That is exactly what my doggo does too! Soon as she thinks there’s a threat she lays her body broadside against my legs ready to sheild and protect me at any cost. She has a bubble, if you get too close to us in that bubble it’s one woof of warning about 5 feet out. If I give her the command no guarding, she’ll let people approach. But if I don’t… it’s on like Donkey Kong and she will NOT back down.
I’ve owned and fostered a LOT of dogs in my day. I got this breed because I wanted a lazy barn dog. But holy frijoles, she’s downright terrifying when she’s in guardian mode. I’d never want a kid to accidentally startle her. I don’t think she’d hurt them, but I don’t ever want to take that chance either. Everyone we know who comes to visit us gets a long lecture about not approaching the doggy, let her come to you for affection.
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Take that with a grain of salt. Statistics are not even tracked by the CDC anymore and haven’t been since around 1998. Plus the fact that “Pit bull” isn’t even a breed but a generic umbrella for multiple breeds of stocky, blocky headed dogs. Even experts are wrong on breed identification 75% of the time when it comes to those types of dogs.
If you’re getting your information from Colleen Lynn’s story or dogsbite. org, you need to take your info with a whole salt mine of salt. I won’t even go into that here, it would take weeks.
“‘Pit bull’ is a term commonly used to describe a particular type of dog—many being of mixed breeding—that has some ancestry relating to breeds in the United States. … ‘Pit bull’ is also used sometimes to describe mixes or breeds not registered with the AKC. …”
Statement from the American Kennel Club
My Cane Corso is a black brindle female. I’ve trained her through therapy certification and will be doing prison therapy with her. Everyone thinks she is a male just because of her intimidating looks. I’d hate to be the one to go up against her.
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yea ours is a black bridle as well. we did alot of certs with her. she’s a sweet dog, lots of socialization. gf takes her to work every day since she’s a vet. once my 2 other dogs are gone, ill be getting a male cane for myself. ive fell in love with the breed. but they need alot of training.
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Yes, they do. They are not only strong, they are strong headed. Mine is a ‘daddy’s girl’… I tell her to do something and she looks at my husband like “do I have to???” 
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If you don’t know that pit bulls are the most aggressive dog breed responsible for the vast vast majority of life threatening attacks on people idk what to say. Their aggressiveness and willingness to fight is so high they will completely disregard their own self preservation to attack other animals and people completely unprovoked. I have even seen a news story of them jumping a fence multiple times to attack a cane corso (which a cane corso will clearly kill them and it eventually did and completely dismembered it and the pit bull owners tried suing the cane corso owners) and even saw a video of one that attacked a tiger (it was easily killed by the tiger). It’s obvious to anyone that isn’t biased that this dog breed is extremely dangerous far and above any others.
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I’ve owned bully breeds for over 30 years (pit bull is not a breed.) Know your facts as opposed to what you’ve learned from the media.
The only true ‘pit bull’ is the American Pit Bull Terrier. 95% of dogs called ‘pit bulls’ are a mix of many breeds and misidentified in 99% of cases.
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By the way, do you know why the CDC quit tracking dog bite statistics?
It was because the information they received was inaccurate and unreliable. It was based on “media” … “bystanders” … people who wouldn’t know a schnauzer from an English bulldog.
(oh, and ‘liking’ your comment was a total accident; in fact, I don’t even recall “liking” it 
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Have you ever met a chihuahua? You’d think twice about pitbulls.
For the record, the dog park is usually 20% pitbull mixes. The other 80% is poodle mixes for some reason. Practically everything is part pitbull/poodle these days.
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My dad wound up in the ER with a hand swollen twice its size from one of their poodles once… 
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Your replies are comical. Saying there isn’t a pit bull breed is just an attempt for people to obfuscate the issue and discredit reports on them. Anyone with a semblance of intelligence knows full well what type of dog is being referred to. Just google the name and you will clearly see the type of dog everyone refers to as pit bull.
Your lack of education on the subject is comical. Therefore, think what you want. But you’re the type of person who gives these dogs a bad name.
Edit: Actually, it’s not comical. It’s irresponsible to spread unfactual “information.”
The unfortunate situation is that pits have been mass bred since the 60s when it was discovered they were a small, cheap, expendible and highly viable dogs for fighting rings. The sheer number of them and the breeds they were mixed with has put more people in line for more exposure to be bitten or mauled by them by an overflow coming from underground industry. As a whole, tibetan mastiffs are probably the more dangerous and aggressive dog, they’re banned in multiple countries. But they’re insanely expensive to get a hold of, insanely expensive to feed, they require high quality everything for correct bone growth, and their coats are costly and time consuming to keep groomed. The rarity of the breed and people’s reduced exposure to them reduces the amount of maulings. You’ve probably got maybe 300 thousand tibetan mastiffs in the world, vs. pit bulls at 18 million in the United States alone.
A similar thing happened above ground in the late 80s through mid 90s with chow chow and shar pei. These two breeds were socially trendy and bites and attacks by them were rising at an alarming rate in American households. Once they fell outta favor, the reports and attacks, surprise, surprise declined because they weren’t being bred and sold. Pit numbers have never declined because dog fighting hasn’t been curbed in any sense of the term. Unacceptable dogs get sold by backyard breeders or used as bait dogs.
Poodle mixes are all the rage right now because people hope to cross breed them in an attempt to reduce or remove shedding. Their wire coats require clipping and are generally easy care if you stay on top of it. Again, mass cross breeds are now in the gene pool because of a social trend.
No matter which way you cut the cake, humans are to blame for the problem. We’re the ones driving these forces. The doggos suffer the consequences of our whims and trends for whatever quality we enjoy in the 5 minutes each breed is popular.
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You are spot on. Irresponsible breeding is abhorrent and to blame for so many issues in the canine world, not just over population. And it’s absolutely the dogs who suffer.
(weird, it didn’t show replying to you in my one above.)
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Yeah, I’ve been having that issue on and off for a few weeks now. It seems more likely to skip who I’m trying to respond to when I use my phone. It’s happened a few times on my computer too. Usually I just go back and edit the post with a quote from the person I meant to reply to. It’s all part of the forum jam around here I guess. 
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bumping this, another maintenance today, another debate - this one is shorter though, which i think definitely gives the win to the pit.
If your enemy keeps coming back for more, are you really winning?
It would depend on what they were trying to do. If it was fixing bugs in a computer system I’d go with WoW maintenance.
Great point… but pits have great stamina too.
They don’t. They’re not like sporting breeds who can travel hunting fields at 15 mph trot for 12 hours at a crack, like a coonhound can. They’re not like australian shepherds or aussie cattle dogs that can do high speed bursts to rally sheep or cows all day on the range nonstop without a break.
Are pits high energy dogs and easily excitable? Yes. But more like greyhounds they expend their energy fast burn themselves to exhaustion and then need to recover.
There’s a difference between high energy sprinter, and true stamina, cross country marathon runner. For all your love of this breed, you sure don’t seem to know much at all about them.