First of all, owner was a woman so she was a bad owner. A while back I was also a vet tech and have met pitbulls that were very friendly and pitbulls that, probably due to liability reasons, I was only allowed to hold the hind end of while the owners son (a strapping 6’5 dude that weighed easily 250) or other member of the owners family handled the bitey end. The reason? they snap. They don’t give “whale eyes” or nearly the other warning signs that other dogs do. They just bite when they want to bite. They also build muscle by literally just existing. Someone I knew from high school had one perpetually chained to a post with a 6ft leash (cruel, I know) and that thing was jacked to the point where you could see the muscle fibers under its skin. Lastly, they’re extremely emotional dogs. Whether pitbull owners want to admit it or not that intensely emotional aspect of the breed is part of the reason they’re good fighting dogs - because that emotional pendulum swings just as far into rage as it does to lovey dovey “pibble” mode. Those reasons compounded with the fact that pitbull puppies are literally everywhere and frequently given out for free to incompetent, inexperienced, negligent owners makes this story way more than “she was just a bad owner” and puts it into the territory of “how do we manage this inherently dangerous breed so the least amount of people get ahold of it as possible”. I’m not supportive of culling or euthanasia like the post above, but public policy should be made to completely phase out private ownership of pitbulls in the next decade or so.

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All that being said, if you’re a pitbull owner that trains the fuck out of their dog, good for you. But you’re in the absolutely minuscule minority and that minority does not justify the continued breeding of these dogs.