In the mid to late 1980's, the Great State of Texas outlawed owning pit-bulls in their state. They were to be moved from Texas, or turned in to Animal Authority's for uthenization.
This was due to several years of gross maulings and deaths resulting from Pit-Bull attacks, a lot on children.
Many people claim their Pit-Bulls to be loving, devoted, and loyal pets. However, to the stranger on the sidewalk or street, those loving pets become killers.
Pit-Bulls are not one of nature's natural breed of dog. They were bred into existence through viscious tempered dogs from though out the world. This is their core temperament no matter how loving they are to their owners. Their massive muscled body is overwhelming to a child or adult in an attack. Their massive head and muscled jaws 'will' crush bone in an attack on a human. Their Jaws lock on what ever body part they've attacked and will not let go until those massive mandible muscles have spasmed through it's cycle.
While working in the ER, I've seen several grueling wounds to the body from bites, and detached body parts from Pit-Bull attacks, ears, fingers, etc. Mostly to children.
I knew a family who had two pet Pit-Bulls, Cleo and Bandit. The family said that they were very friendly, loving of people, and nothing viscious. Then one morning, they awoke to bleatings and screams going on in their small mini farm to find their llama walking around with it's throat ripped out, their goat mauled - ripped apart, and dead. The attackers with blood all over them, the two Pits.
Pit-Bulls, the name is what they were bred for. It is their inner core temperament that cannot be changed. Loving to their owners, but deadly to outsiders.
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