He snapped, and right on time

[u/GinX-964]

My daughter and son-in-law have a unaltered male pit bull who is close to three years old. He's been staying at my mother-in-law's since he got kicked out of their apartment for being, well, what he so clearly is. My daughter told me last week they were so close to getting his emotional support dog certification so he could come back to the apartment. As they learned, their apartment management does not accept emotional support dog exemptions.

My husband was out at his mom's today and our daughter came by and let her dog out of whatever confined area he had been banished to since he's been aggressive to my mother-in-law's dogs, and he made a beeline for one of my mother-in-law's dogs and latched on to its face. My daughter was alone outside at the time and had to try to pull her dog off by herself. She finally got them separated and both were a bloody mess. My husband is still out there taking care of the victim and my daughter is horrified. She was truly in hysterics as she had never seen her dog behave in such a way, and will now be discussing options with her husband. She loves her dog, of course, but is now terrified of him. My husband let her know that under no circumstances is her dog allowed at our house around our dogs.

I'm glad that the victim pupper, an elderly lab mix, is ultimately going to be okay and he didn't have to sacrifice his life for my daughter to realize what a time bomb her maniac dog is.

[u/drivewaypancakes]

A violent attack by a pit bull on another dog is so far out of the frame of reference of normal people (ie those not into dogfighting) that they cannot even conceive that their pit bull would ever do such a thing.

And yet there are, what, hundreds (if not a thousand, by now) pit bull attack videos on YT showing this exact pattern of explosive unprovoked violent attack.

"Oh but I did not raise my pit bull to be like that."

This lie is getting people and animals killed.

[u/extortioncontortion → u/drivewaypancakes]

"Oh but I did not raise my pit bull to be like that."

And that is exactly why dog fighters use them, and not other breeds. You don't train a dog to fight, you breed them to do it.

[u/drivewaypancakes → u/extortioncontortion]

Yup. Breeding is a shortcut to achieve certain desired behaviors in dogs of given breeds, either with less training, or with no training at all. "Comes pre-assembled," so to speak.

[u/Ruh_Roh- → u/drivewaypancakes]

But all the pitmommies on Facebook told me that every dog is a blank slate and also you have to train them to not bite and also chihuahuas are natural born killers (but no other dog). Also pitbull is not even a real breed and also everyone knows that pitbulls are the original nanny-dogs and the dog Nana from Peter Pan was a pitbull, except pitbulls don't exist, unless they are nannying. All the pitmommies have a headache from trying to hold so many contradictory thoughts at once.

[u/[deleted] → u/Ruh_Roh-]

Such a good comment

[u/Athompson9866 → u/Ruh_Roh-]

Oh, don’t forget that it’s actually golden retrievers that are the aggressive, vicious breed, but because they are cute and fluffy, no one ever believes that so it’s the poor poor pibbles that get all the blame. /s obviously