After reading this article again, and taking a look at some of your other articles, a question poped to my mind. The pitbull, and other breeds too, but particularly the Pit, are fearless. So my question is: this fearless thing is it kinda like when those tiny little dogs are so brave and don´t realize they are gonna get killed if don´t backed down or does the Pit actually know when he is putting himself in danger? What I mean is ( and take the wolf as the prime example ), some creatures know that sometimes the best thing to do is to just walk away. Would a Pitbull know when to walk away? For example, if a Pitbull was to find itself facing a bear. Would it attack the bear? Would it wisely walk away? Or if it was a wolf, or a couple of wolfs?
What does fearless mean exactly, when refering to the Pit?

Thanks in advance, loving this website

Sincerely,
Peter

As an aside when I was a kid we grew up with Labradors and German Shepherds. The Sire of the group was a large (120 lb) GSD who was given to my Dad by a friend returning to Germany. This dog was from German stock GSD and had been attack trained as a guard dog before he became our family pet. Now the only person he ever really responded to and trusted was my dad but everybody was comfortable enough to leave us young kids (5 yrs old and upwards) unattended with him.

One of the games we used to play with this GSD and the other dogs was to bait them with their tails…in other words have a quick grab and snatch of their tails. The dogs of course hated this and would warn us with a low growl when they noticed our lil hands sneaking towards their tails. But that was the fun and danger in it — oh and by the way most of our dogs were more guards than pets — being able to pull the tail without being bitten.

Well every now and then someone wasn’t fast enough and inevitably got a tooth mark as a reminder…then we’d go off crying to the parents that so-and-so had bitten us. The wound was tended to and we were told –again — not to bait the dogs and it pretty much served us right.

So what’s the point of this tale of tails?

Well even when we baited our dogs they only inflicted minimal damage to us as a warning to desist from such behavior. Thus despite being provoked they never really attacked us and after a few brief moments of cooling off we’d be outside playing hide and seek with the very same dogs.

In stark contrast there are many stories of PitBulls turning on their loving families for no reason. Now imagine what such a Pit would have done had we provoked it the way we frequently provoked and baited our dogs!!

The Great Dane of today is a lovable creature because strenuous efforts were undertaken to breed out its ferocity because there evidently was no place for such a formidable (and large) dog in today’s society. So to retain the breed it had to be pacified.

To a lesser extent the same steps were underatken for the Doberman breed. However the Doberman was hampered with a certain psychological barrier that the Great Dane never had to contend with and that was that THE DOBERMAN WAS HOLLYWOOD’S POSTERDOG OF EVIL AND BAD!

Many people still see the Doberman that way even though that is no longer true of the breed today. Oh and by the way I think the Doberman ranks number five as the smartest dog breed.

For more about the “Gentle” Doberman breed and accompanying video check out this post of mine: http://dog-breeds-spot.com/dog-breeds/featured/doberman-pinscher.php

Just red that on your other article. That also spoke about Dobermans…but I still want to know why those two breeds were not mentioned in this article above.

I clearly don´t have the same level of knowlege as most people around here, but I have a question…I always heard a lot of people mentioning the Doberman when refering to “dangerous breeds” yet you don´t mention that breed in your article…is the Doberman not that dangerous or what?

And do you have any information on the argentine dogo? is it a dangerous breed?

Again, I don´t know, which is why I´m asking.

Hope someone can answer my questions.

Peter

The pitbull was raised in a social environment and grew up
With the jack russel and both were trained at a school and raised in a loving home.
They lived very well were treated amazingly.

The pit bull attacked and killed my jack russel for no reason after 5 years of being perfectly fine/ inseperable together.

They are a irrational spontaneously aggressive dog

My ridgeback is amazing gets on well with young kids and any dog.

I would never trust a pitbull again and if your stupid enough to well done!!! It will turn On you or someone for no reason. I have a friend who has also had a placid pit bull from next door one day snap and kill her curly hair retrivier. It’s ignorant and and stupid to not consider there back ground and there instinct …

Also I find it funny pitbull owners argue that people a sepeciests
If you take part in domesticating animals then your a spiciest. Unless you actually think you can domesticate every animal.

read the article below if you don’t believe me

http://www.ywgrossman.com/photoblog/?p=676

P.S. My family has had two Pit bulls, one American and One bull-box, both were the most amazing animals I have ever had the pleasure of being around, and BOTH were rescues. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the wire-hair terrier that we own, although I love him, has nipped at my face and hand countless times, same environment same teachings.

So its Genetic eh?
FYI I am a Biochemist and I wholeheartedly believe that although your genes make you who you are, they don’t define you. Treat something with love it’ll give love, treat it like shit, you will get shit.
All you people that believe in pits as killers, meet one, and you’ll change, I sure as hell did. Only dog I ever smiled at and it smiled right back at me.