teeth in and maybe he wouldn't have actually hurt her but that was hardly a risk I was willing to take with a strange dog I didn't know.
I was jogging with my lab/pit mix one day last year (so she was about 6 years old) and I saw a big, unneutered, blue pit bull and his chihuahua buddy wander across the street towards us. Most of the time when dogs approach me like this, I just firmly tell them to go home and they usually hesitate before wandering off in the other direction.
Not this guy, he came over and started circling my Pennywise and sniffing her, checking her out, he was a little less than twice her size. She had her hackles up but wasn't trying to be dominant at all, out of nowhere he just lunged at her, so I kicked him in the ribs, mid flight which slightly deterred his path, then he got his entire jaws around her stomach and back so I kicked him in the face (stupid to do with a pit, I know) but he let go and looked a little confused. I was standing in the middle of the street yelling that if someone owned a blue pit bull they should come out and get it, no one came.
Luckily the dog got distracted and started wandering down the street, so I walked up to the house that was in the same direction he had come from with a suspicious open gate, I knocked loudly and rudely on their door until the jerk who owned the dog opened up. I said, "Do you own a blue pit bull?" "Ummm, no?" "So that dog isn't yours?" "Oh hey, Smokey! Come home boy!" and the dog happily sauntered back home. Boy did he get an ear full from me after that.
I love pit bulls but people who do nothing but attempt to perpetuate their stereotypes really are a detriment to the breed and should be euthanized (the bad owners, not the dogs).
And luckily, Pennywise walked away unharmed, I guess Smokey didn't manage to really sink his teeth in and maybe he wouldn't have actually hurt her but that was hardly a risk I was willing to take with a strange dog I didn't know.