Pitbull, natural born killer? Wrong! Pitbulls have a bad reputation because of how common it has been to breed them as fighters or to harm people. I would say that pitbulls are definitely naturally a little hyper which makes it easy to use it for wrongdoing, I suppose but in the past three years I have met so many nice pitbulls. We have two quite pleasant pitbull mixes in my house, which they share with my infant daughter. They do not harm her, occasionally lick her but mostly just ignore her completely.
When I posted this picture on a message board, I got responses like “OMG WHY WOULD YOU PUT YOUR DAUGHTER NEXT TO THAT PITBULL?!” I couldn’t believe it. There are entire counties where just owning a pitbull is illegal and it’s all because of this ridiculous reputation. A pitbull on our street attacked a harmless dog late at night a few weeks ago and the police, knowing we owned pitbulls, came straight to our house to check our dogs out. I hate that people have ruined such a cute and fun breed of dog and now, so many are frightened, skeptical, and judgmental of the pups I love so dearly.
O, I so totally 100% agree with you. I am now 24 but all my life even as a child my parents owned pitbulls….. never never never once did we ever have a problem with any of them. Pitbulls are such loving and sweet dogs…. they are the greatest. Even now, my husband and I have one… and occasionally he likes to come into the house, and never messes with our cat that lives indoors. So kudos to you for addressing something that needed to be talked about!!
By: Randi Troxell on August 14, 2008
at 2:30 pm